The one fact Matt left out of this video is that during the last laps of the race, Olivier Panis's race engineer yelled at him to pit because the calculations showed the amount of fuel he was carrying wasn't enough for him to reach the end of the race. They kept battling on the radio because the race was about to end and David Coulthard was right behind so pitting Panis would make him lose P1. Eager to win his first (and only) Grand Prix, Panis screamed back at his team on the radio: "If I pit now, we'll look like idiots throwing away a win. If I stay out and the car run out of fuel, so be it. I take responsibility for this. If it don't, you get a win. I'm not pitting" His engineer agreed and started to give him instructions to make the fuel last 'till the end. Due to the two-hour time limit, the race ended on Lap 75. If it had gone to full distance (78 laps), Panis would have retired for fuel exhaustion because the car wouldn't start again after he turned it off in front of the podium.
Ligier winning a race wasn't THAT unheard of. They actually won quite a few races during the first turbo era of the late 70s-early 80s, and were championship runners-up in 1980, but by 1996 they hadn't won a race in 15 years. That was also their last season in F1 before they went bankrupt, got bought out, and became Prost.
Uhh Schumacher driving that Red Potato 🏎 🥔 putting it on P1 that was some qualifying very entertaining. And then my favourite driver crashing out on lap 1 sad 😞
I won't be able to watch the qualifying and the race live because on Saturday I'll be preparing for Sunday, when Im gonna cycle up a mountain in France to raise money for charity. I really hope it will be a good race this weekend
Apparently Ron Dennis used to insist that all race memorabilia come back to Woking, Coulthard wasn't going to give back Schumacher's helmet, so had a replica made and gave that to Dennis instead.
When Panis crossed the line he managed to pick up a tricolore. The amazing thing was it was on a beautiful wooden pole with a brass finial. A French driver in a French car winning in Monaco (almost French) driving to the podium with a giant French flag draped over the engine cover!
@@piuthemagicman He didn't get the chance. French Revolutionary armies took the who country (which was 20x the size it is now) in 1793, but France had to cede it in 1814
@@BiggieTrismegistus there is a treaty if i am not mistaken, whereby france will automatically annex monaco when the grimaldi royal line become extinct.
One of the other crazy things is that they just left some cars out on the track. I mean, we're used to cranes just operating while the race is still going back in the day, but seeing Badoer's car just stand there at the tunnel entrance for the last 8 laps or so is quite the sight to behold, though at least they was a yellow flag waved. The yellow flags right after the hairpin while stewards were salvaging Salo's car on the track is also noteworthy. It's a bit of a miracle that no one got seriously injured that day, but thankfully that makes it a great race to rewatch every once in a while since nothing bad happened. (Edit: If you're watching the race on F1TV, 2:02:40 is the Irvine/Salo/Hakkinen crash)
It was quite usual back then yes... you could calmly retire by pulling to the side and just park on the grass. They would collect the cars after the race was over, no need for SC or VSC.
seeing as you mentioned the Sunday warm up, the fastest driver in that session was.... yep Olivier Panis! They definitely found a sweet spot in the wet conditions with the set up.
Absolute bonkers. If that happened today it would be chaos in the racing direction room. And yes, back in those times the stewards were quite more lenient... the opposite of the over-zealoussness we sometimes see nowadays.
This race was on the same day I was born. My Dad remembered it was on in the hospital waiting room tv. Only when I got into F1 did I ever think to look the race up, and it's a crazy one!
Good work! It's really important to show the crazyness of the 90's F1 to this new generation, and the ones who sign up to F1 TV can watch those old crazy races
The longest Formula 1 race in history (over 4 hours), the most stops by the winning driver (six), the most safety car deployments (also six), the highest number of overtakes by the winning driver (Button went from the back of the field to first *twice*). Martin Whitmarsh called it the best win in F1 history. It also wouldn't happen today, because they'd stop the race after 2 hours.
i remember hearing about it on the radio, because we were traveling to our vacation this day and i have never seen the race until i found it on youtube years later. it did not disappoint.
1950 Monaco GP also deserves honorable mention. At the start the big wave went on the track in the Tabac corner, Fangio went into the lead but Farina spun, Fagioli hitted him, and more cars crashed into them. On lap 1 we lost 10 drivers. It was first Ferrari race in F1 and also the race where Louis Chiron (from Monaco) was on the podium. Classic GP.
