Comparing the 2015 teammates: McLaren

Today I will continue the series by comparing Jenson Button and Fernando Alonso.

I will start with the 2009 world champion Jenson Button. First the year, the teammate and how it went.

2000 - Ralf Schumacher. His first teammate was hard to beat because Ralf was at his best at the time. He was also the younger brother of the seven time world champion Michael Schumacher. Ralf got twice the amount of points than Jenson (24-12).

2001 - Giancarlo Fisichella. 8-2! That was the score between Fisi and Jenson at Benetton. It looked like Jenson's career was going backwards.

2002 - Jarno Trulli. This year Benetton became Renault and Button became a better driver! He won his more experienced teammate by 5 points. Button was 7th in the championship which was his best yet. Trulli was 8th that year.

2003 - Jaques Villeneuve and Takuma Sato. At BAR Honda Jenson had to fight against a former world champion. So how did it go? He got more points than his two teammates combined. Sato drove for only one race but still got a 6th place which was also Villeneuve's best result that year. 

2004 - Takuma Sato. Button was clearly the better driver and got the number one driver treatment from his team. This was Button's best season yet when he was 3rd in the championship. The only ones in front of him were the unstoppable Ferrari's driven by Michael Schumacher and Rubens Barrichello.

2005 - Takuma Sato and Anthony Davidson. This year the BAR Honda was illegal and was excluded from 2 races and disqualified from 1. Sato was also disqualified from one more race but Button wasn't. If we look at the points that they managed to get then Button won them both again. He got 37 points when his teammates got only 1 single point combined (Davidson didn't get a single point).

2006 - Rubens Barrichello. This year the team became Honda and Barrichello joined them from Ferrari. Button took his first ever victory in Hungary and was 6th in the championship. Barrichello was right behind in 7th place but had over 20points less than Button.

2007 - Rubens Barrichello. This year the car was just awful! Button was 15th in the standings and Barrichello didn't score one single point and was 20th.

2008 - Rubens Barrichello. This time Barrichello got 11 points and Button only 3. Well.. at least he got 3 points instead of no points. Barrichello was 14th in the standings and Button was 18th.

2009 - Rubens Barrichello. This year Button won the world championship with Brawn GP which had been Honda and BAR Honda earlier. The score was 95-77 between him and his teammate. 

2010 - Lewis Hamilton. The 2009 world champion joined McLaren as the 2008 world champion's teammate. People were sure that Jenson had no chance against Lewis but made everybody shut up by winning a race before him. In the end the score was 240-214 between the two of them which ment that Lewis was better (as the press had predicted).

2011 - Lewis Hamilton. This time Jenson was hungry to beat his teammate and did just that with a score of 270-227. Button was runner up in the championship and Hamilton was 5th.

2012 - Lewis Hamilton. Hamilton's last year with McLaren and also the deciding year; who was better Hamilton or Button? Hamilton won 4 races and Button 3. If we look at the points it was 190-188 between them. Very close but Hamilton won with two points.

2013 - Sergio Perez. This teammate couldn't really fight against Button. He had his moments but usually he was just overdoing everything. He crashed into people and he missed braking points. At the end of the season the score was 73-49 with Button on the 9th place and Perez on the 11th. McLaren didn't wanna continue his contract and signed Magnussen for 2014.

2014 - Kevin Magnussen. Even though Kevin Magnussen started the season by taking a 2nd place for McLaren, Button won his younger teammate in points (126-55). Magnussen made a lot of mistakes (mostly front wing related) but still got to stay at McLaren as a reserve driver. He will drive in the first race instead of Alonso because of the Spaniard's crash in testing.

Now let's continue by comparing Alonso's teammates.

2001 - Tarso Marques/Alex Yoong. Fernando lost to Tarso Marques but won Alex Yoong. None of the drivers got any points though. Back then only the first 6 got points.

2002 - DID NOT RACE

2003 - Jarno Trulli. Fernando won his more experienced teammate by 22 points. Trulli felt like Renault's team boss Flavio Briatore wanted him to be the number 2 driver.

2004 - Jarno Trulli/Jaques Villeneuve. Fernando got 13 points more than his teammates combined.

2005 - Giancarlo Fisichella. Fernando won his teammate with 75 points which is very much! He also won the championship. For some reason Fisichella had a lot of problems the whole year with the car and retired 6 times when Alonso only twice.

