Who is winning F1's team-mate wars?
Whether you're in a car fighting for the world championship or one that spends much of its life on recovery trucks, Formula 1 drivers have to beat their team-mates. Who's getting the job done so far in 2017?
It has been a frantic start to the season, with seven races on four continents in 12 weeks. But patterns are already starting to emerge within Formula 1 teams about which drivers have taken their opportunities and who needs to up their game.
Only three teams - Ferrari, Red Bull and Toro Rosso - have an unchanged driver line-up from 2016, and new man on the other side of the garage or not, a driver's first yardstick is their team-mate. Now, a little over a third of the way through the season, let's look at how they're stacking up against each other.
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