F1 legend names greatest teammate pairing in history

Ex-Formula 1 team owner Eddie Jordan has named his number oneteammate partnership in F1 history. Whilst the World Drivers'Champion often gets the lion's share of the plaudits at the end ofa season, success in F1 is largely a team effort with masses ofemployees at the respective factories ensuring every detail of acar is as well tuned as possible - and that is before things likestrategy is even considered. But when the cars hit the track,driver performance is the number one factor and, as has been seenwith Max Verstappen and Sergio Perez in the past two seasons, thedifference in form between the two teammates can be easily seen.Team orders can also come into play and some of the greatestteammate partnerships have seen success achieved without anyflashpoints in the relationship. But Jordan's number onepartnership happens to be perhaps the most infamous rivalry in F1history. “I think the Prost-Senna [partnership] will probably godown as the number one because they were so brilliantly talented,”Jordan told David Coulthard on their Formula For Success podcast.“Prost winning four world titles, of course, Senna winning a wholeheap of titles too and they were unbelievably quick.” WhySchumacher doesn't feature Explaining why Michael Schumacher andhis various teammates across his successful career did not feature,Jordan pointed to the 1999 season where the German failed to assistEddie Irvine in winning the title having returned from a broken leghe sustained in a crash at the British Grand Prix. “Michael didcome back and told everyone that he was coming back to help EddieIrvine win the championship. He did not do that," said Jordan. “Hedid everything that he could because he didn’t want Ferrari to wina championship with a driver other than him. That’s what I believeand that’s what Irvine believes. “When you look at the way hehandled the race and Suzuka, he did nothing to help Eddie, whereasI think [Mika] Hakkinen was the champion. You’re [Coulthard] histeam-mate and everyone was happy because I think he was probablythe deserved champion. “I think Michael was always a difficultteam-mate because even though he had Massa, as you rightly say, andRubens Barrichello and Irvine, all great, great wingmen but theyall knew what the score was. “I never liked that I have to tellyou.”