2006 - Giancarlo Fisichella. Fernando won Fisichella with 62 points. Again a big amount of points more than his teammate who retired this time only twice.

2007 - Lewis Hamilton. They got exactly the same amount of points, and won races equally but Hamilton had more 2nd positions which made him the "better" driver that year. Fernando left McLaren right away after the season came to an end. Some say that he didn't like the situation where he wasn't the clear number one driver. Some others say that McLaren favored the rookie Hamilton over the two time world champion. This year Alonso is returning to that same team. Alonso says that he has matured a lot after that season and thinks this is going to be different.

2008 - Nelson Piquet Jr. Fernando won the young newcommer with 42 points and was the clear number one in the team again. The team also asked Piquet to crash on purpose so that the Spaniard would win in Singapore.

2009 - Nelson Piquet Jr./Romain Grosjean. This year Fernando only got 26 points but his teammates got none.

2010 - Felipe Massa. Fernando won his teammate by 108 points with the new scoring system and was 2nd in the championship. He lost the championship in the last race when he got stuck behind Petrov.

2011 - Felipe Massa. Fernando's victory over his teammate was even greater. 139 points!

2012 - Felipe Massa. Even more! 156 points, but Ferrari gave Felipe Massa one last chance to prove himself to the team.

2013 - Felipe Massa. Fernando won his teammate again very clearly which forced Ferrari to sign Kimi Räikkönen instead of Massa.

2014 - Kimi Räikkönen. The 2014 car was awful but Fernando won the Finn clearly. Some say that the car was designed for Alonso and was too different for Kimi. Some others say that Kimi has lost his touch even though he drove a very good season the year before.

Comparing the 2015 teammates: Red Bull

So now it's time to compare the Red Bull drivers Daniel Ricciardo and Daniil Kvyat.

I'll start with the Australian driver Daniel Ricciardo.

He started racing in F1 back in 2011 with Hispania Racing Team (HRT) but moved to Toro Rosso the following year. After driving for Toro Rosso for two years he got a seat at Red Bull. It went very well for him at Red Bull!

Let's see how he has done against his teammates.

2011 - Vitantonio Liuzzi and Narain Karthikeyan. Ricciardo drove with Karthikeyan in one race and lost. Liuzzi and Ricciardo drove together in 10 races and the situation between them was 6-3 (one point is missing because neither one of them got a result in Italy). I could say that Ricciardo was the best at Hispania. Hispania or HRT never got a single point in the series.

2012 - Jean-Eric Vergne. Ricciardo lost to his teammate with 6 points (16-10).

2013 - Jean-Eric Vergne. Ricciardo won 20-13 in points and was 3 times more ahead of him in the races.

2014 - Sebastian Vettel. This was a shocking year for many! Daniel Ricciardo beat the 4 time world champion in wins, podiums and points. Vettel won no races at all and Ricciardo won three! The points were 238-167 so Ricciardo was clearly better in 2014.

Daniil Kvyat has only had one teammate in Formula One but let's still see what happened there.

2014 - Jean-Eric Vergne. He lost in points 22-8 to his more experienced teammate but still got a seat at Red Bull for 2015. This was a bit strange. Why isn't Jean-Eric Vergne getting any respect from Red Bull? He even beat Ricciardo in 2012! But all in all even though Kvyat lost to his teammate he drove very well and is probably going to improve a lot in 2015. If not then he hasn't got much time left in F1. If they give you 2 seasons and don't get the job done then it's bye bye.

Comparing the 2015 teammates: Ferrari

This team will be very interesting to follow just like last year. Sebastian Vettel, Kimi Räikkönen's friend is taking Fernando Alonso's place. Both Kimi and Sebastian had their worst season's ever last year and they both are hungry for getting their reputation back. Can't wait to see what happens here! Kimi is probably ending his career soon and Sebastian's career has "just begun" and he is already a four time world champion.

Now on with the comparing!

I'll start with Räikkönen. First I will write the year, then the teammate/teammates and then the points with other information. Remember that before 2010 you only got 10-1points for 1st - 8th, and before 2003 10-1 points for 1st - 6st.


2001 - Nick Heidfeld. Kimi lost by 3 points but retired 7 times. He was a very inexperienced driver but got a chance in F1 by driving faster than Barrichello and Schumacher at Mugello. Only difference was that they had Ferrari's and Kimi had a Sauber. He also broke Mugello's track record.

