Ranking all the F1 World Champions 

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imo Schumacher #2, Prost #3 and Hamilton #4. If having a better vehicle for 4 years is the reason Vettel is ranked lower than other racers, then that same logic should apply to Hamilton.

The lackness of comments on a driver iconic and important as Piquet... Piquet was the only one to win twice without the best car and responsable for inventions like tyre blankets, pitstops for refueling as strategy, active suspension... a master mind capable of entering his rivals minds, overdriving the car and getting past reliabilty issues due to his unmatched mechanic knowledge... deserved to be higher on the list

Ascari should be way higher. At least higher than Surtees, D. Hill and Rosberg

Jim Clark has the most Grand Slams in History. Fangio even said Jimmy was the greatest driver who ever lived. Won by 5 min in the rain with a broken gearbox. Set hillclimb records that wouldn't be beaten for years to come.

I think NELSON PIQUET IS SO UNDERRATED, specially here in Brazil, were Formula 1( to common people that aren't fans of the sport) is basically about how Senna was perfect and everyone else was a crap... Piquet won three championship, two of them on a almost midfield Brabham car, and another one fighting against the whole Williams team that was inclined in favor of Mansell. He also won races in three different teams, that's pretty rare, even between the greatest drivers like Senna, Hamilton and Schumacher... I think he matches Lauda level, and should be atleast on top 10 of this list, in the place of Vettel or Alonso (*whose I also rate very high) for example. *It would be nice to make a list of the greatest GP winners that didn't became world champions. It's funny to think that are plenty of those non champion drivers that are more memorable than many of the champions on this video (like Stirling Moss, David Coulthard, Carlos Reutmann, Felipe Massa, Juan Pablo Montoya, Ronnie Petterson, Gilles Villenueve, etc).

For once someone who doesn't underrate Prost - the most complete driver to ever exist. Senna and Alain should always, invariably, be #1 and #2 in these ranking, for the simple fact they had to deal with one another on the way to their WDCs (and with other drivers of such caliber as Lauda, Piquet and Mansell). Which one is #1 and which one is #2 is up to personal preference - Ayrton was speed and car control incarnate, he was one with whatever he drove to the point he looked supernatural. There was a reason why he was nicknamed "Magic". Alain on the other hand was "The Professor", and that too for a good reason: he had an unmatched ability to read the race and its development; he might languish in 4th most of the race, apparently off the pace...managing the tires, applying as little wear to the car as possible (in an era when usually less than 50% of the grid actually made it to the end of the race), only to storm to victory in the last 20 laps, sometimes inducing his opponents into mistakes just by posting ominous lap times (ask Gerhard Berger, Portugal 1988). Third place is hard...I would go for a left field choice and put Niki Lauda there, because he won 2 of his 3 titles after a near-life-ending accident, because he had to deal with drivers of high caliber in equal or comparable machinery (James Hunt, Alain Prost) and most importantly because he introduced a new concept, the "expert driver" - a guy who not only drove fast, but also understood how the car and the team worked, to the point of being able to make a relevant contribution. Schumacher and Hamilton are also difficult to place - both have been the class of the field at some point but they also enjoyed absolutely peerless cars for large extents of their careers, often with team mates that were specifically choosen not to be too competitive and sometimes contractually required to play second fiddle (Benetton was effectively a one car operation in the early 1990s, Ferrari went "safe" with Irvine and Barrichello, Mercedes put Bottas in the second car for 5 seasons 'because they knew he was quick but not too quick). Schumacher also happened to be around in a "competitive void", when the only driver on track of similar calibre in terms of speed and consistency was Hakkinen (and he retired at the end of 2001). It's really a toss up, they could even be #4 ex-aequo, but i'd put MSC in #4 as he had an impact on F1 that Lewis hasn't had: a bit like Lauda, Michael "created" a new type of driver, an archetype that has become the paramount of the modern F1 driver: the 360 degree, super professional athlete driver. Constant training to be at peak condition, dedication to the team in pursuit of that last tenth of a second. All modern drivers essentially strive towards that model; A long shot from the days of the "rockstars", of James Hunt drinking beer and smoking cigarettes in the pits while entertaining the sponsor's models, or Nelson Piquet living on pizza and cigars while sleeping on the garage floor. For the rest...I feel Jackie Stewart is too low in the ranking as probably is Nelson Piquet; Also - I know this will be unpopular with the RU-vid kids - Max Verstappen is way way way too high, as he's certainly fast and a great driver, but he's still too young and while he did show merit winning in 2021 (aside from what happened in the last race), he's won 2022 and will win 2023 without any competition whatsoever as he's on a peerless car with the Schumacher-esque "competitive but just not enough" team mate. We've seen some brilliance and especially maturity early in 2022 during his battles with Leclerc (with 2015-2021 Max, these would've ended up in a crash), but if people make the "dominant car" argument for Vettel, it MUST be made for Max as well; The RB19 especially will go down as the most dominant F1 car of all times at the end of the season (bar Max and Perez coming together or some freak weather events in some race later in the year, there's little to no chance for a driver on anything other than a Red Bull to even win a single race this season).

