The Worst Formula 1 Car Ever Made

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[@tiny_hanni_pham]

Thanks for my daily reminder in the thumbnail, Josh...

[@KyleFerguson17]

gotta let em know💯

[@purwantiallan5089]

​@@KyleFerguson1724hrs away before 2024 24hrs of LeMans bro. Which team you gonna root with? For me always Porsche.

[@KyleFerguson17]

@@purwantiallan5089 going for toyota for sure, i have a Tacoma so i need to root for them and i like Kobayashi anyway

[@Bottas-Boy69]

@@purwantiallan5089ferrari all the way all the time forza ferrari sempre🎉

[@NullCreativityMusic]

this is a nice positive twist in the replies

[@jt1992ok]

There should be a wooden spoon championship for constructors like Life, Andrea Moda, MasterCard Lola, Forti and Hispania. 5 mini races at the abandoned Valencia circuit. Yuji Ide waves the chequered flag and Taki Inoue drives the safety car. Latifi hands out the trophies. The whole works.

[@jacekatalakis8316]

This needs to be a thing now, even if in virtual form

[@fedorsamokhin4495]

And Pastor Maldonado is a race steward - monitors race drivers behaviour

[@jeanuthenext]

@@fedorsamokhin4495 an honorary guest. “The legend is in the building,” they’d say of him.

[@FightingTorque411]

To be fair, Latifi is a league ahead of all the other names mentioned. The standard is just so high these days that he looked weak in comparison, but he not only qualified for every one of his races, he actually scored points, which is more than hundreds of entrants have managed. I nominate in his place Claudio Langes, record holder of most attempts to pre-qualify for a race without succeeding.

[@jt1992ok]

@FightingTorque411 Completely agree. Langes is a great choice that I forgot about.

[@sagastim]

Fun fact: In the portuguese round, after the engine cover flew off, the team knew that as the car didn't exit the pitlane the FIA would consider that they hadn't taken part on the pre qualy session, which would result on a 200.000$ fine. The team knew that in order to avoid that fine, they just had to exit the pit lane. So, as they noticed that the pit lane on Estoril was downhill, they decided to push the car until it crossed the traffic light. Genius moment

[@CyanRooper]

"Sometimes my genius... It's almost frightening."

[@TriViuM2k22]

"fuct"

[@sagastim]

@@TriViuM2k22 Sorry :)

[@michaelmaclean6965]

@@TriViuM2k22 fuct is actually the best word to use when discussing Life

[@purwantiallan5089]

​@@sagastimthe Life L190 is as slow as C West Razo Silvia. 🤣

[@GregStonham]

4:39 from Wikipedia: "Gary Thomas Brabham (born 29 March 1961) is a former professional racing driver and a convicted child sex offender"

[@bigmike8586]

what a horrifying thing to have on one's wikipedia article, truly an anti-inspiration

[@nathanw9770]

Being sponsored by the USSR and having a registered sex offender drive for them, it sounds like karma was a bitch to the Life F1 team for selling their soul.

[@mezykin]

that's as much as i needed to know 😂😂

[@Free-4554]

i thought he was just a shit driver damn.

[@emdotrod]

This car definitely one of the worst, it's even slower than an F3000 car

[@mica7191]

If the L190 qualified... it would be NC in race results list anyway... it would be 10 laps behind everyone else

[@leandrociarrapico9256]

@@mica7191 tried this in Rfactor once, full distance at Imola, got lapped 11 times 💀

[@leandrociarrapico9256]

@@mica7191 Tried this in Rfactor once, full distance race at Imola, got lapped 14 times :)

[@purwantiallan5089]

​@@mica7191or even 26 laps down. 🤣

[@purwantiallan5089]

​@@leandrociarrapico9256i also done this in Assetto Corsa against Super GT500 and DTM Cars. It even got overlapped 11 times at Suzuka! 🤣

[@benbenneyworth3207]

Unaware of Gary Brabham, I decided to search him up online. Yeah I wish I never did that now. 😳

[@Peachrocks5]

My first thought "how bad could his results be even if he didn't score or win anything ever it's hardly the worst thin..." *reads on "Oh it's not about the racing. Terrific..."

