Sebastian Vettel and Mark Webber may have grabbed the headlines after Vettel defied Red Bull orders to win in Malaysia, but they are not the first teammates to spectacularly and publicly fall out. Alain Prost and Ayrton Senna became sworn enemies at McLaren in the 1980s, while Nelson Piquet and Nigel Mansell were bitter rivals even before they found themselves in the same garage at Williams during the same era. And then there was Gilles Villeneuve and Didier Pironi at Ferrari, also in the 1980s, whose relationship turned decidedly sour after an infamous incident that Vettel and Webber were to replicate more than 30 years later. It was the 1982 season, the San Marino Grand Prix. Pironi...
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