So basically almost whole Fernando Alonso career

Ahh yes a compilation of Fernando Alonso's career choices

you should do one on the drivers who lucked out and joined teams just as they were on the rise (for example Sainz with every single career move he has made)

I would also mention Vettel. Joining a pink Mercedes, just to have it turn into a green Williams after signing the contract

the amount of time Mclearn has made in this video is simply incredible.

I've always felt people harshly gave Perez a bad mark for 2013, but they completely forget that Mclaren were making all the wrong decisions by then

Perez' career is really special in how he managed to join McLaren just as they slumped, and really knocked his career back quite a bit, but then left Racing Point just after its peak, anf join Red Bull when they managed to make a truly competitive car for the first time in years.

I would argue the Russel's timing has been perfect.. he's shown a greater ability to wring decent performance out of a relatively poor car than his team-mate.. it can only do his reputation good.

Reutemann move to Lotus in 1979. He was Ferrari's #1 driver for the 1978 season, which was the only season between 1975 and 1979 that Ferrari didn't win a title. Then he left for Lotus, who dominated the 1978 season, only to drop down in the standings as they didn't win a single race that year while Ferrari won the Constructor's Championship and scored a 1-2 in the Drivers one.

Fernando Alonso, he Alone can fill the whole list Such an unlucky guy

Fernando could take up half the freaking list

What about Pastor Maldonado switching from Williams to Lotus for 2014? That team went from a win, lots of podium in 2013 to barely being able to get points in 2014.

Fernando Alonso couldn’t even catch a break in the 2017 Indy 500 😢

Piquet in Lotus, 1988 Reutimann in Lotus , 1979 Alesi and Berger in Benetton, 1996 Irvine in Jaguar, 2000 Vettel in Aston Martin, 2021

This video could be called "Fernando Alonso's F1 career"

Sergio Perez almost lost his F1 career because of that lousy McLaren. Vijay saved this tremendous driver.

McLaren blame Perez but Jason didn't get any podiums either

Missing some key ones here: Sebastian Vettel - Aston Martin Fernando Alonso - Ferrari & McLaren (the 2nd time) Michael Schumacher - Mercedes Daniel Ricciardo & Nico Hulkenberg - Renault David Coulthard - Red Bull Valtteri Bottas - Williams

The cases of Warwick and Alesi are massive "What if" situations. What if Senna didn't block the 1986 move to Lotus for Warwick? What if Alesi wasn't screwed around by Williams and signed for them in 1991?

I remember when Lewis went to Mercedes thinking WTF is he thinking, this is insane - boy was I/we wrong about that one! I do feel bad for Russell this year, although the silver arrows will get it together soon, maybe not for this but certainly for next season.

I always supported Jean Alesi in my childhood/teen days. It is brutally unfair that he only had 1 victory when he actually was better driver than some World champions. So unlucky.

Alesi made the same mistake again when he moved to Benetton for 1996, he joined the team that had just won back-to-back drivers titles, but Schumacher had taken all the best staff with him to Ferrari and Benetton slumped.

Martin Brundle... ? He had a decent run at Benetton for literally one season, but that was about it. It wasn't like anyone at that time was expecting him to get in the Mclaren and become a WC or even a regular fixture on the podium.

1. Fernando Alonso - Mclaren Honda 2015 2. Fernando Alonso - Renault 2008 3. Fernando Alonso - Ferrari 2010

I love these “10 times…” videos from The Race👌🏼

Fisichella's timing was interesting as well: Jordan -> Benetton 1998, Benetton 2001 -> Jordan 2002. And in 2005 he went back to Benetton/Renault with more luck this time. 😅

Going back to Warwick later in his career. He joined the BTCC Alfa Romeo team in 1995. But Alfa having won the BTCC title in 94' went back to Italy leaving the team to be run by Prodrive as a customer. Warwick ended up in a customer Alfa and every other team had jumped forward.

Great video. 👏👏 love these F1 history videos.

