Analysis

Team-mates

How good was a driver, independent of the car? It cannot be measured – but two team-mates drove the same car, so whoever finished ahead says something about the drivers. This page turns those duels into a rating.

This is a model, not a count. Everything else on this site is counted from the results. This page runs a chess-style rating over 522 drivers and their team-mate duels; 505 of them are connected into a single chain, so most ratings are comparable. Drivers with fewer than 30 duels are left out.

The three assumptions behind the ranking

Team-mates get equal machinery. Often, but not always – there were first and second drivers, and teams that favoured a title contender.
Strength carries over. If A beat B and B beat C, the rating treats A as stronger than C. Hamilton raced Alonso, Alonso raced Fisichella, Fisichella raced Button – that is how eras connect here. Over long chains the error accumulates.
A duel is a fair test. A retirement is not, so only races where both finished count. A pit-stop error or a first-lap collision still distorts one.

After three duels a rating still sits close to where it started; listing such a driver next to Hamilton would mislead. That is why the minimum is 30.

Race duels

Who finished ahead, in races where both team-mates were classified.

#	Driver	Rating	Duels	Won
1	Max Verstappen2015–2026 · 8 team-mates	1844	184	83%
2	Juan Manuel Fangio1950–1958 · 31 team-mates	1795	82	89%
3	Alberto Ascari1950–1953 · 16 team-mates	1773	58	90%
4	Jim Clark1960–1968 · 36 team-mates	1772	95	82%
5	Bruce McLaren1958–1969 · 37 team-mates	1743	116	76%
6	Ayrton Senna1984–1993 · 9 team-mates	1740	72	78%
7	Fernando Alonso2001–2026 · 14 team-mates	1707	297	76%
8	Charles Leclerc2018–2026 · 5 team-mates	1706	149	64%
9	Dan Gurney1959–1970 · 17 team-mates	1704	65	74%
10	Stirling Moss1953–1961 · 37 team-mates	1694	57	77%
11	Jackie Stewart1965–1973 · 16 team-mates	1693	60	80%
12	Jochen Rindt1965–1970 · 17 team-mates	1692	34	76%
13	Nino Farina1950–1955 · 24 team-mates	1688	70	69%
14	Jenson Button2000–2016 · 10 team-mates	1688	193	58%
15	Jack Brabham1958–1970 · 51 team-mates	1672	145	74%
16	Michael Schumacher1991–2012 · 10 team-mates	1664	183	74%
17	José Froilán González1951–1960 · 23 team-mates	1652	36	78%
18	Jean Behra1952–1959 · 24 team-mates	1650	50	72%
19	John Surtees1960–1971 · 19 team-mates	1641	36	75%
20	Ronnie Peterson1970–1978 · 21 team-mates	1641	72	69%
21	Nigel Mansell1981–1995 · 7 team-mates	1639	64	59%
22	Nelson Piquet1978–1991 · 14 team-mates	1632	66	70%
23	Jacky Ickx1967–1979 · 23 team-mates	1630	60	68%
24	Alain Prost1980–1993 · 10 team-mates	1629	83	61%
25	George Russell2019–2026 · 5 team-mates	1629	138	64%
26	Lewis Hamilton2007–2026 · 7 team-mates	1623	328	58%
27	Mike Hawthorn1952–1958 · 22 team-mates	1622	62	58%
28	Mario Andretti1970–1982 · 11 team-mates	1622	44	68%
29	Juan Pablo Montoya2001–2006 · 4 team-mates	1620	51	63%
30	Alan Jones1975–1986 · 11 team-mates	1618	46	70%

Qualifying duels

Who was quicker over one lap – the cleaner comparison of the two, and not the same ranking.

#	Driver	Rating	Duels	Won
1	Jim Clark1960–1968 · 69 team-mates	2049	312	91%
2	Juan Manuel Fangio1950–1958 · 45 team-mates	2009	198	96%
3	Jochen Rindt1964–1970 · 33 team-mates	1992	173	87%
4	Stirling Moss1951–1961 · 83 team-mates	1972	278	90%
5	Ayrton Senna1984–1994 · 10 team-mates	1952	158	89%
6	Jackie Stewart1965–1973 · 25 team-mates	1870	175	86%
7	Max Verstappen2015–2026 · 8 team-mates	1858	238	81%
8	Alberto Ascari1950–1955 · 36 team-mates	1853	134	89%
9	Dan Gurney1959–1970 · 41 team-mates	1852	196	76%
10	James Hunt1973–1978 · 19 team-mates	1849	125	94%
11	Jean Behra1952–1959 · 53 team-mates	1816	206	79%
12	Carlos Pace1972–1977 · 27 team-mates	1805	142	68%
13	Alain Prost1980–1993 · 10 team-mates	1774	201	67%
14	Jack Brabham1956–1970 · 105 team-mates	1773	466	79%
15	Nino Farina1950–1955 · 31 team-mates	1771	132	77%
16	Carlos Reutemann1972–1982 · 33 team-mates	1762	227	73%
17	George Russell2019–2026 · 5 team-mates	1754	167	72%
18	Nico Rosberg2006–2016 · 5 team-mates	1753	202	61%
19	José Froilán González1950–1960 · 41 team-mates	1747	107	79%
20	Bruce McLaren1958–1970 · 76 team-mates	1742	309	67%
21	Fernando Alonso2001–2026 · 14 team-mates	1741	431	76%
22	Charles Leclerc2018–2026 · 5 team-mates	1739	189	68%
23	Michael Schumacher1991–2012 · 11 team-mates	1731	305	76%
24	John Surtees1960–1972 · 48 team-mates	1721	182	77%
25	Mike Hawthorn1952–1958 · 42 team-mates	1719	156	65%
26	Vittorio Brambilla1974–1980 · 15 team-mates	1714	108	71%
27	Emerson Fittipaldi1970–1980 · 15 team-mates	1710	128	70%
28	Mike Spence1963–1968 · 29 team-mates	1709	114	63%
29	Keke Rosberg1978–1986 · 12 team-mates	1706	115	72%
30	Harry Schell1950–1960 · 51 team-mates	1704	201	57%

How it is worked out

Every driver starts at 1500. After each duel the winner takes points from the loser, and how many depends on what was expected: beating a much stronger team-mate moves the rating far, beating a much weaker one barely at all. It is the chess rating, unchanged – nothing about it is specific to motor racing.

Indianapolis is left out. The Indy 500 counted towards the World Championship from 1950 to 1960, but it was a separate race with its own regulations and its own entry – and, decisively here, the constructor there is the chassis builder, not the team. In 1955 Kurtis Kraft supplied 23 of the 35 cars. Those 23 drivers were not team-mates but independent entrants who had bought the same chassis; counted as duels, that one race alone would produce 253 false comparisons. Leaving it out costs 1,867 of 8,854 duels.

Read the number of duels beside the rating. It is the honest measure of how much the rating is worth. A driver with 30 duels against two team-mates is placed on thinner evidence than one with 300 against fourteen.

Every driver's own team-mate record, race by race, is on their page under Drivers.