ABU DHABI, United Arab Emirates — There may be 20 cars in a Formula One race, but for a driver, since so much of his relative strength depends on the quality of his team’s car, the main competitor is always his own teammate.
In a season so dominated by one team, few races of the 2015 season were more about the battles of the teammates than the Abu Dhabi Grand Prix on Sunday, the last of the season’s 19 races, as all of the drivers wanted to make a final, parting impression of superiority.
And nowhere was the battle more significant than at that dominating team, as the Mercedes drivers, Nico Rosberg and Lewis Hamilton, again fought each other for the victory.