Ranking the Formula 1 Drivers on How Many Points They Beat Their Team-Mates by

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Published: December 16, 2015

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Throughout the 2015 Formula One season, the most important intra-team rivalry was the duel for the drivers' championship between the two Mercedes drivers.

Armed with the all-conquering W06, one of them was always going to take the crown, and for the second consecutive year, it was Lewis Hamilton who came out on top. Though Nico Rosberg recovered some dignity by winning the final three races, the gap between the two at the end of the year was still a comfortable 59 points.

With just one notable exception, the other team-mate pairs were separated by much smaller margins. Daniil Kvyat beat Daniel Ricciardo by just three points, while Jenson Button and Fernando Alonso ended the year five points apart.

Felipe Nasr scored 18 points more than Marcus Ericsson and Romain Grosjean was 24 points clear of Pastor Maldonado. The biggest gap of the year was at Ferrari, where Sebastian Vettel outscored Kimi Raikkonen by a whopping 128 points.

But we can't identify the most dominant team-mates from raw numbers such as these. The gaps between slower cars will almost always be smaller than those between front-runners, simply because they score far fewer points.

Our percentage-based system, which we first tested last season, attempts to solve that problem. It should, in theory at least, provide a more accurate picture of which drivers really did have the upper hand over their team-mates when it came to scoring world championship points.

Using such a system, here's how the drivers ranked in 2015—from the closest battle to the most one-sided.

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