The thing about Luca Badoer, the incident that ended his race, he was roughly 5 laps down when he collided with Jacques Villeneuve. Villeneuve came to a halt at Lowes Hairpin with damaged suspension as a result of Badoer squeezing him into the wall at Mirabeau and Badoer stopped his car at the entrance of the tunnel, with damage to the suspension of his Forti
I remember watching it live, it was crazy, like an F1 race no one wanted to win, was gutted for Damon Hill in a way trying to emulate his father Graham, but then again I was shouting fir Jacque Villeneuve for d title. For a team like Ligier it was massive, no way todays Aston Martin, like today's Williams with even less of a budget, French team, French Driver winner and Mugen Honda engine won in F1 which raised interest in Honda returning to F1 a few years later, aka the current Mercedes team. Some guy called Lewis has won a few titles with them.
Murray Walker: A lot of people here are debating whether Ricardo Rosset is Formula One material. Martin Brundle: It would be a very short debate, Murray. Brundle savage as always 😂
I feel bad for any potential fan who thinks "I've heard a lot about Formula One but have never seen it. Monaco is the most famous race so I'll check that one out." That person will think F1 is incredibly boring and never watch another race.
@@BiggieTrismegistus I’ve gotten to see the last 3 Monaco GP’s live, and it’s hard to see how these bigger cars are ever going to be fun to watch at that track. Yeah tradition, blah blah blah. The fact is that there’s a shat ton of money for F1 there so they can’t help but come back. Doesn’t mean it’s fun to watch lol idk how this is so hard to understand.
Canada 2011 would be my pick: Having a safety car is fun. Having two or three is noteworthy. The safety cars was deployed six times during this race. Speaking of six, the race winner (Jenson Button) made six pit stops, and finished after 4 hours and 4 minutes - making this the longest race in formula 1 history.
Bear in mind that it is also true that panis made some intelligent moves passing other cars and that the guys that were in front failed about strategy. Left alone that leaves no doubt he had some skill advantage and merit cause he also drove in the rain with a Middle field competitive car till the very end and without being challenged almost at all.
Craziest race I ever watched was that one when Massa was a champion for thirty seconds before "wait, is that Glock?" moment...I mean, sure, 3 cars finishing race is crazy, but have you ever experienced feeling of who is a champion change in half a minute or so? That's crazy af...I can list few other crazy races, but that emotional rollercoaster was just craziest thing ever...
Author, you need more knowledge. You are narrating some dry text. Nothing more. Damon overtook Michael right at the start.ichael.was not his rival. That race should have been qon by Damon Hill. Undoubtedly.
I see a way to make Monaco better , after the swimming pool S. A straight line into the second to last corner . There is space under that grandstand to do it , remove it and add a straight , deleting that chicane that does nothing for racing
I remember this race! It’s the first F1 match I watched on TV when I was 11! This is the only time I saw Panis standing on top 3, never before never after. The rain splash was so thick to the point the camera couldn’t pick up any good shot amidst the water mist! The voice on TV said, people who bought hotel rooms along the race track should ask for refund, because they wouldn’t be able to see anything.
Panis was actually a decent, talented driver. Was almost signed for McLaren and before he broke his legs in Canada 97, he had 2 more podiums and was set to sign for McLaren as his performances were amazing in 97.
This is exactly the point though, it's not ever good racing that makes Monaco interesting, it's only interesting when people crash or have reliability issues
F1 without Monaco is like European Football without the Champions League Final. Its the most prestigious, most beloved by drivers and provides the best Saturday of the year. Im dealing with the "boring" Monaco GP for over 20 year and i cant stand those people that gladly would throw out an integral part of the sport for another badly designed street circut. Like even if we remove it, its successor would not be the Green Hell or Indianapolis. But tracks like Vegas or Jeddah.
Those companies that provide royalty-free clips and images have lowered their prices TOO DAMN MUCH if you ask me.Y'all don't have to use them you know.
Florida Man here from tbe USA. Yes... I have one. The last US Grand Prix at Indianapolis. Only 6 starters. Many irate Americans who showed their displeasure by throwing whatever was not bolted down around them onto the track.
