Formula 1: How Much Impact on Your Title Chances Does Your Teammate Have?

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Published: November 17, 2010

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How important to a team's outcome is the driver pairing, on and off the track? Does it make a big difference to the outcome at the end of the year or do they behave like opponents on and off the track?

Many of the partnerships this year look as solid as marriage, while others look like a couple on the rocks.

For example, what is it with the new guy at Ferrari? Don’t get me wrong, this isn’t a public rant to knock the guy because whether we like it or not, he’s world class. 

Fernando Alonso Diaz has molded himself into one of the best racing talents the sport has ever seen and he's proved it—twice.

But the thing that I have grown to like about racing drivers is often their character, their charisma and largely their genuine gratitude for the seat they’re in.

24 places are available on the front line of F1 and I promise you thousands upon thousands of people would make ultimate sacrifices just to sit in a Formula One car, let alone drive one.

So, why does the angry Spanish man behave the way he does and what effect does that have on the team on the whole?

Even from the early stages in his Ferrari career, reports stated that during the Australian GP Albert Park, he could be heard demanding that Felipe let him pass because he genuinely thought that if he could pass him, he would have taken the top step.

Of course, it was far too early in the season to be making any kind of team orders as we were barely out of the starting blocks. But for some reason, the great(ish) Fernando thought he should have been given the jump on his teammate.

Back in his Renault days, he didn’t need a radio during the race, as his screams insisting Fisi move aside could be heard from the other side of the track! The same could be said for his stint at Mclaren, where insiders claim that his radio ...
Article Source: Bleacher Report - Formula 1

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