favourite f1 rivalry of all time, current past and forever, is sebmark :) the combination of the young talented upstart on a meteoric rise versus the reliable older driver who's losing daylight and watching the gap for them to win a wdc slowly close... so emotionally wrought and deeply compelling. and multi-21 broke something in my brain, no team orders drama will ever live up to it

(in a different world I might have been more into brocedes, the childhood friends angle to it is so powerful. sadly that era coincided with seb's decline and out of spite I was never properly able to give my attention to mercedes or lewis. that said, I think the lewis/massa rivalry deserves more attention. as always, when one driver walks away without a championship I find this painfully compelling... and massa coming back over a decade to bring a legal challenge, bruh)

of the current rivalries - I like norstappen! even before they started really having a go at each other this season. their silly goofy twitch stream-based friendship was sweet to me, and I felt like lando had the capability to challenge max - I thought that if he managed to do that the on-track rivalry mixed with the off-track friendship would be really interesting. and it has been, even though recent events have shown that the rivalry is not as even (yet?) as I might like it to be

I could also really see myself getting into landoscar. there was some pretty ropey team orders drama this season which obviously doesn't reach mutli-21 heights but there were shades of it. lando being so emotional versus oscar being so stoic would make for some fiery clashes if they both start properly challenging for the title! maybe next year :)