The WORST F1 team and driver breakups
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- There have been some very awkward and bad break ups between F1 drivers and teams, usually involving contract problems…
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Let’s all give a big thank you to Lawrence Stroll and Racing Point for firing Checo. I think we all would’ve been heartbroken watching him drive those Aston martins around at the back of the grid.
Its worse watching vettel donit tho
No, we wouldn’t have cared
@@TwoTwoFourSix Trash comment
@@TwoTwoFourSix common france L
I would've rather seen Max v. Vettel to be completely honest..
“Fernando is the burner of bridges.”
Renault: Bruh…
Why? Alonso,s cintract ends this season
@@joribremer5260 yes, but he still burned his bridge by completely blindsiding the team who litteraly only found out from the Aston Martin press announcement
@@Alucard-gt1zf when they disrespwct you several times like Alpine did its not weird to get fucked loke that
@@Alucard-gt1zf let's be real here they never wanted Alonso in the first place, you can see the beef between Alonso and Otmar especially Rossi.
He has fooled us twice, he certainly wouldn't do it a third time, would he?
He wouldn't, right?
Lotus be like: No Kimi no, you will not have the bonus.
In 2021: You will not have the season
They did him bad 💀
Kimi said: "Since my drink bottle worked, I shall let the 6 million slide. Bwah."
Giedo van der Garde is now a TV analyst, and every time he discusses an announcement of a driver signing a contract he either himself points out that signing a contract means absolutely nothing, or someone else in the studio reminds him of it 🙂
And he is driver in Endurance too
In 2019, Hulk was said to have been offered a 1 year deal but Hulk wanted a multi year deal so he wasn't signed, as stated by Prost. However, a couple months later, he stated that Hulk was never offered a contract in the first place.
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Michael Schumacher in 1991, the dispute over whether he signed "the contract," or "a contract," or indeed over the length of the contract he signed when he subbed for the jailed Bertrand Gachot at Spa that year, before being snapped up by Benetton for the following race
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Wait what on earth got the guy arrested that required Schumi to drop in?
@@firestarteronyoutube5542 basically, early in 1991, Bertrand Gachot was arrested in London for using CS spray on a taxi driver whom he had an altercation with. After the Hungarian Grand Prix, he was sent to jail on an 18 month sentence (use of CS spray was and is illegal to use in the UK).
Ironically, the only person who asked him how his hopes of getting back on the grid were going, was Michael Schumacher
This was the first one I was thinking of. The story of how Eddie Jordan learned the value of proper grammar and verbiage in contracts lol
this i wasn't aware of
4:32 Also originally Sauber had a contract for Jules Bianchi to join to the team, But unfortunately we all know what happened on the same day that supposedly signed that contract. 😥
Awwww stop this is depressing to think about.
@F1 The Race Relevant to Bianchi's death, how?
Charles Leclerc is stuck with Ferrari for a few years still 💀💀💀
Bro Leclerc is lucky to be able to drive for Ferrari even if they are not winning any Championships and are making numerous mistakes. They are a lot of drivers wich would gladly take his position if he is that unhappy to drive the fastest car on the grid
@@eylonbohdal4472 exactly! He's at the very best place he possibly could be. Red Bull and Mercedes are the only other teams worth considering and they are committed in other directions. Also, he is driving the fastest car and is on track to get his second pole position season win, since 2019.
I bet he's crying his eyes out every night wishing he was driving for Williams.
Every contract has outs for both sides
Boooooooo
Note to teams and drivers. Always have exits after year one for both sides.
5:13 Giedo had signed a contract during the summer of 2014 with Sauber for a race seat in 2015. Sauber was in need of money and Giedo’s sponsor was willing to give them that money provided he got a racing seat the next year.
When Nasr was announced for the second seat in November, and the announcement was published while the crew and Giedo were having dinner.
Giedo subsequently couldn’t even do FP1 in Abu Dhabi as Sauber suddenly let some other driver do it. He then went the legal route over the winter, getting rulings in his favor, but Sauber still refusing to cooperate so he then started the court case in Australia.
Button staying with BAR was the best thing to happen in his career technically speaking. Because they eventually become just Honda.
And through thick and thin he stuck it out with that team and then Ross Brawn came along and then they looked like they would close up shop. Them Brawn pulled a master stroke move and it was checkmate. They became Brawn GP and Button won his only World Drivers Championship.
