The worst Formula 1 teams of the 1990s 

That why we love Martin.

🤣Good ol' Mr. Bundle. If it wasn't for him balancing out Crofty's high-pitched squealing during the races, I don't think I could tolerate Sky Sports' broadcasts. I hope he doesn't retire anytime soon.

@@hangingchad_ Brundle and Coulthard were really good together in 2011

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@@Xiphactinus yep

Many people claim that certain drivers are “underrated” but Moreno really is the definition of underrated.

He just never have good cars after he be drop by Benetton..

it's a shame he only got that half a season in 91 (and the handful of races in 1990 that won him the seat after Nannini's helicopter crash) at Benetton, when he was actually given a competitive car he was good. An underrated driver for sure

I remember him winning in CART. I couldn't stop crying with happiness!

@@y_fam_goeglyd It was brilliant to see him win, as I recall he had a shot at the championship the year (2000) he got his first win and finished 3rd overall in the standings (Full disclosure; I couldn't 100% remember, so I had to look up his championship position)

Not enough space now for more team's. From what I have read there's space for one maybe two more at a push.

@@chriscollins550 and that is THE problem

@@Chris-ql9bu it’s way more expensive to get into the grid now. Thanks liberty.

@@johnnyquack it wasn't liberty that made it so expensive. The price to join was already in place and then not to long ago it was agreed by all team's that a new team must pay a large fix amount to all the team's that are in f1. Liberty had nothing to do with it that was done by the team's

@@Chris-ql9bu the paddock garage's there just not enough of them and that's not an easy thing to change. Mercedes red bull and Ferrari have 3 garage spaces between them. Then the TV production team has one plus other team's have two. Some long term f1 tracks have just built new garage's just for f1 that not used any other time of the year by any other race series. Tracks like Monaco just aren't big enough for more team's. That's another reason why they can only really fit one or at a big push two more team's.

2026 will have some with the simplification of the hybrid system

@@gustavo_paganelli just get rid of the hybrid system altogether, god it's not that hard🤦‍♂️

@@Fred_the_1996 Or simplify it.

There not enough space in the paddock that's the real problem. Only enough for one more team to come in.

@@Fred_the_1996 why would you do that, it would cost efficiency and a lot of speed

Yeah it's like they were actively trying to badly hurt or even kill him just to get rid of him.

Sassetti actively fucking hated McCarthy and wanted him out but couldn’t fire him cause he had already fired drivers earlier. Wouldn’t be surprised if he was trying to kill him. There’s a video about this team somewhere, explains a lot about how fucked the whole thing was.

@@Rand0mContnt Mccarthy was interviewed on a podcast by them.

Sassetti should have been convicted of criminal negligence, if not attempted murder.

@@Rand0mContnt He did. In essence, what happened then, was that original drivers for AMF were Caffi and Bertaggia, however the massive mismanagement of AMF caused them to be refused entry in South Africa, with FIA claiming they did not register (in which they were right) and then came to Mexico with an actual entry, but without cars, which were not yet finished. Caffi and Bertaggia were legitimately criticising the terrible preparation, causing Sasseti to fire both of them and replacing them with Moreno and McCarthy (who at the time didn't have Super license and couldn't race (couldn't pre-qualify to be exact) in Brazil, untill FIA took mercy and kind of gifted him one). But then Bertaggia came to Sassetti with bunch of sponsorship money, so Sassetti wanted to drop McCarthy to take Bartaggia back, but FIA, due to his shenanigans with drivers wouldn't allow it. It seems that Sassetti then simply try to get rid of McCarthy whatever way he could, hoping that if McCarthy left team or was injured, he could petition FIA to let him take Bertaggia (and his sponsorship money) back.

HAAS started out very good and were a midfield team for a few years. Its the last 2 years that they have not been good and one reason they are not doing good is because they stopped upgrading their car to prepare for 2021 then it got pushed to 2022. It will be interesting to see how they do in 2022.

Holy F if they called Hass worst of all time....do they not watch 2018 season? Or they started to watch F1 after Mazespin insult was born?

