Great Drives in Bad Cars.

Damon Hill in the Arrows in 97 Hungarian Grand Prix. Would have won if the car didn't have problems. A stunning drive.

 

The year Johncock beat Mears in the Indy 500...his tires were gone and he did a masterful job the last 2 laps in particular. I was a Mears fan too!

Ken

 

Any race that Senna scored points in with the Ford-powered McLaren in his last year with them.

 

1994
Spain
Benetton
Guy named Michael Schumacher

Finished 2nd with only 5th gear.

 

Not a bad car but worth mentioning:

Rubens, Hockenheim, 2000. Pouring rain and decided to stay on slicks. Won the race and cried his eyeballs out.
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Yeah...I've heard of him before!

 

1) Spanish GP 1981 G. Villeneuve in the evil handling 126C with the top 5 cars finishing within 3 Seconds, probably the best over all drive I have ever seen.

2) Monaco GP 1981 G. Villeneuve 126 C

3) 1) 1991 Brazilian GP, Senna WON stuck in 6th GEAR with the the two Williams drivers (Mansell and Patrese) hounding him from the beginning.

 

Alboreto winning the last race for NA Cosworth against an armada of powerful turbos.

 

- Schumacher winning Hungary 1998 in a car 1 sec a lap slower than the top running McLarens.
- Nuvolari in Nurburgring 1935 (as mentioned earlier)
- Schumacher in Spain 1996 - his first win for truck like Ferrari in the wet against the dominant Williams

 

Okay, let me rephrase that; any time Senna beat the Williams, without the Williams suffering mechanical problems.

 

Mika had more miles in that car than either Andretti or Senna.

 

Paul, Mika was no slouch ever, and he had been to those circuts when he was at Lotus. He did an outstanding job at his first gp with McLaren because he was the main development driver of the MP4/8.

 

I hear you Paul, thank you for your comments, it is always a pleasure to chat with you as you are consistent and don't speak stupidly.

 

Not to defend him cause he did a sh$t job representing the US in F1 but, Andretti didn't get as much seat time as he should have because Mika needed to earn his pay as well. Ron Dennis is not one to pay someone to do nothing so Mika got most of the testing miles. As far as Andretti not living in england, i remember him saying in an interview that it only took him something around 4 to 5 hours to get there by concorde. I think he got a raw deal by Ron Dennis. the 93 mclaren was a sweet handling car, it was far from bad but it was underpowered. I'd say the williams was better and the benetton was just as good. the ferrari that year was crap.

 

Whist i agree it was handled wrong on Michael's part, Ron Dennis thinking that he not moving to England set the tone is bullsh$t. If that was the case then he purposely didn't give him the testing miles as a form of punishment. I recall many people saying Senna was very displeased with the may the situation was dealt with, so something had to have been wrong there. When you have a new driver it's only logical that you give him all the seat time you can, whether you have another driver waiting in the wings or not. Even if it meant have Mika waiting around doing nothing that's what Dennis should have done. I strongly feel that he set him up for failure.

 

Andretti seemed to be a marked man by the F1 establishment from the start. Remember he came over as defending CART Champion which at the time was a great series. Mansell was greeted here as Royalty and our guy was treated like a chump. I think Ecclestone wasn't too unhappy to show that the CART Champion was inferior to the F1 Guys.