Sentence examples for driver rivalry from inspiring English sources
It was, simply, the sport at its best, away from the internecine battling, the driver rivalry that somehow feels almost childish in this context and the endless politicking over F1 as a business.
The driver rivalries also have provided entertainment when the racing action itself has not.
The potency of the driver rivalries and their abilities has certainly not lessened over the winter.
"When I saw it the first time, I was impressed," said the driver whose rivalry with James Hunt is captured onscreen.
Hemsworth plays James Hunt, a British F1 driver whose rivalry with Austrian Niki Lauda (played by Daniel Bruhl) made for one of sports' most epic -- and dangerous -- tête-à-têtes.
The question of whether it took more courage to race on, as did Hunt, who consequently won the title by finishing the race in third, or to pull out in face of the dangerous conditions, is not only a beautifully unstated dramatic moment in the new film "Rush," about the drivers' legendary rivalry, it is also at the crux of their contrasting characters.
The director of Senna, Asif Kapadia and Sid Watkins, former Formula 1 safety and medical delegate, told BBC Breakfast about the racing car driver's fierce rivalry.
On the way to the hotel, we asked our cab driver about the rivalry.
Leto bested Michael Fassbender as a monstrously cruel plantation owner in "12 Years a Slave," Barkhad Abdi as a fierce and unfaltering Somali pirate leader in "Captain Phillips, Daniel Brühll as a precise Formula One race car driver obsessed with one rivalry in "Rush" and James Gandolfini, as a divorced man looking for honest love in "Enough Said".
We've seen in other teams and times where it can be a poisonous effect on a team, the arch rivalry between drivers.
Mercedes F1 co-team boss Toto Wolff says he does not believe the rivalry between drivers Lewis Hamilton and Nico Rosberg will get out of hand.
