Fun fact Button still carries the grid penalty he recieved for flipping Wehrlien in Monaco. If he is to make a return to F1 this year he will be serving the 3 place grid penalty he recieved 4 years ago.

I think it's fucking hilarious that Alonso missed a race because the Honda engine was so shit Zack allowed him to race in Indy, only for his Honda engine to break in that too.

I’m blown away they didn’t mention Fangio’s kidnapping and DNS at the 1958 Cuban GP. They could do an entire video on that, it’s a fascinating story.

I wish they would mention kimi saying "I was taking a shit"

The penalty will be applied at the drivers next race Jenson is still waiting to serve his penalty for colliding with Wehrlein

The only two drivers suspended by their own teams....Senna and Senna.

The guy going to prison giving his seat to Schumacher has got to be a legendary switch up.

5:38 "things returned to normal for the next grand prix" toro rosso without rear wing in background.

Alonso: Gets offered Indy 500 drive as a break from terrible F1 Honda season. Also Alonso: Retires from Indy 500 due to Honda engine failure.

Who can forget the iconic Andrea Moda at the 1992 French Grand Prix? Stuck amongst a lorry drivers strike and couldn’t make the circuit and only team to do so

Fangio being kidnapped and held whilst the race was on should have been on there.

Pretty much all of Perry McCarthy’s F1 weekends could be on this list

Every time when we talk about something related to F1 kimi's name always comes up. I don't know how it happens, maybe because of his long career or his nature. But surely I'm going to miss him if he doesn't get the chance to race next year.

Kimi is such a mad lad. Bankrupts a team by scoring too many points

'How did you become a 7 time world champion Michael?' Well you see, it all started, when one of the drivers was put in jail...

Bet Montoya broke his wrist whilst ‘playing’ with his ‘motorbike’

Kimi - "Woah I was having a sh!t"😂

The permission withdrawn thing seems kinda rough for the drivers. They asked if they could do a thing, the regulators said yes, they did the thing, then the regulators changed their mind. That's just unfair to the drivers.

Team having too many drivers - Giedo Bantergarde, 2015

A Random English taxi driver badmouthing Gachot rewrote F1 history forever.

Schumie got his start from that Jordan driver goin to jail?? Lol I had no idea. Love that classic livery

What about Robbie Williams? He missed the final deciding race of the season because he was accidently locked inside his caravan by the team manager.

Lotus: Ok Kimi, stop scoring so many points for us, please! Kimi: Bwoah 🤷‍♂️

The 'Orange Arrows' were good looking race cars..!

Bruh imagine racing in Indy 500 because your Honda engine is unreliable but your Indy car also breaks down 💀💀

Me seeing the thumbnail: "Oh god, Kimi must've missed one because he had to have a drink."

That 10 place dodging is actually very smart

8:54 Lotus really ran an EXPO 2020 Ad in 2013 ?

Notable mention: Stefan Bellof in 1985. Tyrell was too poor to afford two models of the Tyrell 014 with turbo engines so Brundle and Bellof practically shared that car. In Hockenheim 1985 Bellof piloted that while in the two previous races that car was piloted by Brundle.

“In prison” made me chuckle

Tyre failure during the Indianapolis race in 2005, when Michelin tyred cars didn’t compete due to the tyre manufacturer’s fears of tyre failure. It was a collective DNS but worth mentioning.

Kimi was too bust eating ice creams to do a race 😂

Kimi: No pay? No work. No steering wheel? No work. No drink? No fun.

#1 is an injury? Wow. What a shocker.

Amazing list and stories. 👏👏👏

How about Bob Williams, who lost title to Jackie Stewart due to being locked up in his trailer house

I love it when you do videos like this. More like this please

One race Mansell missed in 88 was the race at Monza; his substitute was involved in the Ayrton Senna incident that enabled the hometown Ferraris to finish 1-2 in the first race after the death of Enzo

What about when Alonso got electrocuted, ooops. I *mean* got caught out by wind, crashed at 80kph and recieved a concussion. 🤨

Great video!

Montoya admitted to falling off the bike in a podcast so yes it has been officially confirmed he didn’t do it playing tennis

Another notable mention: Otto Stuppacher 1976 in Monza. He started in a privately financed Tyrell 007 (the car piloted by Sheckter and Depailler in the 1975 season) and missed qualifying for the race (8 secs behind the penultimate driver Arturo Merzario in the weak Wolf-Williams). But rules at that time had it that the permission to start in a GP was not dependent on the time set but on the position in qualifying meaning out of 29 entrants 26 were allowed to start despite their time in qualifying. Hunt, Mass and Watson however had their lap time in qualifying disallowed because of fuel irregularities so Stuppacher could have raced in the GP but it turned out that he had flown back to Vienna on the evening after the qualifying and could not make it to Monza in time to start at the GP.

Thank you for reading out the subheadings

Kolles... His wiki page has this gem. "In July 2013, it emerged that Kolles had previously tried to blackmail Mercedes-Benz Motorsport boss Toto Wolff after he had allegedly recorded Wolff making negative remarks about the Mercedes F1 Team's management." The Andretti/Unser one is good. Such a shame they didn't get to race as that was a great achievement. Gachot is still the best reason. And Mansell's the funniest.

That Bruno Senna thing is classic Colin Kolles. A totally inept team owner who would use any excuse in the book to get a pay driver.

€50,000 per point. Nice bit of contract work there Kimi

Kimi missing Pele: I was having a shit Kimi missing a race: I was taking the piss

My favourite has to be the Andretti/Unser story. Absolutely bananas!!!

