Formula One legend Alain Prost has said that this season's title rivals Lewis Hamilton and Nico Rosberg could remain teammates at Mercedes for the next three seasons.
The pair has clashed throughout the season, with Rosberg colliding with Hamilton at the Belgian Grand Prix. And McLaren boss Ron Dennis predicted that the tensions could cause one driver to leave the team.
Prost said that he does not think it can last for five or six years but it would be no problem for two or three, The BBC reported.
Former Red Bull driver Mark Webber had also questioned whether Hamilton and Rosberg could remain teammates at Mercedes.
But the former Formula One world champion Prost, who famously had a bitter rivalry with Brazilian Ayrton Senna when the pair were teammates in the 1980s, believes that Mercedes can keep things together for a long time.
The Frenchman said that it is the work of the team, adding that one can never show one driver that he could have a technological or psychological advantage. He said that if one can keep this situation going they can keep things together for a long time.
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Prost believes that the incident in Belgium, for which Rosberg later issued a public apology, was blown out of proportion. He said that it was a small incident, a small mistake from the German and there is no way he could have done it on purpose, but he added that it is inevitable that everybody inside and outside the team, they overreact.
The four-time world champion said that they have two exceptional drivers fighting for the championship and he hopes they can be free until the end of the year.
