Let’s all give a big thank you to Lawrence Stroll and Racing Point for firing Checo. I think we all would’ve been heartbroken watching him drive those Aston martins around at the back of the grid.

@congo7678

Жыл бұрын

Its worse watching vettel donit tho

@TwoTwoFourSix

Жыл бұрын

No, we wouldn’t have cared

@eddieyakin5528

Жыл бұрын

@@TwoTwoFourSix Trash comment

@imblack011

Жыл бұрын

@@TwoTwoFourSix common france L

@Locormus2

Жыл бұрын

I would've rather seen Max v. Vettel to be completely honest..

“Fernando is the burner of bridges.” Renault: Bruh…

@joribremer5260

Жыл бұрын

Why? Alonso,s cintract ends this season

@Alucard-gt1zf

Жыл бұрын

@@joribremer5260 yes, but he still burned his bridge by completely blindsiding the team who litteraly only found out from the Aston Martin press announcement

@Twinkhye-Gameplays

Жыл бұрын

@@Alucard-gt1zf when they disrespwct you several times like Alpine did its not weird to get fucked loke that

@LimitPro1

Жыл бұрын

@@Alucard-gt1zf let's be real here they never wanted Alonso in the first place, you can see the beef between Alonso and Otmar especially Rossi.

@wombat4191

Жыл бұрын

He has fooled us twice, he certainly wouldn't do it a third time, would he? He wouldn't, right?

Lotus be like: No Kimi no, you will not have the bonus.

@sonomortolol

Жыл бұрын

In 2021: You will not have the season

@NotTheRambo

Жыл бұрын

They did him bad 💀

@dougerrohmer

Жыл бұрын

Kimi said: "Since my drink bottle worked, I shall let the 6 million slide. Bwah."

Giedo van der Garde is now a TV analyst, and every time he discusses an announcement of a driver signing a contract he either himself points out that signing a contract means absolutely nothing, or someone else in the studio reminds him of it 🙂

@Paul-hk6kp

Жыл бұрын

And he is driver in Endurance too

In 2019, Hulk was said to have been offered a 1 year deal but Hulk wanted a multi year deal so he wasn't signed, as stated by Prost. However, a couple months later, he stated that Hulk was never offered a contract in the first place.

@rjandern

Жыл бұрын

Sub to rocky the lizard

4:32 Also originally Sauber had a contract for Jules Bianchi to join to the team, But unfortunately we all know what happened on the same day that supposedly signed that contract. 😥

@Adam_GamesHD

Жыл бұрын

Awwww stop this is depressing to think about.

@bfapple

Жыл бұрын

@F1 The Race Relevant to Bianchi's death, how?

Michael Schumacher in 1991, the dispute over whether he signed "the contract," or "a contract," or indeed over the length of the contract he signed when he subbed for the jailed Bertrand Gachot at Spa that year, before being snapped up by Benetton for the following race

@rjandern

Жыл бұрын

Sub to rock the lizered

@firestarteronyoutube5542

Жыл бұрын

Wait what on earth got the guy arrested that required Schumi to drop in?

@SiVlog1989

Жыл бұрын

@@firestarteronyoutube5542 basically, early in 1991, Bertrand Gachot was arrested in London for using CS spray on a taxi driver whom he had an altercation with. After the Hungarian Grand Prix, he was sent to jail on an 18 month sentence (use of CS spray was and is illegal to use in the UK). Ironically, the only person who asked him how his hopes of getting back on the grid were going, was Michael Schumacher

@senorsoupe

Жыл бұрын

This was the first one I was thinking of. The story of how Eddie Jordan learned the value of proper grammar and verbiage in contracts lol

@KenzieRetro

Жыл бұрын

this i wasn't aware of

Note to teams and drivers. Always have exits after year one for both sides.