Haas do tick some of the "reject" team boxes ie contracting a 3rd party to manufacture the monocoque (see HRT/Dallara) and a major sponsorship fiasco (see also Forti/Arrows et all) but none of them are as bad as the 5 years post turbo era

@@ChrisHopkinsBass well it's obvious, you might have the brain to design it (PC, CFD&FEA software, engineers) but the muscle (CNC, EDM, any tooling for manufacturing) is big upfront even for Haas that actually manufacture those CNC It's make sense financial wise, and with Haas moving some departments to Maranello to become Ferrari's neighbor and Dallara's neighbor (they're Italian company too right?) It's a good move to move (get it?)

Well said Chris too many millenials with no context or interest in history lol

They were not a bad team at all, considering the budget they had, they were excellent.

@@isserkamajaya9625 thanks to teams mentioned in this video, they were sometimes in the middle of the pack

Webber came fifth on his debut in 2002 and got a spot on the podium too after , and had given F1 many long term drivers including Alonso too . They was also the most fan inclusive team in the paddock too and they existed for decades in f1

Yeah, Minardi managing to make it as far as they did (and later becoming Toro Rosso/AlphaTauri) would be an interesting video for sure.

There used to be almost 20 teams in F1 (year 1989 I think). Amusingly, Minardi was about the 10th best team back then too which technically makes them a midfielder, it was more of a case of all the actually shitty teams dropping out one by one and making them look terrible in the late 1990s.

Adjusted for the inflation seen in F1, it was one of the smallest team ever in term of budget. It pulled over it's weight. They were spending near 5 millions pound a year when leading F1 teams were spending many times that... At least 4 if not 5 times that.

The really bad crashes from 1994 definitely sapped Simtek of its money...

Simtek occasionally feels like they're cursed. The first actual Simtek car was the Andrea Moda in 1992, which they designed for BMW before selling to Moda when that fell through. Widely agreed to be a great chassis with an atrocious team and engine. In 1994 they entered themselves and immediately suffered one driver being maimed and another being killed in freak accidents and were saddled again with an awful engine and reliability from dodgy X-trac gearboxes. Again, really good car but everything else let them down. In 2010 they tried again with Manor/Marussia and were once again dogged by financial instability, awful X-trac gearboxes and two freak accidents that lead to the deaths of their drivers. Let's put that in perspective - not only have 3 of the last 4 fatalities for someone driving an F1 car been at the wheel of Simtek designed cars but the only Simtek running team that _didn't_ suffer one was Andrea Moda, and they all but actively tried to get Perry McCarthy killed. I'm not sure what supernatural being they upset but clearly it has a grudge.

Still waiting for his video on Moreno

@@tomcharlton586 100k subscribers and we get it.

@@JohnSmithShields he should have way more than 100k imo

Crazy to think what might have happened if Lola had started in 1998 as intended and with a decently developed mid field car. They could still be around today if history would have played out differently.

MasterCard also rushed the project to 1997 bacause HSBC was Stewart's title sponsor and there was a sort of "rivalry"

The real problem was that Mastercard wasn't paying Lola directly, instead giving them a cut of the profits from a 'F1 Club' they offered to members. Since the car was dogshit nobody wanted to join the club, so there weren't any profits and therefore no money to give Lola.

@@craigcharlesworth1538 I felt sorry for Vincenzo Sospiri, a pretty good F3000 driver this farce sunk his F1 career without trace

No, he had the chance to shine in the Benetton in 1991, but he clearly wasn't good enough against an old Piquet, who got beaten by the young Schumacher instantly in the same season. So i think Moreno was not a top driver, but he had a good talent to maximize performance of a bad car. Like Pedro de la Rosa, or Heikki Kovalainen later. They hadn't enough talent for a top team (they had the chance too), but they were insanely good at bad cars, and helped to the teams to developing.

@@viddlenchaire he wasn’t a genius like piquet Schumacher etc but he was a very good driver way better than kovalainen

@@viddlenchaire de la rosa wasn't a good driver for jaguar tbh he had a decent season in 2000 and kovalinen was bang average beat an aging fisichela thanks to a lucky podium in fuji

Good ol’ Bobby Brown! (That’s the English translation of his name).

Bugattis run W12 don't they?

@@persezyra Bugatti's engines are W12, but they are not the same configuration as the Life W12 despites having the same name.