Mortermini? And winning in a Ligier was not unheard of. Yes they were midfield in 1996, but this was the teams 9th win in F1. And McLaren were hardly at their best at this point, but they were pretty much on a par with Ferrari and Benetton at this point. If you look at the stats that year, while Williams were in a class of their own, Benetton, McLaren and Ferrari were regular points finishers and had quite a few podiums too. The gap between those three teams really was not that much, but the gap from McLaren to the likes of Jordan, Sauber & Ligier was huge. While Ferrari had wins because, well Schumacher, those three teams were fairly equal on pace and fairly equal on unreliability.
I burst into laughter after hearing that ridiculous Jean Alesi bad luck story. I mean really, Ferrari 1-2 at Monza? Nope. Literally a camera taking out the teammate. How are these curses with certain drivers even a thing it’s so crazy
i remember this race because in the commercial break i surprised my parents while fu***ng .... i was 11 years old and it haunts me to this day......and Schumacher crashed in Lap 1....until today...Panis to me is Pe...........nevermind
I can think of a certain event at sakihir back when poor lewis got covid but ALSO denied george russel his maiden win,I Noticed something that at sakhir that leclerc and verstappen crashed into the race winnersergio perez} on lap 1 going out.I think the monaco leclerc curse will never be over and verstappen is long due a DNF so these two could come together THIS weekend just a theroy tho!
Schumacher wasn't immune to occasional strange crashes, (granted, no champion is no matter what people who bleat on about 'x wouldn't have made that error' or 'x isn't a real champion' arguments insist) but Monaco 96 had to be one of his most egregious ones, especially as that Ferrari was very handy in the wet (thanks in equal part to Michael being extremely gifted and some partial traction control) and had dominated in Spain in similar conditions. It felt like after he scuffed the start he was a bit over eager to try and get back on the tail of the Williams.
Another fact for Jean Alesi, he turned down the Williams contract for Ferrari, and Williams went wild in 1992 then Alesi and his Ferrari keeps struggling.
When Olivier woke up that morning, he turned to his girlfriend and said that he had that special feeling that day. He said “ I think I might win today “. His car Had been running very well throughout the weekend, but nonetheless that wasn’t nearly enough to convince his woman that her man Actually had a chance lol. Heard this in an interview.
I have a race but I wouldn’t say it’s crazier, but it was the 2009 Malaysian Grand Prix where it was so wet that they didn’t do the whole race, and I think a few drivers retired as well.
A company should build classic f1 cars safer and cheaper then there og counterparts and keep the monaco GP a vintage gp it might be more exciting this way
I wonder who was born that year to cause all that misfortune. My Old Grandpa used to say when some baby was born, they cause disarters in the world to warn people that the kindest people is coming
IMO I think that this Monaco GP is going to be almost, if not more crazy than this one. The chance of rain is high and with Latifi on the grid, and these heavier, longer, and harder to control cars there’s a greater chance of crashes at Monaco than ever before.
A liger wining a race like monaco is pretty amazing. And beating Coulthard in basically a 1v1 situation at the end is a definite feather to stick in your visor.
The one fact Matt left out of this video is that during the last laps of the race, Olivier Panis's race engineer yelled at him to pit because the calculations showed the amount of fuel he was carrying wasn't enough for him to reach the end of the race.
They kept battling on the radio because the race was about to end and David Coulthard was right behind so pitting Panis would make him lose P1.
Eager to win his first (and only) Grand Prix, Panis screamed back at his team on the radio:
"If I pit now, we'll look like idiots throwing away a win.
If I stay out and the car run out of fuel, so be it. I take responsibility for this.
If it don't, you get a win. I'm not pitting"
His engineer agreed and started to give him instructions to make the fuel last 'till the end.
Due to the two-hour time limit, the race ended on Lap 75. If it had gone to full distance (78 laps), Panis would have retired for fuel exhaustion because the car wouldn't start again after he turned it off in front of the podium.
Lol Panis legend for that
That fookung legend. Ran on fumes
What an absolute Madlad
also the fact that Panis was the last french driver to win a race until Gasly in 2020.
You remember that well, thanks for refreshing my memory...it was long ago, I completely forgot that detail
This will need to be updated after Sunday when Leclerc managed to finish the gp
I'll come back to this comment, lol
@@mxl94305cp i will too.
Same
that would be some crazy ass shit
Leclerc has managed to transfer his curse to Sainz with the sacrifice of the old racing car.
