I'm surprised there isn't a 2008 Brazilian GP, overtaking a broken down car a few hundred yards before the finish line to clinch the title is certainly an odd one-off event
I am surprised they didn't do the other Indy USGP....you know....where there was only 6 finishers and only one driver celebrated on the podium and the fans basically booed the whole time. The 2005 USGP. But I guess they decided to only cover one race that is considered sham by the fans.
1998 Silverstone was a farce, he never should have been allowed to keep that. They clearly could, and given the explanation here, should have given him a penalty after the race.
Japan 2019 was pretty weird, given that the chequered flag went out a lap early before Sergio Perez and Pierre Gasly had a crash that put Checo in the barrier, then made even weirder by Leclerc getting a post-race penalty, then made even more weird by Renault having both disqualified and (in one side effect) making the Leclerc penalty irrelevant
And leclerc driving with a broken car and a part hitting lewis hamilton + the almost jump start by seb. so much drama. And I forgot the sunday qualy, because of a taifun
By far the weirdest has to be Canada 1973. The first time a Safety Car was deployed in the history of the sport, led to chaos on the lap charts. The driver of the Safety Car waved drivers past, one after the other, until they picked up Howden Ganley. Ganley definitely wasn't leading, but nobody could agree who was. When the chequered flag was waved, nobody knew who won, due to the scoring error (there was no electronic timing in 1973). It wasn't until each team sent each of their own lap charts to the organisers, attempting to untangle the mess, that a result was declared. Peter Revson was declared the winner (the last born and bred American driver to win in F1, Mario Andretti was born in Italy), outgoing world champion Emerson Fittipaldi was declared second (despite Colin Chapman believing his star driver had won) & Jackie Oliver was third. However, due to the scoring error, who knows for sure who actually won, since they were originally going to give the win to Ganley?
It’s funny, I was reading about that race just the other day. Ganley apparently always held the belief that he was the rightful winner, but who knows really.
@@juhosten3463 Not quite. The days of the FIA as Ferrari International Assistance were much earlier - in the 80s, when the Commandantore was still around. People still said it in the 90s, but it wasn't actually true anymore. Ferrari had lost most of their political clout when Enzo died in 1988.
It's not an odd finish, but Suzuka 2000, and what must of been tens of thousands of airhorns blowing as Schumi crossed the line, the sound drowning out even the screech of the V10s, never fails to give me goosebumps. Easily my favorite.
Maybe not so dramatic as some as the ones in the video, but I remember the 2001 Spanish GP one of the most unusual finishes I ever saw, when Mika Hakkinen's engine blew in the final lap and Michael Schumacher won strugling with his Ferrari in his last stint. Also worth mentioning Piquet's victory in 1991 Canadian GP.
That was my reaction too, but Kimi really deserves to take a bow at some point,,, And it’s time to celebrate his extraordinary career, with plenty of spectacular drives and unforgettable radio exchanges If only McLaren could make a car that can finish when Kimi was in his prime form, history of this sport would’ve been different Kimi’s exit with overheated car in Monaco when he headed straight to drinking buddies on his yacht kinda sums that part up perfectly
US GP 1959 Jack Brabham pushing his Cooper-Climax over the finish line right after he had won the world championship because Bruce McLaren and not title rival Tony Brooks won the race.
Just mind boggling erven thinking about it. And that is saying something as I grew up with being mind boggled about how Schumi won 7 World championships. Living through history we are.
Not quite 10%. 9.4555% actually as he has won 99 out of 1047 Grand Prix. Pretty close though. Of course they didn’t contest as many GP’s pre the 1980’s.
I can see 8 years from now, when this video is remade, you'll be referring to three times champion George Russel coming second to three times champion Max Verstappen, with the two times reigning champion Lando Norris crashing out in Q3 possibly costing him his first race win.
Monaco 1984 and reg flag waved by Jacky Ickx. He was racing with Porsche in WSC and wanted Prost to win. McLaren had TAG Porsche engine back then. Senna and Bellof were closer and closer to Prost. Race was red flagged and Prost won.
@Scom Tott not against Senna but involved Porsche, read what I wrote... McLaren had TAG Porsche engine, Senna and Bellof had Cosworth engines and the steward who declared and waved Red flag was Jacky Ickx who was driving for Porsche. If Senna and Bellof would overtake Prost and he would be third, the points that he and McLaren would earn would be smaller than for first place. And there was explenation to stop the race, it was raining...