​@@leandrociarrapico9256 Bugatti runs W16, both of ya'll are thinking of Bentley, which uses a W12

Yep, great sounding, just laughably heavy and marginally less laughably underpowered.

Hi Flashback007.

@@purwantiallan5089 hello

Launching in 1998, probably about as well as Stewart

@@Kinichie stewart came in 1997 and were on pole by 1999... selling out was a big mistake for them that and losing barichelo

@@gigsawsoljier1408 Yes. You seem to have understood my point.

That one's my favorite podcast episode of all time.

@@keyboardwarrior327 same, i was shocked to hear about the Life team in more detail

He was interviewed for the Beyond The Grid podcast. Great episode. It's a great podcast full stop, some brilliant interviews. Stefan Johansson, Derek Warwick, Jochen Mass and Emmanuele Pirro spring to mind.

this plus winning japan in 1990

Second in Japan to Piquet. And then look what happened to him in '91. Pretty much summed up the poor guy's luck

@@AndreiTupolev right forgot but hay not too bad

I think Porsche had a bigger impact on their reputation since they had been champions with Mclaren for 3 years straight prior to their Footwork adventure. Plus you don't bolt two former V6 turbo engines together and call it a V12 and then do your own thing while your partner builds a chassis that does not fit to your engine.

What a crock of shite that comment. Porsche were a full blown works team in the 60s; they won 3 drivers championships as engine suppliers in the 80s; and they certainly didn't need to 're-establish their prestige' because they were still successful in Endurance racing. Fuckin Drive to Survive stans innit. As clueless as they come.

Do You include Pedro Diniz and Ricardo Rosset in that lot?🇧🇷💵

Ther is a video of the Canadian GP Pre-qualy and both cars appear passing the Start-Finish line, you can actually get a really good view of those cars because of how slow they go.

the life did goodwood as well with it's old w12 if you want more life

But Al Pease would get lapped 25 times by Stewart, Graham Hill and company in the Sixties.

@@adampetten5349 but that wasn't the cars fault, Al Pease was just a horrible driver.

@@leandrociarrapico9256 He was in the Canadian Motorsports Hall of Fame for his work North of Toronto. That said, he was old and F1 was a couple levels above his comfort zone.

jordan was just as bad but they were baild out multipull times by bernie. if it wasnt for him they wouldnt of made it. if the other teams got the same treatment from bernie they might of made some sort of comptitive car

EJ is almost like a live action cartoon character, you start to wonder how refreshingly normal people even exist in that sport.

Agree, it's just way too expensive for new teams to enter now

They are not competing for anything and adds nothing to the show, they are just a hazard on track when lapped. I would take qaulity over quantity.

@@oscarshen6855I agree 100%, remember 2010, F1 went desperate to get new teams on the grid and acepted HRT, Virgin and The Fake Lotus and we know how fucked up they were even before entering F1.

@@leandrociarrapico9256 We should appreciate the quality of current grid where the slowest car is only about 2 seconds off the pace, we have been though times when some teams can be 10 seconds off the pace. Compare to these jokes of teams Hass and Alfa are like Mecedes and Red Bull. They are at least well managed and functional teams.

I also would like to have more teams on the grid but adding another Haas to the grid is not it.

The founder of Life was Ernesto Vita.

@@andreamoroni97 Vita means Life (thats a joke fyi)

@@andreamoroni97 Ernesto Vita? Who is he??

@@nate567987 I know what "vita" means and what a joke is, I don't have to open a Treccani to learn about those, but it was more of a coincidence that Ernesto Vita thought "the name of the team will be my surname but translated into english" (which is still better than Trebron, even on the track) and then it was a short-lived team, the real irony could have been in the past if many of his ancestors died at a young age or slaughtered animals for a living and the people ironically identified his family as the "vita" ones.

@@purwantiallan5089 I have no idea...

I’m still waiting for that video

I wonder what madness took Peter Monteverdi to buy into the team. Yes, he helped the Foiteks, but he crashed his own finances in the process... he had to sell all those lovely cars he owned in my home town.

He also managed 2nd place at Suzuka once in F1 in 1990 for Benneton. (yes that race)

It had a Lola 6-speed sequential with paddle shifters.

@@EL1AS_ Oh, right. I guess article I read was wrong.