Top 10 WORST F1 World Championship Defences Ever!
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This week on Stop & Go F1 we take a look at the worst ever F1 world title defences!
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GOAT Damon going to the worst team ever with tge worst engine, worst chassis, worst tyres, and nearly winning one.
worst tyres? if anything depending on the race the bridgestone was the tyre to be on or it was at least on par with the goodyear for most of the year
He didn't drive for Minardi or heaven forbid the short lived Lola team
I agree. Damon's title defence of 1997 should not be on this list.
@@Scullery_Denizen the list is not rating the drivers skills.... just a bad following year and yes 97 was disappointing for Hill
@@Scullery_Denizen I think it was the time when Frank Williams decided that a driver having won the WDC with his car, he has to leave to prove the world, it was his car, not the driver making the WDC... Thus, Damon went off options I assume...
MECACHROME, playlife and supertec are rebadged renault engines from 97
BONUS: Sebastian Vettel 2014
Sebastian Vettel dominated Formula 1 in 2010 and he became 4 time world champion after winning the 2013 season. On the next year Mark Webber left Formula 1 and got replaced by the Red Bull's junior driver, who currently drives for Alpha Tauri (VCARB is Alpha Tauri, just because they're not using the name Toro Rosso) Daniel Ricciardo. There were also regulation changes and the cars became ugly because they disapprove of the FIA's decision to replace V8 with V6 and everyone has to pick their own numbers. Vettel choose number 5, but as a reigning champion, he wore number 1. The 2014 season will be remembered only with the ugly cars, the Jules Bianchi's horrific crash, resulting into his death in 2015 and Vettel recreating the Jacques Villeneuve's winless season, becoming the first reigning champion since Jacques Villeneuve, who doesn't win any races in a season. On the very next year, Vettel joined Ferrari and remained in the team until the end of 2020, where he joined Aston Martin for his final for now season in F1. The year Vettel failed to defend his title was also the start of the Mercedes' 2014-2020 domination.
1969 Graham Hill was old, his team-mate was Rindt and Stewart was unstoppable
1988 McLaren had an insanely OP car, Piquet had no chance
1966 Lotus didn't prepare for the new engine regs, Clark had no hope
1961 (Brabham) Ferrari had the best engine and finally made a rear engined car
1998 (JV) Losing Newey & Renault was bad for Williams
1985 Lauda's McLaren kept dying
1997 Damon Hill vetoed a move to McLaren because they didn't offer enough money
1980 (Scheckter) that Ferrari was horrific
1954 (Ascari) moving to Lancia was ill-fated in the extreme
1979 Andretti was stuck with old Lotus 79 and the Lotus 80 was abysmal.
You didn't mention the worst. Just pull the Rosberg😅
Damon Hill nearly won in Arrows, scored in two races and several times was in top5 qualifiers. If you take into account what the shitty car he had that's a brilliant result.
Actually, Hamilton in 2009 should be in there. Disqualified from the first race for lying to the stewards, later racking up five consecutive non point finishes (9th/12th/13th/16th/18th) before finally taking the first podium in the 10th race.
Ok that's the point where he did pick up the pace by finishing all five races he'd actually finish from that point on on the podium to claim 5th in the WDC, but still racking up 3 DNFs including an embarrassing crash in Italy on the final lap whilst running for a podium.
Potentially Piquet in 1982 should also be there. Ok, he was one of the 11 drivers who won a race, but he came 11th in the championship with 9 DNFs, 1 DSQ and 1 DNQ.
The McLaren was nowhere at the start of 2009. I don't have any defence for Hamilton's actions with the stewards, but considering that his teammate, Kovalainen finished 13th in the WDC that year, coming 5th in the WDC was an impressive feat. You can point out the 10 consecutive non-scoring finishes but after the German GP, Hamilton never took the chequered flag without also being on the podium.
That being said, I think the whole video's premise is a bit flawed - most of these "poor" title defenses were not due to the driver losing ability or slacking off - they were due to car issues (either reliability or raw pace)
My dad once shared a taxi and took a leak next to Jody Scheckter. I got him a signed picture one birthday to celebrate that momentous occasion.
That is a fantastic story
0:02 nah every driver except yuki(he wanted to open a restaurant)
more proof,in f1 ,in most cases its the car ,not the driver.
Wow!You must be a kind of genius or something, I never knew the car had an impact in motorsport. Where can I read your thesis?
I would say: without the right car, you don’t have in your own hands
That’s why Verstappen is a fraud
@@holdencaulfield8429I'm not reading his thesis if his punctuation is that bad throughout. I dread to think how his reference system looks...
Well when Ferrari won their first Constructors title with Schumacher they weren't the best car on the grid. You must've been born in the 2000's with logic like that, same goes for Kimis world title.