The weirdest HAS to be when Micheal won in pit lane.😂😂😂 & Weirdest Start is 100% when Lewis started alone on the grid dropped to last & went on to finish 2nd/3rd[ontrack] Even while overtaking WIDEST F1 car in the history of F1😂. What a legend 🙌
@@dianamaioru497 That's what DRS does when you have the fastest car on the grid. Allows to catch up easily after making silly errors. Same thing like in Imola.
@@steve4880 Hungary is known as "Monaco without walls" extremely difficult track to overtake on no matter how powerful your car is- give Lewis the credit he deserves- that man overtook ALL OF THE GRID bar Ocon and Vettel. He could've even won if Alonso held him up for 2 laps less than he did.
will never like Winnie Halrow, not coz of the flag issue, but she openly admited on the grid interview that she isn't a fan of F1 and was just there to be seen c/o Tommy Hilfiger sponsors
I hate when weight limits decide a race after it's already over. I know it makes sense but it opens up the possibility of ruining the race by not enforcing the rule in the spirit of competition (Russell's DQ for weight limit violations is what kicked this off in my head - he was underweight, sure, but it was because his tires had been so worn down, which makes the drive itself amazing but in violation of the rules).
the 2002 US Gran Prix is in my eyes always gonna be Schumacher repaying a win he felt his team mate deserved. This may not be backed up by much, except the podium performance in the race earlier on, where Schumacher didn't want to take the top spot originally. And the interview after the race he also said he didn't feel he deserved or needed that win.
Regarding the 2021 Belgian GP, that was absolute shambles. I think there were better ways to handle that. Also, I think the FIA should have taken the best of the conditions and raced under them. As evidenced by monaco 2022, waiting for the rain to stop and the clear skies to appear will create major backlash. Also, in fighting does not help.
Alex Wurz was asked by Michael after Silverstone in 98 if he saw the yellow flags and he hadn't seen them either because of the rain. Of course now we have lights to tell the drivers but back then we didn't
You was never taken into consideration Hamilton never had a bad car Schumacher went to a shit team and brought it straight to the top touch what make him king
As a dutchie I ofc like the finish of the 94 hungarian gp; Schumi lets Jos by to unlap himself in the last laps, and when Brundle's McLaren broke down that handed third place to Jos.
Maybe not one of the weirdest finishes, but definitely one of the weirdest starts - 2005 US Grand Prix in Indianapolis. Only 6 started due to Michelin withdrawing all the cars that used their tyres.
Before this video, I would have said that Michael cheated in 1998 since technically he finished before serving his penalty. But now I understand that the Stewarts f-d up in every way they could- not telling the team (like how you fail to tell a team about penalty FOR 25+ MINUTES), confusion about the penalty itself (was it stop-and-go or post-race time penalty). Michael won that fair and square.
I think race control should've just cancelled the Belgian GP 2021. It was a waste of time. I had never been more pissed about an F1 race since Canada 08' when Lewis Hamilton took out Kimi Räikkönen in the pit lane.
2007 season went down to last race with 1 point between first, second/third in drivers championship. Raik, Lewis, Alonso. 2008 season went down to the last lap on last race where Lewis won by 1 point over Massa due to wet weather tyres vs slicks.
58 seconds in and already misinformed. Verstappen didn't pit on a precautionary stop, but to snatch the fastest lap away following Bottas' tire failure.
That thing from Vettel in Canada, moving the signs for 1st and 2nd.. he didn’t actually park his car in that spot, so he didn’t place the 1 in front of his own car. Quite recent, The Race, so a bit sloppy to present it as if he did.
He come in second and moved the first place marker in front of he's car to prove a point. Because of the penalty he got for coming back on the track unsafe. Otherwise he would of been first.
Michael was robbed in 2010 of that pass on Alonso. It was a brilliant piece of opportunism and him and the team had every right to assume the race was back on with green lights being flashed. Absolutely shambolic from the Stuarts on the day to punish him.
9:35 oh man I remember the insane amount of hate she got at the time, and even then I was confused. Why did people assume she was ever going to wave the flag on her own? She was of course directed to wave it, it was obviously not her decision.
As far as weird goes how about having the cars parade around following the safety car in an idiotic game of Simon Says for 2 whole laps and calling it a race. It shows just how good Schumacher was. He let his teammate win by only 11 thousandths of a second.
