Max Verstappen on Saturday turned simply the sixth driver to win 4 Components One world titles.
AFP seems on the different 5 who achieved the feat:
– Juan Manuel Fangio –
Titles gained: 1951, 1954, 1955, 1956, 1957
Automobiles: Alfa Romeo, Maserati, Mercedes, Ferrari
Born in 1911, Fangio was a profitable driver at dwelling in Argentina, notably profitable the gruelling 10,000 kilometre (6,250 miles) Gran Premio del Norte in 1940, earlier than changing into the primary famous person of Components One.
He gained the 1951 title with Alfa Romeo and went on to triumph with Maserati, Mercedes and Ferrari to turn out to be the primary man to win 5 titles, a document that stood for 46 years. He died aged 84 in 1995.
In his personal phrases:
“I realized to strategy racing like a recreation of billiards. Should you bash the ball too onerous, you get nowhere. As you deal with the cue correctly, you drive with extra finesse.”
– Alain Prost –
Titles gained: 1985, 1986, 1989, 1993
Automobiles: McLaren, Williams
The Frenchman, who was often known as ‘The Professor’ for his analytical strategy to the game, is remembered by many because the uninteresting counterpoint to the crowd-pleasing Ayrton Senna (three titles) in a rivalry that gripped F1 within the late Nineteen Eighties, early Nineties.
However he was a gifted, methodical driver who gained his first three titles with McLaren and a fourth with Williams. He may need had 5 had he not been pipped by half a degree by Niki Lauda in 1984.
In his personal phrases:
“My excellent is to get pole with the minimal effort, and to win the race on the slowest velocity doable.”
– Michael Schumacher –
Titles gained: 1994, 1995, 2000, 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004
Automobiles: Benetton, Ferrari
The 12 months after Prost’s closing championship, up stepped the inheritor obvious in Michael Schumacher. The German, along with his undoubted verve and tempo mingled with an aggression that often bordered on the harmful, gained twice with Benetton within the Nineties earlier than switching to Ferrari.
From 2000 he dominated the observe, profitable 5 titles on the trot, eclipsing Fangio’s document on the way in which. His 91 race wins was a brand new document till Lewis Hamilton handed him.
Schumacher suffered a critical mind damage in a 2013 snowboarding accident and has been in care on the household dwelling in Switzerland since.
In his personal phrases:
“Simply being a mediocre driver has by no means been my ambition. That’s not my fashion.”
– Sebastian Vettel –
Titles gained: 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013
Automobile: Purple Bull
Six years after Schumacher’s final title, alongside got here one other German to take a agency grip of the game. Vettel made his F1 debut in Indianapolis shortly earlier than his twentieth birthday in 2007 with Purple Bull which had taken over and rebranded the Jaguar workforce 4 years earlier.
Three years later he turned the youngest-ever champion, occurring to win 4 in a row and irritating the nice Spaniard Fernando Alonso who was runner-up thrice to Vettel. His 2013 title was the final gained by Purple Bull till Verstappen’s first in 2021.
In his personal phrases:
“It is appropriate that I am a nasty loser. Why ought to I lie? If I used to be good at shedding I would not be in Components 1.”
– Lewis Hamilton –
Titles gained: 2008, 2014, 2015, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020
Automobiles: McLaren, Mercedes
In a sport that had been completely white, Lewis Hamilton broke new floor for being the primary Black driver and the primary Black champion. He used his place to talk out on many social points however stored his most telling actions to the observe the place he and his Mercedes workforce had been in a category of their very own.
After profitable his first title with McLaren in 2008, he switched to Mercedes profitable six additional titles over a seven-year interval. Arguably he ought to have made it eight when a controversial resolution by the race director in Abu Dhabi ushered Verstappen by way of for the win as a substitute — and the title.
In his personal phrases:
“Should you don’t have the balls to brake late, that’s your drawback.”
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