10 times F1 'old boys' showed they weren't past it
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- Formula 1 is a young person's game - or is it? Plenty of big name drivers have proven over the years they could still cut it at an older age, and in 2021 Fernando Alonso will turn 40 during his comeback season with Renault. Perhaps his achievements will get him added to a future version of this list, but for now take a look at the best performances from drivers approaching, or already past, their 40th birthdays. Who did we miss? Let us know!
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Kimi Raikkonen, the oldest driver in the grid set the Fastest Lap in the History of F1.
@@geert574 well in 5 Weeks?
and he will be the first F1 champion over 50 some time in the future :-)
Yeah but he's mediocre. Any other of those guys on this list would have also been winning races while Raikkonen struggled to finish on the podium. It's crazy that Vettel won 14 races during his years with Kimi, and Kimi won 1 race
@@zacharywhite211 Kimi played second fiddle to Seb the majority of his time there
@@matthewferguson6001 he was not hired for that role. He wasn't paid as a second fiddler either. He just became one through his own declining performance.
Kimi is king!
No "best fans" or "grazie ragazzi"... Just "Finally!"
🤣
what's wrong with "grazie ragazzi"?
Nothing wrong
We just love kimi being kimi
“F*cking finally” actually
Can't remember the last time Hamilton ever said "best fans."
That meme is kinda dead when the person has stopped saying it for years. 😕
@@Euclides287 he normally says it on the track parades
Fangio was still winning races and titles in his 40's, indeed, he was 46 when he won his fifth and final title in 1957
Well tbh 40 then was like early-30s people races in their early 50s.
it was normal back in the day and
@@aboredperson4202 and yet by the end of the decade, Bruce McLaren set a record that stood until 2003 (when Fernando Alonso won the Hungarian Grand Prix that year). The youngest driver to win a Grand Prix, aged just 22 years 3 months and 12 days
It summed perfectly by pedro de la rosa in beyond the grid podcast that people will start race in f1 younger but also retired from it younger as well due to burnout
"F1" in 50s has nothing to do with F1 today. Not really relevant to compare those days vs. today.
Nigel Mansell's feat of 'finally' winning the F1 world championship and then the indycar championship back to back is massively under appreciated - and like you said he not only held both titles at the same time he also came back to F1 and won!
All this when he was around the age of 40!
Yeah, very impressive. Also Jacques Villenueve, won the indy 500, indycar championship and f1 wdc between 1996 and 1997. Crazy to think how far he dropped after that explosive start. He had the speed but it seems like he lost interest after his world championship.
@@TboneI989 The real culprit was his manager Craig Pollock who fed him with a lot of BS and empty promises. After Pollock managed to negotiate a huge salary for Villeneuve by driving for BAR he also was like an overprotective father of Villeneuve's essentially giving him whatever he wanted and what he wanted to hear. Many insisted Villeneuve to get rid of Pollock because it was clear as day he was utterly unsuited to be team principal of BAR.
Villeneuve himself showed great spirit in 1998-2001 and in the Spanish GP 1999 he was a good third for the first 21 laps of the race - more importantly he held Schumacher in the Ferrari behind in 4th during all those laps.
His fall came when Jenson Button became his team mate in 2003 and did better with the same car. By this time Pollock had been axed as team principal and Villeneuve realized he had been "sheltered" by him.
Some top teams like McLaren and Renault actually offered him a drive in 1999 and 2001 but he believed BAR was the place he's future would be shaped at. Ironically he was right...
Williams also wanted to keep Villeneuve for 1999 and 2000 but he believed they payed him peanuts and hence went for BAR and the money....
By 2003 a promising new batch of young drivers like Kimi Raikkonen and Fernando Alonso emerged as did the highly competitive Juan-Pablo Montoya. Villeneuve became a less enticing driver to sign for any top team and since Jenson Button - at the time yet not a race winner and not too highly regarded - regularly beat him nobody was that interested in Villeneuve by 2004 so his last years were spent driving the BMW Sauber.
Had Villeneuve signed for McLaren in 1999 or Renault in 2001 he'd win more races and his career would be right back on track. Unfortunately his manager Craig Pollock pretty much was what "Colonel" Parker had been to Elvis Presley. "Leave it all to me and I'll make you rich and famous."