[@Woofdogman]

The thing is, his entire family achieved in motorsport, except him, his dad was a 3 time F1 world champion and both of his brothers won at Le Mans

[@simeonyves5940]

Same, oh my days... I would rather have remained Ignorant!

[@sparkidee]

He's a PD File unfortunately

[@lachlanhines7644]

Yep, I was like. He's a bloody Brabham, surely he was a good.... oh, his driving wasn't the problem.

[@jeracerx]

"Gary got a weird case, why is he around?"

[@RSG_TheMonster]

CERTIFIED LOVER BOY CERTIFIED PEDOPHILE

[@RSG_TheMonster]

CERTIFIED LOVER BOY CERTIFIED P3DOPHILE

[@faithfulforhope]

LMAO

[@BlackPawn14]

A quick bit of "research" (read: Wikipedia) points out that his... let's call them "crimes", happened about 10 years after Life was no longer... y'know... alive. So I presume they had no clue. Family likely helped get him past the door, too (look up Brabham, Jack. Hint: he's got several entries in "List of Formula One World Champions").

[@Gothstana]

WOP WOP WOP WOP WOP!

[@adityaagarwal130]

"The gap was 5 "...... "minutes and 47 seconds" Nailed it

[@sdx3918]

Just a TLDR refresher for the brabham siblings: Geoff Brabham: 4-time IMSA Sportscar champion, and 24 hours of Le-Mans and Bathurst 1000 winner. David Brabham: Japan Super GT Champion, Bathurst 1000 winner, 4-time sebring 12 hour (class) winner, 5 time Le-Mans winner including one overall win. Gary Brabham: one sebring 12 hour win by virtue of being carried by his brother Geoff, did dirty stuff involving younglings and was disowned by his entire family.

[@Reiver-93]

What's Matty brabham up to ever since he left formula e?

[@gavalant366]

​@@Reiver-93last I've heard of him he was racing in the stadium supertrucks series and he also occasionally makes cameo appearances in IMSA so I'd say he's doing fine for himself as a racer.

[@Gothstana]

@@gavalant366 Hell yeah! The Brabham name going strong.

[@stinkyroadhog1347]

There's a good reason Gary Brabham was disowned by his entire family.

[@Athrun82]

A funny side story: during the Mexican Grand Prix of 1990 a dog run onto the track in one of the practice sessions and it took the hapless marshals a lot of time to catch it. Eccelstone commented with amusement: "The dog was very disciplined and stuck to his line. And it was fast, faster then the Life"

[@bluesrike]

"Life Sucks" In other news, water is wet.

[@Anonymous_0894]

In other words, the sky is blue.

[@Speeder76]

And in other, other news, the sky is blue and the clouds are white.

[@LotsOfToubleUsuallySerious]

🤓☝️ Water is *actually* not wet, it just makes things wet

[@ohmawgawdVEVO]

​@@LotsOfToubleUsuallySeriousyeah take of your clothes buddy

[@LotsOfToubleUsuallySerious]

@@ohmawgawdVEVO wait did i get that wrong? I wasn't really being serious. Anyway, no

[@blazi2293]

4:42 I googled and expected him to just be a pretty shitty driver IT'S SO MUCH WORSE THAN THAT

[@sp0nge1337]

The Life had less power than a Cossie DFV from the 1970's.

[@nano_iNsane]

That mades put on value the old cossie DFV ❤ old as hell, good 'till today❤

[@craigcharlesworth1538]

Oh, the DFV would have absolutley smoked it, I have no doubt about that.

[@dylansmit3883]

Even the max quote they gave themselves was only 480 hp, which is about the same as a late 70s DFV.

