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What happens next? The power struggles that ended in departure

Sebastian Vettel was resistant to move over for his team-mate in the Russian Grand Prix on Sunday - reneging on a pre-race agreement to let Charles Leclerc back past him to win. Was Vettel's team order resistance a classic case of F1 drivers trying to establish who is the number one driver? He's done it before. But he wasn't the first... Power failure #1: Senna v Prost Ayrton Senna and Alain Prost's McLaren rivalry was heightened at a memorable race at Suzuka, Japan in 1989. Prost was on pole, and Senna had to overtake to win the F1 title instead at Prost's expense. They went wheel-to-wheel knocking both of them off the track into the run-off area. The race was over for Prost, but Senna...
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