Williams massive downturn in performance in 1998 was also one of the reasons. The car was nowhere near the level of the McLarens and Ferraris so he felt he was wasting his time there.
I think Mansell is very overrated tbh. He was super fast, yes but horrifically inconsistent. Like HORRIFICALLY. He was clearly the favourite driver out of the two at Williams in 1986 and 1987. Especially in 1987, he won 6 races compared to Piquet's three, but Piquet still won the title because Mansell couldn't finish his races. Same goes for his title run in 1991. And even when he won that title in 1992, his car was so brutally overpowered, but he still got two wins gifted to him by team mate Patrese (who was clearly not as good as him), and lost at least two races he should've won. And also don't forget the complete beating he took as Prost's team mate at Ferrari in 1990. Prost was new to the team and completely kicked Mansell's ass.
Kimi that same year set the fastest lap in F1 history so technically Kimi is the fastest man in F1 history
Technically he was in the fastest car
@@thememers_dude That doesn't matter in this case. It's more of a joke mate
Fun fact: That record was held by another Finn, Keke Rosberg for over 20 years until Juan Pablo Montoya broke it in 2004. We could even say that Kimi stole that record back to Finns.
@@thememers_dude You have to be in the fast car to put in a fastest lap. It's quite clear from the name.
@@thememers_dude No **** sherlock.
Kimi, my racing hero.
Kimi raikkonen the 3 era engine F1 driver
Good heavens, you've missed "el maestro". Juan Manuel Fangio, probably the greatest driver of all time, was 39 when he STARTED his F1 career!. He continued for seven years, winning 5 world championships in 4 different teams (Alfa Romeo, Ferrari, Mercedes-Benz and Maserati) before retiring in 1957. He should be the most significant driver on this list.
A lot of people did that. I'm pretty sure Louis Chiron won a GP in his 50s
Being 39 year old driver back then was totally different thing than being 39 now and sitting in an F1 starting grid. F1 back then has nothing to do with F1 today and what happened back then shoudn't be compared to modern day in any way. Claiming that Fangio was "the greatest driver of all time" is like comparing a truck driver and a rally driver.
We also have to admit that the talentpool back then was waaaaay smaller. It only became a more or less global sport in the late 90s. I am pretty okey with saying that you had three eras in F1 that aren't comparable at all.
@@sbow2892 shut up
lol F1 back then was a hobby for rich middle aged blokes. Most drivers were in their 40s. There were close to no physical fitness requirements which is the stark opposite to modern day F1.
Most drivers before the late 90's were in their 30's when they started in F1, this era can't be compared to then since most drivers now aren't even out of their 20's.
Interesting point tbh - making us all feel old!
@@WeAreTheRace That wasn't my intention, lol, sorry.
Not to think about the fact that some aren't even *in* their 20s when they start. Today's era is crazy young.
Since Max Verstappen entered F1 2015 aged 17 there was a huge push for teenagers in F1
As far as I know all the greats of the 1980s started in their 20s.
1:50 first Williams' victory in 1979 and Kimi was already there taking a 3rd place that day.
Say what now? EDIT: Never mind , I see it now. Wow, amazing resemblance! It's a young Rene Arnoux.
@@Jaco_Schutte lol yeah, just a little bit more expressive than nowadays though.
Arnoux :) Good guy of F1. Just as many in his generation.
I don't know what happened between then and now, but that is some smiling Kimi right there
I think Alonso will be the next driver to win a race after 40 years of age.
dont think so, renault sucks
Neomode they not doing so bad anymore rlly
@@yaboiiiyeet7174 yup that backfired, but still no way to win races (yet)
Might be tall order but plausible still
no
Thank you so so much for a trip down memory lane.the memories of watching these fabulous driver's is priceless.
Kimi shows us every day he still got it 🥰
Prost, Piquet, Mansell and Senna...the GOLDEN ERA of F1.
The 60s had Stirling Moss (for a while) Jack Brabham, Graham Hill, Jim Clark, Jackie Stewart (for the latter half of the decade) as well as Phil Hill, John Surtees (only man to be world champion in the top tiers of both motorbikes and single seater racing cars) as well as World champion Denny Hulme and his buddy from New Zealand - a certain Bruce McLaren. So older generations might argue the 60s was the golden era.
