#History of F1

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Michael Schumacher All-Time Race Record

As promised, next up we have THE definitive G.O.A.T of the 90s-10's. There may have been other WDC, Fast competitive drivers, but no one…NO ONE compared to the dominance that is Michael Schumacher or Iconic as him in his scarlet Ferrari. He dominated in a ton of different models of cars, regulations, rules, safety procedures and more. No one holds more WDC's then Michael as he has 7 with 5 of them being back to back from 2000-2004. He may not have as many overall race wins as Sir Lewis Hamilton, but there is no doubt that Michael is the iconic vision of a Formula One driver.

Throughout his 19-year career which went from 1991 to 2006 and 2010 to 2012; he racked in a total of 91 wins, 41 runner-up podiums, 22 third place podiums, 64 point finishes, 17 outside the points, and 65 DNFs. Racing with V10s, V8s, Hyrbrids, No HANS, with HANS, Points only going to only 6th, 8th, and 10th. There is not a single major era of formula one that he has not been apart of. Even the Ground effect era was something he did, just not this 2022+ version that we have now.

Noticeable points throughout his legacy:

DNF'd in Japan his first 3 years until 1994 (which was also his first WDC)

Was on pace in 1997 and 1999 to win another WDC but in 97 he was DSQ from the whole championship and in 1999 he broke his leg with a massive shunt at the British Grand Prix

Had more "out of the points finishes" from 2010-2012 then he did from 1991-2006 combined. aka. 'POINTS OR NOTHING'

Missed 7 races in 1997 from July to September, and Missed 3 races in 1994 due to a broken rib. STILL WON THE WDC in 94.

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A General History of F1: Early Days

In the late 1800s, as cars started to evolve and the human need-for-speed reared its head, a new type of sport started development. This was motorsport, which today has created a multi-billion dollar industry, But what was early motorsport like?

Technically the first motorsport race was in April of 1887 in Paris. It ran 1.2 miles from Neuilly Bridge to the Bois de Boulogne. Some don't particularly consider this the first race, simply because only one competitor showed up. However, this race sparked the advent of other more popular ones and started to put motorsport on the map.

The real first race was Paris-Rouen in Paris during July 0f 1894. This race was organized by the same people as the other one, and had sixty-nine cars lined up to compete. Its hard to imagine how chaotic a race with that many drivers could have been. The race was also a particularly long one, more akin to modern endurance racing than anything. It was roughly 79 miles in length and took around 6 hours for the fastest competitors to complete. During this time, small races were popping up everywhere, mots often in France and Italy. But these are just the early days of motorsports. How exactly did Formula 1 appear?

It all starts post-WWII. After the war was over people were looking for ways to distract themselves more than ever, and technology had advanced rapidly. Of course motorsports had been a thing for many years at this point, but in 1950 the Fédération Internationale de l'Automobile (FIA) set the groundwork and started the first Formula One World Championship. With only 7 races in Europe, F1 was a much simpler sport back then. There were fewer teams, simpler cars, and less money. But nonetheless it sparked a passion throughout Europe. This first year saw Giuseppe Farina, an Italian driver, win for Alfa Romeo. It was this era of Formula 1 that saw the rise of legends like Juan Manuel Fangio, Alberto Ascari and Stirling Moss, among others.

Often called the "Classic F1" era , the period from the 1950s to the 1960s was a much more relaxed time in F1 history. Teams were just establishing themselves, the first generation of legends was still driving, and the popularity of F1 seemed confined to Europe. But this was also a period of rapid evolution for the teams and their technology. Teams like Ferrari, McLaren, Mercades, and Lotus were coming out on top, and engineers were working to make cars faster and faster. All of this would lead to the 1970s. The Turbocharge Era.

Next post will be about 1970s to 1980s.

Cheers,

-B

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"Then you get older, and you look back at moments that maybe you didn't enjoy at the time - that are very funny. Yeah, it was good times."

Charles Leclerc is asked about his karting days with Max Verstappen. 🎥: post-qualifying press conference, 2023 Las Vegas Grand Prix

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History repeats itself once again: Oscar vs doors

🎥: McLaren (Instagram)

Are you more a Lando or an Oscar:

(They are honestly so yin and yang coded)

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Oscar Piastri and Lando Norris. Official history makers.

