There is a real duel for the Formula 1 World Cup 2025, which will go into the next round next weekend at Hungaroring in Hungary (all sessions at 1.30 p.m. in the live ticker): With Oscar Piatri and Lando Norris, both aspirants come from a racing team. It is currently 266: 250 for Piatri. There have been many stable duels in the past, some were brutal.
Yes, it has already crashed between Piatri and Norris. On June 15 of this year, Norris rammed the Piatri in front of him in Montreal. While Piatri was able to end the race in fourth place despite slight damage, Norris was eliminated. However, he immediately took over the full responsibility for the incident and apologized to the team and teammates via radio.
That is why McLaren boss Zak Brown is not worried about the mood in the team: “Your relationship is excellent. We have invested a lot of work in building McLaren, and an important factor is the chemistry between the two drivers. Take a look at how you dealt with the situation of Canada how you behaved afterwards. If I see it afterwards, I know: It will not be a problem if you make the title among yourself. Of course, both are hot to get world champion.”
Senna against Prost – the mother of all team duels
Such a team chemistry was rare in the history of the premier class with two drivers at eye level, maybe never. In many cases, it was even tougher among similarly strong stable colleagues than with combat scenes between drivers from different racing stables. Ayrton Senna and Alain Prost, for example, stimulated at the end of the 1980s at McLaren – it was the mother of all team duels: Alain Prost, which was always cool, was on the one hand, on the one hand the impulsive instinct driver Ayrton Senna.
There had been radio silence between them for a long time when their dispute got out of joint in Suzuka in 1989. It was about the preliminary decision about the World Cup crown: Senna had to win to maintain his chances, he attacked the lead. But he closed the gap, there was a collision. Prost got out, Senna continued, won and was disqualified afterwards. Prost secured his third world championship title, but had his nose full of McLaren and this duel – he fled to Ferrari.
Häkkinen stronger than Coulthard
Pure explosive also stuck in the fight between Mika Häkkinen and David Coulhard between 1996 and 2001. The Finn talked little, but drove mercilessly hard. Häkkinen won the World Cup title in 1998 and 1999, Coulthard’s best final splashing during this time was third. He later achieved a second place, but he never became world champion.
It was always wild between the Colombian Juan Pablo Montoya and Ralf Schumacher At Williams in the early 2000s, but during this time it was usually only a duel around the front placements – Ralf’s brother Michael Schumacher had a firm grip on Ferrari.
Hamilton against Alonso – expensive high voltage
Back at McLaren, Lewis Hamilton and Fernando Alonso started in 2007. It was a crazy season with a merciless three-way fight for the title, with many exciting seasons with decisions in the last rounds or even on the home stretch, it was perhaps the most exciting in the Formula 1 story.
And the stable duel clearly cost McLaren-Mercedes the title. He finally went to the Finns Kimi Raikkonen in Ferrari with 110 points, while Hamilton came to 109 points as the third and the third. At that time, the rumor circulated in the paddock that both Hamilton and Alonso could live quite well with the world champion Raikkonen – on the other hand, it would have been unbearable for both the title for the team rival.
Stable War Vettel vs. Webber and Rosberg vs. Hamilton
Mark Webber and Sebastian Vettel had a phase -by -term ruthless duel at Red Bull 2009 to 2013. The overtaking maneuver in March 2013 in Sepang von Vettel against Webber was against the Red Bull Staller. It was not the first time that the two hit each other. It all started in 2010 at the Grand Prix of Turkey when Vettel wanted to pass the leading webber and flew off the route, but the Australian was still third.
But that was not yet against the subsequent stable war between Nico Rosberg and Lewis Hamilton near Mercedes. Even the bosses Toto Wolff and Niki Lauda had to go into it again and again because they even drove each other into the car and thus endangered team success. Both drivers were ordered several times for meetings in Silverstone, in which Lauda in particular became loud and clear. In 2016, Rosberg finally drove up his first and only world champion title under the highest pressure from Hamilton – and immediately finished his career afterwards.