@@eamonahern7495 I was born in 1972, so let me correct my statement. Prost, Piquet, Mansell and Senna...the GOLDEN ERA of F1 for me.
@@hidenorif9440 I was born in 1975 but we didn't get live races on Irish TV until 1995 so I missed that golden era.
@@eamonahern7495 I was born in '83 and started following F1 in 1992 and I totally bow down to you arguments! I think the 60's, the 70's and the 80's each were golden eras in their own right.
The 60's were the most romantic and chivalric, the early 70's the most flamboyant, crazy and dangerous, the mid 80's the most extreme, turbulent and exciting. And then there were the early 90's, mature and sophisticated, but everything came crushing down at Imola '94...
such a well rresearched video, especially enjoying all the historic photographs, just beautiful.
How in the world does this list not have Lauda's return after quitting F1 for 2 years to snatch the '84 title from Prost for half a point????
I agree, but he wasn't that old tho
@@mikhailfernandez24 So weren't Prost or Schumi. As far as i can tell the criteria was: F1 drivers that quit the category and returned years later, delivering good results or not.
@@pedropohren Fair enough
Fernando Alonso is gonna be 4 decades old. No matter how much you hate this man for not giving newcomers a chance, you still have to admit this man made the most of whatever car he was given. Truly blessed to watch him race 🙌🙌
I have to agree with you. Man is a gem
Kinda overlook the fact that 40 year old F1 Driver today, is way different than 40 year old F1 driver say 20 years ago...
Well yes, it was way more fysically demanding and they didn't have the tools available to keep a man fit well in his fourties. So yes, now it's much more doable. I am not going to say easier but doable...
@@Roguescienceguy true, but there's also so much more competition. And that's why in my opinion it will become kinda harder to see stuff like Mansell or Prost case happening in the future
Well you have to admit that F1 drivers actually got YOUNGER as formula 1 developed. In the 50's the drivers were usually quite old (the oldest driver ever was I think a 53 year old) and with the cars getting more demanding the drivers got younger and younger.
So what does that day for a driver who helped design, build and race a car bearing his own name into his 40s when F1 was at its most dangerous? I would say Jack Brabham and his compatriots of the time would love to race in an age where driver's deaths wasn't a surprise and considered almost par for course. Where staying fit was more a challenge than staying alive ...
@@Athrun82 exactly
I wouldn’t put it past Alonso to get a podium next year in a crazy race, say in a similar situation to what happened in Brazil last year or the first Austrian race this year.
Yep, I dont think he will get a win on 2021 too.
But again, he's already gambled on the new regs. Just like his suggestion to Renault to "ditch 2021 and focus on 2020".
@@dimasachmad8417 "2022"
As good as alonso is, I seriously doubt he'll see the podium in that renault
@@richboy900 Who knows. Lotus could surprise people in 2022 or even 2021.
@@richboy900 Never say never. A month since you posted this comment, an Alpha Tauri won a race...
4:26 : Jacques Laffite is one of the most underrated drivers of the ground effect/ turbo era. His victory at Montreal 81 under heavy rain was a masterpiece and he almost won Detroit 86 at 43 years old on a Ligier. That's something.
The Only way an over 40 will win again is if Mansell makes a comeback...
LOL! That would be great, as long as he isn't allowed to give an interview afterwards ;-)
Mika Hakkinen comes back from sabbatical.
I don't think Nige has ever formally announced his retirement, just sayin'
I watched Mansells career in Indycar (aswell as his F1), and some of the things he did with that car over the season to win it was awesome to watch, his 2nd season there didnt go well at all, and the huge back breaker crash didnt help.
As 50 is the new 40, we could see a 50-year-old driver win the world championship. Kimi could do it -- in a decent car.
Max Verstappen in his fifties, talking his last win in the year 2053.
Bwoah!!!
Fangio was so close for that.
Nice video keep up!
Since Alonso is returning to F1, i think that in 2022 he'll become the next 40+ podium finisher and even a winner.
Nigel Mansell was always one of my favourites. He managed a pole and win during '94 and a year later he was dumped because he couldn't fit in his McLaren. Legend!
Kimi can do it again. He just needs some luck and a decent enough car.
If they give Alonso a more or less descent car and some of the protagonists run into trouble he could be the next on that list.
