A team led by Flavio Briatore cheating? I'm shocked!

Obviously Sennas death was a tragedy but a lot of people forget that Roland Ratzenberger also sadly lost his life during qualifying at the same race

So in conclusion - schummi in the 90s was scary, jos verstappen is fireproofed and ferrari never change. Aerodynamics is for people who dont have a v12 remember kids

Love this new emphasis on 'history style' videos and longer form. This was all before my time watching F1 and I'm learning a lot. Thanks Jason

The quality and thoughtful content that comes out of this channel, as well as Aldas, is incredible. It really puts big channels like The Race to shame.

I'm slightly torn on deciding how bad a season this was for McLaren. Yes, the cons were huge: no wins, no poles, the MP4/9 was really unreliable, particularly the Peugeot engine, Mika Häkkinen got a race ban, the team went from 2nd to 4th in the Constructors. But on the other hand, when the car finished, it tended to finish quite well. Häkkinen got six podiums, including a streak of four in a row. Martin Brundle added another two and some other points finishes, and they finished 4th and 7th respectively in the Drivers Championship. But yeah, this season was a mess of controversy, tragedy, some great driving, some stupid driving, many memorable moments, often for the wrong reasons, and this is just my impression of it from trawling through the archives over the years (I was born in 1999)! What must it have been like for the fans watching live at the time, there were so many stories unfolding during the campaign.

Good Video👍. You mention Ayrton Sennas death but please please do not forget Roland Razzenbergers fatal accident a day earlier. Everybody only remembers the great Ayrton. (Barrichellos big crash and the very next Race Weekend Karl Wendlingers heavy crash by the way)

Great video. 1994 was the first full season of F1 that I watched. I still remember exactly where I was when Senna hit the wall and exactly where I was when Schumacher hit Hill, in Adelaide. Imola was one wild ride. We could have had three deaths, that weekend. Barrichello was so lucky to walk away from his accident. Of course, it's important to remember Roland, too. His death was overshadowed and often forgotten.

I love Michael Schumacher, but his driving style in 1994 was just abysmal. Max Verstappern doesn't kamikaze his car into anyone to win a championship. Awesome documentary Jason! :D

Nice format Jason. It is nice to see the facts and the circomstances presented together. Most of it I knew but as seperate occasions. Mosly in his first year made a rooky mistake by announcing the changes that late. Foemula one has a lot of simularities with pushbike racing in that time periode. The Omerta was sacret, no-one talked about doping or rule bending. One point of critisism, don't overdoo the falts in the photo's to age them.

Fantastic video, fantastic thumbnail

I think 1982 might top 1994, NO! I know it does! Driver's strikes, major political issues (FISA vs FOCA), 2 deaths, disqualifications, cheating controversies (from Bernie's team no less), 11 winners due to high attrition rates, a champion with only a single win, careers ended, feuds...I'm missing a few, too. Drama from start to finish, everyone was happy when the season ended.

Had to stop watching the video due to the stupid ageing effect applied to images of the 90's!

What has to be considered with the Brazil situation was that it was the first round of refueling stops. Benetton were running a different fuel strategy from Williams and Senna. Benetton ran less fuel in the second stint than Williams did for Senna, meaning that Schumacher had less fuel in the car, but also needed to pit earlier than Senna for the second stops. There's another factor as well, Senna was delayed leaving the pits for his first stop as there was a car coming down the pit lane before he set off. But the biggest factor was that by the time of their first stops on lap 21, Schumacher, far from 7 seconds back, was less than a second behind the Williams when they headed for the pits

I've been following F1 all my life and TIL they banned the driver aids last minute for the 1994 season.

From what i heard in a magazine Benetton had a computer system for active suspension. When you shut the engine off it disabled a encrypted hard drive like you have on PC's with programs like TRUE CRIPT. Then when the race starts a laptop opens drive and allows car to access data for traction control. The scrutineers could find no evidence of this ecripted software.