Jean Alesi in a nutshell:

I'd rank Perez above Rosberg on this list. The timing of Perez' move to McLaren was just devastating. You can say McLaren was even worse than Force India in the years after, but that doesn't make it better. In 2012, Perez was seen as a certain future Ferrari driver. He gave his future in red up for an offer by the team who had the fastest car at the time. It was a logical decision. And almost ended his career. On top of the unexpected backwards step it was in performance compared even to the Sauber he had driven previously, he was stigmatized as a driver who "had his chance and blew it". It took him seven years of giant-killing performances and unlikely podiums at Force India / Racing Point to shake that label off. For Rosberg, by contrast, the move to Mercedes ended up bringing him the title, even if it took longer than he would've hoped. And Mercedes' fall from grace in 2010 was neither as high nor quite as surprising as McLaren's in 2013. Not if you watched BrawnGP's form curve in 2009 closely and took into consideration that they probably threw every last penny they had left in the title fight rather than in the development of the 2010 car.

Love these kind of videos, keep up the good work 👏

Cool to see that Pérez is the most played part of the video.

8:00 the burn on that one

Alternative title : Alonsos full career

I can see why alonso wasn't mentioned. Half the video would have been about him if he was.

As the great Murraye walker (god bless him) used to say, "anything can happen in formula one and it usually does,".

New title: Fernando alonsos career

I dont know how 1994 gets such a bad rap. Yes the Peugeot V10 was unreliable, but Mclaren scored 8 podiums out of 16 races. In 1995 with Mercedes, they not only scored less points, & only 2 podiums. In 1996 they had 6 podiums.Again less than the MP4/9 Scored.

Quick question: Where do channels like The Race and WTF1 get their F1 B-roll footage? Is there a website I don't know about?

Elio de Angelis Brabham 1986… :(

Williams has trashed a lot of careers over the last twenty years, locking promising drivers up and wasting years: Mark Webber, Nico Rosberg, Zanardi, Russell, Nico Hulkenberg

I knew what number 1 was going to be before I even started the video Jean should have been a world champion

I don’t think you can say Ricciardo would have won championships during the red bull domination because title fights are so different and Seb was unstoppable in that car

Good thing that we left Alonso outside the list, it ain't fair for the rest of the people.

How about Chris Amon? The man is really unlucky, which s a shame because he is considered a very good driver...

Could teams wrap a wire around the floor stays or would it be illegal ? Or machine a spiral effect into the part ? It’s the way big long chimneys don’t sway so much in strong wind ? 🤷🏻‍♂️ I’m thinking along the lines of cleaning up the airflow caused by the wire attached

I truly agree with this guy, when george enter mercedes this year, the cars wasnt a championship contender anymore. He's at the right plafe but wrong time

Every driver who joined Lotus and Tyrrell after 1978.

Russel: 😡

Nelson Piquet; World Champion 1987, moved to Lotus for '88 believing that continuing with Honda power would be the key to success, and managed about three third places to the McLarens (also with Honda power) 🤷‍♂️

I'd like to mention Daniil Kvyat. After standout performances at Toro Rosso in 2014, Red Bull chose to promote him, rather than team mate Jean-Eric Vergne, to replace Ferrari bound Sebastian Vettel for 2015. But Red Bull then produced their worst car since 2008. He didn't even start the opener in Australia with a gearbox problem enroute to the grid, but as the season progressed, he at least was able to match Daniel Ricciardo, just edging his Australian team mate by 3 points, but only for 7th in the drivers championship, with the team dropping to 4th in the Constructors Championship, not just behind Mercedes, but Ferrari and Williams as well. His best finish of the year was a fortune 2nd place in Hungary

Webber at Williams has to top this especially when he did the deal behind his managers back

Just call it the Fernando Alonso list

Alonso and Alesi have had truly tragic career choices they are both top 5 Drivers of all time (in terms of pure pace and skill)

Vettel Aston Martin

Before this season every The Race journo was very sure of Mercedes delivering a competitive car for race wins

Leclerc : Am I a joke to you?

