The Craziest Season In F1 History!

[@alexbernadina3082]

Yep, for me 1976, 82 and 21 were crazy/fantastic

[@Don-Royall]

86 was also crazy last few laps Mansell lost that title. The fantastic 4 as I like to call them were great 1. Piquet 2. Mansell 3. Prost 4. Senna Absolute great races from each of them.

[@nedzosf1gridbox]

Yep, great season

[@srxt6758]

Keke Rosberg had 6 career points and one podium in 35 races in total he ran in F1 by the end of 1981. His only point scorings were 3rd and 5th place in 1980. By the end of 1982 he was world champion. Cant make this stuff up. I remember people saying that hes gonna win the championship without winning the race. I also remember alot of press throwing alot of dirt on him and pretty much labeling him as unworthy and the worst world champion so far. That was until he won the Monaco next year. All the dirt died down after that.

[@nedzosf1gridbox]

yea i can imagine so he was quite unaccomplished before his title win

[@srxt6758]

@@nedzosf1gridbox from 1978 when he started until end of 1981 he scored 6 pts in total in 30+ races. You can imagine lol. He is without a shadow the most unpredictable world champion in history. Nobody even knew who he was before that season. Frank Williams signed him as a last straw because Alan Jones retired all of the sudden and because he was cheap. He knew Keke was quick but didnt rly have accolades to show he has what it takes. Frank gambled and it paid off. Ironically unlike his son Nico his career in F1 officially started when he won the world championship whereas Nicos career ended when he won it. Keke was blindingly quick and despite only achieving 5 GP's everyone holds him in high regard.

[@StarFox85]

@@srxt6758 but he was fast!

[@srxt6758]

@@StarFox85 very, very fast. I rate him a bit higher than his son Nico. Never had proper equipment to show his worth. He would drink beer and smoke ciggies before the session then he would put it on pole. Dallas 1984 2nd hottest race ever he won in a car that handled like a truck and basically had turbo lag 0-100%. In scorching heat whilst others dropped of he seemed to be going faster and faster. Proper grit driver. Nico I hate to say it but is like a girl next to his dad. He had to imploy all this vodoo psych stuff to beat Lewis whereas his dad did things more relaxed as I said earlier 😉. Keke had incredible natural talent.

[@StarFox85]

@@srxt6758 nico had pace as well..👍

[@detonator2112]

People seem to forget how good Keke was 82-85. Won the title with that underpowered car. 83 and 84 Williams was completely uncompetitive. It was like 40 km/h slower on straights than Brabham, McLaren and Ferrari. Keke won two street circuit races with that pig of a car (Monaco 1983 and Dallas 1984 were impressive drives) and beat Laffite 13-1 and 14-1. 1985 he was probably the fastest man on the grid and made Mansell look like an amateur. Williams got faster 1985 but the car wasn't reliable. Then 1986 hampered his reputation. The McLaren was designed for Prost and Keke couldn't drive that car because it was so understeery. Great driver, very underrated champ.

[@nedzosf1gridbox]

He was a great driver although as you said not very adaptable if he couldn’t tag his cars around by the scruff of their neck

[@kevin_m]

I watched this whole vid. Well done. Was far too young to have followed ‘82 season, but as a Canadian knew of Villeneuve and followed Jacques later.

[@nedzosf1gridbox]

That’s great to hear you enjoyed it. The next season review will come out when I reach 500 subscribers

[@mrkipling2201]

I started watching F1 in 1984. Nigel Mansell is my favourite racing driver ever, but I always liked Keke Rosberg, mainly because he looked like he didn't give a toss, in regards to how he looked and things like that. As long as he had a cigarette and a beer after the race, everything was cool. Plus he drove really fast and was naturally talented. Unfortunately he had some bad luck during his career, thanks to car reliability mainly.

[@mspupcat53]

I saw him do his fastest lap round Silverstone in 1985! The cars were like aeroplanes taking off next to you when they went past you could feel the V12s in the pit of your stomach!

