I remember thinking they looked weird at the time and was glad when the 2009 regs came out, but I definitely miss them now they're driving vacuum cleaner powered limos!
Massa was a perfect wingman at the start. Beats Hamilton off the line and boxes him in to the inside of the track and lets Raikkonen swoop in around the outside to take P2, Ferrari 1-2. Perfect start for the Ferraris.
@@nikitakusuma8440 That's what happens when you have people who do things well and make sure its done their way no matter the "culture" no the usual nonsense Ferrari got up to before and after in their history....
I remember the joy I had to watch this start live, because prior to the race, there were speculations about if Massa will help Raikkonen in the race or will just aim at home win, since the chances for Kimi winning the title were slight to none.
these old f1 races always just look like chaos to me. A driver very unsafely returning to the track causing someone to ram the back of him. Another driver running over one of his mechanics in his first pitstop in F1. And just other driver errors that we dont see nowadays
@@woulkin6595he just want to win the title. After that he start to drunk and see F1 more like a hobby. Never wanted to break records, He was like Ronaldinho in football.
Fittingly after Mclaren imploded , handing the title to Kimi. So in a way they did give him a championship, just not the way everyone thought they would 😂
@@woulkin6595It's not like Massa had bad pace. On his prime he was really fast. Things like bad luck and lack of some consistency costs him a title fight in 2007 and the title in 2008
British media were giving Lewis the title in China (he only needed P5 iirc). ITV had an end of season montage prepared which was all Lewis, where they took shots at Kimi & Alonso.
I was bummed when he wasn't able to perform during his short stint at Ferrari. Solid driver. F1 miss Italian drivers. Btw, you can check out F1 1999 Season with modern graphics and 25-points system on my channel🙂
@@sadsadasdsadasdsadas Lol, ferrari and sabotaging their drivers with their 'strategies' - name a better duo. That's par for the course. So I disagree. 🙂
I don’t understand. The McLaren logo WASNT orange back then. It’s a very recent change. That is also not the contemporary Williams logo. Why make this mistake every time. You have even used a contemporary Toro Rosso logo despite them changing it in 2017. Use the old McLaren and Williams logos please! It makes my ocd really unhappy.
It could've been a great story, a rookie wins the title in his first year. I had a huge relief when a year after Lewis has managed to clinch the title. Otherwise it would've been a disaster for him. Btw, if you enjoy watching old races with modern graphics you can watch F1 1999 Season with modern graphics and 25-points system on my channel🙂
It was a textbook clinic by Ron Dennis on how not to run an F1 team. His reaction at Hungary in Quali said it all, Alonso was on his own and had no chance of winning the title and it cost the team the drivers title which was all they could win that season because of spygate which was another huge failure by him.
@@Astrokobidead lol no. British liar. Mclaren ruined it itself with that plan of hiring Alonso just to control him and give all the help from FIA to Hamilton. There was a clear agenda to make a pilot of certain look champion to sell to a new market. He is just a product.
Man, the modern papaya livery McLaren looks horrid when compared to the 2000s McLaren liveries (whether its the Silver West one or the Chrome Vodafone one).
If the they would use fully orange or mainly orange/papaya livery like their testing liveries were, then it would look better but ye I agree that the current livery looks quite poor. The West liveriew were my absolutely favourite though, follower by Marlboro and then by Chrome Vodafone...actually the 2006 livery Johnny Walker livery was also imho better looking than when in 2007 Vodaphone came along.
