Alonso to McLaren was one the biggest oofs in F1

Hard pills to swallow: Ricciardo will probably never win a championship.

Alonso: "The engine feels good, much slower than before. Amazing."

Ayrton Senna to Williams. The guy gets a seat in the car that won several championships, discovers it’s a dog of a car and dies in the process of waiting for improvements that came in two races later and pretty much made it a decent car so that the 2nd driver almost won the championship.

1. Alonso Mclaren-Honda 2015 2. Alonso Mclaren-Mercedes 2007 3. Alonso Renault 2008 4. Alonso Ferrari 2010

Ricciardo to Renault it seems.

"Andrea Moda were a joke of a team" is saying it nicely.

Roberto Moreno, the eternal "supersub" The fact the he classified in Monaco 92 with the Andrea Moda is a miracle

Eddie Irvine went for the money and he makes no apologies for it

Every move of Alonso basically

I'm so sad for Jean Alesi, he should've been a Williams driver.

God Bless Roberto Moreno and his willingness to drive literally any F1 car. His results in CART later on proved that he was a more than capable driver

Overlooked but Kovalainen and Timo Glock never recovered from their moves in 2010

Imagine how dominate Alonso wouldve been had he went to Mercedes-Benz

"Roberto Moreno" *Story Time intensifies*

Top risky career moves that had paid off: 1. Hamilton from McLaren to Mercedes who only had 1 win at the time. Everybody was questioning his move back then. Some people even thought he wouldn't be able to win a WDC again, you can look up old BBC articles or F1 forums posts from 2013 if you wanna know further of what I'm talking about. 2. MSC from Benetton to Ferrari who were absolutely shit at the time. Even with people like Ross Brawn and Rory Byrne at the team following Schumi's move, Ferrari hadn't been championship contenders as they've only managed to get 1 win in the previous season. Tbh Schumacher could've won more titles in the mid to late 90s if he choose to stay with Benetton but he wanted a challenge. 3. Button staying at Brawn for 2009 season. Allegedly had an offer from Torro Rosso and other teams which seemingly look like the better option at the time given how shit the car Honda built the previous season. It was truly a fairy tale story though how Button went from driving a mediocre car for 2 seasons, watching his team go bankrupt and get (barely) saved by his team boss by acquiring the team and making it his own into winning the WDC despite of the number of people writting him off throughout his career. Those are the ones I can think of off the top of my head pretty sure there's plenty more

Oh cool, an entire Video about Fernando Alonso!

Stefano Modena: Scored Brabham's last podium, had several strong performances with Tyrrell in 1991 (2nd on the grid at Monaco comes to mind) and then suffered a disastrous move to the Jordan team, running an unreliable and uncompetitive V12 Yamaha engine for 1992, which completely killed his F1 career. Scored just one point for the team in his final F1 race at Adelaide. Pastor Maldonado: Extremely up and down 3 years with Williams, ending with Pastor accusing the team of sabotage and moving to the race-winning Lotus team...Just in time for the V6 hybrid era, where Williams suddenly became much more competitive and finished 3rd in the constructors, whilst Lotus suffered financial problems and became a backmarker team. Pastor lasted two seasons, and scored 29 points before his sponsor PDVSA hit financial trouble, and his contract with Lotus for 2016 was torn up when Renault bought the team. Jos Verstappen: After a mixed first season at Benetton, Verstappen senior made a succession of poor career moves. Firstly, he went to Simtek, which folded in the middle of 1995. For 1996 he drove for the Footwork Arrows team, before he was dropped in favour of Damon Hill for 1997. He then went to Tyrrell, Honda, (Until they pulled out from a 2000 entry due to Harvey Postlethwaite's death) back to Arrows and finally finished his career at Minardi. After his first season at Benetton he never had a competitive car again. Phil Hill: The world champion in 1961 with Ferrari, Phil Hill had a disappointing title defence in 1962 which led him to leave the Scuderia. Many employees of Enzo were unhappy with the way the team was being run, so they left to form ATS, and convinced Hill and teammate Giancarlo Baghetti to join them in defecting from Ferrari. This turned out to be a disasterous decision, since the team struggled to get the car ready in time for their one and only season in 1963, competing in five races and retiring in four of them. When they did finish at Monza, they were miles off the pace, with Hill trailing in 11th. Hill went on to drive one more full season for Cooper in 1964, but his career as a top-line F1 driver was well and truly over.

