The 10 biggest controversies in F1 history

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  • čas přidán 17. 05. 2024
  • Controversy is never far away in Formula 1. But over the years, which controversial moments stand out as the biggest? Edd Straw looks back at the arguments, broken rules and on track moments that have gone down in F1 folklore - some of which are still subject to debate today.
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  • @KayJblue
    @KayJblue Před 3 lety +2291

    Pink Mercedes is fun but my favorite is “Tracing Point” lol

  • @phonicfrog_
    @phonicfrog_ Před 3 lety +3101

    Hamilton denying he had a hair transplant

    • @bartelbartosimpson9528
      @bartelbartosimpson9528 Před 3 lety +101

      Hamilton & his nephew wearing a dress

    • @mrcmacc
      @mrcmacc Před 3 lety +333

      Hamilton's hairline is the real greatest comeback since Lazarus

    • @ashokbhashkarsrivastava3144
      @ashokbhashkarsrivastava3144 Před 3 lety +198

      Bruh what do you mean that he denied hair transplant he never had a transplant all he did was to not use the hotel shampoo.

    • @rottieshepcalibre9156
      @rottieshepcalibre9156 Před 3 lety +53

      All Hamilton haters denying its because of his skin color why theyre so bitter.

    • @phonicfrog_
      @phonicfrog_ Před 3 lety +24

      @@ashokbhashkarsrivastava3144 if you actually believe that bulls**t, you have the IQ of a potato.

  • @jimwright98
    @jimwright98 Před 3 lety +1102

    I still can't believe that Symonds has been accepted back into F1. You instruct a driver to crash you have no way of knowing what will happen: to the driver, other drivers, the crowd, marshalls etc. It elevates it in this list. Yes spygate and yes the drivers strike but playing fast with safety is next level.

    • @joribremer5260
      @joribremer5260 Před 3 lety +81

      Also makes me wondering Why Senna wasnt excluded from the 1990 standings.. after he said that he crashed into Prost on purpose..

    • @shrompingus
      @shrompingus Před 3 lety +21

      @@joribremer5260 maybe paying him back from the year previous? idk, I'm a Prost fan so eh

    • @TurtlelordGR
      @TurtlelordGR Před 3 lety +36

      Symonds is damaged goods and toxic even by F1 standards! No idea why ever he's allowed back.

    • @AlonsoRules
      @AlonsoRules Před 3 lety

      Piquet had to do that to keep the drive which he lost halfway through 09 lol

    • @oggamer3737
      @oggamer3737 Před 3 lety +22

      Well Michael Schumacher did that every season and he did won half of those WC title’s by crashing competition driver’s out like Damon Hill and Mika Häkkinen.

  • @willbrown6287
    @willbrown6287 Před 3 lety +2203

    The McLaren spy scandel would make for a great netflix documentary!

    • @NickTaylorRickPowers
      @NickTaylorRickPowers Před 3 lety +163

      Imagine committing corporate espionage and then taking the evidence to a local copy shop.
      Then getting wrekt by the Ferrari fan working there

    • @hughtubecube
      @hughtubecube Před 3 lety +19

      Surely that’s where Drive to Survive is going after a few years. You can’t just do the same stuff for five years running, great fun as it is

    • @willbrown6287
      @willbrown6287 Před 3 lety +7

      @Divyesh Agrawal I have, its great! Tbh asides from the 'professional' youtube channels (such as this) the quality of F1 coverage on youtube is sensational and a real credit to this absurdly wonderful sport of ours!

    • @slackerZ1
      @slackerZ1 Před 3 lety +14

      I'd like to see a mini series on the whole 2000-2009 seasons. Alot of controversy and technical innovation were made during these times. It could be a very good watch no matter the era you started watching.

    • @joshsmith7521
      @joshsmith7521 Před 3 lety +1

      Netflix:write that down

  • @rayne2714
    @rayne2714 Před 3 lety +632

    everyone forgets that Roland Ratzenberger also died the same weekend as Senna but because he is not as well known he gets forgotten about

    • @SolidSonicTH
      @SolidSonicTH Před 3 lety +162

      I read up on that. It's actually really sad. Senna was distraught over the incident and was approached by a friend saying he should preemptively retire from the race and take a fishing trip with him. Senna insisted on going out and took with him an Austrian flag in his car to wave in honor of Ratzenberger during the post-race, which they found after pulling apart Senna's wreck.
      It all reads like a bad omen. Barrichelo almost died that weekend too.
      Also Senna was apparently planning to chair a driver-led F1 safety commission in the months after the race but never lived to see it.

    • @chesterstewartdrawers5149
      @chesterstewartdrawers5149 Před 3 lety +29

      @@SolidSonicTH I believe it was Dr. Sid Watkins who suggested the fishing trip.

    • @jimkear6749
      @jimkear6749 Před 2 lety +79

      Senna died, Roland died, Rubens nearly died, two mechanics were hospitalized, eight spectators and a policeman were also injured. It truly was Black Sunday and when it was over, it felt like F1 could end forever. The animal had escaped it's cage.

    • @TheTotallyRealXiJinping
      @TheTotallyRealXiJinping Před 2 lety +1

      He really doesn’t.

    • @OmegamonUI
      @OmegamonUI Před 2 lety +13

      @@jimkear6749 and the biggest thing was after senna crash the race startet again. so crazy

  • @TaguroSuper
    @TaguroSuper Před 3 lety +499

    Fun Fact: The anonymous photocopying employee is a die hard Ferrari fan.

    • @erickhines4121
      @erickhines4121 Před 3 lety +12

      A photocopy employee that will never own a Ferrari automobile

    • @ChefofWar33
      @ChefofWar33 Před 3 lety +3

      I bet Ferrari gave him medal.