2002 - David Coulthard. Kimi lost by 17 points but retired 10 times. McLaren was forced to buy Kimi from Sauber for the 2002 season because he had a three year contract with them.

2003 - David Coulthard. Kimi won by 40 points and was 2nd in the drivers championship. Lost by 2 points to Michael Schumacher who retired once, when Kimi retired 3 times, and was dropped from first place to second in the Brazilian GP. He also got a penalty in the Australian GP when leading the race. A good year for Kimi with a lot of bad luck.

2004 - David Coulthard. Kimi won by 21 points, got 4 podiums including a victory when Coulthard didn't get a single podium that year.

2005 - Juan-Pablo Montoya/Alexander Wurz/Pedro de la Rosa. Kimi got 42 points more than his three teammates combined. Wurz and de la Rosa drove one race each and Montoya drove the rest. Kimi was 2nd in the championship 21 points behind Fernando Alonso. Kimi had a faster car but it broke in 4 races (European GP 11th in the results because retired from the lead on the last lap). Alonso's car was more reliable so the championship was easily his.

2006 - Juan-Pablo Montoya/Pedro de la Rosa. Kimi got 20 points more than his teammates combined. Montoya got fired from McLaren after crashing into Kimi in the US Grand Prix. Pedro de la Rosa took Montoya's place.

2007 - Felipe Massa. Kimi won by 16 points and became world champion in his first year at Ferrari.

2008 - Felipe Massa. Kimi lost by 22 points and retired in 4 races. In the first race he was 2nd behind Heikki Kovalainen but after a safety car-episode both Kimi and Heikki dropped to the back. Very bad luck for the Finns again. Kimi was third in the championship.

2009 - Felipe Massa/Luca Badoer/Giancarlo Fisichella. Kimi got 12 points more than his teammates combined. He also took the only victory for Ferrari that year.

2010 - DID NOT RACE

2011 - DID NOT RACE

2012 - Romain Grosjean/Jerome D'Ambrosio. Kimi got 111 points more than his teammates combined. He was third in the championships.

2013 - Romain Grosjean. Kimi won his teammate even though he didn't drive in the last 2 races and also retired in 2. When he left Lotus he was third in the championship but obviously lost the position when he didn't drive for the rest of the season.

2014 - Fernando Alonso. Kimi's worst season ever and with the best teammate he has ever had didn't help the situation. Kimi lost in almost everything against the Spaniard. Alonso got 161 points and Kimi got only 55. Kimi was better in a few GP's (Monaco for example) but it doesn't help if everything else goes wrong. Many said that the car was entirely designed for Alonso. Even Ferrari's workers have said that it was Alonso's team and in 2015 it will be Ferrari's team again. 

Then it's Vettel's turn!

Sebastian Vettel started his career in F1 in the year 2007 by replacing Robert Kubica for one race at BMW.

He drove a better race than his more experienced teammate Nick Heidfeld and took his first point with 8th place.

Toro Rosso were really impressed with Sebastian Vettel and replaced their American driver Scott Speed with Vettel.

2007 - Vitantonio Liuzzi. Vettel drove in only 7 races but still got a better result than Liuzzi who had driven in all races. Vettel even lead a race but crashed with Mark Webber who drove for Red Bull. Anyway he took 4th place in China which was Toro Rosso's all time best result till than point. Vettel celebrated the 4th place like he won the championship. After that people even said that this guy could be better than Schumi. I didn't think so but now I'm not sure anymore..

2008 - Sebastien Bourdais. Bourdais had come from the Champ Car series to F1 with high hopes but all his dreams were crushed when Vettel beat him in every race that he finished. Vettel even took a pole position and won a race with Toro Rosso which shocked the world. Toro Rosso has never managed to do that again after Vettel.

2009 - Mark Webber. Vettel joined Red Bull as Webber's junior teammate. He was there to learn more from the more experienced driver but ended up beating him on his first season with Red Bull and almost won the championship as well. Vettel also won Red Bull's first victory and took the team's first pole position that year.

2010 - Mark Webber. Vettel won 5 races and his first championship for Red Bull and himself. That was the second time he won the more experienced Mark Webber. He won him by 14 points.