Another interesting note - judging the career of Ayrton Senna is like evaluating the potential career of Michael Jordan in an alternative universe where MJ retired for good in 1993 and never returned.

Beating Hamilton in equal machinery 😂. You're goddamn right he did, gotta love that Monaco-based RU-vidr.

Yeah, the death of Ayrton made more for him to become the best F1 driver ever than any orher thing.

Piquet is easily the most complete brazilian driver of all time, winning with inferior cars and developing cars from zero with serious innovations. he was also a master twister of regulation and one of the most honest drivers ever. in fact, he has all the qualities that Senna is renowned for, but Senna has all the hype.

Fangio ranks number 1 in my opinion. Not only has he been able to push the car beyond the limits compared to any other F1 driver, but he is also the most stoic F1 champion. A humbleness he carries in the paddock is impossible to find in today's climate. He's the true representative of what a champion should be.

Alberto Ascari is way underrated. Two WDCs 13 wins, 14 poles from 32 races.

In my opinion, Prost and Clark should be higher, Vettel and Villeneuve should be lower

Simply just no to any ranking that puts Seb above Nando. About the Nando burning bridges. What are those burned bridged exactly? It's true he had some bitter breakups with some of his old teams but at the end of the day, the guy was able to return to Renault twice, once to McLaren and to this day still liked by the Tifosi. And now seems like he'll get back with Honda too if he still wants to be in F1. In the past they also said they were okay with him for IndyCar 2019 season anyway. Also, I really didn't understand how it will bite him after his retirement. Lastly, I don't know how I feel about ranking arguably the most influental driver of all time 4th because he had controversial crashes but proceeding to rank guys who deliberately crashes into their teammates third and first

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In my opinion Schumacher should be on top - He was totally unmatched in his prime. Also Vettel should be lower - the 4 titles were pretty much purely based on the car. This is also where the majority of Hams titles come from - Ham even lost vs Rosberg...This should never happen to a GOAT - Schumacher fought multiple times for titles in a mediocre/dogshit car. He even destroyed Senna in the first races of 94 in a fucking benetton. I actually never understood why so many people rate senna so high - he couldnt even dominate his own time since Prost was able to outsmart him twice... So atleast he wasnt nearly as complete as Schumacher.

As miniaturas são lindas,e o fato de ter três campeões brasileiros nesse vídeo e na história da F1 é motivo de orgulho (Emerson Fittipaldi,Nelson Piquet e Ayrton Senna) 🇧🇷

Hamilton above Clark and Schumacher? come on...

High quality video! Maybe it would be better if you spoke a little slower next time. Still, a very unique style for a RU-vid F1 ranking. Keep up the good work!

Another idea - since there were 34 champions, maybe you can make a top 34 or 30 driver's list who did not become world champions in the end. Ok, Nr 1 should obviously be Stirling Moss, but would be interesting to see who will prevail - Ronnie Peterson or Gilles Villeneuve for instance.

Literally everyone: wrong order bro, are you insane?! Me: Wow what a great little vid, the production values are exceptional, those scale models are beautiful and why can’t people have a subjective opinion anymore?

Wow! There has been a lot of work and thought put into that. After following F1 for 54 years (!) it makes me wonder what my list would be? The one stand out change I would make would be JYS. For sure he is in my top 5. Thanks for the great video.

Senna 1... ok, the only 1 Senna feared was Mansell.