[@jackmonaghan8477]

Gary Brabham - The Prince Andrew of F1

[@nano_iNsane]

😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂

[@Mike-xh8fl]

"Welcome to Epstein Island, Mr Brabham."

[@akuma2534]

Guys I googled Gary Brabham. Guys, you sholdn't do it. Pleas. Just, igonre his existence.

[@Jack-cq9pv]

Please. Imagine the worst crime you can think of. He did that. Save yourself.

[@zamgamer8419]

​@@Jack-cq9pvmate he did much MUCH worse than anything i can even imagine

[@nano_iNsane]

Mate, this team history is worldwide know it. So Gary life is known by every motorsport fan 😂

[@Zeno149]

It was so much worse than I was expecting

[@Vincent-mu2rb]

@@nano_iNsane who ?

[@KapiteinKrentebol]

That new sponsor certainly raised a red flag! 😂

[@Phonixrmf]

It was a community effort, at least

[@torstenscholz6243]

Yup, a red flag with a star, a hammer and a sickle in gold.

[@michaelmaclean6965]

Here's a hot take, i believe the 1998 Prost AP01 to be the worst car package in F1 history. They had names like Jenkins and Barnard on the design team even if dudot was technical director for frenchie political reasons. They had a promising 1997 season thanks to being a knockoff Benetton with Bridgestone and a mugen, two solid drivers in Trulli and Panis and Alain Prost running it with the promise of support from Jacques Chirac. Peugeot spent 7 years building hand grenades that occasionally made decent power levels and drove Jordan's technical department to distraction and spent more time causing arguments than committing to a development plan and by the time Alain got them to do business with him they'd given up on being good at anything. Life had no weight of expectation on them, an ex Ferrari engine designer from duldrum era Ferrari and a chassis disowned by it's creator so their WOAT title was just handed to them. Prost had to fight like a fucking champion to wind up with the disappointing shitstorm that he got

[@GWFires]

there is somewhere a really great comment (in which some describes) about how the team just couldnt work together and were just working against each other.

[@michaelmaclean6965]

@@GWFires it seems to happen at every french super team. Renault, Ligier, Larousse, Prost, Renault/alpine and matra all went down the pan in a political maelstrom

[@michaelskoomamacher5652]

​@@michaelmaclean6965calling yourself "French team" is like setting yourself for failure, no joke. 1. French work hour was too short compared to UK and Italy, which while good for the workers, it also means much less time to develop the cars (particularly Prost which only had 40 hours/week compared to UK's 68 hours) 2. Guaranteed support from government and state-owned companies made them complacent - why spent extra efforts to be good if you can finish the season pointless AND still got paid the same? 3. Chauvinism - ask Tyrrell why Matra bailed on him, why Prost decided to ditch decent engine for a grenade, and why Alpine is still headquartering in Paris despite having their facilities in Enstone?

[@michaelmaclean6965]

@@michaelskoomamacher5652 they're all great points, 2 is basically Ligier post 81 given the period they spent in pre qualifying with the same engines as Williams. I'd say that Larousse might be the exception since they actually had to fight, punched above their weight and didn't get free everything just for turning up. I believe Prost said that his wage bills were the same as McLaren's with half the staff when he was shutting it all down in 2001, I don't know if anyone ever ran the numbers but it sounds about right.

[@ELSTERLING]

A few other fun Life facts: - Its recorded top speed was ~140mph. - Its designer washed his hands of it because the carbon moulding had been done so poorly it visibly twisted and warped at speed. - its only timed lap around Imola was so slow it is feasibly possible someone could beat it on a bicycle. - One of its many breakdowns was due to the team not putting oil in it.

[@jsb2907]

*Wonders why Josh has such a downer on Gary Brabham?* *looks up Gary Brabham* *Ohhhhhhhhhhhhh....*

[@Wizzkidwas]

(*Googles Gary Brabham*) Oh NO!

