before a promotion to the main Red Bull outfit one year on saw him win on debut to become the sport’s youngest-ever winner at 18 years and 228 days old. After a fierce title battle with Lewis Hamilton in 2021,
winner of the F1 World Drivers' Championship. The champion is crowned via a points system based on the final race results of each drive. While the winner is not officially given the title until the final race of the season, they can secure the championship with races remaining on the ...
Once there he became a regular race winner, and though to his disappointment he was unable to emulate his father’s multiple successes at Monaco, he did taste victory in Great Britain - a race win that had always eluded his dad. More importantly in 1996 he won the world title, ...
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...
Ferrari was famous for its 12-cylinder engines, but the close of the 1980 season marked a period of nine years before one of its F1 cars would again be powered by a twelve. True ground effects were added for the Ferrari 312 T4, making it a winner in 1979. For more fantastic Ferrari...
12 Hours of Sebring: 2-time winner. 24 Hours of Daytona: 2-time overall winner. Targa Florio (1970): Overall victory. Monza 1000km, Brands Hatch 6 Hrs, Österreichring 1000km, Kyalami 9 Hrs: Multiple wins in each. Spark: BMW 3.0 CSL 1975 1st Sebring (43SE75) ...
BACK ON THE ROAD; Older, Wiser, a Winner. the F1 World Champion Sizes Up the New Season That Began at 7am This Morning
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...
Honourable mentions must go to former PacWest team-mates Mauricio Gugelmin and Mark Blundell, both standouts in the 1997 season, 1998 Indy 500 winner Eddie Cheever, three-time CART race winner Max Papis and famed 'supersub' Roberto Moreno - who took the 2000 title down to the wire at Fon...
It wasn't as if things got any better on Sunday, for the pair were regularly two or three laps down on the winner. In a season of unparalleled disasters for what is widely regarded as one of the sport's true greats, the awfulness of it all was best summed up by events in Azerbaija...