    • @Krahhf
      @Krahhf Před 3 lety +7

      @@ChefofWar33 her*

    • @ChefofWar33
      @ChefofWar33 Před 3 lety

      @@Krahhf Doubtful

    • @gtmaniacmda
      @gtmaniacmda Před 2 lety +22

      @@ChefofWar33 No the incident is actually well documented and it is a ‘she’ that leaked the info to Ferrari

  • @conorspencer5411
    @conorspencer5411 Před 3 lety +288

    Austria 2002 stands out in my mind for James Allen's exclamation of "I DO NOT ADAM AND EVE IT" immediately after the Ferraris crossed the line

    • @SiVlog1989
      @SiVlog1989 Před 3 lety +33

      Part of his disgust was down to him being of the impression that Ferrari wouldn't dare do it, and said so in the laps leading up to the conclusion of that race. The fact that they did left him gobsmacked

    • @mrcmacc
      @mrcmacc Před 3 lety +24

      Here in Brazil the announcer's live reaction basically became a running joke because of their frustration and anger, it was a meme at a time when memes weren't a thing yet. I remember watching it live back then.

    • @RomanBellicTaxi
      @RomanBellicTaxi Před 3 lety +15

      @@mrcmacc yea.... "Not today! Not today!Not today... Yes today, yes today :( "

    • @zikalokof1challenge414
      @zikalokof1challenge414 Před 3 lety +5

      "HOJE NÃO, HOJE NÃO, HOJE SIM!"

    • @Olivyay
      @Olivyay Před 3 lety +16

      @@mrcmacc In France the official commentator was fired by the F1 broadcaster because he was so disgusted that he even suggested it was shameful for French people that Ferrari's manager was French (the guy himself wasn't even French, he was Belgian), and Jean Todt had many high placed friends at that TV station.

  • @zmarolia
    @zmarolia Před 3 lety +354

    You missed the 1998 British GP: When Michael Schumacher Won an F1 Race Sitting in the Pits

    • @stepladder3257
      @stepladder3257 Před 3 lety +33

      Nah, that was epic

    • @malcolmholmes4535
      @malcolmholmes4535 Před 3 lety +4

      That was solved shortly after the race

    • @SiVlog1989
      @SiVlog1989 Před 3 lety +22

      @@malcolmholmes4535 not quite, the result was provisional until the World Motorsport Council met just before the German Grand Prix that year. I vividly remember how ITV broadcast the news on the Saturday at Hockenheim:
      "The World Motorsport Council met earlier this week to discuss the British Grand Prix. It was good news for Michael Schumacher, his win was declared official. But [it was] bad news for the three Stewards of the meeting who've now surrendered their licenses,"

    • @nickypoundtown9568
      @nickypoundtown9568 Před 3 lety +1

      One of the most exciting races I ever watched

    • @inglesfluente2693
      @inglesfluente2693 Před 3 lety +13

      He forgot Massa's 2008 title being snatched at the very last corner as well

  • @patrickracer43
    @patrickracer43 Před rokem +15

    "Fernando is faster than you" is still one of the most savage moments in the sport's history

  • @morganwaller1195
    @morganwaller1195 Před 2 lety +235

    I think it’s safe to say that last race can be added to this list

    • @joostprins3381
      @joostprins3381 Před 2 lety +35

      Yeah the way Lewis got away with a double yellow infringement and gaining a position by leaving the track is really safe to say an adding to this video.

    • @thombos1079
      @thombos1079 Před 2 lety +5

      @@joostprins3381 and gain a 3 second lead doing so, with the fastest car.

    • @kyleraymer5581
      @kyleraymer5581 Před 2 lety +10

      Maybe it would be easier just to add a section for the entire 2021 season.

  • @klutchasaurus
    @klutchasaurus Před 3 lety +384

    You missed Verstappen stealing kvyat's girl

    • @mrcarson7765
      @mrcarson7765 Před 3 lety +60

      Not just his girl, his seat RB too. Max is like a rocket, what he sees, he gets. Hamilton should run and hide xD

    • @HugoStiglitz88
      @HugoStiglitz88 Před 3 lety +55

      Thats nothing compared to lebron James teammate sleeping with his mother LMFAO

    • @robbienl8176
      @robbienl8176 Před 3 lety +2

      Putin is gonna kill him

    • @teongreen5254
      @teongreen5254 Před 3 lety +3

      Kvyat´s girl was Verstappens sister.

    • @stevejobs9281
      @stevejobs9281 Před 3 lety +2

      @@HugoStiglitz88 that’s why he’s a crack addict now and LeBron is still the best player in the NBA 😂

  • @bimonsolivar8898
    @bimonsolivar8898 Před 3 lety +128

    Biggest controversy ever in F1?
    Seb's haircuts!

    • @deanmantua4651
      @deanmantua4651 Před 3 lety +5

      lmao

    • @256ElNino
      @256ElNino Před 3 lety +4

      And Alonsos beards.

    • @garygarry
      @garygarry Před 3 lety +5

      But they're due to the fact that poor Seb has been fighting early hair loss for many years

    • @jansteen5640
      @jansteen5640 Před 2 lety +5

      Biggest comeback in F1 is Hamilton's hairline

    • @rozelynjenkins1811
      @rozelynjenkins1811 Před 2 lety +4

      @@jansteen5640 oh no.... that hairline can be seen from space. He tries to play it off with the braids, but poor thing, we can't see them until you turn around.

  • @Andy_27
    @Andy_27 Před 3 lety +45

    to this day i firmly believe they should scratch the entire 2008 singapore grand prix results and induct massa as world champion

    • @Andy_27
      @Andy_27 Před 2 lety

      @Matthew Breslin Nah, i'm not

    • @titchlilly1294
      @titchlilly1294 Před 2 lety +2

      Agree and I am an Aussie

    • @MooncricketsInc
      @MooncricketsInc Před 2 lety +1

      Lost the championship thanks to that last lap pass on Glock by the fuckboy. I wonder how much money McLaren is paying Timo yearly now as a thanks.