Probably won't happen again until Lewis turns 40 and is still kicking everyone's ass.
Roger J as long as he keeps driving that Merc he will
@@ryanwaugh1 I dunno, I believe its more than the car.
RodriguezRacer 456 that was my point
@@rodriguezracer4567 Those Mercs are pretty unbeatable over a season and theres a pretty average driver in the No2 seat. Kinda difficult to gauge if/by how far Lewis is the best right now.
mrbump28 yeah, personally I believe he is the best Rn. But that is simply do because being able to hone his skills in the merc. That guy has and won’t ever win in the best car
You forget these are interesting times... There's more than one or two stellar drivers on the grid. In the beginning of their prime, and some well in their prime.
And then people say how Nico Hulkenberg was a great driver. He was overrated, didn't score a podium, he had capable cars in his career to manage that.
Even Grosjean scored some podiums, that says it all for Nico.
Grosjean was undoubtly the 2nd best driver in 2013. From everyone he's the only one who able to snatch podium behind Red Bull and it says something
Remember watching Hulkenberg in the junior categories. He had talent and looked promising. Underachieved in f1 for sure
Mercadies In a nutshell:the other driver will always be overshadowed by the world champion
Sad Rosberg and Bottas noises!
Mercedes * Schumacher couldn’t win in the modern era because of new F1 rules stating you can’t wipe out other drivers or stop on the apex to secure yourself wins. Talentless goon that drove dirty that’s all he was
@account removed due to controversial comments Nothing you said makes any sense. It's like you're talking about some sort of a conspiracy.
And besides that. Nothing you can discredit any of Lewis' achievements. He's won in every season that he's taken part in, even if he didn't have the best car at times. He's won championships from huge talents such as Massa, Rosberg, Vettel & Bottas. Even if you have the best car, you still need to be the best driver in that team to win it. And Schumacher also won titles in the best cars mate. Ferrari in 2000, 2001, 2002, 2003 & 2004. Hell, even Benneton was the best.
@account removed due to controversial comments really going to discount Schumis dirty tactics? Did you even watch him race, or are you just stat junkie looking for a fight in the comment section
you know your not a true f1 fan if you dont know how Schumacher drove
Schumacher! Miss Ya Michael, Keep Fighting Champ!!
Could you guys do a video on teams who had a championship campaign that they ultimately lost to their rivals towards the end of the season?
Like Ferrari in 2017 or McLaren in 2007
What a great material as always!
Thanks!
I'm honestly not surprised since just because men don't have the same agility, energy or speed maybe like they used to when they were young.. But usually 40 is like the start of men's peak of our primes!! Hahaha good video
JYS should have a comeback season and show them all how to drive. ;)
Plot twist: Kimi only won cause he was promised his drink.
An oldie but a goodie.
I still remember Michael Schumacher's painful comeback in 2012. That year he also has 5 DNQs 😔😔
Schumacher took too long a break. He had lost the reactions and cd never quite get them back.
Hamilton I think can go on beyond 40.. He still looks so young
Sega went crazy with the decals on the Williams. Sonics feet still 4:20 lol
no mention of Jack Brabham with his walking frame?
Kubica is worth a mention. The man survived a very bad rally accident, years of recovery to come back to Williams, which Williams didnt even take seriously. Now, In alfa and starting in DTM.
I think you missed Gerhard Berger's magnificent race win in Germany (Hockenheim) in 1997. He was 37 at that time. Also, Wikipedia tells me that Italian F1 ace Luigi Fagioli won the French GP in 1951 aged 53
That 1980 Ensign car looks gorgeous!
Carlos Reutemann didn't leave for no reason. He left because of the Falkands War. He didn't want to be an Argentine driving for a British team. So he retired. Without the war he would have probably finished the season.
Yes, while Reutemann never specifically stated it he's last race with Williams was on the 21st of March 1982. The Falklands War started on the 2nd of April 1982. The third race of the 1982 season was on the 4th of April 1982. Mario Andretti was hastily called in as a spare driver for Williams at the Long Beach GP. For the rest of the 1982 season Williams hired Derek Daly as driver alongside Keke Rosberg.