[@kdon116]

so i looked up who gary brabham is…

[@SolidSonicTH]

Kek. First line in the Wikipedia article.

[@lukew6725]

You poor soul....

[@superalex120]

8:08 U.S.S.R Be like: hello! Didn’t see that one coming huh!?!

[@TheRCScotsman]

So Gary Brabham only got 6 months for... ...what he did. That's an absolute disgrace!

[@simeonyves5940]

Indeed, it should have been Whole Life Imprisonment!

[@Gothstana]

PDF files get 6 months, murderers get less than 2 years and probation. The man who showed the world what atrocities Australian and American soldiers were committing in Afghanistan? Closed court, evidence that would've helped his case being held by the government to "protect public interest", a stacked jury, 5 years without parole. David McBride is a worse criminal to the Australian government than literal murderers and child molesters. No justice.

[@torstenscholz6243]

Life's not fair.

[@F1Krazy]

I've been waiting for this video for years. 5:54 Worth noting that - allegedly - the reason the car broke down at Interlagos was because the mechanics had gone on strike over unpaid wages and refused to put any oil in the engine. Although other sources just say it blew a con rod, so... who knows? 🤷‍♂

[@matt_v_photo]

Well 2014 happened decades later….. with that green thing

[@emdotrod]

It's still good enough to qualify on its own. Sure, slower than GP2 car but it's not an accident waiting to happen.

[@matt_v_photo]

@@emdotrod if we could refer it to being the ugliest car ever made 🤷‍♂️

[@SmallBlogV8]

The Caterham snow shovel could at least qualify within 107% and finished more than half of the races it entered. They look like a bunch of proper grown-ups compared to Life F1!

[@sswishbone]

James Allen summed this engine up best in commentary Five Live: - "...the Life W12, I can't describe the noise to you, but imagine filling your dustbin with nuts and bolts, and then throwing it down the stairs, it was something akin to that!"

[@Speeder76]

I just adore it, Josh. Specially, when myself lived that time. BTW, here's a sugestion: do the life of Ginther Schmid, the man behind ATS and Rial, the only one that build two Formula 1 teams, and with a (very) short-fused temper.

[@jeanuthenext]

Interesting! This topic definitely should get a video of its own! 😁

[@aoife1122]

A motorized pencil sharpener... 😂 (Josh is in a class of his own when it comes to putting my spill-proof keyboard to the test.)

[@pablofernandez2335]

07:22, that's a lap time typical of the Nordschleife LOL

[@pablofernandez2335]

03:20, the year i was brought to *life* LOL

[@aaronaaronsen3360]

- Mom, can I have a Ferrari ? - We already have a Ferrari at home The Ferrari at home:

[@AnthonySmith-nn4cr]

The remixed USSR theme song legit got me laughing out loud

[@thedumbstuff4170]

I’ve desperately been missing entertainment in my day today, so thanks for saving it, Josh!

[@mohamedsalahdimessi1721]

i've been waiting for a Josh Revell vid, like I searched his channel like 2 hours ago!

[@Happymali10]

The car still exists by the way, it's been restored, refitted with the W12, and has run at goodwood a few years ago.

[@alrecks619]

Life is essentially the "We have Ferrari at home" F1 team.

[@itwontcomeout5678]

Haas 😂

[@torstenscholz6243]

Life is literally what happens when Soviets try to build their own Ferrari team.

[@bradleycottam8661]

i think we've beaten this dead horse to the same bloody pulp we did to the lola mastercard team....

[@HondaOdysseyTypeR]

Some of my favorite videos you’ve made are ones like this that discuss obscure, mediocre drivers and teams. Been waiting a long time for this one and I’m glad it’s finally here

[@heliogt1961]

ok the SOVIET UNION was definetly NOT the plottwist i was expecting

[@torstenscholz6243]

The Soviets got their hands on something and failed completely. Stop the presses.