2011 - Mark Webber. Webber and nobody else had a chance against Vettel that year. He had over 120 points more than Jenson Button who was second. If we compare Vettel and Webber then the situation was 392-258 in the end. Massive difference! Vettel won 11 races and took his second championship for himself and the team as well.

2012 - Mark Webber. This year Vettel won his teammate again by over 100 points. Webber was 6th in the championship and Vettel became the 3 time world champion.

2013 - Mark Webber. This year Webber lost by almost 200 points! That's just crazy. Vettel scored more points in one season than anyone else in Formula One history. He also won 13 races that season which was the same as Michael Schumacher's world record.

2014 - Daniel Ricciardo. For the first time there was a teammate who did better than Sebastian. Some say that it was because the new car/tyres didn't fit Sebastian driving style and that the new regulations made Ricciardo even better. Who knows... All I can say is that Ricciardo did a fantastic job Vettel didn't. Just like Kimi. Ricciardo won three races and Vettel didn't win at all. Ricciardo got 238 points and Vettel got 167. Enough said.

Info about my "Comparing the 2015 teammates" -series

I am continuing with this series right away tomorrow. I just want to say that I will not compare Sauber's or Toro Rosso's teammates with each other because they have just a little or no experience at all in Formula One.


I could say this at least about Sauber's drivers:

Felipe Nasr will dominate Marcus Ericsson in 2015. Why you say? I don't know... just a feeling I have and maybe Nasr is a better driver. I hope the Swede does well though because he seems like a nice guy.

If you want me to say something quick about Toro Rosso's drivers then here goes:

Carlos Sainz Jr. is a bit older than Max Verstappen and has a little more experience so he might have the upper hand. It might look good though if the young Verstappen would be a new superstar. I would really like that!


So now I covered Toro Rosso and Sauber very quickly. Before this I have already compared Mercedes, Lotus, Williams and Force India so I still have to compare the following teams: McLaren, Ferrari and Red Bull.

If you haven't read the previous posts then please check out these links:

http://f14life.blogspot.fi/2015/02/comparing-2015-teammates-force-india.html
http://f14life.blogspot.fi/2015/02/comparing-2015-drivers-williams.html
http://f14life.blogspot.fi/2015/02/comparing-2015-teammates-lotus.html
http://f14life.blogspot.fi/2015/02/comparing-2015-teammates-mercedes.html

Comparing the 2015 teammates: Force India

Force India has decided to stick with the same drivers as in 2014 and they are a good pair in my opinion.

Hülkenberg has always been a good driver and in my opinion he is one of the best drivers in Formula One. Perez on the other hand is a driver who is a bit off sometimes but is capable of scoring some very good points for him and his team. Perez was good at Sauber but at McLaren he couldn't beat his world champion teammate Jenson Button. Last year he got a podium but lost to Hülkenberg in points.

The comparing starts here and I will begin with Sergio Perez. First the year, then the former teammate and how the season went.

2011 - Kamui Kobayashi. Perez started his career with a very good and hungry teammate. Kobayashi was said to be a rising star but for some reason he isn't driving in F1 anymore.
The first season in F1 wasn't that good for Perez. Kobayashi got double the amount of points than Perez. Sauber was also a very weak team that year which didn't really give him a chance to show any skills.

2012 - Kamui Kobayashi. This time the Sauber was working much better than the year before and even Perez was driving better. He won Kobayashi with 6 points (66-60) and even got three podium finishes. The 2012 Malaysian GP was the best race ever for Perez. He almost won the race but got second place in the end fighting with the two time world champion Fernando Alonso. People were talking that Perez was going to replace Massa at Ferrari. In the end Perez got a contract with McLaren after Lewis Hamilton wanted to leave.

2013 - Jenson Button. Now it was time for Perez to show his real potential but he failed. Jenson Button was not an easy man to beat. Perez lost 73-49 in points and lost also his seat at McLaren to the newbie Kevin Magnussen. Not a good year for McLaren and not for Perez either. 

2014 - Nico Hülkenberg. I will talk about him when I have compared his teammates first.

Let's take a look at the German superstar Nico Hülkenberg. Some say that if Kimi Räikkönen would have stayed with Lotus Hülkenberg would have joined Ferrari for sure.