The oddest part for my money being that winning that title really changed him. He'd had flashes of potential before and had never been slow but it always seemed like post-2009 Jenson Button was a much faster, more confident driver than at any point up to and including his title winning year.
@@ELSTERLING I agree, since leaving Brawn, he had a much better career with Mclaren, even beating Hamilton on occasions.
@@davidcamel8310
Yeah definitely he because a consistent front runner. He became no joke after 2009. It was great to see. He was able to take on the fastest and best in formula one.
Lotus paid Kimi something like $40 million one season (he and his teammate were paid for each point they got) - Matt brings this up in the video and it turns out it was closer to $18 million - then Ferrari pays him $25 million to go away (I'd take that offer), add in all his other contracts/endorsements/investments and Kimi's definitely got a few Euro's/Marrka's in the bank.
Maybe F1 was just a hobby 😆
I actually expected this entire video to be about Alonso leaving teams.
I'm surprised that none of Alain Prost's fallouts with Ferrari and Renault aren't on this list. Didn't some Renault factory workers set fire to his car after being fired?
Don't forget his time with Williams, banning them from signing Senna, and then dropping his contract for 94, because Williams wanted Senna so badly
Ah yes, the Ferrari "truck" that was driven by Gianni Morbidelli for the final race of the season after they fired Prost.
I guess it all worked out well for Jenson Button in the end, since BAR-Honda-Brawn finally won him a World Title in 2009.
5:30 this is quite missleading, Alonso outperformed the car in both seasons, specially in 2014, probabbly the best of his career. Ferrari and their questionable strategy choices that are so popular today have their origins far back in 2010.
Clown strategy was apparent since 2009. Alonso tripled Kimi's points in 2014 and is still closer to winning 2 wdc with Ferrari than seb and leclerc ever did.
The oscar pun🤦♂️😂
I completely forgot how BADASS Kimi's Lotus looked like 👍 👌!
Long shit Kimi is to whole new level 🥵😮💨🤌
Niki Lauda breaking up with Ferrari after the 1977 season and joining the Brabham-Alfa Romeo team in 1978 should have been an honorable mention.
4:29 it's quite interesting to mention that had Bianchi not crashed or at least survived Japan 2014, he'd get a immediate contract for 2015 or just be another driver signed in the middle of this chaos
I remember the time when michael schumacher told eddie jordan that his brother would never drive for him again (after the team orders in THAT belgian GP)
Jordan told him he could buy ralf out of his contract.
Michael payed and never spoke to jordan again :D
“Mazepin blames cancel culture”
💀 I never get sick of hearing this. Your dad’s best friend invaded a country for the clout, bro. That’s gonna cause problems.
While Mazepin is a questionable figure personally, a terrible driver on the track, and didn't deserve an F1 seat in the first place. Your exact definition is "cancel culture" and he was removed from F1 not on the basis of his own actions but because of things out of his control. Haas should just own it, nothing wrong with it business-wise.
Yet we are happy to see F1 racing in Baku or opressive Gulf monarchies? In Saudi Arabia, actively engaged in a war and massive humanitarian crisis in Yemen? Don't get me wrong, i'm all for sanctioning the living sh1t out of Russians, but you can't deny the hypocrisy of our Western world is eyewatering...
@@vegajf51 I don't agree with the idea that he was sacked because of cancel-culture.
1. Haas is an American-owned team.
2. The only reason why Nikita was at the team was because Daddy Mazepin (who owes a lot of his wealth to being close buddies with Putin) agreed to invest in the team if they let his son race for them.
3. Putin's Russia invades Ukraine.
4. Daddy Mazepin was seen with Putin during the invasion.
5. The US bans any business conduct with Russians.
6. This meant that Haas needed to chuck the Uralkali-deal in the dumpsterfire.
7. Nikita's seat was in effect based on the now burnt Uralkali-contract and despite being a morally sound lad who was known to have a good understanding of personal boundaries and respect for women and most certainly didn't have any discriminating videos of himself floating around the internet, Nikita's previous season just simply didn't warrant an extension based on merit.
8. "Hey Danish wanker! How'd you like to make a comeback?! We could look like rockstars! Haha! Just don't slam anymore doors, okay?".
Basically, the US outlawing ANY business conduct with Russians, lead to the American team to give up their biggest investor/sponsorship, while also giving said American team an out for the contract with their poorest performing driver to date.
