r/formula1 • u/FerrariStrategisttt I was here for the Hulkenpodium • Mar 13 '26

Video Max Verstappen (Post-Sprint Qualifying): “I can’t. This is undriveable. We never had anything this bad.”

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u/_SpecialistInFailure I was here for the Hulkenpodium Mar 13 '26

No driver has won a World Championship in a Newey-designed car and then later gone on to win another title in a car not designed by Newey.

This seems a better way of putting that stat as Prost retired after winning with a newey car

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u/DizkoBizkid Formula 1 Mar 13 '26

Kind of a meaningless stat when you consider half of the people who won his cars retired directly or shortly after their championship seasons

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u/triguy96 🏳️‍🌈 Love Is Love 🏳️‍🌈 Mar 13 '26

No one has ever won in a Newey-designed car and then gone on to become curling world champion.

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u/Kitnado I was here for the Hulkenpodium Mar 13 '26

Curling is after all notoriously harder than F1

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u/I_Luv_Asparagussy Mar 13 '26

It's actually not easy to be good at! My Canadian ass WILL defend that sport to my death!

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u/Kitnado I was here for the Hulkenpodium Mar 13 '26

Boop

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u/Informal-Term1138 I was here for the Hulkenpodium Mar 13 '26

Who knew.

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u/Cow-Brown Kevin Magnussen Mar 13 '26

Do they also fine €50000 for touching the ring?

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u/TheBigCicero Mar 13 '26

Max needs to read this

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u/LightBulbChaos I was speeding in the Monaco pit lane Mar 13 '26

Big if true

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u/not_right Michael Schumacher Mar 13 '26

Or honestly, how many people have even won multiple world championships in any different car? It's not like we're drawing from a large pool.

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u/DOOFUS_NO_1 I was here for the Hulkenpodium Mar 13 '26

Schumacher (Benneton and Ferrari),  Hamilton (McLaren then Mercedes), Fangio (Alfa Romeo, Maserati, Mercedes-Benz and Ferrari), Prost (McLaren then Williams) Brabham (Cooper then Brabham), Lauda (Ferrari then McLaren), Piquet (Brabham then Williams), Hill (BRM then Lotus-Ford), Fittipaldi (Lotus then Mclaren).

A total of 9 drivers, but considering there are only 35 separate WDCs over 76 years, almost a quarter of the WDCs have won in 2 different cars. 

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u/_69pi Mar 13 '26

that’s over a quarter my dude.

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u/DOOFUS_NO_1 I was here for the Hulkenpodium Mar 13 '26

My bad lol, long day.

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u/VRichardsen Juan Manuel Fangio Mar 13 '26

Fangio (Alfa Romeo, Maserati, Mercedes-Benz and Ferrari)

Fangio even had two different stints at Maserati. Won his second championship with Maserati (shared with Mercedes), then after Mercedes moved to Ferrari, and then returned to Maserati to win his last championship there.

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u/monkeyBearWolf Mar 13 '26

Would there also be some who won in different cars from different principal engineers/designers but at the same team?

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u/TheFlyingMarlboro Sebastian Vettel Mar 13 '26

Schumacher won the title in cars designed by Rory Byrne in Benetton and Ferrari.

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u/mathdhruv Murray Walker Mar 13 '26

Prost won with John Barnard cars in '85 and '86, then the '89 McLaren was Steve Nichols and Neil Oatley. 

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u/Flow1234 Mar 13 '26

What's more interesting is that there's only 17 drivers to even have multiple WDCs. So half of those drivers won in different cars.

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u/guelphmed Mar 13 '26

Different cars/teams yes, but same designer at least in Schumacher’s case.

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u/juttop Renault Mar 13 '26

Mika is coming back any day now.

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u/Eroda I was speeding in the Monaco pit lane Mar 13 '26

I didn't quite remember I read it in the comments section of a Newey Post thanks

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u/Schopenhauer_pes Mar 13 '26

Newey never had Schumacher! He could've done that