Lauda 1985 definitely. Rosberg's 1983 was pretty bad too but the car was absolute garbage with 200 hp less than the top cars. Going without turbo against superior turbo cars. Amazing that he won Monaco with that POS. Even Patrick Head said the car was awful. Sheckter 1980 definitely. And Andretti's 1979 too. Kimi also didn't seem to give a sh*t after his 2007 championship at times. He was very lazy developing the car and mostly just partied (according to Coulthard).
I don't really understand why Damon Hill is here if Mansell is not. Both of them were fired by Williams after their championship seasons the only difference being that Mansell went to drive indycar while Hill went to a backmarker team.
Mansell won the Indycar championship in 1993, not in F1 that year.
Neither driver was fired by Williams. Mansell quit because he found out that they were trying to sign Prost behind his back. Williams was left with egg on his face when he tried to placate him later but found out that Nigel wasn't having any of it.
That's how Hill came to be the one to take his seat.
Hill wasn't fired either. Williams simply didn't take up the option to renew his contract, an action FW came to admit years later as being one of his biggest mistakes.
I thought this was pretty self explanatory but Damon Hill was competing in F1 in 1997. Nigel Mansell was not competing in F1 in 1993 that's why Damon is on the list but Nigel isn't. Even if Nigel counted as someone eligible for the list he went and won the INDYcar championship in the year after he won the F1 championship and is the only person ever to be the F1 world championship and the INDYcar world champion at the same time so I wouldnt class that as a bad year
@5:11 Renault stepped down from F1 all at that time and the Mecachrome engines were just rebranded 1 year old Renault engines wich had some tweaking.......
Benetton also used those engines and were labelled Playlife engines due to brand promotion from Benetton.
8:50 That Hungarian GP "almost-win" is still legendary in Hungary. The commentator went crazy when they stopped showing Hill. He didn't realise Hill came in 2nd and he was like "Where's Damon Hill gone??!!!" It's a phrase we still use pretty often.
Damon Hill drove a great season for Arrows...7 points was really good when it was top 6 only scoring points
i CANNOT forgive Nigel!
That moustache just was too much for my fragile 10 year old objectivity.
I effing love these edumacational vibeos you make.
Joking aside, awesome style you're developing here.
Noice!! 👍🏼
You have every right to be a Mansell fan, he was a very impressive driver even if sometimes you had to wonder if he had enough brain to drive a lawnmower (Canada 1991 springs to mind), but saying Frank Williams fired him to give his seat to Prost is just plain untrue. The legendary team owner wanted to align them side by side, but Nigel didn't want to be destroyed again by Alain like he had been at Ferrari in 1990, he chose to quit. And don't forget that Frank Williams persuaded him to stay in F1 (and offered him a seat) for the 1991 season after the Britton had announced he was retiring from the sport.
We gotta be fair to Damon Hill, he went from the best team on the grid to one of the worst
And almost won a race
Juan Manuel Fangio in 1952 was extremely unlucky. Alfa decided to retire due to the new regulations and no one wanted to hire the reigning champion. He did drive in several unofficial races though but no official race.
Wrong...
There's no new regulations, just that the Championship was "moved" to a different category
Alfa Romeo withdrew from Formula One because they have been running a car that's 13 years old, long overdue for a replacement, which they couldn't afford to make.
The organizers were wary that with Alfa gone, Ferrari would have no opposition in Formula One, but BRM promised that in 1952, they will, finally, compete for a full season with their Type 15 V16 car. But BRM co-founder Raymond Mays, knowing that Fangio is now without a ride, wanted to sign him to the team, practically, at all costs. So he decided to withdraw the cars entered for the non-championship Turin GP in April 1952, just so that the BRM V16 could be fettled with in preparation for Fangio's test drive, to make sure it won't have problems (which always plagued the damned car), and convince the Argentinean to sign up to them for the year...
Little did they know that their withdrawal in that race at Turin would have far-reaching consequences...
At Turin, with the BRM becoming a no-show, Ferrari won. This only confirmed the worst fears of the race organizers. They can't rely on any promise from BRM, as they can't even show up in a race, let alone to fight Ferrari. The French organizers at this point had already decided to run their major races to Formula 2 regulations, as there were more competitors there. And after Turin, the rest of the organizers followed suit; the 1.5L supercharged/4.5L unsupercharged Formula is practically dead. But hey, BRM did manage sign Fangio, and Gonzalez, right?