[j0shm0]

I have prepared the other "All Time Race Record" chart that F1 posted themselves this summer which is for Max Verstappen; but I also decided to look through all the other multi WDC/generational GOATS.

So the question I pose to you all as the people who seem interested in the data I share:

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f1 with vaguely upsetting textposts; eternal recurrence 1/???

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[beechicory]

Making this its own post:

Many drivers - and in fact the GPDA - were vehemently pro-halo, thank goodness!

Seb, for instance, who was one of the two GPDA driver reps for a freaking decade, spent years convincing the other drivers and the sport as a whole, and LOUDLY campaigned for it for literal years, and kept pushing the FIA to hurry the fuck up and introduce it.

Ironically one of the drivers he had to drag kicking and screaming was someone who became his GPDA co-director for a time , who hated the idea of the halo... Romain Grosjean. But eventually Grosjean was in the minority.

Jenson Button - who was also one of Seb's GPDA co-directors for a time - Nico Rosberg, Kimi Raikkonen, Fernando Alonso, and many other drivers were also loudly pro-halo for years. Lewis initially wasn't, but became convinced by a presentation from the FIA for the GPDA, that showed how much the halo would improve safety.

In fact, most drivers became convinced! Some still didn't like it, and some opinions fluctuated over time (especially as new drivers came in), but the overall majority were for it.

The GPDA actually started demanding better head protection in 2015:

In 2016, the GPDA sent a letter loudly supporting the halo:

You know who initially blocked it? BERNIE fucking ECCLESTONE, the absolute ghoul, and the 'F1 Strategy Group', who ignored the drivers' demands.

The GPDA was mad.

(Seb was also ringleader of a mutiny against Bernie in 2016, lol ❤️)

And they kept pushing, pushing, pushing for F1 to implement the freaking halo and listen to drivers' demands for safety. They encouraged the FIA to run around the strategy group and force it through on safety grounds. Which the FIA eventually did, bringing the halo in in 2018, after the majority of drivers - especially the GPDA, especially Sebastian Vettel and Alex Wurz - had been pushing for it for years.

Here's some fascinating further reading... look, I got really into the Seb-era history of the GPDA for a while:

Discusses the origin of the current era of the GPDA, with Seb approaching and recruiting Alex Wurz to come make the GPDA stronger, and to fight for more safety (warning: discusses the death of Jules Bianchi, though Seb was trying to recruit Alex just prior to that)

Something important to keep in mind: we aren't seeing everything they're doing.

That 2016 letter? It wasn't addressed to the public. It was addressed "Dear Jean" and "Dear Charlie".

Or in 2021, the weekend that Abbie Eaton was injured, when Seb threatened that the drivers *would not race* at COTA unless the sausage kerbs were removed? We didn't even KNOW about that until Abbie Eaton told us!

We aren't seeing all their fights, and all their strategy. I'm choosing to be hopeful.

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Daddy's perfect little machine

[scuderia-hamilton]

most of the drivers' reactions to the whole Horner situation is so disappointing tbh. what do you mean someone in the paddock, an employee gets harassed by one of the top figures in the sport and your reaction is either "it has nothing to do with me", or "no comment", "i just like cars and i want to drive", "it's noise and distraction", "i'm here to race", and "it's a good thing for the media", "it doesn't affect me", "i don't really have an interest".

why is it so hard to care about something other than your racing career? you gotta have some morals, dude. not caring about women's safety in your oh so beloved sport is some fucked up behaviour. in situations like this it really shows how fucking privileged they are and it's honestly repulsive.

this is precisely why Lewis is always the one being asked about any non-sport related topic. because he's the only one who cares and gives honest and nuanced answers. genuinely terrified of what this sport will become when he retires, cause no one will speak out on anything.

and then people wonder why we say that f1 is not a safe place for women and that misogyny is still very much a thing in the sport? men don't care, including the president of the fia and f1, the other team principals and most of the drivers as well. when the faces of the sport clearly don't give a shit about women, what kind of hope is there?

they can talk about equality and progressive values and promoting women in motorsports, when this is the reality of how they actually treat the women working in the sport. imagine how that poor woman is feeling, seeing how much the drivers care about what she's going through. utterly disrespectful, with no compassion or empathy.

f1 needs to do so much better.