F1’s greatest teammate rivalries – with Palmer + Hinchcliffe
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🗓️ 10 May 2026
⏱️ 61 minutes
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Summary
With an intra-team title battle brewing between Kimi Antonelli and George Russell at Mercedes in 2026, Tom Clarkson is joined by Jolyon Palmer and James Hinchcliffe to chat about some of the greatest teammate rivalries in F1 history.
The guys discuss Lewis Hamilton’s battles with Nico Rosberg at Mercedes and Fernando Alonso at McLaren, the major flashpoints during Sebastian Vettel and Mark Webber’s time at Red Bull, and the politics between Ayrton Senna and Alain Prost at McLaren.
Why were those rivalries so fierce? What are the key ingredients for an intense fight between teammates? How much involvement should the team have? And of the current grid, which driver pairing do Tom, Jolyon and Hinch think would have the most heated rivalry if they were competing for a title?
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| 0:32.4 | All the great rivalries that we can think of that are, you know, |
| 0:36.0 | intra-team are always when they're |
| 0:37.7 | battling for a championship. |
| 0:39.0 | They've all got a trigger point, haven't they? |
| 0:41.4 | In a way, it was a recipe for disaster putting those two together. |
| 0:45.5 | Any time you can say something in the media that might get under the skin of the other guy, |
| 0:49.5 | you use it. |
| 0:51.4 | I don't think you can manage a Rosberg-Hamilton scenario any differently. |
| 0:57.9 | I think Mark started to feel that he was up against Seb and his own team. |
| 1:02.8 | The one that I just remember the clearest was Hamilton-Alonzo |
| 1:06.7 | and just blown away by the level that it deteriorated to. |
| 1:10.3 | This all started because Alonzo felt he'd been mugged off by Ron Dennis. |
| 1:15.0 | Let's do Senna Prost, guys. |
| 1:16.6 | I was looking through the stats, and I can't believe that this was even a rivalry. |
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