But that's not it. Maserati signed Fangio and Gonzalez for the Formula 2 team, so, Fangio and Gonzalez raced for BRM in Formula 1 races and Maserati for Formula 2 (the one which now counts for the World Driver's Championship). BRM entered Fangio and Stirling Moss at the Ulster Trophy at Dundrod in June 7, and the next day, there's a Formula 2 race at Monza, where Fangio was entered by Maserati. Fangio didn't want to disappoint either team, so, he raced at Dundrod, and also planned to race at Monza, with a plan to catch a plane to Milan, but that plan didn't work out. Ultimately, Fangio hitched a ride with Louis Rosier, who competed at Dundrod, flew with him to Paris, after which, Rosier can only help Fangio by lending him a car. Fangio drove all night from Paris to Monza, just in time for the race. Badly exhausted, Fangio crashed and suffered a neck injury which sidelined him for the rest of the season...
@@jcgabriel1569 I would say switching to engines with only 2 litres instead of the 4,5 litres before counts as "new regulations" but I see your point.
You somehow failed to mention that Lauda, finished 2nd every time Prost won and took the title in 84 by half a point!
9:25 : Funfact: Yamaha engines where in fact made by John Judd, the same behind Judd engines.
Another fun fact: Honda used John Judd to develop CART IndyCar engines for their short-lived initial run in the series in 1986 & 1987, thanks to the Brabham relationship. They were badged as "Brabham Honda" and "Honda West". Judd continued supplying engines to teams without the Honda name after Honda left at the end of 1987, and did so through 1992.
Those trolling zooms and remarks about Mansell and Frank Williams killed me lmao
Damon couldn't even do anything that's the crazy part
Little thing on Mechachrome. They were the company that designed and assembled the engines for Renault. Once Renault pulled out, they lost all that investment so went under their own name. Then Flavio Briatore bought them through his company, Super Performance Competition Engineering. Hence from 1999 they were badged as Supertech
BONUS: Michael Schumacher 2005 - he won one race, against a field of 5 other drivers, and his team mate wasn't going to challenge him, and the Jordans and Minardis had no chance!
Super interesting video, thanks
Williams didn't give Mansell's seat to Prost. Mansell refused to be teammates with Prost and ran away to USA. Remember that Prost beat him badly at Ferrari so he was scarred from that experience.
ah but mansell got more pole positions than alain but looking back at it mansell would of done better as the car suited him more
@alexlazebat839 not many poles to go for when Senna was around. Prost got twice as many points as Mansell, which is pretty damning, especially as he was a newcomer to the team.
@@adhominemsis-t.australisensis the team was based around prost nigel got paid $1 million to be no.2
The irony of this video is that one of the greatest race performances ever happened in one of those apparently worst title defenses. Watched Hungary 97?
It should also include Ayrton Senna 1992 season, where he was 4th after back-to-back 90 and 91 championships.
Still scored three wins. Hardly the worst tbh
Errata: In 1961, Lotus used the SAME engine as Cooper, and Porsche did not have more power than the Climax.
Mansell wasn't forced out of Williams, he chose not to resign as he wanted to continue being the number 1 driver, and that wasn't going to happen with Prost also being in the team. He really should have signed on and made his point by beating Prost, but unfortunately he didn't.
Mansell, my first sporting hero, was badly screwed by Williams. I still love Williams, but Mansell and Hill were kicked out of their second championships.
Before the video starts, I'd like to say that including Damon Hill in a list like this is bullsh*t. I mean, he was driving an Arrows in 1997. How the hell did anyone expect that he could defend his crown driving such a terrible car?🤷🏻♀️🤷🏻♀️🤷🏻♀️🤬🤬🤬
Didn't Nigel Mansell say he wouldn't be Prosts team mate? (he was clearly scared to lose) So it was his own fault he didn't defend his title... 2 cars in the team, one for Mansell to defend his crown... and 1 for Prost because he was clearly the best driver at the time...
"...Justice for Nigel." Love This
I agree....justice for Nigel. 😊 first f1 driver I followed. When he came to indycar and I got watch him race here in indy, I was sooooo happy.
Think damon hill one is unfair as he did show how good he was the car let him down a few times and he should have won 1 race and the last race of the season he was only 0.058 off pole but started 4th as the first 3 set the same time
12:30 : But that wasn't his fault. The team he chose was incompetent at best.
Michael Schumacher in 2005 should get a mention also.
That was because of the 2005 tyre rule.
„Jacques Villeneuve, the second best Villeneuve“. What a disrespect
He was definitely first best at staying alive.
no shummi 2005? thats no1 for me and vettel 2014 cause both were consecutive champions up until these points. also mansell officially lost the wc in japan qualifying crash one race before the last round in aus but his chances were slim even if he didnt crash
Schumi finished 3rd in 2005
@@Sam-rl5hs if you only see the standings. Truth is he was out of contention after the first race. Also he took 1st place in usa wirh 6 cars at the starting grid...