Watching this today when Alonso is back in the front with Aston Martin is unbelievable. Imagine telling people in 2020 Racing Point would be fighting Mercedes and Ferrari

Story of the 90's: Lot of good drivers making questionable career moves!

10:08 can we take a moment to appreciate how gorgeous the 90s Indycars were, before they moved to an F1 style intake? So sleek.

How about Jody Scheckter, who ended his career by NOT moving somewhere else after he won the Championship in '79.

Ah, you've been watching Aidan Millward's channel, haven't you? Roberto Moreno gets his very own spot though! To be fair, he did go to CART as it was then and win. I even managed to watch one of those wins in a whacky race lol. He deserved it, though, but boy, he was such an unlucky driver. Good list though!

It's weird to realise that Villeneuve took his last race win two races BEFORE he won the championship.

I've said it before and I'll say it again. I reckon if Damon Hill had taken a pay cut and gone to Jordan in 1997 he would have won races, judging by Ralf Schumacher's 2nd in Argentina and Giancarlo Fisichella's 2 podiums in Canada and Spa and challenging for the win in Germany in the 197.

"Engine feels good, MUCH slower than before. Amazing."

The Andrea Moda Qualyfing in Monaco is often called Moreno's Miracle, because of the teams reputation as the worst in Formula 1 history. As a brazilian, it is still teardropping to see the 1-2 finish Piquet and Moreno (two close friends, who grew up together and trusted 100% on each other) had in Benneton, Roberto had potential, but was scammed by Benneton, still, he has a respectable carreer in Motorsports.

Riccardo Patrese from Williams to Benetton for 1993 is worth a mention too. It proved to be his final season in F1 and he scored less than half as many points as teammate Michael Schumacher. He didn't get on with Flavio Briatore either because he felt as though all of the team's focus was on his younger teammate. Williams had offered him the opportunity of staying on for 1993 too.

already knew alonso will be on the list before pressing the video lol

5:04 Piquet says in interviews that Imola's 1987 crash was the end of his career... Not able to perform properly after it (Even winning 1987 championship).

This is a subtweet at my boy Danny Avocado and I will not stand for this.

Vettel to Ferrari, especially this years they really screwed up everythin possible

Kubica signing for Williams in 2019, he could've dominated the midfield in, say, a Haas, because the Haas was bad in one way - overheating tyres. The FW42 was horrendous in different ways thru the season

Timo Glock destroyed his career when he moved to Virgin/Marussia/Manor. Old Dill could have moved to a couple of different teams but seemed to go for the money at Arrows. Jean Alesi seemed to always be in the wrong place at the wrong time, it's a shame that he didn't get to drive the Williams but I think it was more a case that Mansell became available and there was no room for him at the team anymore rather than he rejected the drive.

Jacques really got screwed over after 97. He wasn't like his dad (Who may have won a championship if not for what happened). If Williams didn't fuck up or had he found a better opportunity, he wouldn't have sunk so low. Tragic really.

I would like to see a video about f1 drivers who never fulfilled their true potential

(dis)Honorable Mention: Every Brazilian driver that moved to Williams in the last 3 decades.

That 1996 Benetton was one of the best cars not to win. Great car

Alonso seems to have made a resurgence with Alpine, even outperforming Ocon

Montoya leaving F1

I miss Fisichella, who had been put out from the champion winning Renault (Alonso was preferred and probably better driver in situations with winning pressure). And after his Renaissance at Sauber and Force India, Ferrari offered him a seat to replace Massa After Badoer was a disaster), Fisico could not score any points and his F1 career was over. His last race with Force India was Belgium (his favourite track), where he gained pole (as I remember) and finished second, because the Ferrari with Kimi had KERS and Fisico didn't.

Ricciardo, Red Bull > Renault 2019

Vettel from lead into the wall, Germany 2018, also

These videos are great. (Still driving them well, despite the fact you've "switched teams" 😉)

For an entire generation Michele Alboreto was known as "Michele Alboreto Seventh."

I think 3 entries on this list were Williams' champions who lost their jobs due to Frank's philosophy of it's the car and not the driver that's winning races and tittles. Sort of ironic to see how this philosophy unfolded in the long run…

To me the hors concours of the who,e bunch was Fittipaldi going from, basically any team he would choose (only Lauda had the same status in 1975) to a family run team for "pateiotic" reasons. I believe Emerson could have been champion at least once more (he was only 28 in '75), and win quite a few races as well. 1976, for instance, he could have won as Hunt did, because if it wasn't for the accident, noone could have possibly had beaten Lauda. In essence he would have done a lot more "for Brazil" winning in a foreign team, than losing in a Brazilian team.