  • @matthewconnors1011
    @matthewconnors1011 Před 2 lety +12

    12/12/2021 the day this video became obsolete

  • @ARC_ALEX74
    @ARC_ALEX74 Před 2 lety +7

    Number 0: the final race of the 2021 season

  • @SiVlog1989
    @SiVlog1989 Před 3 lety +65

    There was a pretty much forgotten controversy in Monza, 1960. Officially, it went down in history as the final victory for a front engine Grand Prix car, however, it was a far from glorious. The seeds of the controversy were sown by the season Ferrari were having up to then. While Cooper and Jack Brabham were well on the way to a second title after claiming both drivers and constructors titles in 1959, Ferrari were yet to win a race as the sport arrived in Italy for the Italian Grand Prix and the prospects for the Scuderia looked bleak as the teams began to arrive in Italy. Then, the organisers hit upon an idea to attempt to tip the balance in favour of Ferrari, use the full combination circuit, which featured the infamous banking. The organisers did this to try to tip the balance in favour of the one advantage Ferrari had in 1960, straight line speed.
    The rest of the field, lead by Cooper and the other British teams, were outraged at what they saw as blatant Italian Nationalism as the motivating factor in using the combination layout. Feeling that the banking was too dangerous, they issued an ultimatum to the organisers, reverse the layout change or they would pull out of the race weekend. No such reversal was forthcoming and the entry list was reduced to a mix of works and privately entered Ferraris. The driver who won the race, future world champion, Phil Hill, who in a tragic twist of fate would clinch the world championship a year later at that same location after his team mate, Count Wolfgang Von Tripps, was killed when his car clipped the blameless Jim Clark and speared into the crowd lining the track by Parabolica, taking the lives of 15 spectators along with him

  • @TheSt1092
    @TheSt1092 Před 3 lety +165

    I just knew Crashgate , Indygate and Spygate would be on this list.

    • @vyasponnuri3375
      @vyasponnuri3375 Před 3 lety +11

      Tracing Point Gate is also on this list

    • @robh_uk
      @robh_uk Před 3 lety +9

      We need a controversy around exhausts; wastegategate

    • @KuK137
      @KuK137 Před 3 lety +9

      But illegal mercedes tyre test and 44 lying about podium standings in 2009 to steal undeserved podium spot wasn't. Biased much?

    • @idontexist1681
      @idontexist1681 Před 3 lety +1

      @@KuK137 they are brits ofc they wont put liegate

    • @fedde7232
      @fedde7232 Před 3 lety +1

      @@vyasponnuri3375 tracing gate lol

  • @iybjs5308
    @iybjs5308 Před 2 lety +13

    Season finale 2021: hold my safety car

  • @mistyhoudiny5729
    @mistyhoudiny5729 Před 2 lety +12

    2021 Season: Hold my beer

  • @shoey6123
    @shoey6123 Před 2 lety +167

    "[Senna] faced a barrage of criticism, for causing a crash at approaching 150mph"
    Lewis Hamilton would like to know your location

    • @ulver1187
      @ulver1187 Před 2 lety +3

      Lewis got his fair share of criticism for that one. It'll be in a compilation in 10 years surely

    • @imibuks-replit
      @imibuks-replit Před 2 lety +5

      Pastor Maldando wants to know your location
      Nikita Mazepin wants to know your location
      HAAS Wants to know your location

    • @philsurtees
      @philsurtees Před 2 lety +2

      Max Vercrashen would like to know your location.

  • @RoadRageDudez
    @RoadRageDudez Před 3 lety +232

    My father was at the 2005 Indy GP. The outrage from the fans was immense, and the actions the fans took we’re with words he can’t even describe.

    • @TurtlelordGR
      @TurtlelordGR Před 3 lety +30

      That was probably the biggest shot in the foot in the history of F1's attempts to break into the US. What strikes me was the ferocity of the animosity between Bernie and Max Mosley back then, yet nowadays they are all lovey dovey and praising each other on how good they were to work with.

    • @dukedub
      @dukedub Před 3 lety +10

      As American I Started watching f1 the year before this. Sure what happened was a joke but I do wish usa had more races and drivers on the grid. Even tho there's no representation F1 very popular here in the states, more so than people think there is.

    • @maxr.mamint8580
      @maxr.mamint8580 Před 3 lety +6

      @@dukedub I agree; I dont 'follow' F1 racing mainly because there's nothing here to follow, but I love watching it on TV. I think most Americans love a good race; regardless of what's being raced, lol.

    • @jimkear6749
      @jimkear6749 Před 2 lety +4

      IMS saying they had no idea that the 14 cars may park, yet, the National Guard was already protecting the ticket office when the Formation Lap ended. People were getting violent in the stands, with no yellow shirts, police, or NG present to monitor the worst actors. Me there, with my small son and elderly father, in the middle of it all. Never forgave TG and the Hulmans for this ignorance and neglect, and never will.

    •  Před 2 lety +4

      Was there. Corner 1 bleachers. It was disappointing, to say the least. Seeing hundreds of cans of beer flying across the fences onto the track was amusing.

  • @RAWDernison1
    @RAWDernison1 Před 3 lety +26

    I've got one you missed: the 1984 Tyrrell "lead shot" controversy.

  • @RobTheGreenEngine
    @RobTheGreenEngine Před 3 lety +41

    3:42 I beg your pardon, Ed?

    • @anttihelin6820
      @anttihelin6820 Před 3 lety +2

      I think that's what The 90 Day Fiancé is about.

  • @blueflags599
    @blueflags599 Před 3 lety +173

    F1 is just so prone to this it’s really is the way that the sport is built

    • @niismo.
      @niismo. Před 3 lety +1

      English

    • @Jimbo7
      @Jimbo7 Před 3 lety +4

      @@niismo. ??

    • @robbienl8176
      @robbienl8176 Před 3 lety +1

      Politics

    • @Goosavich
      @Goosavich Před 2 lety +13

      Yep. Rich people don’t believe the rules apply to them so when you have a sport that consists of a bunch of rich people trying to build the best car, it’s inevitable everyone is going to assume the rules don’t apply to them.