@@manoliswec5674 dude a season rankings doesn't change in in one race
@@Sam-rl5hs bro take a minute to see the points gap between 3rd to 5th that year and youll get it
Jack Aitken? Nicolas Prost? Wtf?!😂
Mansell Estoril 89... Rings any bell?....
Hill done better than Rosberg though
nice channel you have here, stop and go. do you have a first name or your parents called you stop and go?
My parents call me Mr Stop & Go F1 but my actual name is Rhys
@@stopgof1 like john rhys davis from sliders! cool! i'm michael, ni ce to meet you.
And Hamilton 2009 no ?
Throughout history, F1 has almost entirely been won by having the best car, and never because of the driver. This might be the only motorsport where this is the case. The 2nd biggest motorsport however, MotoGP, saw the title won by what was considered the weakest bike on the grid as recently as 2019.
The Honda was much better than the KTM and Aprillia in 2019. But yes the motogp rider has a much greater importance in performance than drivers in F1 today
Everytime i see some photos and footage with the drivers from 70,80,90s I'm amazed because these guys look like men, real men drivers. Nowadays on the grid most of them look like teenagers.
1966 - But Jim Clark did win with a BRM P75 H16 engine powering him.
16 perfectly formed cylinders!
Have any of F1 greats equalled that... Hamilton... Senna... Schumacher... Prost... Inoue?
Hard to equal that when everything above 12 cylinders was banned from F1 shortly there after
Mansell better than piquet
Yeah.. time to stop with the weed lol
piquet only finished twice in 82 and thats not here
So the same thing that happened to Mansell happened to Hill yet you still include him wrong on so many levels. Why not Schumacher in 05 finished 3rd over half the points behind 1st?
Damon was competing in F1 the year after he won the title Nigel wasn't. Simple as that
@@stopgof1 yes true but his reign was worst because he was in a shit team yet as I said Schumacher in 05 was a poor defence and he was still in a top team
Whys it say Jack Aitken for 1998 😂😂
Nigel really pressed u huh :(
#JusticeForNigel
let's face it. F1 is ALWAYS about the CAR, and not the driver.
Well when Ferrari won their first Constructors title with Schumacher they weren't the best car on the grid. You must've been born in the 2000's with logic like that, same goes for Kimis world title. So no you're pretty much wrong. There are more instances too but that would probably break your brain.
@@bzilla1090 majority is about the car.
i believe your statements because there's no denying that. but really, f1 is about building the best race car and racing them against other ones in a game of 4d chess.
it's not like Indy, and the drivers making the difference rarely happens.
@@metalchap oh it happens buddy, you might be new to F1 to know it matters, that's why laptimes exist, sure the car matters, but when you're finishing the race 12 seconds ahead of your teammate in the same equipment it matters. That's where your talent is measured. When Williams BMW and Ferrari went head to head at the peak of Williams power they basically had the faster car, the BMW V10 like the turbo 4 of the 80's was the most powerful engine on the grid, along with McLaren Mercedes, where McLaren lost the battle was reliability where BMW and Ferrari were impeccable. I can give you hundreds of examples. Just because you have a fast car doesn't mean you win, you can put Stroll and that idiot Sargeant in the Red Bull and they wouldn't win the World Championship. Pretty simple
@@bzilla1090 point taken.
Jochen Rindt wins the worst season after winning.
Ma diciamo che tutte queste auto erano terribili quindi era impossibile difendere il titolo anche se hill scelse la squadra piú difficile
Villenueve was a fluke
Rosberg did it best
Honestly, who still pronounces Lancia like that?
Every damn Brit, apparently.
How else could you say it???
@@RoboticPope Oh, I don't know, maybe the Italian way... Are you this ignorant?
@@needfoolthings Not speaking Italian makes one ignorant? Why didn't you just answer my question instead of attempting to insult?
@@RoboticPope Because you can look it up easier than I can use phonetic alphabet so that you can read it. Ignorant is not an offense.
Piquet won 3 world championships but didn’t deserve any of them. The pest of F1.
He absolutely did. He's definitely not the best person in the world, but only complete dunce can deny his driving skills.
You are a dellusional air head if you insult Piquet..
Not the best person in the world, but a great driver
This can't be disputed
Verstappen should be in this list
Man, fix that thumbnail. That is so disrespectful.
#JusticeForNigel???
I think you'll find he demanded a ridiculous amount of money to the point where Frank said no thank you 🤣
Piquet waa a dick anyway. Deserved to get nothing more after his second Wiliams season
Please Don’t start Your Video with a Fake Human Error Champion.
#stillwecry
SIMPLY, SIMPLY LOVELY 🧡🧡🧡🧡🧡🧡
I consider Damon to be the worst skilled driver to win the WDC
2017.....the coward Nico ran away.