When two becomes one
In every discipline of motorsport, a successful team needs a star performer around whom everyone flits like pilot fish accompanying a great white shark – and that includes their team-mates. Sporting purity is a lofty ambition, but drivers who take points off each other are bad for business. Michael Schumacher needed an Eddie Irvine or Rubens Barrichello alongside him in Ferrari’s F1 pomp, just as Sebastien Loeb’s World Rally domination for Citroen owed much to the work of Dani Sordo.
When Toyota team boss