2010 - Rubens Barrichello. The only season that Hülkenberg has lost to his teammate. As a rookie he got only half of the points that Barrichello got. But then on the other hand Hülkenberg retired twice more than Barrichello. The young rookie from Germany also shocked everybody by taking pole position in Brazil with a car that wasn't good enough for that.

2011 - This year he lost his seat when Williams needed a pay driver and signed Pastor Maldonado. Hülkenberg would have gotten a seat for sure in another team but Williams notified him so late that all of the seats were already taken.

2012 - Paul di Resta. Hülkenberg was back again and showed his teammate who's boss with the points 63-46. Hülkenberg was now a driver that every team was keeping an eye on. McLaren could have signed him for 2013 but thought that his 2014 teammate (Sergio Perez) was a better choice. An interesting question was in the air: If they would have signed Hülkenberg instead of Perez would they have signed Magnussen for 2014? We will never know and only wonder.

2013 - Esteban Gutierrez. This was a pretty obvious victory for Hülkenberg because he got over 8 times more points than his teammate. The points were 51-6! What a difference! Sauber were happy enough to keep him for one more season though. Hülkenberg was good enough to say that he wasn't happy with the car and returned to Force India who were glad to take him back.

2014 - Sergio Perez. He got Force India's first podium since 2009 but Hülkenberg won him in points and being more consistent. 

If I would take a guess I would say that Perez will lose this time too because "the Hulk" is a very tough teammate to beat.

Comparing the 2015 drivers: Williams

Today we shall talk about the two Williams drivers Valtteri Bottas and Felipe Massa. 

Valtteri Bottas has been with the team for a few years. First he was the test driver / reserve driver and then for the past two years he has been one of the racing drivers. 

Felipe Massa joined Williams before last season so he should be used to the team by now.

OK guys.. I'll do this the same way as I've always done. So first the year, then the teammate and how the season went.

I'm gonna start with Felipe Massa because he got to Formula One first.

2002 - Nick Heidfeld. After Räikkönen got a seat at McLaren Peter Sauber signed Felipe Massa as Nick Heidfeld's teammate. Sauber said that Massa was even better than Räikkönen and was sure that everybody would see it. Unfortunately Massa didn't perform as good as Räikkönen a year before. Massa was 14th in the championship with 4 points. Heidfeld was 10th with 7.

2003 - Peter Sauber didn't want to continue Massa's contract because of "numerous mistakes" in 2002. Massa became Ferrari's test driver and later Sauber wanted him back for the 2004 season.

2004 - Giancarlo Fisichella. Massa had gotten better but this time he had a more experienced teammate against him. In the end Fisichella was higher up in the standings with 22 points and Massa had only 12.

2005 - Jaques Villeneuve. Now he had a former world champion driving with him. For the first time ever Massa was better than his teammate! The former world champion got 9 points and Massa got 11. This was not because of luck or bad luck. Massa was much better that season and got a seat at Ferrari for the next season.

2006 - Michael Schumacher. Schumi was fighting for the championship with Alonso. Massa was just the "junior teammate" who came to learn from the legend how it's done. Massa was 2nd in his first qulaifying with Ferrari right after Schumacher. Later on he started winning races and got better and better.

2007 - Kimi Räikkönen. The Iceman won his first race with Ferrari and 5 more races that same season. He also won the championship before Hamilton, Alonso and Massa. The brazilian said that 2008 was going to be his turn.

2008 - Kimi Räikkönen. This year Ferrari had a lot of technical problems. Massa retired 3 times and Räikkönen 5 times. Sometimes they had big problems even though they got to finish the race. Massa was more lucky than Räikkönen and was 2nd in the championship. It seemed for a while that he was the champion but Hamilton overtook Timo Glock on the last lap and won Massa by a single point. Anyways this was the second time he won his teammate in Formula One.

2009 - Kimi Räikkönen. This year the car was even worse. Räikkönen only won one single race for Ferrari and Massa had a serious accident in Hungary. He was replaced by Luca Badoer and later Giancarlo Fisichella who were not nearly as good as Massa. If you count Massa's, Badoer's and Fisichella's points together you get less points than Räikkönen got from the whole season.

2010 - Fernando Alonso. Alonso won him by 108 points with the new scoring system and was 2nd in the championship. He lost the championship in the last race when he got stuck behind Petrov. Massa was far behind in 6th place in the end of the season.