@@Locormus2 what you said would be absolutely true. Problem is point #5 is false… so… ya
Plus Haas is an American team, it would look bad. Then again, Daniil Kvyat (another Russian) is racing in NASCAR.
Raikkonen’s a real one for not taking the money to save the team. Awful that Perez got kicked out for nepotism from the team he saved
Moreno with Benetton and Alesi with Williams both seem like stories that deserved to be on this list
The Alesi story is really tragic too. It's entirely understandable he didn't like how Williams was treating him (OG Williams had a bad reputation for treating drivers like disposable resources, especially if they weren't extremely pushy proven WDC winners) but proved in retrospect to be some awful alternate universe decision point where potential multiple race winner or WDC Alesi ceased to be a possibility.
7:04 am I the only one noticing that lotus made a tweet in the year 1984?
The amount of detail you guys put into these kind of video's is surely amazing :D
Kimi let off €6 million??
Boah!
Idk everyone would be so generous. €1000 at the most? But € 6 million?? That’s insane. I would ask for instalments atleast.
Honestly Button has to still thank god every day that he didn’t go to Williams, otherwise he wouldn’t have been in the Brawn and never been World Champion.
Sebastian vettel would have won WDC then
A notable team - driver dispute that falls under quite a few radars is the turmoil at Ferrari that led star driver and 1964 world champion John Surtees to leave Ferrari before the 1966 battle of Le Mans.
Should I feel pathetic for laughing when Matt said "Get it?" for the oscar joke
Nah, you're fine. 🙂
Nah man, I also laughed
No, it was quite a fine joke
Maybe just a bit ashamed about yourself, as I just do after having a silent chuckle 😁
I don’t get it
Ironically, failing to leave BAR turned out to be Jenson's best career move.
The Senna part I think it would be a better fit for the McLaren/Williams deal, especially because of all the "is it still happening?" and the uncertainty period, than the Toleman deal. Still, I'd just like to clarify some information about 1984.
First because Senna had already tested with the 1983 Williams car and had a verbal contract, which btw is legal if there are witnesses and in this case there were, with Sir Frank Williams to drive for them. However, the "newcomer Senna" said "no" to Williams and decided to join the BACKFIELD team Toleman, not MIDFIELD.
Toleman had a V4t 1.5L engine with 650bhp compared to midfield teams who had a V6t 1.5L with 750bhp or V4t with 900bhp or top teams like who had a V6t 1.5L 800bhp. Just to people have an idea, the 1984 Hart-415 engine in the Toleman was so bad that Brian Hart, decided he wouldn't renew contracts after the expiration date of 1986. By 1986 the Hart-415 had 750bhp at 11k RPM and was completely obsolete. So to get an idea, the 1986 upgraded engine would STILL be one of the worst engines compared to the 1984 grid. Just think about that.
Of the 16 races, Senna didn't race 1 as mentioned in this video. Out of 15 races, Senna DNQ once, yes the GOAT qualifier didn't manage to qualify with that car 1 time. Out of 14 races, he retired 8. That's not "half", that's more than half!
Of the 6 races the car did manage to finish, Senna was 3 times on the podium and could've won Monaco, which he set the Fastest lap that year BTW, if Prost didn't complain about the conditions and only once he finished outside the points with that "car" (and that's a compliment).
But the funny part is, even though Senna finished 9th in the championship tied on points with Nigel Mansell in the midfield team Lotus, but ahead because of results, Prost's behavior costed him the championship which he lost by only 0.5 points.
And I love Lauda, he was my 1st F1 hero, but I mean... Prost deserved that 1984 championship. Prost was a beast that season. Prost would have 1 less win, Senna would have 1 more win, that wouldn't change anything for either of them, but Prost would be a 5 time world champion instead of 4 time champion.
I know this video isn't about "what if's" and "who deserved what", but that 1984 season is often overlooked by the media and although Lauda won that WDC, and he did rightfully so, I feel like Prost's season gets overshadowed, and he doesn't get the proper praise he deserves. Also, Senna's achievement gets belittled every decade a little more. In 10 years, people will say that Senna had a championship winning car in 1984 but didn't manage to do so because he sucks. I mean, come on, wtf?
Just out of curiosity: Mansell's teammate on the Lotus, Elio de Angelis, finished 3rd with 34 points. Mansell in his 3rd F1 year finished with 13 points in 10th. Senna had 4 teammates and 2 tire manufacturers that year, all 4 combined scored a total of 3 points and that meant 16th place. Senna finished 9th with 13 points in his rookie year. Prost was already in his 4 season and Piquet was in his 5 season.