Mario Andretti being called in as a "last minute replacement" and the beginning of the Falklands War certainly would be an incredible coincidence. Reutemann was already involved with Argentine politics at this stage so I have a feeling he didn't want to become "unpopular" back home by "driving for the enemy". At this stage nobody knew how long this conflict could be (it turned out to be short). His retirement certainly came on a short notice forcing Williams to approach Andretti - who at this time had left F1 and was fully committed to Indycars.
Some claim he retired because he felt "unmotivated". He finished a good 2nd in the South African GP, qualified just behind Keke Rosberg and lapped faster. At the Brazilian GP he qualified a good 6th and was faster than his 1981 rival Nelson Piquet. He tailed Prost's turbo Renault and was ahead of Lauda for most of the race before his retirement on lap 21.
Doesn't appear as if he was particularly "unmotivated" in the first two races of 1982.
And his 3rd place at the 1985 Argentinian Rally (in the Group B era no less) proved he was far from "tired".
Nothing better than seeing the older drivers still have it.
Thanks Yoda
How ironic for Mansell, a man plauged by bad luck his entire career, in his final race finishes it with some brilliant luck.
He DNFed in his last race.
Nigel Mansells last race was the 1995 Spanish Grand Prix when he was driving for McLaren. He retired the car after 18 laps due to the poor handling of the car.
@@Formula1Madx well shit I guess thats a more true ending to Mansells career
@@JK7kaye The 1995 McLaren was awful. It nearly killed Mika Hakkinen too in Adelaide. Twitchy, unpredictable and unreliable. Had the McLaren been competitive in 1995 I have a feeling we'd see a very different Mansell.
@@tucoramirez4558 worse than Mclaren Peugot?
The old lion himself- Nigel Mansell !
Kimi will get resigned at Ferrari in 3 yrs, and by then maybe they will have a good car again. And he will get a final win at the last race of the season, and then retire. Lol
I just made a reminder in my Google Calendar for today in 3 years. I'll be checking whether you were correct, depend on it. YUGE pick if true.
I love that Williams livery with the Sonic the hedgehog feet x-ray view.
Should have mentioned Kimi's pole in Monza 2018 too
I like how you put Kimi on number seven since that's also his racing number
No Fangio? He was 40 when he won his first World Championship, 47 when he won his fifth...
Enjoyed that
No u
A lot of world championships in this list!
Mansell was a machine
Mansell Engines
His moustache adds more downforce 😂
Could happen this weekend at the Nurburgring if it's a wet, attritional race and Kimi Raikkonen manages to avoid all the carnage.
You forgot Luigi Fagioli of 1951 France
I have read a lot of the comments and it’s so so difficult to compare eras in part because 40, 50, 60, years ago drivers generally started their careers in Motorsports older than they do now. In the 1950s a driver may of started their career at 18 or even older. Now almost all drivers start before they are even 10 years old. Many of them start as young as 4 or 5 years old. This is not just unique to F1. You see this in NASCAR also. Jeff Gordon started racing when he was 5 years old in the 1970s and he made his Cup Series debut at the age of 22. Since than this has become much more common in NASCAR. Before that many drivers didn’t start racing until they were over 10 years of age. Because drivers are starting to race younger and start racing in F1 in their late teens or early twenties means that they are retiring younger. Also drivers in F1 don’t race as much now because the big name drivers like Lewis Hamilton and Max Verstappen make so much more money in F1 than the drivers in the 1950s did.
You are not going to see drivers racing in F1 until they late 40s or into their 50s now because of the fact that they start racing so much younger than most drivers did back in the day and because of this they will get burned out so much earlier than they used to and the top flight drivers make so much more money than they did 60 years ago. Also there were far fewer races in the 1950s than compared to today. Plus most of the races in the 1950s were in Europe so there was not as much travel as there are today. This is one of the reasons why drivers don’t race in other series. Also may drivers probably have it in their contracts that they cannot race outside of F1 for many reasons. So it’s very difficult to impossible to compare drivers from different eras due to many reasons, and this is without the differences between the cars from the 1950s compared to today which are night and day.
Of a quick note: There were many non championship events in the 1950s that didn’t count towards the world championship. So that did add to the number of races that many drivers did race in the 1950s. However they didn’t count towards the championship. Also the only reason I say F1 when it comes to Grand Prix racing before the 1981 season is because it’s just easier for people to understand what I am talking about. The FIA Formula 1 World Championship as we know it today didn’t being until 1981 for many complicate reasons I will not go into here.