    • @SolidSonicTH
      @SolidSonicTH Před rokem

      I always said if they're gonna be taking people to the woodshed for "bringing the sport into disrepute," they better have fined the hell out of themselves for the 2005 US GP.

  • @KeirThomas
    @KeirThomas Před 2 lety +7

    Guess it is time to update this...2021 happened!

  • @CustomName
    @CustomName Před 3 lety +460

    F1 has become a site for espionage, I see I see.

  • @Jimbo7
    @Jimbo7 Před 3 lety +64

    I swear I've seen this exact video at least 10 times across all the f1 youtube channels, even this one

  • @mmykolas
    @mmykolas Před 3 lety +10

    M. Schumacher parking his car at Rascasse during 2006 Monaco GP qualification.

  • @alfie22120
    @alfie22120 Před 3 lety +22

    The Mercedes tyre test and Schumacher-Villeneuve crash should have been here.

  • @JW_PUNK29
    @JW_PUNK29 Před 3 lety +274

    Hamilton/McLaren lying to the stewards at Australia 2009

    • @raphboult8894
      @raphboult8894 Před 3 lety +6

      I don't Remember that, what happened?

    • @lukeguilfoyle2425
      @lukeguilfoyle2425 Před 3 lety +4

      @Andrew Kian Felix Hamilton wasn’t 4th, he was disqualified

    • @fernandoueno8668
      @fernandoueno8668 Před 3 lety +40

      @Andrew Kian Felix In addition, Hamilton was forced to lie to the FIA by Ron Dennis, because initatially Hamilton told the FIA the true version of the story, which favored Toyota

    • @ihathtelekinesis
      @ihathtelekinesis Před 3 lety +4

      A solicitor would almost certainly have been struck off for misleading the court/race officials like that.

    • @purwantiallan5089
      @purwantiallan5089 Před 3 lety +2

      @@raphboult8894 the 1998 Spa also.

  • @mihneazoican2479
    @mihneazoican2479 Před 2 lety +6

    Make that 11. Today’s race has been a fucking wild ride

  • @blist8329
    @blist8329 Před 3 lety +11

    I love how every race driver always talks about how you have to be selfish to win championships but yet when they disobey team orders (to win) they get put into a video like this

  • @rhphoenix5
    @rhphoenix5 Před 2 lety +5

    2021 Abu Dhabi gp says hi

  • @F1__Maniac
    @F1__Maniac Před rokem +3

    Senna 1990: He also asked the FIA to start on the other side of the track as the inside is the dirty side of the track. It was denied by the FIA so Senna as polesitter had to start on the dirty side. What made it even more controversial is that at the time the FIA had a french president who seemed to favor Prost multiple occasions

  • @bigfut4963
    @bigfut4963 Před 2 lety +19

    Well this is ironic that I get it recommended after the Hamilton incident

  • @mateofrara
    @mateofrara Před 3 lety +38

    Hamilton and Mclaren lying to the stewards, Melbourne 2009. For me, the "dumbest scandal ever".

    • @simonkevnorris
      @simonkevnorris Před rokem +1

      Yes, I always have a chuckle when Lewis says "I don't lie". He's forgotten Liargate.

  • @robsmithracing
    @robsmithracing Před 3 lety +17

    McLaren stealing technical information from Ferrari in 2007 was a rememberable one, then again Ron Dennis looks like the sort of guy who would sell his own grandmother.

  • @JetfireWithy
    @JetfireWithy Před 3 lety +9

    Should have included
    -Teams threating a breakaway series 2009 FIA vs FOTA
    -The 2021 concorde agreement with the ridiculous 200 million entry fee paid to competitors from new teams before turning a wheel.

  • @cameronowen9772
    @cameronowen9772 Před 2 lety +4

    Time to release a post-2021 Abu Dhabi update

  • @aidanbrazill4885
    @aidanbrazill4885 Před 3 lety +57

    F1 can be so tone-deaf at times, and the Senna and Hunt instances are proof of this. In the Prost incident, Senna dropped back to about 8th and masterfully drove through the field only to have the win taken from him, and Hunt came back from what should have been catastrophic suspension damage to win. These are great performances that should be immortalized, instead, they get disregarded due to stuffy and obsolete rules and its total bullshit.

    • @MrSniperfox29
      @MrSniperfox29 Před rokem +1

      Senna did not drop down to eighth.
      When Prost and Senna collided, they were already one minute ahead of Nannini and 90 seconds in front of Patrese and Boutsen and a lap in front of everyone else. When he came out, he was second behind Nannini and that was it,
      Talk about lying to try and rewrite history.

    • @SiVlog1989
      @SiVlog1989 Před rokem

      @Aidan Brazil I think you're mixing the 1988 and 1989 races together. In the 1988 race, Senna had a terrible start from pole position, leaving him 14th at the end of the first lap, but in a recovery drive worthy of a champion in waiting, he recovered to eventually retake the lead, holding on to it to clinch his first title the best way possible, by winning the race.
      In 1989, however, he was behind Prost for most of the race, the latter having concentrated on race setup. Senna did close in as the race was coming to a close, but at the time they collided, they were best part of a lap ahead of Nanini (who was running third at the time of the collision). Senna resumed, pitted the following lap for repairs, emerged in second just behind Nanini before retaking the lead to take the win on the road.
      The official reason for Senna's disqualification was undoubtedly controversial, leading to tongues being wagged about a conflict of interest (Balestre was a personal friend of Prost) and once again led to the FIA showing its contradictory side (penalising Senna for something that hadn't been penalised before, and disregarding the fact that he was in a dangerous place and would have had every right to restart in that circumstance)

  • @3DWorldMan
    @3DWorldMan Před 2 lety +9

    this season alone added about another 5

  • @steve5926
    @steve5926 Před 3 lety +48

    Fernando was involved in 40% of these... lol and they didn't even get into Hungry 2006 quali.