[@jordannufcfan]

4:44 why did I look 🤢🤮

[@showstealer1829]

*Googles Gary Brabham* .....Oh...so that's where that meme came from *Removes eyeballs with a spoon*

[@danieldorn9989]

At any stage of testing this car was screaming "LET ME DIE IN DIGNITY, PLEASE!"

[@DeathInTheSnow]

Gary Brabham, remembered for the same reasons as Gary Glitter, and drove almost as fast...

[@cyberfutur5000]

Didn't know the ussr thing. lol

[@Billy_McLovin_Hope]

Honestly, I thought that there was no team worse than Andrea Moda, then Life came through literally and figuratively and said "hold my Peroni."

[@dinohermann1887]

Mastercard Lola

[@mrgobrien]

5:05 - lol !!!! the actual speed of it! and yes thanks for the caption because it looks like a practice lap.

[@coronasdelaurel]

This car was something else. I'm currently watching the 1990 F1 season and I'm surprised whenever I see footage of the car moving at all during the pre-qualifying sessions instead of being parked.

[@Pateramalina]

3:11 this is Jim from the office meme picture xD

[@Hitherto90]

For a motorized pencil sharpener?????? Josh, who hurt you? Normal people don't dish out this kind of savagery.

[@BugattiONE666]

"Worst F1 car of all time" huh, funny looking "EVERY SINGLE HAAS"

[@KD10Conqueror]

Those at least work :P

[@Minardimaniac]

Good pun for the video title! In comparision to LIFE Minardi also struggled in their first season but much less...

[@CammieRacing]

Welp, that's Josh's Italian visa revoked.

[@cikame]

Whenever something cool is made i always think "i wonder what good ideas someone had that lead to this point, there seems to be a profound lack of good ideas in this story.

[@townicus5908]

Life Sucks Thanks for the reminder!

[@FightingTorque411]

For perspective, a 7m16s lap around the then 5.04km Imola circuit works out to just under 11.6 metres per second, or about 26mph (42kph). That's 2mph slower than Usain Bolt ran his Olympic 100m final, and less than one-fifth of the speed the frontrunners were pulling, Senna's pole lap *averaging* a little over 134mph. No wonder Giacomelli was terrified - in a car with abnormally low cockpit sides and a history of failing crash tests, that's like driving a mobility scooter in the fast lane of a motorway for three miles and praying nobody hits you...

[@wrestlingpurist9784]

At the risk of being mistaken, the car apparently won the Italian Grand Prix.

[@privateinformation2960]

literally THE best time for formula one. life showing up at a race, giving up on the W12 engine and slapping in a standard 10, finding out the cowling now didnt fit because of the new engine, so driving around for half a lap without an engine cover, until it grenaded itself. thaaaaaaaaaaanks for the mammarieeeeeeeeeeees.....

[@privateinformation2960]

oh and Andrea Moda basically trying to kill poor old Roberto Moreno and Perry McCarthy repeatedly because they couldnt afford to one run car let alone two, and therefore had to concentrate all the money they DIDNT have into the driver bringing in the most money.... which wasnt much to begin with.... because Andrea Moda. Very very sexy cars tho from them and Fondmetal.

[@MrWaifuTaker]

Gary Brabham for the woodchipper.

[@unsatisfiedfans7422]

Life sucks, everything is f*cked up

[@rickywilcocks2712]

Great video, I'd love to see one on the Forti team

[@juanritanjaya6254]

Aaah different era of F1. Meanwhile racing outfits like Andretti is stonewalled now

[@Gothstana]

*googles Gary Brabham* Oh. Oh no.

[@leandrociarrapico9256]

One of my favourite teams ever, I guess that from my profile pic, you may realize I have a thing for modest and underperforming teams 😂

[@starstorm-alt-2256]

I was already thinking about what a fever dream this teams' story is by the we got to the Imola PQ lap time, but then the 1-2-punch of the teams' budget and their new sponsor K.O.ed me like never before.