Kudos to Piquet as well for finishing 5th in that piece of garbage of a car and just 1.5 points shy of Michele Alboreto, RIP, despite having twice as many retirements.
The 1984 season was magical. More magical than people give it credit. It was a "normal" season of the mid-80s where consistency, strategy and intelligence trumped engine power and at the end, we all learned that a Professor can't be called a Professor without first learning how to use a Calculator.
EDIT: Just to say "pun intended" in the last sentence.
Lotus: We'll pay you 50k for every point you score for us (laughs internally)
Kimi: *Are you sure about that?*
Best part about the Sauber one is Monisha Kaltenborn was literally someone with a lot of legal knowledge and lawyer experience yet still messed up legally binding contracts
Nice, just was looking on CZcams and you give me the Joy whit a brand new video.
It's at best an oversimplification and at worst plainly inaccurate to say that Christian Horner makes driver contract decisions for Red Bull Racing.
Not Helmut Marko?
@@kohikappu
He gives advice about wich driver hé thinks is ready for the Seat.
0:23.
1. Jenson Button
Williams and Honda
1:25.
Costume like smiley face man running avoid explosion.
1:39.
2. Sergio Perez
Racing Point Force India
2:30.
3. Kimi Raikkonen
Ferrari and Lotus
3:56.
4. Nikita Mazepin
HAAS
4:29.
5. Marcus Ericsson, Adrian Sutil, Felipe Nasr, and Giedo Van Der Garde
Sauber
5:24.
6. Fernando Alonso
Ferrari
6:20.
7. Ayrton Senna
Toleman
When talking about Senna joining Lotus from Toleman your picture of the JPS was of Mansell.
The Oscar joke at the beginning was gold
I remember Giedo van der Garde became quite the meme lord on Twitter after the whole Sauber contract debacle.
On 20 April 2015 he posted a picture of his local café on Twitter: "Wanted to get a drink, but all seats are taken. Story of my life...." 😂😂😂
matt thank you so much for that oscar joke that tickled me
so you’re telling me, seb made an absolute chaos twice ? what a legend lol
What happened to Perez was karma. Racing point cut him after everything he did for them and got Vettel, who hasn't been that promising and now he's leaving. Screw Aston Martin, or should I say team Stroll.
Juan Pablo Montoya, 2006. JPM announced that he would be joining NASCAR the next year, then the next day McLaren announced JPM would be immediately replaced by Pedro de la Rosa.
The easiest way to not confuse Massa and Nasr is to pronounce their name in their specific languages of origin. Look it up and suddenly, no more confusion.
Only real ones remember that iconic Senna tweet from Toleman 💯
"...won one..." Juan intensifies
Good work
So much contract drama in F1 😅
7:20 for me it has to be the 4 drivers saga with sauber
Where's Schumi bros with Jordan??? Also, a crazy one was Senna vetoing Derek Warwick for the 2nd Lotus seat in 1986.
Whilst drivers having veto power over teammates is always an ethically dubious thing in this case Senna wasn't exactly wrong. His insistence was that mid/late 80s Lotus didn't have the resources and competence to run two cars to a high standard so if they had two drivers they actually cared about they'd get worse results overall. Not only does history support that perspective but I'm in possession of a lot of internal documents from Team Lotus of that era and they do not contradict his point of view at all. The team was operating in to the early 90s in F1 with roughly the organisation and professionalism you'd expect from the late 70s. (It also didn't help that their wind tunnel was cheaply built and improperly sealed and throwing off their results massively and they didn't realise for _years.)_ On a side note it's still a common tactic in F2, F3 etc. to run a token second/third car but focus all your time and resources on one driver you believe will get you the best results (or one driver the Stroll family is paying you to do that for.)
Can’t believe you forgot the Schumacher / Jordan / Benetton chaos!
The Schumacher Jordan and Benetton Drama in 91 is also pretty good.
I hit the "Like" button for that opening line alone.
I had no idea about kimi forfeiture of some of his pay to keep lotus f1 afloat,
what do the Jenson button, Sergio perez and oscar piastri dramas all have in common? Otmar Szafnauer
I think the drivers don't like him as a boss.
@@kamagoong perez likes otmar, watch RedBull’s monaco video
Loved it good work
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Why are these videos so intertaining.