  • @markusjuenemann
    @markusjuenemann Před 3 lety +23

    Thats exactly the point that annoys me: "A season remembered for the death of Ayrton Senna". You are supposed to be professional journalists. And as such you should at least mention Roland Ratzenberger. Nothing against Senna here, but people always "forgetting to mention" Ratzenberger is disgusting! One of the dislikes is from me...

    • @Limegreenedragon
      @Limegreenedragon Před 3 lety +9

      That's the problem. He is as they say, "Imola's forgotton man" Aside from those who knew him, no one has never heard about him. If there's going to be a documentary about him, the aforementioned words would be the title. Cruel as it is, but that's the way it is.

    • @markusjuenemann
      @markusjuenemann Před 3 lety

      @@Limegreenedragon There is at least one documentary about him. Its on Amazon, but sadly only in German without subtitles: "Roland Ratzenberger - Der lange Weg zum kurzen Glück". I can really remcommend this one, as long as you do understand a little German...

    • @sergiogsr
      @sergiogsr Před 3 lety +5

      Unfortunately it's true, a lot of F1 newer fans and general population that know something about 1994 just know/remember that Senna died that year.
      Ratzenberger deserves to be known more. But the way it's stated in the video is true.

    • @T00DEEPBLUE
      @T00DEEPBLUE Před 3 lety +6

      Roland was a backmarker in his debut season whilst Ayrton was a 3x world champion widely considered the greatest F1 driver that ever lived. Guess who is going to be more remembered in pop culture when they both died? Say what you will about how callous it is to not mention Roland, but it's true.

    • @ju.h_man
      @ju.h_man Před 3 lety +7

      @@T00DEEPBLUE that may be true but a CZcams channel dedicated to racing is far away from pop culture and thus shouldn't just forget to mention a dead driver...

  • @davidthompson-mack503
    @davidthompson-mack503 Před 3 lety +22

    My biggest flex is that I met the “fernando is faster than you” man lol

    • @romanbaranovichi5375
      @romanbaranovichi5375 Před 3 lety +2

      You've met Rob Semdley? Is he as cool as he seems irl lmao?

    • @mikerogers2419
      @mikerogers2419 Před 2 lety

      Yeah like David Hobbs said Alonso gets the most out of the car put him in Hamilton's car and see what happens

  • @kylejoly577
    @kylejoly577 Před 2 lety +5

    Might need an update!

  • @KR1736
    @KR1736 Před 2 lety +10

    Well, I think a new one made the list today…

  • @luccaventurini1011
    @luccaventurini1011 Před 3 lety +4

    That Senna/Prost controversy is VERY popular in Brazil, something u didn't comment is that they tried to change the rule to allow that Senna move, but he got pissed and and barred it

  • @conorspinks8130
    @conorspinks8130 Před 2 lety +6

    This needs to be updated lol

  • @AlexGeorgitsis
    @AlexGeorgitsis Před 2 lety +16

    Masi, Max Verstappen and Hamilton contemplating the whole '20-'21 season: "hold my beer"

  • @GrandPrixAlessio
    @GrandPrixAlessio Před 2 lety +3

    Not sure I would agree that 'Pironi's reputation was ruined'. He was still considered one of the best in the paddock at the time of his near-fatal, career-ending accident later that year...

  • @jjedgar5303
    @jjedgar5303 Před 2 lety +9

    they need to do another one of these again with the Belgian "Grand Prix" of 2021!

  • @sjoerdwillemsen7946
    @sjoerdwillemsen7946 Před 2 lety +4

    Jonathan Wheatley (who was working for Benetton in 1994) said in the documentary History of the Pitstop: Gone in 2 seconds, that the missing filter in the refueling hose did cause the incident with Verstappen. The nozzle could not take the extra pressure and failed during the pitstop of Schumacher.

  • @joncreelman7306
    @joncreelman7306 Před 2 lety +4

    Time to make an addition to this video......

  • @mhgband
    @mhgband Před 2 lety +11

    You've forgotten with the 2005 tyre fiasco, that at Australia (I believe) the reverse happened and the 6 cars weren't allowed to race, even though they had a compromise (like the additional corners), so it Bridgestone (I think it was) refused to add the corner in America due to Michelline refusing earlier that season.
    It was some years ago, but that's what I remember from it

    • @simonkevnorris
      @simonkevnorris Před rokem

      The track configuration needs to be homologated which means a safety check has taken place on the revised configuration. To race on a track that has not gone through this process in the most litigious country in the world could have been a disaster.

  • @CapHowdy
    @CapHowdy Před 3 lety +13

    Well that was clever of Benetton to have Windows 95 for their option 13 a year before in was even released :p

  • @sampayne9663
    @sampayne9663 Před 3 lety +45

    Wierd how the 2002 was such a fiery talking point, yet team orders are common now including Hamilton Bottas in Russia.
    Also another interesting one was the 2003 tire mould issue and the 2009 Aussie GP with Hamilton being told to lie about passing trulli.
    Ferrari 2019 engine settlement too
    Mclaren third pedal in 98 as well.
    All part of the juicy story of f1

    • @francesco165
      @francesco165 Před 3 lety

      team orders always had happen in F1 since the bloody 50's, i never understood the shock if a Fernando is faster than you or a Valterri it's James happens, it's part of the game

    • @eggselent9814
      @eggselent9814 Před 2 lety

      Or the 1960 Italian GP

    • @bobvido9875
      @bobvido9875 Před 2 lety

      Dont forget the MANY times Bottas have to give way for Hamilton ,from the day Bottas was a Merc driver.
      As Hamilton stated once ,Bottas is tbe best team mate u could have.

    • @NotAcvp3lla
      @NotAcvp3lla Před 10 měsíci

      ​@@bobvido9875Don't forget Schumacher's teammates had a non-compete clause in their contract

  • @Evilroco
    @Evilroco Před 2 lety +6

    While the FIA never "proved" Bennetons use of illegal traction control ,they did "prove" it was on the car with a hidden menu option and Benneton fought tooth and nail to keep their code from being examined.
    It may just be a coincidence that the car most of the grid suspected of running illegal traction control had a hidden menu option to run traction control ...or it may not.