What about Sir Jack Brabham and his 1970 season?
If Hamilton sticks around, he'll still be winning in his 40s. Not only is he very good, he also seems to have good fortune.
It will only be a matter of time till the tides turn. No one can be that dominant in F1. Even Michael and Ferrari were stopped.
@@rumblefish9 Oh yeah. By winning, I don't mean dominating. If the cars were all equal now, Verstappen, Leclerc, Russell & Ricciardo would be my favourites to challenge regularly (others may have different opinions). In his 40s, Hamilton wouldn't be quite as good as he is now.
It will be interesting to see what Hamilton's next move is. I wonder if he'll change tact and sign a 1 year contract until the end of next year, ensuring he gets 8 titles and walks away "unbeaten". Perhaps he'll extend his stay, switching again, taking the Aston Martin seat instead of Vettel for 2022.
Honestly if someone is going to do it i wouldn't put it past Alonso. 100% depends on whether their engines keep blowing up.
Mario Andrettis rescue of Lotus should count top
Love your Top 10s mate, but seriously, have you heard of a man called Juan Manuel Fangio?
Gianclaudio 'Clay' Regazzoni - best name for a racing driver ever.
No fangio. No brabham? Fangio was just getting started when most these people were retireing. Brabham made his own chamionsip winning car at 40 then backed it up with 2nd the nrxt year
Even I as a Schumi fan have to admit that the Valencia Podium should not have been allowed due to not slowing Down during yellow flags
4:20: Prost nearly came back to Ferrari in 1996, what an adventure this would have been!
Tbf Prost partnering Schumacher wouldve been one hell of a lineup
@@Luke22SV It would have been one *or* the other. Todt didn't think Schumacher would accept to join Ferrari when he had a perfectly good Benetton and his plan B was Prost. Prost thought the same and was nearly sure he was coming back
An idiot in a racing car ahh i see i think Prost wouldve bailed considering how bad the Ferrari was that year but history couldve been a lot more different
What about Fangio? Won almost everything beyond 40, against young brit folks like Stirling Moss, Peter Collins, Mike Hawthorne.....
What an absence.
@@uchikoshi-TL his prime was in the late 30's and late 40's
At that time he won a rally raid in South America that started in Argentina and finished in Brazil about 1000km,
In other road course race he was so far ahead that he won, and waved the checkered flag to the second place. Multiple wins and titles in argentinian touring cars (the oldest touring car championship in the world)
No he was not in his prime in the 50's, but he still have it. Go do your homework before saying BS.
No Alberto Ascari?
He was merely 36 at the time of his death in 1955. Had he still raced in 1958-1959 then he surely would have been on this list.
Experience baby!
If Schumi never retired in 2013..imagine how many more championships by now
Rosberg would have easily beat him haha
@@krithikh72 Schumi had started to match Rosberg by 2012, he was very unlucky that season, but he matched Rosberg in qualifying 10-10
@@deeptenduganguly8530 Still highly unlikely that a 45 year old Schumi would have beat Rosberg though, and he would probably have been replaced by someone else by that time
@@krithikh72 to be honest from the second half of 2011 Schu was better is races , and all in all equal in qualiflyings. that pretty amazing that a driver in his age could find the way to improve. my hats off to the Legend.
@@deeptenduganguly8530 Yes, 93 points to 49 points. It was clear to Schumacher he wasn't going to get any faster while Rosberg became ever more dominant.
"but he matched Rosberg in qualifying 10-10" Rosberg was on average 0.192s faster in qualifying.
" he was very unlucky that season" So was Rosberg. Schumacher was 19th in reliability in 2012 with 966 laps raced. Rosberg was 17th in reliability in 2012 with 1036 laps raced. Mercedes was 9th in reliability of all teams with 2002 laps raced.
Sorry, Nico Rosberg won a race in 2012. Schumacher didn't.
Make a documentary of Keke's championship year in F1
Well if things Go Right then Alonso will want to make it to Titel no. 3 Vamos🇪🇸💪🏼
Honorable mention for me would be Jack Brabham.
