article: Lewis Hamilton and Nico Rosberg isn't quite Prost-Senna, Piquet-Mansell or Villeneuve-Pironi, but they are definitely not the easiest pair of drivers in F1 to handle. All credit to the Mercedes management. Because of their very open style, they have been able to manage their egos. So far. Hamilton is the biggest star in F1. Rosberg is a very talented racer, who you feel after performances like we saw in Mexico is on the cusp of great things. Take Hamilton out of the team and we could well be hailing him a two-time world champion. Quite apart from the battles on track, there is a lot going on between these two guys at the moment, and it's fascinating to watch. Media playback is not supported on this device Hamilton is far from averse to making little digs at Rosberg. There was the comment after winning the US Grand Prix, when he said he was "your worst nightmare" as a team-mate. Then the remark after Mexico when he said Rosberg had "driven really well today, no mistakes, no gust of wind" - a reference to the reason Rosberg gave for his decisive error during the race in Austin. There is a real subtlety to those remarks, much more Prost than Muhammad Ali, and that makes you realise there is a much greater awareness there than Hamilton sometimes lets on. Hamilton's argument with his team in Mexico over whether he should make a second stop for tyres was evidence of the mind of a serial winner. He has not won three world titles and 43 races by always being in the best car, even if that is exactly what he has right now. Media playback is not supported on this device He has an instinctive understanding and spatial awareness of what is going on in a race. He had seen Rosberg pit. He was feeling good on his tyres. He knew from the strategy the team went into the race with that they were planning to do a one-stop race. And then they told him they were on Plan B. He was thinking: "Hang on a minute. Why are we on Plan B? I can go Plan A. I have track position now. If I stay here I could have a better chance of winning." So he questioned it, and left the team hanging in the pit lane for a whole lap. It took the firm action of Lewis's engineer to sort that out - and full credit to Peter Bonnington for that, because it cannot be an easy situation to deal with. From the outside, we can easily read into it that Mercedes wanted to take the risk out of the race, neutralise it between the two drivers and keep it all fair and square. If they had allowed Hamilton to go on and make only one stop, and he had gone on to win the race, then the very real risk was that all relationships would have broken down within the team. Since then, Hamilton has thrown out some crumbs about the team
summary: Throughout the history of Formula 1 there have been many examples of very public and acrimonious fall-outs between team-mates.