Greatest ever driver pairing?
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- 6th June 2013, 15:15 at 3:15 pm #133247DCParticipant
Which is, in your opinion, the greatest ever driver pairing? And by that I mean two drivers that had mutual respect and who were team players while fighting each other for the championship. Like Scheckter – Villeneuve in 79 or Button – Hamilton in recent years.
6th June 2013, 16:38 at 4:38 pm #237484NathanParticipantThis is quite a bit biased, but I really really liked the combination Raikkonen-Massa from 2007 to halfway 2009. With them Ferrari took 2 consecutive constructor titles. Only the combination Alonso-Hamilton could beat them back in 2007.
(that’s a modern driver pairing, other than that Raikkonen-Montoya were a great pairing, Hakkinen-Coulthard too, and from the eighties Prost-LAuda)6th June 2013, 17:27 at 5:27 pm #237485S.J.MParticipantGraham Hill / Jim Clark in the Lotus 49 at the tail end of the 60s was an excellent team of drivers, they got on and were very popular with the fans.
6th June 2013, 18:04 at 6:04 pm #237486KingsharkParticipant1. Ayrton Senna and Alain Prost
2. Jim Clark and Graham Hill
3. Nigel Mansell and Nelson Piquet
4. Juan Manuel Fangio and Stirling Moss
5. Lewis Hamilton and Fernando Alonso6th June 2013, 18:27 at 6:27 pm #237487Ed MarquesParticipantCompletely agree with Kingshark.
6th June 2013, 20:16 at 8:16 pm #237488MathersParticipantFor me it simply has to be Senna-Prost in the McLaren, but I also think that the Stewart-Cevert partnership of 1973 was fantastic, and if their times had been shifted more towards each other and Cevert hadn’t lost his life, they may have been outstanding.
6th June 2013, 20:20 at 8:20 pm #237489DCParticipant@Kingshark I think that Mansell – Piquet and Hamilton – Alonso are completely opposite of what I have asked (“two drivers that had mutual respect and who were team players”)
6th June 2013, 22:09 at 10:09 pm #237490KingsharkParticipant@dujedcv
OK, I didn’t read that part. If so, you can scrap Senna-Prost, Mansell-Piquet, and Hamilton-Alonso off my list. :p6th June 2013, 22:14 at 10:14 pm #237491R.J. O’ConnellParticipantHakkinen/Coulthard has to top the list if we’re talking about the modern era.
6th June 2013, 22:48 at 10:48 pm #237492electroliteParticipantKamui Kobayashi and Sergio Perez, obviously. @Magnificent-Geoffrey will back me up here.
6th June 2013, 23:15 at 11:15 pm #237493GeorgeParticipantI would agree with Fangio/Moss, I think Prost and Lauda got on ok as teammates too?
7th June 2013, 1:00 at 1:00 am #237494matt90ParticipantStewart – Cevert
Peterson – Andretti7th June 2013, 5:50 at 5:50 am #237495CristianParticipantApart for what has been said : Peterson-Fittipaldi, Hawthorn-Collins, Brooks-Moss, Brabham-Hulme, Brabham-McLaren, maybe Alesi-Berger, Stewart-Hill, Lauda-Watson, Berger-Mansell
7th June 2013, 6:26 at 6:26 am #237496Aish HeydrichParticipant1. Kimi Raikkonen & Kimi Raikkonen
7th June 2013, 6:32 at 6:32 am #237497JourneyerParticipantMy top 10 (arranged chronologically):
1. Fangio-Moss (Mercedes)
2. G. Hill-Clark (Lotus)
3. Brabham-Hulme (Brabham)
4. Stewart-Cevert (Tyrrell)
5. Andretti-Petersen (Lotus)
6. Scheckter-G. Villeneuve (Ferrari)
7. Lauda-Prost (McLaren)
8. Prost-D. Hill (Williams)
9. Hakkinen-Coulthard (McLaren)
10. Raikkonen-Massa (Ferrari) - AuthorPosts
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