2011 - Fernando Alonso. Alonso's victory over Massa was even greater. 139 points more!

2012 - Fernando Alonso. Even more! 156 points, but Ferrari gave Felipe Massa one last chance to prove himself to the team.

2013 - Fernando Alonso. Alonso won Massa again very clearly which forced Ferrari to sign Kimi Räikkönen instead of Massa. They lost faith in him but wished him well.

2014 - Valtteri Bottas. I'll talk about him after I have compared Valtteri's previous teammates.

Here we go! It's Valtteri Bottas' turn. The list is very short because he has driven only two season's in Formula One (as a racing driver).

2013 - Pastor Maldonado. He was expected to be better than Bottas but it wasn't so. Bottas got 4 points and Maldonado got 1. According to the Williams team Bottas seamed to be a more mature driver than Maldonado even though he was a rookie. Bottas also got a P3 in the Canadian qualifying session which was a big surprise. Williams had an awful car in 2013.

2014 - Felipe Massa. He was also expected to be better than Bottas but he wasn't. He drove better than he did at Ferrari but it wasn't enough against Bottas. The points were 186-134 between them and Bottas took six podiums and Massa "only" three.

Last year I said: "People are not going to agree with me on this one but I really think that Bottas has a chance of being better than Massa in 2014". I was right and I am sure that he will beat Massa this year also. I like Massa but he has to do better in 2015 to beat Bottas. He is very though.

Comparing the 2015 teammates: Lotus

Romain Grosjean and Pastor Maldonado side by side and head to head again. Some say it will be a disaster and some say that these two guys can bring a lot of points to Lotus in 2015. Personally I think that Grosjean will be better than his teammate even though Maldonado is a race winner.

Let's begin comparing! I'll start with Romain Grosjean. First I will write the year and then the teammate and how it went.

2009 - Fernando Alonso. Grosjean replaced Nelson Piquet Jr. because Flavio Briatore wasn't satisfied with his results. Grosjean on the other hand didn't do that much better. He had even worse results and didn't get a seat for 2010. Alonso won him in every race he finished.

2012 - Kimi Räikkönen. Grosjean got a second chance and was now better than in 2009. He had just won the GP2 series and was hungry for good results. But unfortunately for Grosjean's sake Kimi Räikkönen mopped the floor with him. Grosjean got 96 points and Räikkönen 207. Over twice the amount more than Grosjean. Only Alonso and Räikkönen got twice as much as their teammates in 2012. Was it because they were so good or because their teammates were just that bad? You be the judge.

2013 - Kimi Räikkönen and Heikki Kovalainen. Kovalainen drove in two races but it was pretty clear that he was a bit rusty or he had very bad luck. Grosjean won Kovalainen in the first race but in the second he retired. Räikkönen on the other hand won Grosjean in 11 races and would have won more but retired twice and didn't race in the last two races. Even though Räikkönen was again better it didn't mean that Grosjean had a bad season. Compared to 2012 it was a great year and he got better all the time. I wish him well and good luck.

2014 - Pastor Maldonado. I will compare these two when I have gone through Maldonado's teammates.

Then Pastor Maldonado...

2011 - Rubens Barrichello. Maldonado lost because he got 1 point and Barrichello got 4. Not a good year for Williams.

2012 - Bruno Senna. The only time that Maldonado actually was better than his teammate. He even won a race for Williams so 2012 was much better for them.

2013 - Valtteri Bottas. 2011 all over again but this time he lost to a rookie. 4 points to Bottas and only 1 to Maldonado. He stated to the media that even though he lost to Bottas it was his best season ever. He made it very clear that Bottas is not a regular rookie but a professional with just a little experience.

2014 - Romain Grosjean. Maldonado lost to his teammate 8-2 in points and we could also see clearly that Grosjean is nowadays a pretty good driver. Maldonado on the other hand is driving like an amateur. I don't know what has happened to him but he used to be much better. I am pretty sure that Grosjean will be better than Maldonado in 2015.

If you have any questions about the 2015 season's teammates or anything else then sen me a message to f14lifeblog@gmail.com or comment.

Comparing the 2015 teammates: Mercedes

Last year I did a series where I compared each team's teammates with each other. This year I will do the same. Some of these drivers have been teammates last year so that means that I have to update last years post. My opinions and facts haven't changed so that's why I am not writing everything from scratch.