    • @Zamppa86
      @Zamppa86 Před 2 lety +3

      That '94 Benetton definitely was illegal. Yeah FIA wasn't exactly able to prove the systems were used but the simple fact that Benetton did everything they could to avoid sharing the info should have been enough to disqualify their cars.

    • @luckyhunter5291
      @luckyhunter5291 Před rokem

      @@Zamppa86 they have too proove if First

  • @patrickracer43
    @patrickracer43 Před 2 lety +11

    The reason why Indianapolis Motor Speedway went with diamond grinding before the 2005 United States Grand Prix was because IMS is in Indianapolis, Indiana... winter in Indiana gets really cold, and that affects the pavement... also, the reason why the Bridgestone teams of Ferrari, Jordan and Minardi didn't have the same issues that all the Michelin teams had was due to the fact that Bridgestone had the hookup, since Bridgestone owns Firestone and Firestone is the tire manufacturer for IndyCar, at the time still known as the Indy Racing League, and Firestone was able to gather tons of data on the repaved Indianapolis Motor Speedway because the IRL was running on the track almost daily during the traditional Month of May... also, apparently Firestone and IMS were supposed to share the data with both Bridgestone and Michelin but Michelin never got the data

    • @simonkevnorris
      @simonkevnorris Před rokem

      The tyre manufacturers took two compounds of tyre to each meeting. A safe set and a softer set. The Michelin safe set wasn't suitable so they had no choice (as the softer set would have been way too soft).

  • @SilverScarletSpider
    @SilverScarletSpider Před 3 lety +50

    F1 Racing in Saudi Arabia should be a hugely controversial topic. The fact that it isn’t right now speaks volumes about the FIA and Liberty Media. 🤔

    • @AlonsoRules
      @AlonsoRules Před 3 lety +6

      yeah they can't get a German GP on the schedule but some random Tilke street track is no issue

    • @Left4Coragem
      @Left4Coragem Před 3 lety +17

      If racing inside a country is a controversy, then there would not be a chinese GP for decades.

    • @maurosgardelis8085
      @maurosgardelis8085 Před 3 lety +1

      @@Left4Coragem I agree on that

    • @ArnolfiniIII
      @ArnolfiniIII Před 3 lety +1

      @@Left4Coragem straight facts

    • @THENAMEISQUICKMAN
      @THENAMEISQUICKMAN Před 3 lety +3

      @@Left4Coragem Well, China don't execute people in the streets... There's levels of "bad", and Saudi Arabia is at the very bottom.

  • @sergiogsr
    @sergiogsr Před 3 lety +20

    I was surprised by how some of the McLaren key details were let out. It was handled in the video like it was just 2 guys sharing information.
    I know it's a long story that deserves its own video but Ferrari internal restructure and power struggles, the McLaren people using the Ferrari information and asking for more data, the FIA investigation the McLaren internal one, blackmailing, and the impact it had on drivers lineup were details that deserved a mention.

    • @olilettuce8845
      @olilettuce8845 Před 3 lety +2

      Should probably have an entire video dedicated to it.

    • @mateofrara
      @mateofrara Před 3 lety

      According to Pedro de Rosa, he said that he and the mechanics shared little information, such as: wich weight balance does Ferrari use? Stuff like that, but they never knew about the "big information" like blueprints.

    • @mateofrara
      @mateofrara Před 3 lety

      But those "coffe talks" about weight balance are pretty common in every F1 team because every team has spies(mechanics going from one team to another and the same with drivers). Only Coughlan and Stepney had the big info.

    • @sergiogsr
      @sergiogsr Před 3 lety

      @@mateofrara check the emails leaked. They were receiving information in a frequently way, knew the ones involved and asked for specific details. Not only the drivers didn't whistle as they were supposed to report the leak, they were taking advantage from it.

    • @mateofrara
      @mateofrara Před 3 lety

      @@sergiogsr Yes, they received information, like weight balance, braking system, they were having these coffee talks, but I think they never shared plans or big information, as I said before, this is quite common in F1, the point is that they never actually used the information and the FIA ​​could never prove it. But anyway, some team members cheated and paid for it.

  • @magillanz
    @magillanz Před 2 lety +8

    always wondered why a multimillion dollar company like McLaren had to use a copy shop to photocopy documents

  • @Moobeus
    @Moobeus Před 2 lety +7

    Looks like this list is gonna have to be updated…

  • @fnglert
    @fnglert Před 2 lety +9

    "Hold my beer"

  • @lemon9804
    @lemon9804 Před 2 lety +3

    Time for a video remake!

  • @terrypotato
    @terrypotato Před 3 lety +14

    Speaking of one driver crashing into another with the intent of putting him out of the race, how about Schumacher trying to crash Jacques Villeneuve to prevent him becoming world champion - at least karma bit him that day!

  • @booptidyscoop7790
    @booptidyscoop7790 Před 3 lety +41

    Barrichello deserved a championship.

    • @vincent-go2jj
      @vincent-go2jj Před 3 lety +4

      i mean barrichello was very good but just like so many others he was never the greatest, his ferrari time might have been too biased towards schumacher but we saw how button beat him fair and square

    • @cosminbilga4080
      @cosminbilga4080 Před 3 lety

      More victories, maybe, hard to beat his teammates when he was in a position to do so for a championship though.

    • @Undivided_X
      @Undivided_X Před 3 lety +1

      He couldn't even beat Button in 2009 forget Schumacher in 2000 to 2004.

    • @booptidyscoop7790
      @booptidyscoop7790 Před 3 lety +1

      @@Undivided_X he was past his prime there , he could've won a championship in Ferrari

    • @everybodygoesdown8033
      @everybodygoesdown8033 Před 3 lety

      @booptidyscoop yeah. A butler also deserves to be a prince...LOL. Barrichello must be the most obedient and low self-respect driver in F1 history.

