Ask The Apex

[downforce]

has any driver ever had more retirements than Rubens Barrichello?

 

[Jos the Boss]

downforce Andrea de Cesaris has 148 retirements which is the most

 

[Johnny Carwash]

downforce Andrea de Cesaris also holds the record for most consecutive retirements with 22 between, 1986 Australia - 1988 Canadian GP,

 

[downforce]

Good grief, just looked at his wiki page, thats pretty terrible, gotta laugh at 'Andrea de Crasheris'

surely not all of that can have been down to him crashing?!?!?!?!

 

[The Pits]

I remember an ad in the autosport for an old f1 car:

Ex Di Cesaris car, now fully straightened!!

Made me chuckle.

 

[Kamui-FastestChefInTheWorld]

From France '85 - Japan '87 (that's 33 races) he finished twice!

That's impressive

 

[tooncheese]

Have any drivers ever scored maximum points in the championship? Including only choosing the best results. I know Ago didn't always compete in the final bike races as it was impossible for him to score any more points.

 

[Fenderman]

Alberto Ascari did it once 1952 - 36 out of an available 36
Jim Clark did it twice in the 1964 and 1965 seasons - 54 points out of 54 available.

Mchael Schumacher is highest points scorer of the possible points where all points scored are included: 144 out of a possible 170

 

[Fenderman]

Sorry, forgot to say that Schumi's 144 out of 170 was in 2002 (84.7%) and in 2004 he got 148 out of a possible 180 (82.2%).

Interestingly, in the league tables of percentage race finishes in the points to date (excluding competitors not making it into double figures for race entries) Lewis Hamilton (76.6% of entries) leads Michael Schumacher (73.6% of entries) followed by Nino Farina (73.5%), Fernando Alonso (70.9%) and Sebastian Vettel (69.4%).

 

[Incubus]

[quote="Fenderman, Jim Clark did it twice in the 1964 and 1965 seasons - 54 points out of 54 available.

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Fenderman, I think it was actually 1963 and 1965.

 

[Fenderman]

Quite right Incubus. That's what I get for relying on the old memory . If anything's wrong with my second post on the subject that will be down to Wiki' .

 

[Incubus]

Actually (trainspotting coat on) I've just realised Button in 2009 is the only exception ito a 60 year-old pattern: Every other WDC title in history won by an englishman was secured on an even year, while every title won by a scotsman was won on an odd year.
Maybe they just aren't compatible?

 

[ExtremeNinja]

Ha ha. Incubus

I discovered that very same fact yesterday when my horoscopes instructed me to look it up.

 

[Jos the Boss]

Actually (trainspotting coat on) I've just realised Button in 2009 is the only exception ito a 60 year-old pattern: Every other WDC title in history won by an englishman was secured on an even year, while every title won by a scotsman was won on an odd year.
Maybe they just aren't compatible?

Jenson Button was born in Edinburgh... Ok he wasn't but it would be cool if he was!

 

[Mephistopheles]

Button, Alonso, Rosberg, Vettel.

When was the last time a season opened with four different winners and will it be five in spain?

 

[Incubus]

I think you have to go back to 1983.

1 (Brazil) Piquet Brabham-BMW
2 (USA-West) Watson McLaren-Ford
3 (France) Prost Renault
4 (San Marino) Tanbay Ferrari
5 (Monaco) Rosberg Williams-Ford

 

[Mephistopheles]

Nice to see that a Rosberg was involved back then as well a family trait maybe...

 

[Johnny Carwash]

1983 season started with five different race winners Piquet, Watson, Prost, Tambay Rosberg, not sure if it was the last time it happened though.

 

[Fenderman]

2003 opened with four different winners: Australia - David Coulthard; Malaysia - Kimi Raikkonen; Brazil - Giancarlo Fisichella; San Marino - Michael Schumacher.

 

[teabagyokel]

83 was the last time we had 4 constructors in first four.