The great American novelist Ernest Hemingway once wrote: 'There are only three sports: bullfighting, motor racing, and mountaineering; all the rest are merely games.' Since the early days of motor racing, the sport has been littered with battles for championships, battles for wins and battles for supremacy between teammates.

Duels and motor racing have gone hand in hand since the very beginning of the motorised sports, when men and women alike would spend their days setting and then breaking new land speed records over the kilometer and the mile.