I was going to write a nice big post about why Michael had it easier than Fangio, why Senna was better than Prost etc etc. But people would pick holes in it so I'll just do the list:
1. Juan-Manuel Fangio
2. Michael Schumacher
3. Ayrton Senna
4. Jim Clark
5. Alain Prost
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no particular order
Mansell, Lauda, Piquet, Moss, G Hill, J Brabham, Stewart.
.....so in answer to the question, no. Even though I've named a "number one", I don't really think it's possible to name the greatest driver ever. You can pinpoint the greatest driver of each era of Formula One, but not the whole 53 years.
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