5:13 Giedo had signed a contract during the summer of 2014 with Sauber for a race seat in 2015. Sauber was in need of money and Giedo’s sponsor was willing to give them that money provided he got a racing seat the next year. When Nasr was announced for the second seat in November, and the announcement was published while the crew and Giedo were having dinner. Giedo subsequently couldn’t even do FP1 in Abu Dhabi as Sauber suddenly let some other driver do it. He then went the legal route over the winter, getting rulings in his favor, but Sauber still refusing to cooperate so he then started the court case in Australia.

I guess it all worked out well for Jenson Button in the end, since BAR-Honda-Brawn finally won him a World Title in 2009.

Charles Leclerc is stuck with Ferrari for a few years still 💀💀💀

@eylonbohdal4472

Жыл бұрын

Bro Leclerc is lucky to be able to drive for Ferrari even if they are not winning any Championships and are making numerous mistakes. They are a lot of drivers wich would gladly take his position if he is that unhappy to drive the fastest car on the grid

@raphaeldean5801

Жыл бұрын

@@eylonbohdal4472 exactly! He's at the very best place he possibly could be. Red Bull and Mercedes are the only other teams worth considering and they are committed in other directions. Also, he is driving the fastest car and is on track to get his second pole position season win, since 2019.

@matmorrow

Жыл бұрын

I bet he's crying his eyes out every night wishing he was driving for Williams.

@F1DrivingZombie

Жыл бұрын

Every contract has outs for both sides

@stpbasss3773

Жыл бұрын

Boooooooo

Lotus paid Kimi something like $40 million one season (he and his teammate were paid for each point they got) - Matt brings this up in the video and it turns out it was closer to $18 million - then Ferrari pays him $25 million to go away (I'd take that offer), add in all his other contracts/endorsements/investments and Kimi's definitely got a few Euro's/Marrka's in the bank. Maybe F1 was just a hobby 😆

The oscar pun🤦‍♂️😂

I actually expected this entire video to be about Alonso leaving teams.

I'm surprised that none of Alain Prost's fallouts with Ferrari and Renault aren't on this list. Didn't some Renault factory workers set fire to his car after being fired?

@jonathandepue629

Жыл бұрын

Don't forget his time with Williams, banning them from signing Senna, and then dropping his contract for 94, because Williams wanted Senna so badly

@nendwr

Жыл бұрын

Ah yes, the Ferrari "truck" that was driven by Gianni Morbidelli for the final race of the season after they fired Prost.

5:30 this is quite missleading, Alonso outperformed the car in both seasons, specially in 2014, probabbly the best of his career. Ferrari and their questionable strategy choices that are so popular today have their origins far back in 2010.

@0megalul309

Жыл бұрын

Clown strategy was apparent since 2009. Alonso tripled Kimi's points in 2014 and is still closer to winning 2 wdc with Ferrari than seb and leclerc ever did.

I completely forgot how BADASS Kimi's Lotus looked like 👍 👌!

@matt_v_photo

Жыл бұрын

Long shit Kimi is to whole new level 🥵😮‍💨🤌

4:29 it's quite interesting to mention that had Bianchi not crashed or at least survived Japan 2014, he'd get a immediate contract for 2015 or just be another driver signed in the middle of this chaos

Button staying with BAR was the best thing to happen in his career technically speaking. Because they eventually become just Honda. And through thick and thin he stuck it out with that team and then Ross Brawn came along and then they looked like they would close up shop. Them Brawn pulled a master stroke move and it was checkmate. They became Brawn GP and Button won his only World Drivers Championship.

@ELSTERLING

Жыл бұрын

The oddest part for my money being that winning that title really changed him. He'd had flashes of potential before and had never been slow but it always seemed like post-2009 Jenson Button was a much faster, more confident driver than at any point up to and including his title winning year.

@davidcamel8310

Жыл бұрын

@@ELSTERLING I agree, since leaving Brawn, he had a much better career with Mclaren, even beating Hamilton on occasions.