Ligier winning a race wasn't THAT unheard of. They actually won quite a few races during the first turbo era of the late 70s-early 80s, and were championship runners-up in 1980, but by 1996 they hadn't won a race in 15 years. That was also their last season in F1 before they went bankrupt, got bought out, and became Prost.
I love Monaco. It creates some great nail biting action. Great video once again guys.
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The 96 season is amazing. It had Schumacher's first Ferrari win in a crazy weather changing Spain GP.
this is the perfect example of "to finish first, first you have to finish"
Monaco 1996 was the first ever F1 GP I watched. I was 4 years old! If only F1 was always this exciting.
For anyone curious, the thumbnail is from the Formula 1 Indoor Trophy at the 1996 Bologna Motor Show.
Now this race sounds like a drive to survive
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Uhh Schumacher driving that Red Potato 🏎 🥔 putting it on P1 that was some qualifying very entertaining. And then my favourite driver crashing out on lap 1 sad 😞
Wtf1 back with the action!!
5:02 - it wasn’t 6 laps later than the crash with Badoer, it was the next corner (steering broken), think Badoer was 6 laps behind him!
idk man, i feel like the 2021 Abu Dhabi Grand Prix was kinda crazy but im not sure, it was such a long time ago xD
"22 cars in 1996 in the Monaco GP, what could go wrong?"
Everything, literally everything
5:54 that's weird. I've never seen the Petronas red bull car before it doesn't seem to fit right
I won't be able to watch the qualifying and the race live because on Saturday I'll be preparing for Sunday, when Im gonna cycle up a mountain in France to raise money for charity.
I really hope it will be a good race this weekend
I thought matt was going to say Monaco gets a lot of stick for being ish 😂
=THE MONACO SURVIVORS,BASICALLY
=HEHE
The craziest was 2005 on Indianapolis
Crashed on lap 1 yet his helmet still made it to a podium finish - That's some next level skill from Schumacher ;-)
Apparently Ron Dennis used to insist that all race memorabilia come back to Woking, Coulthard wasn't going to give back Schumacher's helmet, so had a replica made and gave that to Dennis instead.
When Panis crossed the line he managed to pick up a tricolore. The amazing thing was it was on a beautiful wooden pole with a brass finial. A French driver in a French car winning in Monaco (almost French) driving to the podium with a giant French flag draped over the engine cover!
I always thought France should conquer Monaco. Not because I dislike Monaco or the people there or anything, but just to see what would happen.
@@BiggieTrismegistus 😂😂😂 sounds like something Napoleon would try
@@piuthemagicman He didn't get the chance. French Revolutionary armies took the who country (which was 20x the size it is now) in 1793, but France had to cede it in 1814
@@Ramtamtama I jokingly meant that would be slightly Napoleonic behaviour, not that Napoleon should or could've tried it at his time of rule.
@@BiggieTrismegistus there is a treaty if i am not mistaken, whereby france will automatically annex monaco when the grimaldi royal line become extinct.
What a crazy race. I wish I could watch the old races on YT or Netflix.
f1 tv archive. 2.29 a month in the uk. Bunch of old races
@@ewanharrison2263 Sadly lot of the older seasons have only a handful of full replays, but it's still well worth the money.
@@DarthJF Yeah, but the 1996 Monaco GP is one of them (and so is 1998 Belgium for another wonderful clustertruck of a race)
I like to imagine a “1997 Monaco Grand Prix Race Highlights” video on UA-cam. It would be half hour long
They're was in youtube Although the full race is gone
Imagine placing your bets on that outcome. You'd still be able to live of those winnings quite nicely.
Apparently someone won $96000 betting the exact podium at monza 2020
@@my_4_brain_cells it was some millions
The rate was 300 to 1 back then, so you have to bet at least a 1000 pounds to retire!
One of the other crazy things is that they just left some cars out on the track. I mean, we're used to cranes just operating while the race is still going back in the day, but seeing Badoer's car just stand there at the tunnel entrance for the last 8 laps or so is quite the sight to behold, though at least they was a yellow flag waved. The yellow flags right after the hairpin while stewards were salvaging Salo's car on the track is also noteworthy. It's a bit of a miracle that no one got seriously injured that day, but thankfully that makes it a great race to rewatch every once in a while since nothing bad happened. (Edit: If you're watching the race on F1TV, 2:02:40 is the Irvine/Salo/Hakkinen crash)
It was quite usual back then yes... you could calmly retire by pulling to the side and just park on the grass. They would collect the cars after the race was over, no need for SC or VSC.
you can also watch it in the highlights here ua-cam.com/video/eEs7jS5bsAc/v-deo.html
i was wondering how they dealt with all the safety cars...i guess they just didn't lol
No safety car at Monaco for F1 until 2003
Imagine having this now with the podium as Yuki,Kmag and Albon
Nah looking forward to a stroll latifi, and Tsunoda podium
Johnny Herbert, who scored a podium in Monaco by finishing last in the race.
