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When F1 team-mates fight for the title

With the title showdown between Nico Rosberg and Lewis Hamilton just one week away, F1i looks back at a number of other championship battles between team-mates ©CahierArchive Phil Hill and Wolfgang von Trips (1961) Not the only championship fight to end prematurely in tragedy at Monza. Ferrari was dominant in 1961 with its 156 ‘Sharknose’ design and new 1.5-litre engine regulations, and had two very different title protagonists in American Phil Hill and German driver Wolfgang von Trips. The pair had raced for Ferrari for a number of years, but in an era when driver fatalities were commonplace, Hill took a more measured approach to racing compared to the often crash-prone von Trips....
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