@DaniMacYo

Жыл бұрын

@@davidcamel8310 Yeah definitely he because a consistent front runner. He became no joke after 2009. It was great to see. He was able to take on the fastest and best in formula one.

Niki Lauda breaking up with Ferrari after the 1977 season and joining the Brabham-Alfa Romeo team in 1978 should have been an honorable mention.

7:04 am I the only one noticing that lotus made a tweet in the year 1984? The amount of detail you guys put into these kind of video's is surely amazing :D

I remember the time when michael schumacher told eddie jordan that his brother would never drive for him again (after the team orders in THAT belgian GP) Jordan told him he could buy ralf out of his contract. Michael payed and never spoke to jordan again :D

Moreno with Benetton and Alesi with Williams both seem like stories that deserved to be on this list

@ELSTERLING

Жыл бұрын

The Alesi story is really tragic too. It's entirely understandable he didn't like how Williams was treating him (OG Williams had a bad reputation for treating drivers like disposable resources, especially if they weren't extremely pushy proven WDC winners) but proved in retrospect to be some awful alternate universe decision point where potential multiple race winner or WDC Alesi ceased to be a possibility.

Raikkonen’s a real one for not taking the money to save the team. Awful that Perez got kicked out for nepotism from the team he saved

Ironically, failing to leave BAR turned out to be Jenson's best career move.

Should I feel pathetic for laughing when Matt said "Get it?" for the oscar joke

@xtheamazingax

Жыл бұрын

Nah, you're fine. 🙂

@Homalo87

Жыл бұрын

Nah man, I also laughed

@soundscape26

Жыл бұрын

No, it was quite a fine joke

@Johann_Gambolputty_of_Ulm

Жыл бұрын

Maybe just a bit ashamed about yourself, as I just do after having a silent chuckle 😁

@heatHERortheotherone

Жыл бұрын

I don’t get it

A notable team - driver dispute that falls under quite a few radars is the turmoil at Ferrari that led star driver and 1964 world champion John Surtees to leave Ferrari before the 1966 battle of Le Mans.

Kimi let off €6 million?? Boah! Idk everyone would be so generous. €1000 at the most? But € 6 million?? That’s insane. I would ask for instalments atleast.

Nice, just was looking on KZread and you give me the Joy whit a brand new video.

Honestly Button has to still thank god every day that he didn’t go to Williams, otherwise he wouldn’t have been in the Brawn and never been World Champion.