Yep that's crazy
seeing as you mentioned the Sunday warm up, the fastest driver in that session was.... yep Olivier Panis! They definitely found a sweet spot in the wet conditions with the set up.
Absolute bonkers. If that happened today it would be chaos in the racing direction room. And yes, back in those times the stewards were quite more lenient... the opposite of the over-zealoussness we sometimes see nowadays.
This race was on the same day I was born. My Dad remembered it was on in the hospital waiting room tv. Only when I got into F1 did I ever think to look the race up, and it's a crazy one!
Good work! It's really important to show the crazyness of the 90's F1 to this new generation, and the ones who sign up to F1 TV can watch those old crazy races
I'd start with Canada 2011. You don't need to go back to the 90's so see F1 craziness! ;-)
The longest Formula 1 race in history (over 4 hours), the most stops by the winning driver (six), the most safety car deployments (also six), the highest number of overtakes by the winning driver (Button went from the back of the field to first *twice*). Martin Whitmarsh called it the best win in F1 history. It also wouldn't happen today, because they'd stop the race after 2 hours.
I remember this race, I was very young, I cried when Schumacher went out😭😭😭
i remember hearing about it on the radio, because we were traveling to our vacation this day and i have never seen the race until i found it on youtube years later. it did not disappoint.
link?
I want the link too please
it was years ago. I don't think it's still up.
1950 Monaco GP also deserves honorable mention. At the start the big wave went on the track in the Tabac corner, Fangio went into the lead but Farina spun, Fagioli hitted him, and more cars crashed into them. On lap 1 we lost 10 drivers. It was first Ferrari race in F1 and also the race where Louis Chiron (from Monaco) was on the podium. Classic GP.
Yo I think you should make a random facts in every vid at the start coz there always good crack
The thing about Luca Badoer, the incident that ended his race, he was roughly 5 laps down when he collided with Jacques Villeneuve. Villeneuve came to a halt at Lowes Hairpin with damaged suspension as a result of Badoer squeezing him into the wall at Mirabeau and Badoer stopped his car at the entrance of the tunnel, with damage to the suspension of his Forti
That's the only way Latifi would get a podium
Wrong, Latifi would have crash, you need some skill to drive in the rain withour crashing
@@alexp2327 sad but true🤣
"Retire to secure position" - not often gonna hear that
I remember watching it live, it was crazy, like an F1 race no one wanted to win, was gutted for Damon Hill in a way trying to emulate his father Graham, but then again I was shouting fir Jacque Villeneuve for d title. For a team like Ligier it was massive, no way todays Aston Martin, like today's Williams with even less of a budget, French team, French Driver winner and Mugen Honda engine won in F1 which raised interest in Honda returning to F1 a few years later, aka the current Mercedes team. Some guy called Lewis has won a few titles with them.
It's almost Laughable having a race where only 3 cars finish
Well, at least enough room for the podium.
Schumi's helmet on square head David ruined the natural balance of F1, causing all the retirements, but also gave him a podium.
I love the old "story" about how crew for Rosset changed the name around on his pit bike to read Tosser. 😂🤣 If that's true it is hysterical.
Murray Walker: A lot of people here are debating whether Ricardo Rosset is Formula One material.
Martin Brundle: It would be a very short debate, Murray.
Brundle savage as always 😂
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This must’ve been wild to see in real time. Well, you gotta do what you gotta do to make Monaco worth watching 😂
It was insane, trust me.
I feel bad for any potential fan who thinks "I've heard a lot about Formula One but have never seen it. Monaco is the most famous race so I'll check that one out." That person will think F1 is incredibly boring and never watch another race.
Real time? , get a grip kid
@@papayamadness1019 lol you were there? Hey “Pops”, what was it like in Monaco in 96?