[@rkentwenger5095]

The thumbnail shows Gilles in a '78 Ferrari, and I was thinking, "No way -- it's got to be '82". Sadly, I've been to one F1 race in person -- Belgium in '82...

[@Panzer_Runner]

Every decade seems to have at least one crazy season; 1958, 1967, 1976, 1982, 1994, 2008, 2012 and 2021 I agree that '82 was the craziest F1 season due to the drama and competitiveness of it RIP Gilles, Godspeed...🙏🏻

[@nedzosf1gridbox]

yea i agree

[@citoante]

What? 2008 is nothing compared to 2007.

[@Panzer_Runner]

@@citoante I said "at least one", there could be a crazier season for this decade but I didn't include it because I only included one

[@crusherbmx]

When Ferrari recruited Andretti he wasn't rusty at all....he raced in Long Beach for Williams earlier in the season, as you mentioned earlier....also, he was active in Indycars that season....but even if he hadn't raced since 1981, that was only 11 months earlier.

[@nedzosf1gridbox]

fair enough mate

[@alaricpether2930]

I love your list of accolades for Piquet. Spot on.

[@tomastoth4018]

Winning 1 race out of 16 en-route of becoming a world champion is the miracle of a century in any kind of top level racing. Mike Hawthorn clinched the 1958 title with 1 out of 11 races, but even that's 9.09% of winning ratio in comparison to Rosber's 6.25%. Ascari's 75% from 1952 is the highest so far.

[@nedzosf1gridbox]

yea it was rosberg’s season long consistency that won it for him as well as luck from avoiding the big accidents that some of his title rivals suffered

[@Roger17090]

And with the 5 best car. Miracle for sure!

[@SiVlog1989]

I've often joked that 1982 was the championship nobody wanted to win. It was remarked in the season review that year that "the drivers who had no chance [of winning the title] were still coming first and second,"

[@nedzosf1gridbox]

yea so many drivers could’ve won the title had they had more luck

[@SiVlog1989]

@Nedzo's F1 Grid Box I think of Imola that year as a kind of turning point. The picture of podium "celebrations" kind of haunts me. While Pironi was spraying the champagne, Villeneuve, despite his face being only half visible, can be seen somewhat contorted with rage. It seems to this day, the pit board with the word "slow" on it, held out as the race drew to a close, draws debate. Was it a specific code to order the drivers to hold station, was it a warning of fuel consumption? I guess only those who worked for Ferrari at the time can explain the intent, but what's certain is that the ambiguity of the message left Villeneuve seething, vowing never to speak to Pironi again. I believe that it was during an attempt to beat Pironi's time in Practice, that Villeneuve collided with Jochen Mass, hurling the popular Quebecois Canadian to his death. Pironi it seems, internally, never recovered from the mental strain of being (in the minds of some) responsible for Villeneuve losing his life. The accident that ended his F1 career was equally scary and horrific, slamming into Prost's Renault, unsighted in blinding spray at Hockenheim

[@nedzosf1gridbox]

i agree it’s just a massive what if that season

[@bmf97ss1]

Enjoyed the video. Love the cars from this era! Looking forward to seeing the follow up vid 👍

[@nedzosf1gridbox]

thanks mate im working on another concept but the follow up should be out within a month

[@steveburke7850]

the other thing about that season was the death of Colin Chapman, head of lotus, whom at the time had led in total constructor championships (Ferrari tied with the win that season at 7 championships)

[@shadeburst]

Great, terrific video, but your voice software let you down. For god's sake don't go all Murray Walker on us, but push the equalizer for higher notes and add some vocal variety. Very well researched and well edited. Thank you. A small error is your reading out the championship standings on the race when we can see them on the screen. Switzerland has banned circuit racing. Hillclimbs and gymkhana remain popular and last I heard they were going to allow Formula E circuit racing.