  • @KnightVisionBass
    @KnightVisionBass Před 2 lety +6

    Alonso 100% knew what Piquet was going to do. The tactic to do what they did doesn't make sense without Alonso's knowledge.

  • @japirovsky
    @japirovsky Před 2 lety +2

    You can now add the 2021 Abu Dhabi Grand Prix

  • @rottieshepcalibre9156
    @rottieshepcalibre9156 Před 3 lety +17

    Ferrari and their team orders🤣 i hope Carlos is watching this

    • @francojoeulm.florin3545
      @francojoeulm.florin3545 Před 2 lety

      @@hyperfuryxdbs6665 Ferrari did team orders yesterday and it was fair since Carlos gave it back to Charles while Mercedes has been screwing Bottas, yeah idk why people scrutinize Ferrari so much and Merc gets away with them scott free

  • @ThunderApache1604V
    @ThunderApache1604V Před 2 lety +11

    Top ten controversies/allegations in 2021 season would be great 😂 .

  • @ethan7533
    @ethan7533 Před 3 lety +96

    I’ve been waiting for this one
    Here’s another video suggestion Top 10 one man team seasons like Verstappen in 2020 and Ralf Schumacher in 1999

    • @p0werfu11
      @p0werfu11 Před 3 lety +20

      Some that came to mind
      Kubica in 2010
      Rosberg in 2008/09
      Alonso in 2014

    • @ethan7533
      @ethan7533 Před 3 lety +14

      @@p0werfu11 Hamilton in 2008/09 as well and Alonso in 2012 Senna in 93 there’s quite a few when you think about it

    • @michaelsanderson9562
      @michaelsanderson9562 Před 3 lety +8

      Cool idea, I’d like to chuck Frentzen in 1999 and JB in 2004 into the mix as well

    • @shantanuseth5119
      @shantanuseth5119 Před 3 lety +4

      @@michaelsanderson9562 more like JB in 2005, Sato in 2007

    • @tomoldrini4762
      @tomoldrini4762 Před 3 lety +4

      And Schumacher 1994

  • @johnhotchkiss9842
    @johnhotchkiss9842 Před 2 lety +2

    Team orders never went away. Teams were just more sneaky about it. They would just tell driver to do something like change a certain settings on the car. One I always remember was the 1998 Australian Grand Prix. Mika Hakkinem won it with David Coulthard finishing second. The controversy for those that don't know was that Coulthard was winning the opening race of the season with a couple of laps to go, Coulthard let Hakkinem past without orders. It later emerged after the race Hakkinem and Culthard had a gentleman's agreement. If they were in first and second place towards the end of the race. They had agreed who ever was in the lead in the opening lap of the Grand prix would win the race. Hakkinem lead the first lap so Culthard let him past to win the race. Also everyone knows Alonso knew more than he did about the Nelson Piquet incident. He even accidently revealed something in an interview. The team did everything to protect him.

    • @yuuseir3391
      @yuuseir3391 Před rokem

      It feels like Mercedes was doing team orders in EVERY race of the last 7 years, but because of the team and driver involved, nobody made a complaint it seems. But that one time that a Ferrari passed another one ... how how ...

  • @nille_fca6689
    @nille_fca6689 Před 2 lety +17

    2021 season finale comes knocking and wants into this list.

  • @Manu-Official
    @Manu-Official Před 2 lety +4

    *2021 season has entered the chat.

  • @SiVlog1989
    @SiVlog1989 Před měsícem +1

    One forgotten controversy springs to mind, probably the first controversial race in F1 history, the 1960 Italian Grand Prix. Although remembered as the last time a front engined Grand Prix car won a race, it was far from glorious. By the time F1 arrived at Monza for the 1960 Italian Grand Prix, not only had Jack Brabham secured his second World Championship in a row with time to spare, but Ferrari had yet to score a win all year. Enzo Ferrari's old fashioned approach to car design (where he insisted that the horse, meaning the engine, should pull the cart, not push it) meant that his car were unable to match the more dynamically developed cars of Lotus and particularly Cooper.
    For the Italian organisers, the prospects looked bleak. Then, they hit upon an idea that would tip the balance in the one area Ferrari had superiority in, straight-line speed. Although the Road Course of Monza was an extremely fast track in its own right, the organisers decided to tip the balance even further in favour of the red cars by using the full circuit, which included the banking. Most of the teams were outraged by what they saw as blatant Italian Nationalism as the mindset for changing the layout, feeling that it was (even by the standards of the day) too dangerous. They issued what amounted to an ultimatum for the layout to be reverted to the Road Course or they'd withdraw from the race. No such reversion was forthcoming so the race was reduced to a mix of works and privately entered Ferraris, Porsches and privately entered cars that had Italian engines.
    Phil Hill took his first win, the first Grand Prix win by an American driver since Jimmy Murphy won the 1921 French Grand Prix (and later the 1922 Indy 500), but as already mentioned, it wasn't a glorious win.

  • @f1lopic8
    @f1lopic8 Před 2 lety +2

    And now they should add 2021 Abu Dhabi GP thx to Nicolas Latifi

  • @connorgibson546
    @connorgibson546 Před 2 lety +3

    This video needs an update after Sunday 🤣

  • @tashdemash2554
    @tashdemash2554 Před 3 lety +6

    3:42 "Fisa f*** a war" lmao

  • @SiVlog1989
    @SiVlog1989 Před 3 lety +2

    The Austria 2002 controversy could have been avoided. If Ferrari had been slow enough at Barrichello's pit stops, it would have not lead to all the booing that happened afterwards, many outsiders would have been none the wiser (a bit like Massa rejoining from his final stop in Brazil 2007 in traffic, which was just enough to allow Raikkonen to make his final stop and rejoin in the lead, thus securing the world championship for himself)

  • @David-je4mh
    @David-je4mh Před 2 lety +4

    CZcams algorithm is working very well😉

  • @Paul-zs7rd
    @Paul-zs7rd Před 3 lety +18

    The time Max Mosley dressed up as a Nazi

    • @plazus
      @plazus Před 3 lety +1

      Lol I remember that

    • @ComradSputnik
      @ComradSputnik Před 3 lety +1

      I think his mistress was dressed as a Nazi, he was just her slave or something

  • @stu1002
    @stu1002 Před 2 lety +5

    Posting here from December 2021....Weeell...this video is going to need a redo isn't it? :)

  • @Bartoloxxd
    @Bartoloxxd Před 2 lety +19

    I can think of a recent event that could fit in this list...