How about drivers who were unfairly dismissed by their teams. The criteria being the team sacked the driver, rather than the driver leaving on their own terms. Perez being shown the door by McLaren at the end of 2013 would be on there, Daniil Kvyat after 4 races of 2016 with Red Bull, Damon Hill sacked by Williams when he was on the verge of winning the title in 1996, Jenson Button shown the door by Renault even after he did as the team suggested and his overall form improved in 2002, Nico Hulkenburg dropped by Williams after 2010 despite taking a stunning pole position in Brazil and matching very experienced team mate Rubens Barrichello. There are probably more examples, but these are ones that stick out to me

Senna's move to Williams was one of biggest failures ever...the car sucked and it killed him.

Suprised not to see World Champion Nelson Piquet Joining Lotus in 1988

I'd hardly call the 2022 year a total slump. Even the drivers say for Merc to be "bad" and still be in third place is pretty damn good. Not like Williams forever slump

Jean Alesi to Benneton as well.

5:29 😍🙏🐋

1. Alonso 2. Alonso 3. Alonso 4. Alonso 5. Alonso 6. Alonso 7. Alonso 8. Alonso 9. Alonso 10. Villeneuve

Ayo, why isn't fernando on the thumbnail 😤

Senna to Williams was a disaster too. The team did finds it's speed later after he died, but for him it was a spectacular failure. That car was just about undriveable in the time he was there. That is why he died, trying to get something out of a really terrible car.

Have you done the oppossite? Like bottas leaving mercedes and joining alfa romeo, it ended up being better until now and i don't think mercedes will surpass the italians by a considerable margin this year

I would also include: Eddie Irvine - Jaguar (2000) Pastor Maldonado - Lotus (2014) Fernando Alonso - McLaren (2015) Daniil Kvyat - Red Bull (2015) Sebastian Vettel - Aston Martin (2021)

I’d never looked at the Ricciardo thing that way before.

Hulkenberg as well

I wish if daniel joined McLaren in 2019 rather than going from Renault to McLaren

Same thing when i picked my stock portfolio

Ahat about Chris Amon, some very poor choises for him ass well (1969 Ferrari etc.)

Where is Gorger Russel and Mercede 🤣

Man Ricciardo so unlucky

What about when Michael Schumacher bought out his brothers Jordan contract at the end of 1998 so that he could join Williams… only for Williams to then be behind a genuine title challenging Jordan team in the 1999 season. I found that hilarious but it was certainly the wrong move at the wrong time. Most of Alonso’s post McLaren career has been to the wrong team at the wrong time including when he rejoined them.

ah the 1992 Ferrari, it was the most beautiful dog of a car that ever came out from Maranello. If performance matched its looks then it would defeat Williams easily that season

You could fill 3 slots with Ricciardo

Now make a 10 drives that joined the team at the best time.

The video ended at 00:40

Reutemann to Lotus is a scandalous omission from this list

You could just include Alonso's entire career here

This is more like Fernando Alonso's F1 career choices. All gone wrong.

mansell-lotus

Martin Brundle is a stretch, even in a good car he was not paticurly quick.

Clearly can insert all Williams drivers starts from 1998 and after BMW Era.

It is missing Vettel when he joined Ferrari and now AM.

What about Button in BAR/Honda? He pretty much wasted half of his career driving subpar machinery. Granted, it payed off in 2009, but I feel like his career could have been a lot better than it was.

What a shame for Jean Alesi, he rejected Williams for Ferrari huge mistake I mean can't blame him it's a huge honor to drive for Scuderia but he sure might be a champion for Williams it really suits his driving skills.

Carlos Reutemann's entire career.

Senna to Williams in 1994 The best driver ever going to the reining champions and dying after trying to get the car lighter for a good enough performance

Alonso is a champion at this lol

Is this Steve Matchett?

Don’t blame the car for the driver or the driver for the car.

and then again Alesi in 1996 moved to Benetton

Sad Alonso stares!!!

Surprised that Heikki is on the list. 2007 was his rookie in F1. He easily beat his veteran teammate Fisichella. What more do you want from a driver joining a new teammate not competing for wins and championships?

how is Alonso out of this list. He has only ever signed into top teams, “step up teams” or “future winning programmes” only to realise his cars are slow and undeperforming………. give fim his rightfull first place in this list guys.

Maldonado to Lotus 2013 Lotus was at the top but when Maldonado joined them in 2014 they were backmarkers in a second

Daniel Ricciardos 2014 should be higher on that list