@0megalul309

Жыл бұрын

Sebastian vettel would have won WDC then

The Senna part I think it would be a better fit for the McLaren/Williams deal, especially because of all the "is it still happening?" and the uncertainty period, than the Toleman deal. Still, I'd just like to clarify some information about 1984. First because Senna had already tested with the 1983 Williams car and had a verbal contract, which btw is legal if there are witnesses and in this case there were, with Sir Frank Williams to drive for them. However, the "newcomer Senna" said "no" to Williams and decided to join the BACKFIELD team Toleman, not MIDFIELD. Toleman had a V4t 1.5L engine with 650bhp compared to midfield teams who had a V6t 1.5L with 750bhp or V4t with 900bhp or top teams like who had a V6t 1.5L 800bhp. Just to people have an idea, the 1984 Hart-415 engine in the Toleman was so bad that Brian Hart, decided he wouldn't renew contracts after the expiration date of 1986. By 1986 the Hart-415 had 750bhp at 11k RPM and was completely obsolete. So to get an idea, the 1986 upgraded engine would STILL be one of the worst engines compared to the 1984 grid. Just think about that. Of the 16 races, Senna didn't race 1 as mentioned in this video. Out of 15 races, Senna DNQ once, yes the GOAT qualifier didn't manage to qualify with that car 1 time. Out of 14 races, he retired 8. That's not "half", that's more than half! Of the 6 races the car did manage to finish, Senna was 3 times on the podium and could've won Monaco, which he set the Fastest lap that year BTW, if Prost didn't complain about the conditions and only once he finished outside the points with that "car" (and that's a compliment). But the funny part is, even though Senna finished 9th in the championship tied on points with Nigel Mansell in the midfield team Lotus, but ahead because of results, Prost's behavior costed him the championship which he lost by only 0.5 points. And I love Lauda, he was my 1st F1 hero, but I mean... Prost deserved that 1984 championship. Prost was a beast that season. Prost would have 1 less win, Senna would have 1 more win, that wouldn't change anything for either of them, but Prost would be a 5 time world champion instead of 4 time champion. I know this video isn't about "what if's" and "who deserved what", but that 1984 season is often overlooked by the media and although Lauda won that WDC, and he did rightfully so, I feel like Prost's season gets overshadowed, and he doesn't get the proper praise he deserves. Also, Senna's achievement gets belittled every decade a little more. In 10 years, people will say that Senna had a championship winning car in 1984 but didn't manage to do so because he sucks. I mean, come on, wtf? Just out of curiosity: Mansell's teammate on the Lotus, Elio de Angelis, finished 3rd with 34 points. Mansell in his 3rd F1 year finished with 13 points in 10th. Senna had 4 teammates and 2 tire manufacturers that year, all 4 combined scored a total of 3 points and that meant 16th place. Senna finished 9th with 13 points in his rookie year. Prost was already in his 4 season and Piquet was in his 5 season. Kudos to Piquet as well for finishing 5th in that piece of garbage of a car and just 1.5 points shy of Michele Alboreto, RIP, despite having twice as many retirements. The 1984 season was magical. More magical than people give it credit. It was a "normal" season of the mid-80s where consistency, strategy and intelligence trumped engine power and at the end, we all learned that a Professor can't be called a Professor without first learning how to use a Calculator. EDIT: Just to say "pun intended" in the last sentence.

The Oscar joke at the beginning was gold

When talking about Senna joining Lotus from Toleman your picture of the JPS was of Mansell.

Best part about the Sauber one is Monisha Kaltenborn was literally someone with a lot of legal knowledge and lawyer experience yet still messed up legally binding contracts

So much contract drama in F1 😅

so you’re telling me, seb made an absolute chaos twice ? what a legend lol

It's at best an oversimplification and at worst plainly inaccurate to say that Christian Horner makes driver contract decisions for Red Bull Racing.

@kohikappu

Жыл бұрын

Not Helmut Marko?

@sennescholten7278

Жыл бұрын

@@kohikappu He gives advice about wich driver hé thinks is ready for the Seat.

"...won one..." Juan intensifies

Lotus: We'll pay you 50k for every point you score for us (laughs internally) Kimi: *Are you sure about that?*

Good work

Can’t believe you forgot the Schumacher / Jordan / Benetton chaos!

“Mazepin blames cancel culture” 💀 I never get sick of hearing this. Your dad’s best friend invaded a country for the clout, bro. That’s gonna cause problems.

@vegajf51

Жыл бұрын

While Mazepin is a questionable figure personally, a terrible driver on the track, and didn't deserve an F1 seat in the first place. Your exact definition is "cancel culture" and he was removed from F1 not on the basis of his own actions but because of things out of his control. Haas should just own it, nothing wrong with it business-wise.

@Johann_Gambolputty_of_Ulm

Жыл бұрын

Yet we are happy to see F1 racing in Baku or opressive Gulf monarchies? In Saudi Arabia, actively engaged in a war and massive humanitarian crisis in Yemen? Don't get me wrong, i'm all for sanctioning the living sh1t out of Russians, but you can't deny the hypocrisy of our Western world is eyewatering...