The first drivers I am comparing are Lewis Hamilton and Nico Rosberg because they were under everybody's looking glass last year.

They used to be teammates also when they were teenagers but I only know a little about that so I'll focus on F1.

I'll do this the same way as I've always done. So first the year, then the teammate and how the season went.

I'm gonna start with Nico Rosberg.

2006 - Mark Webber. Nico started his career in Formula One with a bang. He set the fastest lap in his first ever race, got points and was 3rd in his second qualifying session. Nice start but his teammate was tuff! All of the races where they both finished Webber was always better. In the end of the season he also got more points (7-4).

2007 - Alexander Wurz and Kazuki Nakajima. This time Nico got more points than these two got combined. His "training" season was over and he really showed who was boss when he managed to beat his much more experienced teammate (Wurz). Later Wurz decided to retire from Formula One and the test driver Nakajima replaced him. He wasn't nearly as good as either one of the original drivers of 2007.

2008 - Kazuki Nakajima. Now Nakajima had a new chance to show what he was made of but lost by 8 points to Rosberg (17-9). Williams wasn't that good at the time but Nico managed to get his first ever podium in F1 at Melbourne.

2009 - Kazuki Nakajima. This season Nico was even better than the previous season. You could clearly see that Rosberg was the better driver and Nakajima had to leave the series after this season. Nico got 34,5 points and Nakajima didn't get a single point that season.

2010 - Michael Schumacher. The 7 time world champion came back as a Mercedes driver and became Rosberg's teammate. People said that Rosberg has a lot to learn from Michael but in the end he was better than Schumacher! It was probably because Michael had been away from the sport for a few years but still. Rosberg got 142 points and Schumacher only 72. That's almost twice the amount of points! Rosberg also got three podiums and Schumacher got none.

2011 - Michael Schumacher. Same thing continues in 2011, Rosberg is getting better results than Schumi but now the score is only 89-76. The car wasn't as good in 2011 than it was in 2010. They didn't get a single podium that year.

2012 - Michael Schumacher. Schumi's last year in F1 was worse than the seasons before. Rosberg got 93 points and Schumi only 49. Rosberg won his first race in China that year. It was also the first for the Mercedes GP team.

2013-2014 - Lewis Hamilton. I will compare these two after I have first listed Hamilton's teammates.

Lewis Hamilton on the other hand started a year later than Rosberg and got a chance right away in a better car (McLaren of course). He was 3rd in his first race.

2007 - Fernando Alonso. Probably the worst possible teammate to beat that year. Alonso had just won the last two championships and was planning to win his third in a row. He could probably have done it that year but he focused too much on the young rookie Hamilton when he should have been keeping an eye on Räikkönen. Hamilton and Alonso got exactly the same amount of points and Kimi won them with one single point. That was the tightest fight in Formula One history! Because Hamilton had more 2nd places than Alonso he was higher up in the standings. In a way you can say that he was "better than Alonso".

2008 - Heikki Kovalainen. He got 53 points and won a race. Lewis on the other hand got 98 points and won the championship! You can't beat that!

2009 - Heikki Kovalainen. This was a very bad season for Heikki and McLaren as well so it was easy to beat him. Lewis got 49 points and Heikki only 22. McLaren didn't wanna continue Heikki's contract any further.

2010 - Jenson Button. The 2009 world champion joined McLaren as the 2008 world champion's teammate. People were sure that Jenson had no chance against Lewis but made everybody shut up by winning a race before him. In the end the score was 240-214 between the two of them which ment that Lewis was better (as the press had predicted).

2011 - Jenson Button. This time Jenson was hungry to beat his teammate and did just that with a score of 270-227. Button was runner up in the championship and Hamilton was 5th.

2012 - Jenson Button. Hamilton's last year with McLaren and also the deciding year; who was better Hamilton or Button? Hamilton won 4 races and Button 3. If we look at the points it was 190-188 between them. Very close but Hamilton won with two points.

2013 - Nico Rosberg. The points were 189-171 between Hamilton and Rosberg in 2013. Very close! We also have to remember that in the same race where everybody were focusing on multi21, Ross Brawn told Rosberg to back off and keep his position. He had more speed than Hamilton but the Mercedes team didn't want them to fight and perhaps take each other out of the race. Rosberg also retired 3 times in 2013. Lewis only once.
Lewis won one single race and Nico two (one of them was in Monaco!). The points say that Hamilton is better but if you look at the whole picture it looks like Rosberg was better than Hamilton in 2013.