[@SetsunaTheFandom]

Life is strange. The founder thinks he wants to Alive a Life only to find out that Life gave him lemons that Life is unalived. oh no what have I done

[@DominicGreene72]

it's like an alternate timeline for brawn gp... only it's not an alternate, it actually happened.

[@Vok250]

But damn do they make a good cereal!

[@itwontcomeout5678]

Yeah and that magazine too right 😂

[@harinandansrikanth451]

Could you make a video on Top 10 Ugliest F1 cars ever?

[@tidepoolclipper8657]

He sure could; There's the March 711-2, 1979 Ensign N179, Ensign N173, Ferrari F14T, Ferrari F2005, 2014 Caterham CT05, Lotus E22, Arrows A2, 1976 Ligier JS5, and Eifelland Type 21.

[@MrChalkAdept]

Incredible video yet again! Josh never stops giving us works of art on KZbin. PS. What is the outro music for the video? It sounds amazing

[@Hammerhead547]

I remember seeing a clip from the quali sessions for the 1990 Belgian Grand Prix that showed the life car in the garage getting its spark plugs changed and murrray walker trying to sound at least a little hopeful for their chances by saying "they're hoping to put some life back in that car" only for james hunt to deadpan "probably not".

[@dennismerlijn7459]

An intressting flowerpot is brilliant!

[@sheronian2951]

Something funny with the l190 is that apparently the weight of the w12 engine was skewed to one side and caused the car to oversteer going one way and understeer the other

[@dylansmit3883]

I don't remember where I got the quote from, but I remember Giacomelli roasted the Life in a legandary way even when he was still driving for them. He told a journalist he'd been hearing strange, unusual sounds from the engine. He suspected for once all the cylinders were actually firing.

[@Watchmedome3017]

The W engine is so unbalanced it needs to be turbo charged low Rpm like in the Bugatti

[@dylansmit3883]

The Bugatti isn't a true three bank W engine, it's two VR8s stuck together. Very different.

[@magnatarbeing8749]

​@@dylansmit3883I refer to it as a V16 with staggard piston configuration.

[@dylansmit3883]

@@magnatarbeing8749 That's essentialy what the double VR concept is, yes.

[@fabulouschild2005]

I feel sorry for Jack Brabham, having a son convicted of fiddling kids

[@NightmareMoon9964]

10:13 The Origin of Max Verstappen's car in Monza 2015?

[@ijusthatenormiesihavenooth1164]

Make a video on the collapse of Top Gear

[@MatthewLewisAtlanta]

I love stuff on Life Racing Engines! Great piece as always Josh! There's a fabulous pic floating around on the net at Portugal pre qualifying getting ready to roll out with 2 beautiful 3 inch strips of red duct tape (or "helicopter tape" for the UK conversion) holding the engine cover or bonnet down with all of their might. It is gorgeous. If only the USSR could have designed a slightly stronger adhesive that could withstand the immense pressures of a modern formula one car's aerodynamic strains.... or a mild sneeze from across the room.... Who knows? We might have seen a big red flag be placed on the sun by now as the Soviet money was supposed to also include USSR's secret advanced metals and composites to be used in their space exploration division. I pray this team will be on the entry list every year. Vita has even said in recent interviews you may NOT have seen the last of the name Life Racing Engines in Formula 1! He's even working on a HYPERCAR! Surely a threat to win Lemans 24 hours and many more endurance championships for years to come! Come on commies! The.world NEEDS this to happen! Pic-Life > Andretti-Cadillac any day of the week! And also FREE THE PHOENIX/D.A.R.T.-ARROWS/HARTs FROM MALAYSIAN CUSTOMS TYRANNY! Let the Phart-Hart TWRAP-04x3 Seaters race!

[@keencolios591]

VW also had a "W" engine (actually a VR) in its Pheaton. It leakes oil that murica would start to invade it. It needs 12 l of fresh oil every 15k km or 12 months. Internal recommandation is half the time for a longer life since this engine has terrible heat and load distribution. (Wich is also why its not a real W but a VR type.)