Really interesting video - thanx for serving us F1 fans some fine juice to keep us going in these strange and perilous weeks following the coronavirus breakout. Appreciated ! All the best in future. Rx

Don't forget Sainz's move to Ferrari, that was a really bad decision and it hasn't even happened yet

Sergio Perez also made a blunder moving to Mclaren from Sauber rather than waiting for Ferrari seat. Sad thing is he was still so young when it happened.

Stefano Modena moving from Tyrrell to Jordan in '92 is up there aswell

Good video. One of the other reasons Villeneuve didn't succeed at BAR was that Jenson Button turned up and started outshining him, which made him quite grumpy

I feel the most for the drivers here who left to start new projects rather than just switched a team. Drivers with ambition beyond driving should be respected. What else drives (sorry) the sport forward?

Yeah, i think you can add Ricciardo to this list in 5-6 years.

Alesi and Berger worked really well together. They were good friends. Problem is, they worked too well together and were too evenly matched, so there was nothing that made them want to push harder. As for Hill, afaik he actually got an offer from McLaren which he inexplicably rejected. In fact, so did Barrichello. And as for Alonso, all but one move was not entirely his choice. He had no drive for 2008 so Briatore gave him a seat while Alonso made it clear that he wanted to go elsewhere, and in 2014 at the end of Marchionne's long and convoluted plan he was fired and once again had few choices available, with McLaren being by far the best one. He should've said yes to Red Bull, but he sorely underestimated Newey and especially Vettel.

I accept this as my life now watching old F1 videos to fill the void waiting for the next race weekend

Bonus 11: Vettel moving to Ferrari.

I thought Piquet would be there, though he did manage to salvage some credibility right at the end at Benetton.

About Villneuve's move to BAR: the sad part is BAR wasn't a slow car. Villneuve had several high qualifying positions with it. Not once he was in top 5 during the races too. The car "just" kept dying under him. During races he was several times the first after the McLarens and Ferraris, then bammm, his car slowed down and retired. In San Marino he qualified for 5th, his car couldn't move from the grid. In Monaco he started from th 8th, his car got an oil leak. In Spain he started from 6th, and was p4 when his gearbox died. In England he qualified for 9th, got stuck on the grid. In Austria, started from 9th, started well, retired out of mechanical problems once again On Nurnburgring he started from 8th, was among top5 when retired few laps before the end of the race.

Very nice video. You didn't mention that Schumacher was supposed to have Barrichello in Ferrari the year Irvine arrived. He asked of the team to try Irvine first because he didn't want Barrichello next to him, until he established his reputation in the Italian team.

Alonso's whole career after Renault 😂

Piquet and Lotus - to this day I still cannot believe that didn’t work out- Lotus never really recovered after the turbo era was done! I feel sorry for Capelli, he was given possibly the worst Ferrari ever in competitive terms, I feel that team/driver synergy played the biggest part of all in all of these partnerships that ultimately failed.

how do i get these amazing pics you have for this video?

Alonso also leaving McLaren the year before they were back up to the top of the mid-runners in a solid 4th..

Now Alonso is finally back in a frontrunner.

Phil Hill leaving Ferrari for ATS was, in retrospect, a bad move

Should Gerhard Berger be on this list....? Great Video....I remember being very excited at the idea of Capelli to Ferrari...and sitting there with my jaw on the floor at how bad that team was that year.

Agreed!! Alonso made the worst decisions. 1st leaving a McLaren World Champion car to return to Renault and then, after moving to Ferrari, leaving the Italian Scuderia to move back to McLaren-Honda, as mentioned on your very accurate description as the N°1 catastrophic move. I enjoyed this vid. Keep up the good work!!

U could argue Senna could be in that list. Cos when he went to Williams in 94 he didn't win a race or score a point. But of course he got killed too early in the season to be judged more

Looks like ricciardo to Renault/mclaren might be going this way…

How was Fittipaldi a bad move? He went and won two Indy 500s after leaving F1. His worst career move was drinking orange juice.