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Vettel is so underrated the car wasn’t even that dominant Webber couldn’t even finish second with it

Hunt should be far lower on that list

Where did you get all these die-cast from?

Top 4 order is fine. Mario Andretti, Jochen Rindt and Jackie Stewart should be higher. Lauda and Damon Hill - lower. Jim Clark has to swap places with Nicky Lauda.

I do have a few issues with the order, but nevertheless great video!

Mario Andretti is definitely one of the most decorated and pronoun names in racing history.

Senna, the legend

Amazing video! Only thing I would change is moving Damon Hill down a bit, his career kind of died out after a few years. Everything else was great though!

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Jack Brabham is criminally low at 14 and I'll take a bullet to the head before I EVER say that Piquet is better than Mansell.

3 - Senna 2 - Prost 1 - Lauda

Nah I love Senna as much as the next dude, but his stats are similar soon to be inferior to Max’s with a similar amount of races, whilst Max was racing in the most one car dominant period of all time and Senna didn’t manage to beat Prost consistently. He is the best qualifier of all time though by a long shot. But in terms of the best driver I’d have to say Schumacher and Hamilton in second. I’d give Senna the edge over Prost, but I think Max will surpass both if not all four by the end of his career.

This is a sensational video! Where would you now put Max with updated numbers of 185 Races 32 Poles 54 wins 3 Titles

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All those people over there commenting on order or shouting out their favourite driver and I'm over here annoyed as fuck that LWN called Brawn GP's trick the blown diffuser, when that was Red Bull/Adrian Newey's trick. Brawn's was the double diffuser.

Automatically disagree with all rankings outside official statistics, as no one has watched every race with identical telemetry to make such a assessment.

kimi could've ranked higher if mclaren car didnt let him down

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How can you put Schumi at #4 complaining about his aggressiveness and on-track moves but put Senna #1, who literally did the same things such as shunting Prost in 89' and 1990 BOTH AT SUZUKA Plus Schumacher should be #1 IMO followed by Senna and Hamilton, because remember nice guys dont win in Formula 1. The best drivers ever go for the kill lap 1 or lap 66/final it don't matter

14:03 and the birth of Jim Clark.

Boa noite !!!!! Vídeo excelente. Discordo de algumas posições, mas gostei muito do vídeo. Quanto ao número 1, sou brasileiro e jamais existirá outra pessoa igual Ayrton Senna. Mas o maior da história da Fórmula 1, sem dúvidas é Michael Schumacher. Mesmo nível de performance do Ayrton, mas muito melhor no nível de desenvolvimento do carro e união da Equipe. Ayrton Senna e Lewis Hamilton sentaram em carros campeões e venceram. Schumacher pegou uma Benetton que andava no meio do Grid e fez ela Campeã. Depois pegou a Ferrari e fez a mesma coisa. Por isso, considero Schumacher muito mais completo. Simplesmente o Melhor...... Obrigado pelo vídeo e parabéns pelo canal. Abraço do Brasil.

Mario Andretti won the 24hLM but no overall, there's a difference 😅😅

good list

So unfair to place Hulme near the bottom... you are ignoring he was the #2 driver to the pretty selfish Jack Brabham, who always kept the best engines and updates to himself, and even did not tend an offer to Hulme to stay with the team for 1968. Also underrated are Alonso, who nearly won not one but two titles with a dog of a car, Stewart, who beat the widely superior Lotus of Fittipaldi and Peterson in 1973, Fangio, who won almost 50% of the races he started up to the age of 46, Schumacher, number 1 in most non British F1 greats lists, and Verstappen, one of the most dominating drivers in history. Most overrated are Andretti, who only won thanks to a contract that forced Peterson to follow him on track, Villeneuve, who only won when he had a monster advantage and was dropped in multiple seasons for reserve drivers, Damon Hill, who lost a title to a driver who missed four races, Senna, who won the 1988 title because of a weird rule that forced drivers to discard some of their best results (Prost had beaten him on total points), and Hunt, who won by a single point to a driver who missed three races.

Too much recency bias. You need to judge based on how far ahead the drivers were of their contemporaries. On that basis the top drivers are Fangio, Clark, Stewart, Prost, Senna and Schumi.