[@simplypepe1732]

Gary Brabham? Probably related to Jack Brabham, one of the sports beloved drivers. Let’s look him up and see what he got up to. …

[@ateyourchips1164]

"im going to search gary brabham, surely it cant be that bad" *_searches_* "oh...."

[@iMDN94]

Well, Google definitely taught me something…

[@carlo9524]

You know that someone from Maranello had something to do from it.

[@MikeCBA]

I am one of very few people who saw the Life on track....at two circuits. This involved being at the circuit at 8 am. It was noticeably slower over Eau Rouge and up the hill through Raidillon.

[@Karek53]

The thumbnail 😂

[@ZeldaTheSwordsman]

The USSR flag on the car is hilarious to me because it's the same color as the bloody carbody and thus doesn't stand out at all

[@netsurferx1]

The Worst Formula 1 Car Ever Made? That would be the USF1 Type 1, mate. At least Andrea Moda, Lola & Life got cars to the grid. USF1 couldn't even pull that off.

[@MrSniperfox29]

Being pretty generous with "to the grid" given LIFE never saw a grid

[@Yukino-014]

USF1 may never have fielded any cars, but as a result, we never got to see how good/bad they were on the track. Consider that a blessing. Lola, Andrea Moda and Life all got their chance, and that's why they're the butt of the jokes today.

[@SolidSonicTH]

I still think it's a little unfair to Lola. Yeah, yeah, pick your sponsors better and whatnot but how were they REALLY supposed to know that a company as big as MasterCard would be so unwilling to be cooperative with their roadmap to get to F1 (especially Lola being a RACE CAR company you'd think the sponsor would have deferred to their intuition about what it takes to compete in a given league).

[@craigcharlesworth1538]

I dunno, if USF1 had gotten a car built and turned up to a race I highly doubt it would have been 20-30 seconds off the pace.

[@Mike-xh8fl]

Can't call something the worst car when it never existed in the first place.

[@tidepoolclipper8657]

You could talk about the worst LOOKING Formula One cars; There's the March 711-2, 1979 Ensign N179, Ensign N173, Ferrari F14T, Ferrari F2005, 2014 Caterham CT05, Lotus E22, Arrows A2, 1976 Ligier JS5, and Eifelland Type 21.

[@wrathofoprah9557]

The Honda RA302 was the worst F1 car ever made. It was made out of magnesium and killed its driver after 3 laps of its only race.

[@GVGames1986]

Regulations and standards were very relaxed back then. I like some aspects of this, but the Life car was pretty much like a different weaker category car.

[@farishanafiah8461]

Imagine calling your sports team "Life". What's next, Soul? Heart?

[@extremegrieferbible]

There were teams called LEC Refrigeration Racing, Custom Made Harry Stiller Racing and in 1975, a Berta-Ford. Life is mundane compared to this shit.

[@benhalliday160]

0. It's always zero. Doesn't matter what the question is. Especially considering the Judd, it is 0

[@Alex.The.Lionnnnn]

i've missssssed this dramatic kiwi voiiiiiiiice.

[@razburry8001]

So now I see why no one mentions Gary whenever they talk about the Brabham's, yikes

[@ColeYote]

Oh, wow, I knew this car was poop but I didn’t realize the guy that designed it Alan Smithee’d it.

[@limpetarch98k]

The worst F1 car would be the BRM P83 aka Lotus 43. As cool as the H16 engine was, it kept blowing up. And unlike the Renault RS-01, they never made it stop blowing up.

[@psyclonetheseahawk9261]

And I thought Andrea Moda was bad...

[@Mike-xh8fl]

That was the team and engine more than the car itself. Life was the total hopeless package, lol

[@maxbspqr]

Dude’s name is pronounced Rocky no Rotshee.

[@SmallBlogV8]

The only reason I regret clicking on this is because now we know about Gary B...