GP2 Engine

Ricciardo to Renault... disastrous move. His only hope this year would be if Ferrari sack vettel and offer the job to Daniel.

Alonso made the mistake when he went from McLaren to Renault in 2008.

Good old Roberto Moreno. Wonder when Millward will actually make a storytime about him, comnsisting entirely of snippets from his other storytimes where he keeps popping up

I have it on good authority that Damon Hill's move away from Williams was down to him (under guidance from his manager) asking Sir Frank for astronomical wages. To which Frank said a firm no. So Hill put himself in that position by listening to a manager who was branded by my source (who was senior within Williams at the time) as 'a clown'.

Ayrton Senna when he moved to Williams... Technically.

Err, the worse move for me was Senna's move from Maclaren to Williams.

Is it just me or 90s' cars looked better than today's cars?

its pretty scary when fernando move explaination rolls , i got honda brio ads

GP2! GP2 engine! Arghhhhhhhh!

I skipped the Damon Hill part of as he doesn't deserve to be included still not forgiven Frank Williams for the way he treated Damon (and Nigel four years earlier)

alesi's spot should be going to ferrari in 1991: his alternative was going to williams, where he would've probably become world champion eventually. instead he only won 1 race in 5 years... but at least he became a hero for every ferrari fan

Hi, can you make a story about Alex Zanardi in williams circa 90's? Or can you tell the story of f1 year 1999? A bit interesting to see as the rise of Jordan and near miss Irvine loss to Hakkinen in title chase

mclaren in 2018 was essentially as slow as williams, his teammate finished 16th on the championship, alonso finished 11th and people say his carrer is over, you cant win with a car that is 2 seconds slower than the mercedes

Also vettel from RBR to Ferrari. He never fully recovered his previous glory

the picture you put of Alessandro Nanini, is Actually Nelson Piquet at the Japanese Grand Prix at Suzuka. Jeez.

the Ricciardo - Renault one looks unpromising at the moment. Guess we'll just have to wait and see but I doubt that choice will bear any fruit.

What about Ferrari ending Fisichella's F1 career?

Worthwhile mentioning that Alonso is now a double Le Mans winner although the Indy 500 still remains elusive.

The one race in 1988 McLaren failed to win was the Italian Grand Prix due to one car having engine trouble and the other being beached on a kerb from a run-in with a slower car driven by substitute driver Jean-Louis Schlesser (the nephew of the namesake for Ligier's various F1 chassis), leading to Gerhard Berger (who claimed a win with Benetton in 1997) leading home a Ferrari 1-2 in the first race after Ferrari founder Enzo's passing.

How about a video on F1 drivers who came from unusual backgrounds, such as stock cars and illegal street racing?

Fernando Alonso would've won in 2017, 2018. Coming from a Vettel fan.

A bit of a shame really, placing the responsability for the McLaren-Honda faillure squarely with Honda! As is widely known, McLaren buildt a few horrendous cars in that period and placed some idiotic requirements with Honda. Requirements that severely hampered Honda to make a decently fast and reliable power-unit. Don't believe me? Look at 2018! Who was better, McLaren with (racewinning > Red Bull) Renault engines or Honda with new racing partner Torro Rosso?! Honda has already proven that in a healthy work-relationship, they can be outstanding! Besides, Alonso may be one of the best racingdrivers in the world, but he is *no* development-driver! He just yells "It's shit!" and lets the mechanics deal with it... All his decisions to switch teams were out of frustration, because he expects (besides a hefty fee) the teams to solve *his* problems, always pointing fingers towards others, without *ever* looking in the mirror and search for the flawes in his own approach!

Also Fisichella from FI to Ferrari. Ended the guy's career effectively.

Egbahl hamidy leaving Stewart might have contributed to Jaguars slump. He did wonders for Arrows afterwards.

I hope Alonso returns and this time,the gamble pays off. Lady luck just has to smile upon him should he return.

Let add Riccardo to the list eh. Hopefully like Villeneuve he made tons of money as a substitute for not winning any championship, ever.

Johnny Herbert, Benetton to Sauber; Barrichello from Ferrari to Honda and the late Andrea di Cesaris, from McLaren to almost every mid to low field team.

Really good video. Seemed like a lot of moves to and moves from Ferrari were involved. Roberto Mereno was the King Innocent Victim of the group. I personally think that Fittipaldi was the #1 worst move. The move made absolutely no sense and was far crazier at the time than Alonso's.