There have been over 900 grands prix in Formula 1’s 67-year history and thousands of overtaking manoeuvres.

We’ve all got a favourite overtake or two, so with that in mind, here’s Essaar’s Top 10 F1 overtakes of all-time.

10: Alan Jones on Alain Prost and Rene Arnoux (Germany, 1981)

Halfway through the race, Alan Jones was attempting to pass Alain Prost for the lead but the Renault’s turbocharged engine made this a nearly-impossible task on the Hockenheimring’s long straights.

The only way for Jones to get past in his normally-aspirated Williams would be in the slower “stadium” section of the circuit.

On Lap 21 of 45, Prost was lapping his team-mate Rene Arnoux going into the Sachs-kurve when Jones saw his opportunity. Prost was lackadaisical in his move on Arnoux and thought Jones wouldn’t be brave enough to dive in between the Renault’s but, he was wrong.

Jones flung his Williams into a gap just wide enough to pass them both in one move. Sensational.

9: Fernando Alonso on Mark Webber and Felipe Massa (Brazil, 2012)

Another double overtake, but this time, both passes were for position.

Fernando Alonso needed to finish on the podium for the final race of 2012 to have any chance of winning the driver’s title that year.

When championship rival, Sebastian Vettel, got caught up in a first-lap incident and dropped to the back of the grid, the Ferrari man had a great chance to win an unlikely title.

Going into Turn 1 on the second lap, Alonso had to get by his team-mate Felipe Massa and Mark Webber to move into the top 3. It was vital to get by Webber, as he would do everything to hold up Fernando and back him into Vettel.

The pressure was on; this was a make or break moment and Alonso delivered.

He stunningly out-braked both Massa and Webber to slip down the inside and begin chasing after the McLarens.

8: Ayrton Senna on Schumacher, Wendlinger, Hill and Prost (Europe, 1993)

Donnington Park was soaking wet after a deluge had hit earlier in the morning, and this was Ayrton Senna’s time to shine.

After being crowded out by Michael Schumacher at the start, Senna had dropped to fifth place by the first corner.

Schumacher, though, ran slightly wide and Senna powered by the German before sweeping around Karl Wendlinger at Turn 3.

Senna then chased after Damon Hill and made quick work of him, passing at Turn 7. Only Alain Prost now stood between Senna and the lead but not even a three-time world champion could resist Senna in this form. He closed up to Prost through the Esses and sent his McLaren down the inside at the Melbourne Hairpin.

In one lap Senna had gone from fifth to first in a car that was much slower than the Williams and, not to forget, in appalling conditions. Senna made a very difficult move look incredibly easy.

7: Nigel Mansell on Nelson Piquet (Britain, 1987)

In 1987, the Williams drivers were in a class of their own and were comfortably leading that year’s grand prix at Silverstone.

Nelson Piquet lead his team-mate, Nigel Mansell, by a couple of seconds at the halfway stage when the latter decided to pit for new tyres.

With no threat from behind, Mansell drove the car like he had stolen it, breaking the lap record eight times catching up to Piquet. He wasn’t going to make it easy though and, with a few laps to go, still held the lead.

On Lap 62 of 65, Mansell got a great run on the Hangar Straight and was bearing down on his team-mate.

Mansell blinked first and shifted to the left and Piquet covered that line off but, Mansell was banking on that. Mansell then dived over to the right to take the racing line and sweep past Piquet to eventually win the race.

This manoeuvre – known as “the dummy” – would go on to become Mansell’s signature move.

6: Nigel Mansell on Gerhard Berger (Mexico, 1990)

Nigel Mansell was right behind Gerhard Berger in the closing laps of the 1990 Mexican Grand Prix. Berger had successfully held off Mansell for a number of laps so the Briton had to get creative.

Mansell stuck with Berger through the twisty S-section at Hermanos Rodriguez. However, the two were bearing down on the terrifying Peraltada, a heavily banked 180-degree left hander that only had one real line going through it. But nobody told ‘Il Leone’ that.

Mansell tried to throw a dummy, but Berger didn’t fall for it, so Mansell instead went around the outside of the McLaren driver to sweep into second place. A scarcely believable move due to the sheer bravery that was required.

It’s a shame that the new layout of Hermanos Rodriguez has butchered the final corner, we’ll never see a move like that in Mexico City again. Although, Turn 17 of the new layout is named “Mansell” in his honour, no doubt because of that manoeuvre.