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This page is dedicated to the drivers who formed the greatest F1 driver pairings in the same team.
1) Senna-Prost in 88 and 89:
The duo of Senna and Prost at McLaren is considered the greatest rivalry in the history of F1, because they were the two best drivers in F1 at the time, two GENIUS dueling within the same team. Both were fast, both were talented, both were teammate destroyers. Senna is good at engines and great at choosing tires. Prost, on the other hand, was an excellent expert on chassis and aerodynamics, considered one of the greatest car experts of all time, but he was also the biggest troublemaker in F1, he created intrigue and left three of the four teams he raced with. Everything had to go wrong... and of course it did.
Seasons: Senna 1 x 1 Prost
2) Piquet-Mansell in 86 and 87:
Piquet Mansell was a duo that had everything to go wrong, as Piquet did everything to split the team, but the Englishman ignored Piquet's provocations. In fact Mansell was a talented driver, but he had lost to his teammates (De Angelis and Rosberg) and this made Piquet think that it would be easy to defeat him. But when the LEÃO sat in a car hit by the Brazilian, he was able to show all his talent and surprised Piquet.
Seasons: Piquet 1 x 1 Mansell
3) Alonso-Hamilton in 2007:
When Schumacher retired in 2006, everyone thought that Alonso and Raikkonen would dominateiamthe F1. Big mistake... a super-talented driver named Lewis Hamilton appeared. Lucky for Schumacher and unlucky for Alonso and Raikkonen. The fight between the Spaniard and the Englishman began with Alonso's dishonest attitude in training in Hungary, then there was a complaint of theft of a Ferrari project, which culminated in Alonso's dismissal from McLaren.
Seasons: Hamilton 1 x 0 Alonso (tied points)
4) Lauda-Prost in 84 and 85:
In 1984, the Frenchman Alain Prost raced for McLaren, and made a very strong pair with Niki Lauda, result: Lauda was champion in 84 and Prost was champion in 85, both won 18 races of the 32 races of those seasons, with Niki Lauda winning by 0.5 points in 1984. The Frenchman got into trouble with three of the four teams he raced in (Renault, McLaren and Ferrari) and it just didn't go wrong with Lauda, as Prost knew that the Austrian would retire and the McLaren structure would be completely at his disposal.
Seasons: Lauda 1 x 1 Prost
5) Lauda-Piquet in 79:
A very little-remembered duo that didn't make a big splash at the time, because Nelson Piquet was just starting out in F1, Lauda was in a "lukewarm" phase of his career and Brabham wasn't a competitive car like Ferrari, Williams, Lotus and Ligier. At the time, few people would have imagined that these two drivers (Piquet and Lauda) would become three-time world champions, and in the opinion of the author of the website, both are in the TOP 10 of F1 history.
Piquet was a driver with an incredible knowledge of mechanics; he had never had an engineer before arriving in F1, but he needed to learn how to communicate with engineers, and Lauda, with his vast experience, was his great tutor. Both were brilliant drivers, one was at the beginning of his career and the other was in the middle of it.
Seasons: Lauda 1 x 0 Piquet
6) Fangio-Moss in 55:
In 1955 Mercedes hired Stirling Moss to be a Mercedes driver and partner with Fangio, the Argentine dominated the season and was champion, but Stirling Moss walked close to Fangio the entire season, even defeating the Argentine in the 1955 British GP. sure were the two best drivers in F1 racing in the same team. The fact that Moss was unable to become champion is one of the biggest injustices in F1, as he had the talent to be one.
Seasons: Fangio 1 x 0 Moss
7) Clark-Hill in 67 and 68:
Graham Hill was a respected driver in F1, when he joined Lotus in 1967 to share the team with Jim Clark, it was expected that he would give the "flying Scotsman" a hard time, but he was completely dominated by Clark. The most interesting thing is that both maintained a good relationship and respected each other on and off the track.
Seasons: Clark 1 x 0 Hill (Note: Clark died at the beginning of the '68 season)
8) Fittipaldi-Peterson in 73:
In 1973, Colin Chapman formed a very strong duo at Lotus: Ronnie Peterson, a bold and very fast driver, and Emerson Fittipaldi, a driver who was right on cars and cerebral. In those days, without telemetry, having a driver who could match cars was very important, but Chapman made a mistake by giving preference to the Swede and neglecting the Brazilian within the Lotus team. Result: Emerson left Lotus and went to McLaren, being champion in 1974, while Lotus without Emerson was lost to adjust the car in 1974.
Seasons: Fittipaldi 1 x 0 Peterson
9) Hamilton-Rosberg 2013 to 2016:
Hamilton and Nico Rosberg were friends since karting, but it was enough to share the same F1 team with title chances to become enemies.
In 2014 Rosberg took pole and won at the Monaco GP, in a controversial situation, he lost control in one of the corners at the end of Q3, a yellow flag was given and with that Hamilton could not take the pole. In 2016, Nico led the Mercedes team in setting up the car, and everything indicates that he chose settings that did not suit Hamilton's driving style, so he dominated English in several races and was champion at the end of the year, using intelligence to run.
Seasons: Hamilton 3 x 1 Rosberg
10) Prost-Mansell in 90:
A very strong duo that had everything to succeed was Prost-Mansell in 1990, as the Ferrari car was good and rivaled the McLaren of Senna and Berger. But the Frenchman arrived at Ferrari demanding treatment as a first driver (although he denies this to this day) and Ferrari directors had to ask Mansell to resign his position as first driver (Anuário FS 1989 pg 35). The Leão didn't like Prost's internal messes, he had numerous breakdowns during the season and decided to leave the team. For the following year, Nigel signed with Williams, vetted the Frenchman and surprisingly became friends with Senna. From this interaction with the Frenchman, Mansell perhaps discovered the "true face" of Alain Prost.
Seasons: Prost 1 x 0 Mansell
Here's a video after GP Portugal 92, when Senna speaks ill of Prost and Mansell agrees with him. Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qFZKkK6odgY
11) Fittipaldi-Rosberg in 80:
A very strong duo, perhaps the strongest in F1 at the time, but which few people noticed, was the duo of Emerson Fittipaldi and Keke Rosberg on the Fittipaldi Team in 1980. Rosberg gave the Brazilian a lot of work, even leading the way in several races. In 1982 he went to Williams, was world champion and proved that he was a great driver.
The car was mid-pack, but it wasn't all bad. Adrian Newey was the aerodynamic engineer (this was his 1st project in F1), Ricardo Divila was the Chief Designer, Harvey Postlethwaite and Peter Warr were also on the team.
Seasons: Rosberg 1 x 0 Fittipaldi