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You have left out the oldest Formula 1 driver to win not one but 5 chamionships, All at age 40 or above, Juan Manuel Fangio won his first title at age 40 in 1951, 2nd at 43 in 1954, 3rd at 44, 4th at 45 and his 5th and last title at 45 in 1956. He held the record for most titles won for 46 years until MIchael Schumacher broke that record. And he won those championships with 4 different teams. Let us not forget so quickly the Grand and God father of Formula 1, the great Fangio. no other driver in our lifetimes will break all of his records.
My story of following F1 ( Im Finnish) is such ; I was 4 years old when I recall watching F1 in 98 with my dad, this habit of watching F1 together still continues today, not too often though. Ive seen Häkkinen battling out Schumacher, Ive seen both of his WC titles. I remember when Kimi came along and became a huge fan immediately, his crude and straight forward attitude, with no bs/politics mentality absolutely ringed every bell, we Finns can relate to that. Being a Kimi fan hasnt been the easiest, but him winning the WC was one of the most memorable moments, I actually shed a tear, so its been painful to watch him being almost a punching bag for some F1 fans, he never lost the speed, he is absolutely still there, but his car and everything need to be spot on for him. Thats why fastest lap in F1 and the last win he got, never surprised me. Fucking finally, thought every Finnish F1 fan, including Kimi.
i will not be surprised to see raikkonen make a podium in 2022 with new regulation and revigored alfa sauber no matter new team name everyday's race car.
Fangio 1957 German GP. Nuvolari 1935 German GP.
Eddie Irvine. Monza 2002
I don't think it's coincidence that i got this video reccomended after Alonso hype train started accelerating so fast
I don't think Kimi is out of chances yet, he's still got fight in him
is there a f1 poll kimi doesn't feature in?
Failed to mention many drivers from bygone eras like Surtees, Brabham, Grahame hill and Fangio
If your over 40 you should be given 40 more hp.
"Fucking finally".
- Sir Kimi Raikkonen.
Fangio won MOST of his victories and titles being in his 40s and last one when he was 46!
Given Renault's improvements over the last few weeks, expect Alonso to atleast get a podium or 2 in 2021. A race win could be possible in 2022.
Sad to say but I don't see Kimi getting any podiums or race wins in that Sauber or whatever the heck it's called.
> at least get a podium or 2 in 2021.
Qatar 2021 says hi.
2022 Fernando Alonso will win at least one race. Remember the words.
Only if Renault throws out Cyril Abiteboul.
@@tucoramirez4558 and all Mercedes and red bulls fail to finish
Unfortunately I don't see Renault making a competitive car, and certainly not one which can race with the Mercedes, Red Bull, McLaren and Aston Martin (Racing Point from 2021 onward). Alonso can at best hope for podiums. Sorry, the other teams are too good and there's *plenty* of young talent.
Alonso won't manage a single podium. Remember the words.
I think since younger and younger kids are starting F1 careers. I think it will be physically easier for drivers to stay longer. Lewis is still on top form and he is the second oldest on the grid. It will be interesting to see how Alonso does, but I think that will be a measure to see how older drivers fair in the sport.
Kimi isn’t doing that bad. I think the Alfa is just a crap car since Ferrari asked for their technicians back
Didn't Nigel Mansell also lap the entire field in Adelaide 94?
Talk about Old boys and not a word about Fangio?
If Kimi would be in race winning car, i bet he would be next driver to win a race aged over 40. But that looks very very unlikely now.
Im dissapointed Schumi didn't get *69* poles
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Imagine seeing lewis racing and winning in his 50's / 60's
I think Alonso will be kicking himself he didn’t get in the tracing point.
He's gambling on 2022, he's already said "Ditch the 2021" to Renault.
And we don't know who will get the best out of the new regs.
@@dimasachmad8417 Judging on their record over the last decade, it won't be Renault.
@@Formula1Madx lol
@@dimasachmad8417 I have a feeling the Mercedes dominance may come to an end, they spend upwards of £400 million developing their cars so with the budget cap set to less than half of that merc and Ferrari might struggle
@@ljamieson0581 ferrari is already struggling
In a decent car, I'd say Raikonnen and probably Alonso as well could still compete for a place under the top 5 any day. The biggest problem is probably that they expect to get paid instead of paying the team...
Hoping Fernando can win few more races and world champoinship
0:07 A Vampire...?