Montoya confirmed it was a bike accident in the Beyond the Grid podcast FYI ☺️

I remember the Massa penalty that never was.

with Mansell the car was designed for Hakkinen. Marlboro wanted a champion only 2 were Mansell and Prost. No eddie irvine having appendicitis on wiki it says he PO. practiced only. Modena also missed the weighbridge and was disquallified.

Fun fact 6:47 that's actually Mario's twin brother Aldo in the photo. In practice for the 1969 Indianapolis 500 Mario suffered facial burns so for the front row photos they had Aldo stand in. If you look at the individual qualifying photos from that year you'll notice Mario kept his helmet and balaclava on

Jeez that result for johansson shows that the 84 toleman was no joke!

Top 10 reasons drives missed presentations by pele

Robert Kubica missing a race or two in 2011 - 2018 due to a minor mishap in a Škoda Fabia.

How about - Andrea De Cesaris, Japan 1994? Went on a windsurfing holiday thinking Wendlinger was coming back from injury. Given weather at said race, water sport tactics might have been a viable option.

I still remember how Button's grid penalty still intact 4 years ago.

At the German GP in Hockenheim in 1989, in the days when there were so many teams that they actually had prequalifying before qualifying "proper", the two Rial-Ford cars didn't qualify for the race. Volker Weidler's car was disqualified because it had to be push-started, and Christian Danner's car was too slow to qualify. It turned out later that the team didn't have any parts for the cars which meant that Danner had to drive half of the straights with the rev limiter on because they didn't have the right gear ratios for Hockenheim. Somewhere I have an old casette recording of Danner's car changing up the gears and then going BRRRRRRRGGGGGGGGGGG for the last few seconds of the straight every lap.

I think Giedo van der Garde should be there when he missed the whole of 2015 despite having a signed contract.

5:35 where is the rear wing of the Toro rosso?

I believe Massa missed Malaysia because of neck injuries sustained by sneezing in an elevator

6:49 Is that Matt Damon?! Lol 😆 They could be brothers

Luca Badoer "colorblind incident" 1999

What about the Andrea Moda drivers who weren't allowed to race because their team principal had been arrested in the pits?

Kimi Raikkonen had surgery from a crash over a decade ago?!?!?

Mansell also missed Adelaide 1987 due to a huge crash at suzuka

Please can you make a second part please.

Stoffel Vandoorne: too fast

Here in the US, Rinus Veekay missed an INDYCAR race after braking his collarbone on a bike ride

Clever from Sauber with Massa actually

Any reason given for the about face on Andretti and Unser?

It's odd that massa got a 10 place penalty for colliding with another drive but in 2020 you can take out 4 drivers and only get a 5 place

I don't think Fernando Alonso missing a race to run Indy isn't strange

I've never heard such a flawless pronunciation of "Heikki Kovalainen" from a non-Finn, well done sir!

I want to see Montoya playing tennis on a motocross

Lotus be like "Eh...we dont think you can take this car to points too many times, so yea fuck it 50k per point Kimi is that ok?" Kimi: Hold my beer.

Kimi missing out with Lotus should have help in some form of financial. Ferrari and Lotus were challenging some constructor points that season.

Raikkonen’s 2013 was crazy, not just back surgery, also sign a Ferrari contract for 2014

Being a guy who lives in Indianapolis I wish so many big names would come here for races like the Hoosier 100.

Mistaking visir cleaner for contact lenses fluid?? Wtf xD the burn

Had you waited a few days more to upload this video, you could've also included Max Verstappen missing Hungary 2021 GP

Favourite of those 10 is Gachot being arrested, leading to Michael Schumacher's F1 debut

No Lightning McQueen!?!?

The thing is Ascari was *still* competing in a round of the world championship.

Racing in the Indy 500 is hardly a strange reason for missing an F1 race...

8:53 They were planning the 2020 Expo since 2012? wtf

1:33 Mazepin will do this too sometime

10:13 montoya see you in wimbledon while months later he won british GP

Lotus getting Kimi for 2 seasons for less than 20m seems too good to be true

Don't forget that Riccardo Patrese was suspended for the 1978 United States Grand Prix following the death of Ronnie Paterson in the Italian Grand Prix.

They left out the 2006 Willie Jerrels men's butts discount fiasco.

What about Justin Wilson who can't race for Minardi in 2001 and 2002 because his height

Uhh, how is number one not Fangio's kidnapping in Cuba?

For Senna, wasn't he replaced by Pierluigi Martini instead ? (and failed to qualify by the way) Johansson was his teammate for the end of the season to fill the absence of the injured Johnny Cecotto.

Montoya's injury is not up for question anymore, He admitted to it being a bike accident in ''Beyond the Grid''. I would have thought the Race would check out at least THAT podcast, given the fact it's funded and promoted by Formula 1 (Liberty Media) itself

Yall forgot fangio in cuba

4:22 I see you forgot to mention Alonso trying the 500 again and failing to qualify ;)

I feel that last years events also deserve a spot on the list. We may not think it's stranfe now, but in a few years we will look back and think that not partecipating in a gp because of a global pandemic it's rather unusual.

How about, a race ban extended? Eddie Irvine was blamed for the multi car pile up in Brazil 1994 involving himself, Eric Bernard, Jos Verstappen and Martin Brundle. Eddie Jordan appealed the ruling which sentenced him to a one race ban initially. The appeal failed and Irvine's ban was increased to a 3 Grands Prix ban, meaning that he actually missed the Pacific, San Marino and Monaco Grands Prix, before returning in Spain

Tbh if I could I would sit on the sidelines in Monaco every time in the F1 video game