@@BiggieTrismegistus I’ve gotten to see the last 3 Monaco GP’s live, and it’s hard to see how these bigger cars are ever going to be fun to watch at that track. Yeah tradition, blah blah blah. The fact is that there’s a shat ton of money for F1 there so they can’t help but come back. Doesn’t mean it’s fun to watch lol idk how this is so hard to understand.
With the new cars and possible rain on Sunday, I expect a crazy race
My bet for the podium is:
1. Bottas
2. Zhou
3. Albon
1996. The best Monaco Grand Prix of all time. Apart from 1982, 1984, 1992, 1970 and 1997.
Canada 2011 would be my pick:
Having a safety car is fun. Having two or three is noteworthy. The safety cars was deployed six times during this race. Speaking of six, the race winner (Jenson Button) made six pit stops, and finished after 4 hours and 4 minutes - making this the longest race in formula 1 history.
Speaking of the warm-up session, MotoGP still has a warm-up session on race day
Personally I think the craziest Monaco GP was when Tony Stark made his debut, unfortunately the race didn’t end well.
bonjour
so basically like a normal lap on F1 in online racing....
but Tosser didnt drop it on lap 1, how?
Bear in mind that it is also true that panis made some intelligent moves passing other cars and that the guys that were in front failed about strategy. Left alone that leaves no doubt he had some skill advantage and merit cause he also drove in the rain with a Middle field competitive car till the very end and without being challenged almost at all.
i think spa 2021 was the craziest race ever. like there's just so much happening it was just chaos
Petition to have a race rundown from this race!
Just sounds like every single online lobby in the F1 game
crazy monaco gp? the one where Ascari put it in the drink in 55?
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Craziest race I ever watched was that one when Massa was a champion for thirty seconds before "wait, is that Glock?" moment...I mean, sure, 3 cars finishing race is crazy, but have you ever experienced feeling of who is a champion change in half a minute or so? That's crazy af...I can list few other crazy races, but that emotional rollercoaster was just craziest thing ever...
Driver: **lines up on the grid**
Team radio: "welcome to battle royal, the match is about to start."
Great video Matt👍
Crazier? Easy! Belgium 2021!
Missed opportunity for a race rundown in this video
Talk about drive to survive, LOL.
Author, you need more knowledge. You are narrating some dry text. Nothing more. Damon overtook Michael right at the start.ichael.was not his rival. That race should have been qon by Damon Hill. Undoubtedly.
When you play online on f1 2021
1984 was crazy too, with a controversy at the end being the cherry on top.
I see a way to make Monaco better , after the swimming pool S. A straight line into the second to last corner . There is space under that grandstand to do it , remove it and add a straight , deleting that chicane that does nothing for racing
This sort of chaos was pretty common back in the day lol
I remember this race! It’s the first F1 match I watched on TV when I was 11! This is the only time I saw Panis standing on top 3, never before never after. The rain splash was so thick to the point the camera couldn’t pick up any good shot amidst the water mist! The voice on TV said, people who bought hotel rooms along the race track should ask for refund, because they wouldn’t be able to see anything.
Panis was actually a decent, talented driver. Was almost signed for McLaren and before he broke his legs in Canada 97, he had 2 more podiums and was set to sign for McLaren as his performances were amazing in 97.
This is exactly the point though, it's not ever good racing that makes Monaco interesting, it's only interesting when people crash or have reliability issues
F1 without Monaco is like European Football without the Champions League Final.
Its the most prestigious, most beloved by drivers and provides the best Saturday of the year.
Im dealing with the "boring" Monaco GP for over 20 year and i cant stand those people that gladly would throw out an integral part of the sport for another badly designed street circut. Like even if we remove it, its successor would not be the Green Hell or Indianapolis.
But tracks like Vegas or Jeddah.
Those companies that provide royalty-free clips and images have lowered their prices TOO DAMN MUCH if you ask me.Y'all don't have to use them you know.
Florida Man here from tbe USA. Yes... I have one. The last US Grand Prix at Indianapolis. Only 6 starters. Many irate Americans who showed their displeasure by throwing whatever was not bolted down around them onto the track.
Belgium 1998 with the big bang at start and Schumacher's retirement after he collided with Coulthard.
