Just as the 1979 312 T4 was an overwhelming winner, the 1980 season was an overwhelming disaster as the 312 T5’s flat-12 “Boxer” engine wasn’t viable in the fast-evolving science of ground effects, which requires rear venturis or tunnels on either side of the V8 engines. Ferrari’s...
Race winner Ferrari's Carlos Sainz (1st L) of Spain, second placed Ferrari's Charles Leclerc (2nd R) of Monaco, third placed Mclaren's Lando Norris of Britain (1st R) and Matteo Togninalli, head of track engineering of Ferrari, celebrate on the podium during the Australian Formula One Gr...
Championship which is awarded to the constructor (the team that builds the components of the car) who accumulates the most points at the end of the season. In 63 seasons, only 11 times has the winning constructor not been on the same team as the winner of the World Drivers' Championship....
“Is it possible to be equal?” Prost had asked Senna with a grin during a press conference appearance midway through their first season as team mates, to which the youngster cheekily replied, “No… There can only be one winner”. Senna achieved his fi...
Aged 53, the Italian remains F1’s oldest ever winner - a record that’ll surely never be broken. Gunnar Nilsson - Belgium 1977 Legendary team boss Ken Tyrrell famously thought so much of Nilsson that he tipped him as a future world champion, but sadly just as the greg...
From 1991, the winner started getting ten points and this continued until the end of the 2002 season. From 2003, there was a major change with the winner continuing to get the ten points, but drivers placed second to eighth, at a race getting 8-6-5-4-3-2-1 points respectively. In...
BACK ON THE ROAD; Older, Wiser, a Winner. the F1 World Champion Sizes Up the New Season That Began at 7am This Morning
Each the winner of three races, Scheckter was World Champion, Villeneuve was runner-up, and Ferrari handily won the makes title, its fourth in five years. The next season saw the final development of the 312 series, the 312 T5. Bodywork was once again modified, but the rapidly changing sc...
Nico Rosberg (who drove for Williams 2006–9), his father Keke (who won his only Driver’s Championship with Williams in 1982) as well as other champs such as Nigel Mansell, Damon Hill and Williams’s last race winner Pastor Maldonado are all present, gawking over a very visual and nois...
Motorsport aficionados have long known that performance is more about the car than the driver, and that more often than not, the "drive of the race" is not from the winner in the fastest, best handling car, but the guy who wrestled an underpowered wheelbarrow-full-of-walruses into tenth...