@Locormus2

Жыл бұрын

@@vegajf51 I don't agree with the idea that he was sacked because of cancel-culture. 1. Haas is an American-owned team. 2. The only reason why Nikita was at the team was because Daddy Mazepin (who owes a lot of his wealth to being close buddies with Putin) agreed to invest in the team if they let his son race for them. 3. Putin's Russia invades Ukraine. 4. Daddy Mazepin was seen with Putin during the invasion. 5. The US bans any business conduct with Russians. 6. This meant that Haas needed to chuck the Uralkali-deal in the dumpsterfire. 7. Nikita's seat was in effect based on the now burnt Uralkali-contract and despite being a morally sound lad who was known to have a good understanding of personal boundaries and respect for women and most certainly didn't have any discriminating videos of himself floating around the internet, Nikita's previous season just simply didn't warrant an extension based on merit. 8. "Hey Danish wanker! How'd you like to make a comeback?! We could look like rockstars! Haha! Just don't slam anymore doors, okay?". Basically, the US outlawing ANY business conduct with Russians, lead to the American team to give up their biggest investor/sponsorship, while also giving said American team an out for the contract with their poorest performing driver to date.

@vegajf51

Жыл бұрын

@@Locormus2 what you said would be absolutely true. Problem is point #5 is false… so… ya

@clipobserver

Жыл бұрын

Plus Haas is an American team, it would look bad. Then again, Daniil Kvyat (another Russian) is racing in NASCAR.

matt thank you so much for that oscar joke that tickled me

I had no idea about kimi forfeiture of some of his pay to keep lotus f1 afloat,

Juan Pablo Montoya, 2006. JPM announced that he would be joining NASCAR the next year, then the next day McLaren announced JPM would be immediately replaced by Pedro de la Rosa.

Only real ones remember that iconic Senna tweet from Toleman 💯

Where's Schumi bros with Jordan??? Also, a crazy one was Senna vetoing Derek Warwick for the 2nd Lotus seat in 1986.

@ELSTERLING

Жыл бұрын

Whilst drivers having veto power over teammates is always an ethically dubious thing in this case Senna wasn't exactly wrong. His insistence was that mid/late 80s Lotus didn't have the resources and competence to run two cars to a high standard so if they had two drivers they actually cared about they'd get worse results overall. Not only does history support that perspective but I'm in possession of a lot of internal documents from Team Lotus of that era and they do not contradict his point of view at all. The team was operating in to the early 90s in F1 with roughly the organisation and professionalism you'd expect from the late 70s. (It also didn't help that their wind tunnel was cheaply built and improperly sealed and throwing off their results massively and they didn't realise for _years.)_ On a side note it's still a common tactic in F2, F3 etc. to run a token second/third car but focus all your time and resources on one driver you believe will get you the best results (or one driver the Stroll family is paying you to do that for.)

7:20 for me it has to be the 4 drivers saga with sauber

Loved it good work

@rjandern

Жыл бұрын

Sub to rocky the lizerd

Why are these videos so intertaining.

The easiest way to not confuse Massa and Nasr is to pronounce their name in their specific languages of origin. Look it up and suddenly, no more confusion.

The Schumacher Jordan and Benetton Drama in 91 is also pretty good.

I hit the "Like" button for that opening line alone.

I remember Giedo van der Garde became quite the meme lord on Twitter after the whole Sauber contract debacle. On 20 April 2015 he posted a picture of his local café on Twitter: "Wanted to get a drink, but all seats are taken. Story of my life...." 😂😂😂

New vid yay.......from the best f1 channel

John Surtees divorce with Ferrari back in 1966 was another interesting deal.

I instantly thought of sauber after seeing the tumbnail

what do the Jenson button, Sergio perez and oscar piastri dramas all have in common? Otmar Szafnauer

@kamagoong

Жыл бұрын

I think the drivers don't like him as a boss.