[@nedzosf1gridbox]

yea i’ve bought a new mic and my editing skills are getting better and better so most issues should be soon sorted

[@montevallomustang]

I love the way mid 80s f1 cars look. The new cars look like plastic kid toys.

[@nedzosf1gridbox]

To be fair that’s due to necessary safety advancements but yea the cars of yesteryear mostly look better, also liveries were more out theye

[@danishskiwarehouse]

The Piquet jibes really made me laugh 😂

[@nedzosf1gridbox]

Thanks

[@danishskiwarehouse]

Thank you for this video. I’d read about it and seen clips and knew some of the stories, but didn’t realise just how crazy it was. For some reason, I’d had it in my head that Villeneuve would have won the championship but for the tragedy but now realise that was no ‘certainty’. And it’s strange to think that Tambay didn’t go on to have a more accomplished career. Thanks for all the work you must have put in for this

[@nedzosf1gridbox]

@danishskiwarehouse thanks for the kind words mate, when I hit 500 subs I’ll be posting a similar video about the 1994 season

[@rosssoutherland8118]

The two seasons with Prost and Senna crashing each other outta the Japanese GP was some great ones.

[@mspupcat53]

Nope lived through 1982 pre-season Nelson Piquet said how dangerous the cars were and mentioned Ferrari. I was 12 years old Gilles Villeneuve was my brothers hero and we watched him die on TV. The incident at Imola had a lot else going on to do with Pironi trying to usurp Gilles. He didn’t invite him to his wedding instead invited the Ferrari team principal as best man. There were all these crazy politics going on. You could not write it. Pironi’s involvement with Paletti’s death. Then there was Pironis horrendous accident at Hockenheim Nelson was having a terrible season, he was one of the first drivers on the scene and was physically sick. Next day Nelson had a 40 second lead he thought the Gods were smiling on him and along came Eliseo Salazar, a back marker and you can understand why Nelson had a bit of argy Bargy with him. They are friends now and they re~enacted it in later years. Gilles was Enzo Ferrari’s golden boy. Then there was the Monaco GP when there were five leaders in two laps. It was so crazy so Keke won the Championship but Enzo Ferrari gave Didier a trophy saying the real champion of 1982. It still haunts me all these years later. The second place crazy season was 1994. Senna suspected Benetton were cheating. The changes to the cars made them totally unsafe and the Williams as Senna said was ‘undrivable. Imola 1994 was really eerie you could feel the darkness and Senna”s demeanor. For the first time in his F1 career he had his helmet off sitting in the car, taking in the atmosphere. You could feel something was not right. There were three big horrendous crashes at Tamberello in six years. Piquet in 1997, Gerhard Bergers Ferrari burst into flames as it hit the wall in 1999, then the lovely Michele Alboreto had a arguement with it in 1991 and limped away. I think Senna’s life was lost needlessly. There was a problem and Senna and Berger had looked into making it safer. The irony. With Michael Schumacher serving race bans Damon Hill sneaked up in the Championship and then Australia happened and I have always believed Michael got away with something there. The cars were so loud then the atmosphere a lot different and there were some really dynamic characters that just fuelled the rivalry to the max. Rest in peace Gilles, Riccardo and my beloved Ayrton. 🇧🇷💕🇧🇷💕

[@nedzosf1gridbox]

I also did a (much better I think) video on 1994 if you want to check it out

[@wellend89]

32:53 incorrect - Juan Manuel Fangio won the 1957 German Grand Prix after stopping for both fuel and tyres. As Clive James put it: "Fangio won the '57 German Grand Prix after an extended interval for a drink and a smoke."

[@nedzosf1gridbox]

OK, my bad, I got that fact from a report on the 1982 race, obviously it was wrong. Thanks for correcting me, I tend to know a lot but little snippets like this really interest me. Thanks!

[@db7541]

Prost really should have won ‘82. If you listen to him talk about it, he and Renault knew at the time what the issue was, but Renault refused to do anything about it because the offending part was made by a company Renault didn’t want to abandon for political reasons. So basically Prost didn’t win ‘82 because Renault chose for him not to. Whether Pironi or Villeneuve could’ve won had Renault acted but they not had their accidents, is harder to tell.