  • @alexphipps4912
    @alexphipps4912 Před 3 lety +7

    One that continues to live in my head rent free: the Williams saga of 79-early 82

  • @Da5idc
    @Da5idc Před 2 lety +4

    What about 1997? Schumacher driving into Villeneuve and losing all his points for the year?

  • @cianboy97
    @cianboy97 Před 2 lety +3

    Feel this video might need an update…

  • @canaldaschuteiraspt5344
    @canaldaschuteiraspt5344 Před 3 lety +8

    14:42 Günther is probably thinking: “What am I doing here with these wankers”

  • @Cynical_Ninja
    @Cynical_Ninja Před 3 lety +9

    Thank you for some F1 content that isn't freaking out about Mclaren not changing their livery 🙂

  • @YungGandalf
    @YungGandalf Před 2 lety +11

    You forgot to mention that Senna was given a worse starting position than Prost by the FIA even though Senna was on pole position, and this is a big reason why Prost got out ahead.

  • @ankitkasi5595
    @ankitkasi5595 Před 3 lety +23

    Imagine Drive to survive on these incidents...

  • @alesi257
    @alesi257 Před 3 lety +3

    Two more: Jenson Button's contract with Williams ("Buttongate") and Giedo van der Garde with Sauber.

  • @jakewhite3329
    @jakewhite3329 Před 3 lety +5

    Apparently nothing controversial happened in the first 25 years of Formula 1. Must've been nice...

  • @heinz-haraldfrentzen1261
    @heinz-haraldfrentzen1261 Před 2 lety +3

    I still think Alonso had known something was up at the Singapore GP. That fuel strategy goes against any normal strategy and Alonso would have given a WTF to the team, unless, he knew something right at the time he was in the pits, a safety car was to be deployed...

  • @CrashBandiii
    @CrashBandiii Před 3 lety +6

    I miss watching F1 at Kyalami.
    Porche has just redone the whole circuit, it's about time F1 comes back

  • @SiVlog1989
    @SiVlog1989 Před 3 lety +4

    Ted Kravitz barely hid his disgust at Renault when the ruling on Crashgate was reported in the week of the 2009 Singapore Grand Prix
    "We now know what happened, Nelson Piquet crashed on purpose to bring out the Safety Car. This wasn't spying on other teams or lying to the Stewards, this was endangering spectators, marshalls and his own safety. The only debate was whether the plan to crash deliberately was Piquet's idea or Pat Symonds', each one blames the other, so someone is still not telling the truth.
    "The team may have got off lightly in the FIA Court, but Renault have been hit in the pocket, by the immediate withdrawal of title sponsor ING, the financial services company didn't want to be associated with a team that cheats. In an ironic twist, Piquet's replacement Romain Grosjean, spun in precisely the same place in the same way here in Practice yesterday,"

  • @pacoelpocero9863
    @pacoelpocero9863 Před 3 lety +41

    Nothing about Schumacher hitting Villeneuve on purpose?

    • @NilRacing
      @NilRacing Před 3 lety +4

      They did show a picture when talking about title deciding collisions, but yeah, this videos needs a part 2...

    • @ethanporciello8807
      @ethanporciello8807 Před 3 lety +2

      Schumi didn’t win that race so that’s probably why

    • @juliansmith4295
      @juliansmith4295 Před 2 lety

      That was just another day at the office for Shoe-maker, so it's nothing out of the ordinary.

    • @LordOfTheBored
      @LordOfTheBored Před 2 lety

      Well that was not a controversy as it was obvious that Schumacher had hit him on purpose and was subsequently disqualified from the championship that season. Was there anybody who said umm well this was a race accident so FIA´s decision was unfair?

    • @Zamppa86
      @Zamppa86 Před 2 lety

      @@LordOfTheBored There have been numerous Schumacher fans claiming that crash was "Villeneuve's fault because he dived to the inside line".
      Of course everyone with a functioning brain knows Schumacher did that on purpose. Just like he did against Hill at Adelaide '94.

  • @purwantiallan5089
    @purwantiallan5089 Před 3 lety +5

    The 2008 Crashgate still fresh in everyone's mind.

  • @IncandescentDaD
    @IncandescentDaD Před 2 lety +5

    What about the Ferrari 2019 engine and the rumored tampering with its fuel flow?

  • @terblanchejordaan3822
    @terblanchejordaan3822 Před 3 lety +1

    Who can forget Scheatmacher's disqualification from the qualifying session for the Monaco Grand Prix 2006 after the stewards ruled he deliberately stopped his Ferrari at the Rascasse corner ... after all, he remains the only driver in the history of the sport to have been disqualified from the Drivers’ Championship.
    Let's see, there is 1994 Australian Grand Prix, 1997 European Grand Prix, 1998 British Grand Prix, 2002 Austrian Grand Prix, and the above mentioned 2006 Monaco Grand Prix.
    ... you can make a TOP 10 of only Michael Schumacher controversies.

    • @Zamppa86
      @Zamppa86 Před 2 lety +1

      And there's the whole '94 season. Schumacher's Benetton definitely was illegal. Jos Verstappen for example comfirmed it by saying the two cars in that team were whole different.

  • @gerardo7548
    @gerardo7548 Před 2 lety +1

    The Williams "Jones - Reut" shame, Brazil, on March 29, 1981.