I instantly thought of sauber after seeing the tumbnail
New vid yay.......from the best f1 channel
Me in F1 manager 22 next week🙈
great dad joke intro 👌
John Surtees divorce with Ferrari back in 1966 was another interesting deal.
I was waiting for way more McLaren drivers to be on here, seeing as MCL have a thing for dropping drivers with little notice
This wasn’t so much a contract dispute, but boy was there drama when Jenson still didn’t have a confirmed seat with McLaren at the end of the 2014 season, and no one knew if the world champion had raced his last race in F1. That was such a mess. They should never have let it go on that long. And, of course, that was brought on by Fernando Alonso signing with McLaren, leaving Button fighting for his seat over Kevin Magnussen. And then the McLaren was a pile of garbage in 2015, so we had two world champions driving the worst car in F1. Such a mess.
Charles probably stuck ferrari forever 😬🏎 and I hope they have a better chance with Ferrari Chance it’s self win championship next year
"Lotus announced Senna will be driving for the team in 1985" at 4:20am on 6/9. Nice
When williams screwed over Mansell when he was World Champion.
Like sand through an hourglass, these are the days of our F1 lives... 🤣🤣🤣
“Although he’s now at a secure seat at Red Bull…” Hmm, yeah not looking so secure now.
BAR: "we're signing Jenson Button"
Williams: "we're signing Jenson Button"
Racing Point: "we're firing Sergio Perez"
Red Bull: "stonks"
Is that tweet by lotusF1 from 1984 was actually the first ever tweet in formula1 history? ;)
We were all robbed off seeing Seb and Checo team up in 2021
kimi lotus contract is backbone of F1 summer break
1984 tweet was a nice touch
You forgot to mention the disaster between Ferrari and Alain Prost
He did Rally and NASCAR in between
kimi raikonen is racing at watkins glen on USA if your interested WTF1
add more team, that was around 2 driver and 1 reserve.
Worst driver team breakups of the last decade:
Alonso & Renault
Alonso & McLaren
Alonso & Ferrari
Alonso & McLaren
Alonso & Alpine
Why no mention of spy gate scandal?
4:55 Matt, you can't even pronounce the simplified version of the Arabic name correctly. Try to say "rrrrrrr" in at the end LOL
Ricciardo made a mistake in 2017. Raikkonen was the best choice EVER by Lotus 2012, I miss Lotus (FU Musk).
Magnussen > Mazepin. (Period). No 'Cancel-Culture' there.
The last 4 'newly signed' drivers.. okay. Wait and see..?
Alonso.. Yeah. One of the legends.Bad management?
Senna -> Lotus was was still a cool move.
Mazespin one absolute factual.
How can you leave out what happened with Prost and senna in Williams for 1994?!
Is it just me or the last two seasons are very dramatic. Last year there was a crazy title fight and this year the driver transfers?
I wonder where McLaren/Alpine drama will compare to those.
The think of what might have been if Alonso had stayed with Ferrari. They actually had a decent car in several of the Vettel years, but Vettel wasn't able to match Hamilton in the psychological toughness department. I think Alonso would have done better
Kimi missed the last of 2013 due to back surgery…
Yeah but if he didn’t have the internal problems with the team he would’ve just had the surgery after the season
senna and italian gp gives me ptsd
100k for Senna? Talk about a bargain
Lol an Oscar ahhhh so good 😂😂😂
Ferrari should've never ditched Kimi for Alonso back then, they basically signed the man the FIA changed the rules for just to oust Schumacher and led to their own downfall.
Should’ve included Arrows/Jos Verstappen in 2002
Bro you can't blame Alonso wanting to leave Ferrari after 2014. That car was undrivable.
Gee I wonder why people cancelled Mazepin....
I think, if Bianchi hadn't had his crash in suzuka, he also would have got an sauber contract
"Felipe Nassa"
You forgot Alan Prost getting fired by Ferrari in 1991 after constant criticism of the car
he didn't criticize the car... he did criticize the truck...
lol
The same happened I think with Rene Arnoux in 1985
Lot of Ferrari on here. Be worried, Carlos. Be very worried.
Without Mazipin’s fathers money, he had absolutely zero value to Haas.
Well in Motorsports in general since he can’t even drive properly (properly I mean fairly and clean)
Seb and Ferrari must be there
Mick only looked good next to Mazepin.