[@nedzosf1gridbox]

Yea I agree

[@crusherbmx]

The statistics, aside from the two deaths, would lead one to believe that this was the best season of all time....but the details, the politics, the unreliability, the injuries and especially the two deaths often get this season listed as the worst season ever. It was the first full season that I followed and even those rose coloured glasses can't fix it.

[@nedzosf1gridbox]

fair enough mate you make some good points

[@leojonkers3181]

Great vlog, tnx!

[@nedzosf1gridbox]

thanks mate love the support

[@MooncricketsInc]

The 07 and 08 seasons were pretty crazy as well (even better if a Ferrari or McLaren fan), both came down to the last race and last lap. RIP Gilles

[@nedzosf1gridbox]

yea those seasons were crazy mainly for the title battlr

[@MooncricketsInc]

@Nedzo's F1 Grid Box As a Ferrari fan,great and also painful years,considering it's been 15 years since they won anything meaningful. 2012 also had a crazy ending, and a bunch of different winners I believe.

[@LeeJF1]

​@Ken B. '12 was good but '10 was even closer, Nando was leading & Vettel was only in 3rd place going into the last race behind his teammate Webber & ahead of Hamilton. All 4 of those drivers could still be crowned champion at Abu Dhabi

[@MooncricketsInc]

@LeeJamesf1 Yea, can't have a better ending than that. Not an alonso fan, but wouldn't have minded him winning it for Ferrari. Seems like centuries ago now..

[@Coldwallbar]

Tambay on F1 BTG talking about how if the season was formatted different he would have won (suggested, lol, not him tbh) is crazy.

[@nedzosf1gridbox]

that’s crazy to think because he was ultra competitive, had ferrari not waited five million years to replace gilles there’s a good chance he could’ve done so if he got good reliability although didier would’ve been number 1 still

[@Coldwallbar]

@@nedzosf1gridbox agreed

[@richardmortimer8147]

I remember to well. Villeneuve may well have been champion (had he lived). Pironi definitely would have been (had he not crashed too). Watson could have won. Rosberg sneaked it through consistency. With better reliability, Prost or Arnoux could have won...

[@crusherbmx]

@ 4:05 ....this explains Gilles Villeneuve's driving style!

[@nedzosf1gridbox]

what, big balls?

[@crusherbmx]

@@nedzosf1gridbox you got it!

[@ukrainica9121]

could not help that giant bulge got me off guard 😂

[@SanFranciscoJ]

What a different world.

[@nedzosf1gridbox]

yea i mean i was born 22 years after this season but yea it’s definitely very different to today

[@alexbernadina3082]

Yep, 82 was a crazy dramatic season. Rosberg had enough with just 1 win.

[@nedzosf1gridbox]

it was his consistency that won him the title

[@19megamustaine85]

great season ,but the 2012 season is still better !

[@nedzosf1gridbox]

fair enough you can have your opinion, i think that maybe while the action at the top e.g. championship fights and wins was better in 2012 but the broader image was more crazy here

[@benwas2017]

It's hard to imagine that only in fact 5 constructors started every race of the season; also the Renault qualifying dominance was incredible, if there was a championship for that, they would've won by some 100 points

[@nedzosf1gridbox]

that 5 constructors fact is basically carried by imola 😂, and yea renault were great in qualy but had the reliability of a yellow teapot

[@Jakuup12]

Great video ;). But get better mic 🥺

[@Mr-kn6uk]

Fooking sound vid lado keep em cumin

[@nedzosf1gridbox]

wow thanks for the kind comment mate, i’ve been going through a bit of a rough patch recently with university exams but that’s really cheered me up

[@Mr-kn6uk]

@@nedzosf1gridbox NEVER GIVE UP lad, NEVER. Cya on the next one.