John Surtees' acheivement is easily the most underrated in mototsports history. Imagine Rossi, Stoner or Marques jumping into an F1 car and beating the likes of Hamilton, Alonso and Vertappen to become F1 world Champion. Remember when Surtees won the title in 1964 he was going up against Jim Clark, unquestionably the greatest of them all.

I wasn't around when Senna drove at his peak. I feel like one day i will talk the same about Max Verstappen as my father talks about Ayrton Senna.

I definitely thin Verstappen is going to climb to the top of the list by the end of his carreer, and hopefully Alonso sneaks in one last crack at the championship before he retires in the Aston Martin.

vettel proved the caliber of driver that he was in 2014-2020 I wouldn't put him in the top 10 in my opinion

Your logic with Hamilton is a bit off in my opinion, how can you put senna above him when he won more than double WC's and has the records for qualifying, wins, fastest laps!! He did have challengers in his career mainly everyone of them!! Being Rosberg who was a great driver and a WC, Button was a great driver and a WC and Alonso who was a 2x WC and reigning WC! Who Hamilton beat in his first season as a rookie! Senna also had a good teammate that he lost to aswell, being prost! You can't say Hamilton was never tested by teammates! Thats my point!!!!! Lewis beat 3 teammates that were WC's!

It was going good until you did not put the GOAT michael schumacher in number one

Totally agree, Great list!

11:06 Okay now you need a slap in the face for blasphemy. Jim Clark should occupy the first 3 places on the list with the 2nd best driver (Schumacher) at number 4.

In my opinion : 1) senna 2) msc 3) Hamilton 4) Prost 5) verstappen

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Vettel and Hamilton should be lower… both of them were hardly carried by their car

Jacques won in 97, hill won in 96, since you said jacques won in 96

You know I agree with this.

There is no way Schumacher is below Prost

At 13:19 Booooooo the driver who destroyed F1

8:36 you forgot James Hunt

No hate but Hunt won a wdc between Stewart and Mansell in ’76

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I agree, Senna was the GOAT.

No way Hamilton is 2nd, he's beeb beaten by so many teammates and has had the best car longer than any other driver.

sorry but hamilton cant be ahead of schumacher, fangio and clark.

Stewart 11????????what???

Always nice to remember everybody what Hamilton’s boss and former World Champion Niki Lauda said about Max Verstappen: _”This is a once in a century talent. There has never been a driver like him and if you ask me there wil never be another with that level of natural talent.”_

schmacher 4th should have been 1st or 2nd can have senna ahead of him vettel should be above rest dont really have a problem with it

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Absolute RUBBISH! How dare you put Ascari so low whilst overrating Fangio like that!!!! He's much faster than Fangio and was more dominant. He was like a perfect driver. 9 victories in a row (indy doesn't count). Had he not died he would continue to whoop Fangio's ass. Also, Schumacher and Vettel should be clearly 1 and 2. Hamilton is overrated and not even top 10. Verstappen ranks higher as well. LOL the audacity to put Hill so high, he was lucky with such a dominant car. WTF an no Senna isn't number 1, he's not top 10 either. Most dirty way to win a championship ever

It’s not clear what criteria you’re using to rank drivers… your rankings seem somewhat arbitrary.

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Max not number 1 is just nostalgia baiting. Fangio higher? Really? Lmao

So sad Lewis didn't stopped on his high days, Now in his twilight years he will go in history as Cry baby and biggest moaner of all times

My top 5 5. Alain Prost 4. Lewis Hamilton 3. Ayrton Senna 2. Juan Manuel Fangio 1. Michael Schumacher

Ascari way too low, Piquet and Clark deserved higher, Vettel and Hamilton are too high

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VETTEL JUST ON P8, YOU KNOW NOTHING.

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Hamilton is second because he didn’t have a rivalry. Hamilton vs Alonso vs Raikkonen - Hamilton vs Massa - Hamilton vs Rosberg - Hamilton vs Vettel & Hamilton vs Verstappen. These are rivalry’s. Lewis has only had the best car in 07, 14,15,16,19 & 20. The rest have been very competitive with in seasons like 08,09,10,11,12,13,17,18 & 21. Plus 2014 - 2016 we had a battle for the championship not like Redbull’s farce of today.

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Sorry, but Senna and Prost were not better then Schumacher, Alonso and Hamilton, and I've seen them all race.

I disagree