2014 - Nico Rosberg. This year it was totally different and even though Nico drove well he lost to Lewis clearly. Hamilton was a much better driver in 2014!
The points were 384-317 but Lewis also got 50 points for winning in Abu Dhabi. They both retired more than once but when they managed to finish it was usually Lewis who won. He won 11 races and Rosberg only 5.

This year the story continues...

Comparing the 2014 teammates after 11 Grand Prix's

Sorry for not posting this yesterday as I promised but here it is now only one day later ;)

So I am going to compare the teammates with each other. I was supposed to post the qualifying results yesterday and the race results today but because I am late with this I will post them both in the same post.

First points, then qualifying and then race results.
If there is a retirement the point doesn't count. That's why there isn't always a total of 11 points.

Let's begin!

Mercedes
Lewis Hamilton, 191 pts, 2nd, best result 1st (Malaysia, Bahrain, China, Spain, Great Britain)
Nico Rosberg, 202 pts, 1st. best result 1st (Australia, Monaco, Austria, Germany)
Qualifying: 7 - 4 Winner: Rosberg
Race: 5 - 3 Winner: Hamilton

Red Bull
Sebastian Vettel, 88 pts, 6th, best result 3rd (Malaysia, Canada)
Daniel Ricciardo, 131 pts, 3rd, best result 1st (Canada, Hungary)
Qualifying: 7 - 4 Winner: Ricciardo
Race: 6 - 1 Winner: Ricciardo

Ferrari
Fernando Alonso, 115pts, 4th, best result 2nd (Hungary)
Kimi Raikkonen, 27pts, 12th, best result 6th (Hungary)
Qualifying: 9 - 2 Winner: Alonso
Race: 10 - 0 Winner: Alonso

Williams
Felipe Massa, 40 pts, 9th, best result 4th (Austria)
Valtteri Bottas, 95 pts, 5th, best result 2nd (Great Britain, Germany)
Qualifying: 7 - 4 Winner: Bottas
Race: 4 - 3 Winner: Bottas

Force India
Nico Hulkenberg, 69 pts, 7th, best result 5th (Malaysia, Bahrain, Monaco, Canada)
Sergio Perez, 29 pts, 11th, best result 3rd (Bahrain) 
Qualifying: 9 - 2 Winner: Hulkenberg
Race: 5 - 3 Winner: Hulkenberg

McLaren
Jenson Button, 60pts, 8th, best result 3rd (Australia)
Kevin Magnussen, 37pts, 10th, best result 2nd (Australia)
Qualifying: 6 - 5 Winner: Button
Race: 8 - 2 Winner: Button

Toro Rosso
Jean-Eric Vergne, 11pts, 13th, best result 8th (Australia, Canada)
Daniil Kvyat, 6pts, 15th, best result 9th (Australia, Great Britain)
Qualifying: 6 - 5 Winner: Vergne
Race: 2 -2

Lotus
Romain Grosjean, 8pts, 14th, best result 8th (Spain, Monaco)
Pastor Maldonado, 0pts, 19th, best result 12th (Austria, Germany)
Qualifying: 10 - 1 Winner: Grosjean
Race: 3 -1 Winner: Grosjean

Marussia
Jules Bianchi, 2 pts, 16th, best result 9th (Monaco)
Max Chilton, 0 pts, 21st, best result: 13th (Australia, Bahrain)
Qualifying: 8 -3 Winner: Bianchi
Race: 7-1 Winner: Bianchi

Sauber
Adrian Sutil, 0 pts, 17th, best result 11th (Australia, Hungary)
Esteban Gutierrez, 0 pts, 20th, best result 12th (Australia)
Qualifying: 6 - 4 Winner: Gutierrez
Race: 3 - 1 Winner: Sutil

Caterham
Kamui Kobayashi, 0 pts, 22nd, best result 13th (Malaysia, Monaco)
Marcus Ericsson, 0 pts, 18th, best result 11th (Monaco)
Qualifying: 9 -2 Winner: Kobayashi
Race: 4-1 Winner: Kobayashi

Let me know if you guys want me to write about the drivers (teammates) more specifically. I might just post some more of this same subject if there are more than a few requests.