[@johnandre2962]

2009 was the craziest season bar none. I'd say 99.9% of F1 fans would agree.

[@nedzosf1gridbox]

@@johnandre2962 that was a great season but I can name a handful better ones in my opinion

[@neilturner6749]

Assuming the photo of GV and Arnold racing together was from 1982, are Ferrari running cars both with and without a front wing at the same race ? I know Ground Effect era cars didn’t necessarily benefit from having a front wing, but completely different configurations within the same team is quite extreme. Having said that, running two different engines within the same team would be considered extreme today too!

[@thearsenalmisfit2414]

It was a common practice back then. The front wings weren't there to create down force but to trim the car out. This ment that the wing would not be used if the driver was happy with the balance of the cat. But if the driver felt he need more front-end down force the wing would be used. So the 2 drivers would not always want the same set up.

[@TheStemmett]

The craziest season was 1976

[@nedzosf1gridbox]

i can understand if you say the craziest title battle was 76 but outside of hunt and lauda’s storyline the season had nothing on 82

[@whenyougodown228]

Lauda and Hunt had a great rivalry but it was nothing compared to the any of the racing in the 80s, especially the battles between Senna, Prost, Piquet, Mansell, and Berger.

[@mrkipling2201]

1994 for me. Its great that everyone has different opinions on it though. It would be bloody boring if everyone thought the same way.

[@nickthoms637]

2016 was great season when rosberg finally bet Hamilton

[@nedzosf1gridbox]

it was a good title battle yea

[@d.e.b.b5788]

It was more of a season when Hamilton beat himself, lots of mistakes.

[@nedzosf1gridbox]

yea

[@Billybaka]

san marino facts are wrong , gilles didnt "interprete" anthing, do your research, they had to save some fuel and ferrari had agreement about standing positions if they were 1 -2 theres no interpretetions in that.

[@nedzosf1gridbox]

i have “done my research” my friend. gilles thought they would trade positions to keep the crowd entertained and and was surprised when pironi made the last lap move. whether he was right or wrong to be salty it’s not my choice but please don’t act like i didn’t research

[@paulreilly3904]

​@@nedzosf1gridboxwell done for defending your self.

[@nedzosf1gridbox]

@@paulreilly3904 thanks mate, I pride myself on knowledge and research so for someone to take a stab at me for that annoys me

[@mrkipling2201]

​​@@nedzosf1gridboxhe was definitely surprised when Pironi overtook him. It's said that it was a factor in his fatal crash 2 weeks later, as he wasn't properly focused, and was still angry about the incident with his teammate. Whether that's true or not, it's hard to say, but Villeneuve was a huge loss to F1.

[@nedzosf1gridbox]

@mrkipling2201 I completely agree, he was a well loved and respected character in the paddock

[@samghost13]

2009 onwards where the ugliest cars ever built in f1 history

[@taurus6392]

nah

[@jeffreyrumbold9363]

23:10 Rene Arnoux's crash at Tarzan was not due to a 'jammed throttle', but instead by the loss of his left front wheel under braking when the upper rocker arm mount failed at the hub. Research: it's a thing. In the Internet Age, errors such as this are laughable.

[@nedzosf1gridbox]

multiple sources state the reason for the crash was caused by a stuck open throttle, i can understand if that’s not actually the case but acting like i made a mistake out of carelessness or lack of research instead of simply believing what reliable sources said, is a bit much

[@jeffreyrumbold9363]

@@nedzosf1gridbox There's a plethora of images, video, and commentary about the failure of the front suspension and loss of wheel out there. You can claim "multiple sources" all you want, but video and imagery don't lie. I saw it live. And it is carelessness; all you had to do was search "Arnoux Holland 1982" and you would've gotten it right. Double-Down Syndrome - you're doing it right.

[@SteRDLK]

@@jeffreyrumbold9363 you sound like a right nobhead

[@theparkster1542]

@jeffreyrumbold9363 dude ur a douche