@that_ls1_guy95

Жыл бұрын

@@kamagoong perez likes otmar, watch RedBull’s monaco video

Me in F1 manager 22 next week🙈

great dad joke intro 👌

Charles probably stuck ferrari forever 😬🏎 and I hope they have a better chance with Ferrari Chance it’s self win championship next year

kimi lotus contract is backbone of F1 summer break

You forgot to mention the disaster between Ferrari and Alain Prost

We were all robbed off seeing Seb and Checo team up in 2021

Luiz Razia and Jules Bianchi, 2014.

“Although he’s now at a secure seat at Red Bull…” Hmm, yeah not looking so secure now.

1984 tweet was a nice touch

I was waiting for way more McLaren drivers to be on here, seeing as MCL have a thing for dropping drivers with little notice

@Skittle128

Жыл бұрын

This wasn’t so much a contract dispute, but boy was there drama when Jenson still didn’t have a confirmed seat with McLaren at the end of the 2014 season, and no one knew if the world champion had raced his last race in F1. That was such a mess. They should never have let it go on that long. And, of course, that was brought on by Fernando Alonso signing with McLaren, leaving Button fighting for his seat over Kevin Magnussen. And then the McLaren was a pile of garbage in 2015, so we had two world champions driving the worst car in F1. Such a mess.

0:23. 1. Jenson Button Williams and Honda 1:25. Costume like smiley face man running avoid explosion. 1:39. 2. Sergio Perez Racing Point Force India 2:30. 3. Kimi Raikkonen Ferrari and Lotus 3:56. 4. Nikita Mazepin HAAS 4:29. 5. Marcus Ericsson, Adrian Sutil, Felipe Nasr, and Giedo Van Der Garde Sauber 5:24. 6. Fernando Alonso Ferrari 6:20. 7. Ayrton Senna Toleman

When williams screwed over Mansell when he was World Champion.

Gee I wonder why people cancelled Mazepin....

senna and italian gp gives me ptsd

He did Rally and NASCAR in between

What happened to Perez was karma. Racing point cut him after everything he did for them and got Vettel, who hasn't been that promising and now he's leaving. Screw Aston Martin, or should I say team Stroll.

How can you leave out what happened with Prost and senna in Williams for 1994?!

kimi raikonen is racing at watkins glen on USA if your interested WTF1

"Lotus announced Senna will be driving for the team in 1985" at 4:20am on 6/9. Nice

Lol an Oscar ahhhh so good 😂😂😂

Should’ve included Arrows/Jos Verstappen in 2002

Kimi missed the last of 2013 due to back surgery…

@saku3825

Жыл бұрын

Yeah but if he didn’t have the internal problems with the team he would’ve just had the surgery after the season

Like sand through an hourglass, these are the days of our F1 lives... 🤣🤣🤣

Why no mention of spy gate scandal?

The Oscar joke is pure gold.

Seb and Ferrari must be there

Juan Manuel Fagio drive under three manufactors 1953.

"Felipe Nassa"

Is that tweet by lotusF1 from 1984 was actually the first ever tweet in formula1 history? ;)

I wonder where McLaren/Alpine drama will compare to those.

this guys history doesn't go back far lol

Mick only looked good next to Mazepin.

add more team, that was around 2 driver and 1 reserve.

4:52 Felipe Nasr's last name is pronounced "Nasser". His family has lebanese heritage, IIRC.

Is it just me or the last two seasons are very dramatic. Last year there was a crazy title fight and this year the driver transfers?

100k for Senna? Talk about a bargain

At least Kimi had a return Nascar for a race at Watkins Glen...

4:55 Matt, you can't even pronounce the simplified version of the Arabic name correctly. Try to say "rrrrrrr" in at the end LOL

BAR: "we're signing Jenson Button" Williams: "we're signing Jenson Button" Racing Point: "we're firing Sergio Perez" Red Bull: "stonks"

Lot of Ferrari on here. Be worried, Carlos. Be very worried.

7:04 Sep 6, 1984 twitt 🤣

My favourite is vettel acting like the dogs bollocks after signing with aston martin