Mortermini? And winning in a Ligier was not unheard of. Yes they were midfield in 1996, but this was the teams 9th win in F1. And McLaren were hardly at their best at this point, but they were pretty much on a par with Ferrari and Benetton at this point. If you look at the stats that year, while Williams were in a class of their own, Benetton, McLaren and Ferrari were regular points finishers and had quite a few podiums too. The gap between those three teams really was not that much, but the gap from McLaren to the likes of Jordan, Sauber & Ligier was huge.
While Ferrari had wins because, well Schumacher, those three teams were fairly equal on pace and fairly equal on unreliability.
I burst into laughter after hearing that ridiculous Jean Alesi bad luck story. I mean really, Ferrari 1-2 at Monza? Nope. Literally a camera taking out the teammate. How are these curses with certain drivers even a thing it’s so crazy
i remember this race because in the commercial break i surprised my parents while fu***ng .... i was 11 years old and it haunts me to this day......and Schumacher crashed in Lap 1....until today...Panis to me is Pe...........nevermind
That was one crazy race
I can think of a certain event at sakihir back when poor lewis got covid but ALSO denied george russel his maiden win,I Noticed something that at sakhir that leclerc and verstappen crashed into the race winnersergio perez} on lap 1 going out.I think the monaco leclerc curse will never be over and verstappen is long due a DNF so these two could come together THIS weekend just a theroy tho!
Schumacher wasn't immune to occasional strange crashes, (granted, no champion is no matter what people who bleat on about 'x wouldn't have made that error' or 'x isn't a real champion' arguments insist) but Monaco 96 had to be one of his most egregious ones, especially as that Ferrari was very handy in the wet (thanks in equal part to Michael being extremely gifted and some partial traction control) and had dominated in Spain in similar conditions. It felt like after he scuffed the start he was a bit over eager to try and get back on the tail of the Williams.
Another fact for Jean Alesi, he turned down the Williams contract for Ferrari, and Williams went wild in 1992 then Alesi and his Ferrari keeps struggling.
This is the real life equivalent of a F1 2021 Open Lobby race
Not really, no one was dirty, they just made mistakes weren't malicious
@@wellanyway4 You have a point... But the retirement count's about the same :D
A crazier race, huh? What about Abu Dhabi 2021, maybe it didn't have as many retirements, but the what it caused to the whole sport is still crazy.
When Olivier woke up that morning, he turned to his girlfriend and said that he had that special feeling that day. He said “ I think I might win today “. His car Had been running very well throughout the weekend, but nonetheless that wasn’t nearly enough to convince his woman that her man Actually had a chance lol. Heard this in an interview.
I have a race but I wouldn’t say it’s crazier, but it was the 2009 Malaysian Grand Prix where it was so wet that they didn’t do the whole race, and I think a few drivers retired as well.
A company should build classic f1 cars safer and cheaper then there og counterparts and keep the monaco GP a vintage gp it might be more exciting this way
Villeneuve was out of the race with Badoer, for Villeneuve that was 66s lap, but for Badoer only 60st lap.
I wonder who was born that year to cause all that misfortune.
My Old Grandpa used to say when some baby was born, they cause disarters in the world to warn people that the kindest people is coming
In 1995 Alesi retired because of a wheel bearing failure and in 1994 his gearbox went in Monza.
IMO I think that this Monaco GP is going to be almost, if not more crazy than this one. The chance of rain is high and with Latifi on the grid, and these heavier, longer, and harder to control cars there’s a greater chance of crashes at Monaco than ever before.
Didn't Alesi retire because of a wheel baring failure 9 laps towards the end of the Italian Gp
Someone must have made a killing at the bookies owing to the fact that the betting odds of Panis winning that race was 300-1. 😂
Someone find the link to the Irvine, Hakkinen, Salo crash. I want to see this hilarity.
Of course Barrichello had to retire before Schumi... He was practicing for his Ferrari days
Luca Badoer lapping Jacques Villeneuve? Other way around?
And not a SINGLE photo from that actual race was shown. WTF?!?!?
I feel like us 2005 was it? When only 6 cars started could be a contender just because of the context.
1982 Monaco GP was a chaotic race with petrol stops in the legendary turbo era.
Imagine this happened today and the podium being Kevin magnussen, mick shumacher and zhou guanyu
A liger wining a race like monaco is pretty amazing. And beating Coulthard in basically a 1v1 situation at the end is a definite feather to stick in your visor.
Monaco 1996 was the first ever GP i watched! Olivier Panis never forgotten!