Bring back refuelling and another tyre company to rival pirelli and then modern cars could push the cars maximum speed every lap until they need to box for fuel it also brings strategic edge to the races is someone genuinely on pole or have they opted for a light short run 6/ 7 laps lighter to get a front run start
Bullcrap! All it would have required for Kimi not to win the championship would have been to not score enough points in the last 3 remaining races and then either Ham or Alonso would have been champion. So I guess you idiot suggest that Alonso also crashed on purpose on Fuji, Hamilton only won that race for the "show" and then he purposely made that mistake in China and and again these mistakes in Brazil...and meanwhile all it would have taken from Kimi was 1 DNF or 1 failed race otherwise to lose the championship..In which care I presume you think FIA would have disqualified one or both McLaren drivers anyway? 😂 Do you understand how effing ridiculous that is? 😂 plus all the while, after all these years you think that somehow FIA and McLaren managed to bluff whole world for 3 remaining races of 2007 without their secret ever slipping to anyone while something like Singapore crashgate came to light already year later it happened? You are bloody delusional idiot 😂
@@ciaronsmith4995Yeah, his first full season when he did not participate in one race at all because of his huge crash and the 2009 season where he had more retirements than Heidfeld and still was beaten by 2 points only. Not quite good examples :)
Ah the 2000s: a decade where Ferrari engineers, drivers and car were a well-oiled championship winning machine. unlike the 2020s when... well, you know.
two cars infront of hamilton failed their post race fuel test and according to the rules should have been dsq so if massa succeeds lewis instantly wins 2007/2021
Heh Massa is not gonna succeed. They should have changed the results the momenr Crashgate came to light in 2009, now it's far too late for that. Unfair for Massa for sure and I feel bad for him but its too late now. Likewise in 2007 both Lewis and Alonso were driving that whole season with car which data had been stolen from Ferrari, yet they were not disqualified so if anything same rule would apply to BMW and Williams drivers from 2007 that were applied to McLaren that the team would be punished but not the drivers, which I think was more or less fair compromise. 2008 Crashgate is more or tragedy because FIA purposely hide the fact that they knew Renault had cheated that win and had they launched investigation on it right away and disqualified Renault from that race, then we would not have this discussion and Massa would have been the champion
He wouldnt win anything if FIA wasnt a biased and full of politics organization. Lewis would be out of F1 cause all the cheating and help behind the scene. 2008 was just a gift. Mercedes era had a illegal car and rules who frozen other team development.
2008 was Massa's year. Ferrari's pit crew had other plans though. They single handedly ruined multiple races for Massa including a phenomenal refuling mishap during one race. In the end he lost the championship by one point. Massa was absolutely robbed of his rightful driver's champ.
The thing was that Hamilton had 5 racës ( I think) to seal the Championship t but somehow didn't. There are also indications that they sabotaged it for him because of the ferrarigate affair.
I wish Kimi had got more than one, but he retired a one-time World Champion… and will always be in the hearts of true F1 fans, no matter what, I bet! 🇫🇮🇫🇮 Regards from South-Western Finland!
I like most of the modern graphics except for the prediction percentages graphic for chances of overtaking with a pit stop. Kinda ruined the suspense. Glad they stopped that one this season.
Had this race been held nowadays, we would have had at least 2 SCs and most probably a red flag. The pack closes up and most certainly Hamilton manages to get up to at least fifth place (which nets him the WDC). My favorite driver, Kimi, never manages to clinch a WDC. Insane! P.S. Fantastic upload!
With modern rules the points situation would also be different. There would have been 9 point gap between Hamilton and Kimi, so with Kimi winning Lewis would have had to finish 2nd to be able to take the title.
I would say the cars looked best from 1998 to 2005 but 2006-2008 cars werent bad looking cars at all either. Its just that too much stuff started to happen with front wings especially at that time to my liking 😂 but they were still good lookin cars until 2009 made them look hideous in comparison and the cars only started to look better again from 2017 onwards
Wont be long till Kimi takes the longest reigning Ferrari champion title away from Jody Scheckter 😂 only 5 more seasons and Kimi equals Jody's record of 21 years as last Ferrari champion before they won again with Schumi
I miss Kimi, he was one of the best as a driver and as a person. Kubica as well fantasic driver, Alonso and Hamilton..nothing else to say simply legends all of them