I like the way you just forgot about ratzenburger

I am so greatly frustrated by people trying to demean and diminish Schumacher/Benetton for 1994, and trying to suggest that he cheated and didn’t deserve the ‘94 championship. This should be a discussion about the FIA, and elements within F1, interfering and trying to artificially make the championship closer. I had worked, somewhat peripherally, with a vendor that supplied parts to Benetton and others. I was able to hear and know a few things that put things into a different context. I know the team felt like they were being treated unfairly and I think that they had reason to believe this. Firstly, in this era of Max and Lewis, people have no concept of how incredibly good Michael really was in his prime. What I saw in testing and during events, he was simply a rare, generational, talent. He created the blueprint for the modern driver by adding elite athlete level of fitness and nutrition. His attention to detail, using new for the time telemetry, and intra-team coordination and communication, further enhanced his natural capabilities. As for using traction control and the “option 13”, absolute nonsense. This was dropped by the FIA because every team that previously had t/c had it similarly in their system. But telemetry showed it was never used, would have not been accessible(as was suggested), and did not have critical hardware to even make it functional. As for the fuelling rig, they were not the only team to remove the screen and the manufacturer had approved its remove. But any flow increase was negligible. Michael had simply been known for having the quickest pit delta throughout his career. The Silverstone incident, I feel, is what really showed the FIA interfering. Understand that this was during the formation lap, before the race had even started. It was very common for drivers to go backwards and forwards with a car that may have qualified in front of them. It had no bearing whatsoever on the race. It is even clear to see during this race, drivers behind Michael and Damon were doing this same thing. And yet Michael was the only driver sanctioned by being excluded from this race and two more. Spa was another highly suspect decision that saw him excluded and lose another race win. The plank had recently been added during ’94, and the wear had not been measured in the prescribed manner. I know that Pat Symonds has recently spoken on this and still feels hard done by this decision, some thirty years later. The biggest accusation of Michael cheating is that he intentionally rammed Hill in Adelaide. This was not like the incident between Michael and Villeneuve in 1997, where Michael had clearly and intentionally drove into Jacques. Can I know 100% that Michael had not done this intentionally? No, of course not. But it was clear that the Benetton was damaged, the rear suspension was broken and steering randomly in different directions. The front suspension was bent, leaving the steering wheel cocked at ~ 45° and very difficult to turn. Michael is seen looking down at the steering wheel, and all around, no doubt he saw and felt the car was finished. And yet Damon decided to try and pass at probably the worst spot on the circuit. The 1994 season was tragic and very complicated. The mid season changes had further complicated things and the way Michael/Benetton had been sanctioned I find highly suspect, if not outright prejudiced. Regardless of one’s opinion on Adelaide, I feel Michael showed what a remarkably singular talent he was, and deservedly won the WDC while competing in four fewer races. The Ford ZTec-R engine put him at a 25+ hp deficit to the remarkable V10 Renault, the Ferrari V12, etc. It was clearly visible, throughout this season, that Michael had to use lower wing settings to try to match the speed of others. The engineers had created and developed an amazing car. They had repurposed the engine over-speed system to provide a measure of wheel-spin mitigation within the rules that deserves to be recognised alongside DAS, McLaren’s second brake pedal, and other similarly groundbreaking innovations that make F1 such an incredible sport. What would have been a real travesty is had Damon won the championship after all the FIA interference. This was a little more common back in-the-day, just look at Japan in 1989 and how Prost was handed the championship. I hope I’ve at least provided a measure of perspective before you buy into this nonsense about the 1994 championship being tainted or stolen. It simply is not true.

How Jos was such a bad driver and Max became not only a much better driver but also person is beautiful. Yeah young Max had his hatetable moments but what a driver he is truly deserving of all those championships from a lewis fan since 07. He also seems like a wonderful father figure to penelope becoming such a gentle figure in her life. The fact that he is a cat person makes it even better

When was Flavio not cheating ? 😂

Schumacher will always be a synonym of bad sportsmanship and cheating in my mind. I never really respected that guy

A lot of drivers were disqualified in this season. Also the refuel accident didnt cause by a filter they removed. The refuel system was always a flaw i saw it myself when they couldnt remove the hose. I guess thats the reason they dont refuel nowadays.

THE ONLY THING MORE CONTROVERSIAL IS THE WHAT?????

Nice summary but you have many holes in your version of history. Perhaps a little bit of humility will help you going forward

Briatore cheated in 2009, 2005 and 6 renault had launch control and additional dampers ergo cheating but was alonso cheating -?? - no

Is that a joke?

I like Schumacher a little less now. I think Verstappen is way better. At least he didn't win his first title in such a controversial way!

Ok now i got it all worked out, schumi gets stripped of 94, hamilton gets stripped of 2008 and verstappen gets stripped of 2021. The F1 will end in a civil war, Hamilton wont care because its still no 8 despit bein a lonesome 7. Schumacher probably also doesnt care as life is different for him now. Fianlly Massa and Hill will enjoy their lifes And max will also probably not care as he is sets his sights to win his 200th race and 9th title in 6 years time But at least F1 twitter is burning. Noice.

Been saying for 30 years that Brawn should have been banned for life and Schumacher’s title vacated. Schumacher consistently cheated throughout his career and should not be so venerated. As much as I dislike Hamilton’s personality, there’s no doubt he has been a generally reasonable and scrupulous driver. His 7 titles are all deserved.

The hate boner for benetton and schumacher is strong with this video. Don't make it so obvious... Another bitter brit?