Sentences with phrase «f1 drivers the championship»

With the Formula V8 3.5 Series ending this year, we take a look at some of the quality F1 drivers the championship has given us

It won the F1 driver championship for New Zealander Denny Hulme in 1967 and earned the manufacturer title for the second year in a row for Tauranac and three - time driving champion Brabham.

Not exact matches

Giuseppe Farina won the first championship race in F1 at Silverstone on 13 May in 1950 and went on to claim the drivers» title too.

Whilst Arnoux was a race winner and qualifying beast (he took 18 poles, more than any other driver without a championship), Cheever never quite managed to reach the top step during his time in F1 from 1978 to 1989.

The former Marussia driver says that the main reason drivers from the USA don't make it to F1 is because American championships are pretty much ignored

Lewis Hamilton recently said the four best drivers in F1 were himself, Fernando Alonso, Max Verstappen and Sebastian Vettel, and that he'd love to battle them all for the championship.

Vitaly Petrov was runner - up to Nico Hulkenberg in the 2009 GP2 championship, and like Hulkenberg he was promoted to F1 for the 2010 season, replacing Romain Grosjean at Renault to become Russia's first Formula 1 driver.

Former F1 driver Tiago Monteiro won while Comini finished fourth in another half - points race, enough for him to win the championship.

He was third in the GP2 championship in 2015 and 2016 and has been actually been around F1 for ages, having joined Sauber as a test driver in 2014 and been a Renault tester for the last two seasons.

F1 fan - favourite Button will be an ambassador and test driver for McLaren this year but is considering his options for other championships.

Still, it's incredible to see two of the greatest F1 drivers of all time — eight world championships between them — going at it like this.

Allowing teams and drivers to share more on social media can only be a good thing; F1 is way behind some other championships in this area.

Gurney joined Porsche's factory F1 team in 1961 where a trio of second places helped him to fourth in the drivers» championship.

I've always wanted to not only be an F1 driver but win races and championships.

Although he's acknowledged as one of the best drivers in F1, It's been over 11 years (yes, really) since Alonso won a championship, and getting on for five years since he's even won a race.

It (along with GP3) supports F1 most weekends and many recent great drivers have had championship success there, such as Lewis Hamilton, Nico Rosberg and of course, Pastor Maldonado.

Sir Stirling Moss is rightly known as one the best Formula 1 drivers never to win a championship, but truth be told he's probably up there as one of the best F1 drivers of all time.

He went on to win four more races that year (all on ovals) and win the title, becoming the first driver to hold the F1 and IndyCar championships at the same time.

There have been a grand total of 161 British drivers in F1, the largest pool of any, with the USA in second with 158 drivers - though that's largely thanks to the inclusion of the Indy 500 as a championship race in the earlier eras.

That would be the first of three wins for Wilson that season, which along with seven other podiums was enough to give him the championship by a record margin over runner - up and future fellow F1 driver, Mark Webber.

Wehrlein's impressive showings in both championships so far indicate a potential in waiting, a talented driver who is biding his time for that call up to F1 again.

Former F1 driver and Grand Prix winner Heikki Kovalainen has just won the championship in Japan's premier racing category, Super GT.

Being «wasted» is a bit of a strong term, as I'm sure there are plenty of IndyCar drivers who would rather stay put and compete for wins and championships than «do a Sebastien Bourdais» and risk it all for a move to a lower - midfield F1 team.

As they battled, Jaime Alguersuari scampered off up the road to win the race and the championship - less than a year later, he was an F1 driver.

There's no doubt that IndyCar (and other American series) has plenty of talented drivers, but the modern F1 way is for teams to recruit young drivers to their junior programmes and prepare them for F1 over a number of years, rather than simply plucking good drivers from other championships as occasionally used to be the case.

(Also known as «Formula One 2009») F1 2009 offers a fully authentic FIA Formula One championship experience with all the teams, drivers, cars and tracks from the 2009 season.

F1 2011 will feature all of the official teams, drivers and circuits from the highly anticipated 2011 FIA FORMULA ONE WORLD CHAMPIONSHIP, including the current FIA FORMULA ONE Drivers» World Champion Sebastian drivers and circuits from the highly anticipated 2011 FIA FORMULA ONE WORLD CHAMPIONSHIP, including the current FIA FORMULA ONE Drivers» World Champion Sebastian Drivers» World Champion Sebastian Vettel.

While we wait for a next - gen F1 game, we can still enjoy an all - round game that puts you into the suit of one of the world's championship drivers.

With multiplayer support for up to 22 drivers, F1 2016 allows players to form a full grid of human players across the 21 circuits featured in the 2016 FIA FORMULA ONE WORLD CHAMPIONSHIP, including the tight Baku street circuit, the latest addition to the calendar.

One of the most successful Formula 1 teams of all time, McLaren has notched 12 world drivers» championships and eight constructors» titles since its first F1 race in 1966.

The digital steering wheel is a special bit of kit: it's based on the 2008 F1 car's item, the one that Lewis Hamilton used to win the driver's championship.

The idea is simple enough, F1 2010 pits you as a new driver who must make their way through the ranks to a top team and start winning some championships.

There are no officially licensed cars, although car design is absolutely based on the exterior designs of famous cars such as the Montgomery Hyperion models are reminiscent to a Jaguar E-Type, while the Carson GT Concept has a striking resemblance to the Chevrolet Camaro and Watson Roadster is similar to a Lotus, alongside the Krieger Racing WTR that closely resembles Lewis Hamilton's world driver's championship winning McLaren F1 car.

The same can be said for Max Verstappen's route into F1 with Red Bull and their sister team Toro Rosso, while McLaren Honda have recruited Stoffel Vandoorne with McLaren's rising star Lando Norris racing in Formula 3 while being tipped to be a future F1 champion at McLaren and Williams have brought in Lance Stroll who are all young promising drivers with the potential to be future world champions by following in the footsteps of arguably the best ever product of a young driver development programme in the form of Lewis Hamilton's debut season for McLaren in 2007 when he came 1 point away from winning the world driver's championship.

While the classic cars may be just what excites F1 fans into playing F1 2017; they do fall flat in a couple of areas as none of their legendary drivers are available to race as or compete against which makes no sense as having Mika Hakkinen's world driver's championship winning car from 1998 without Mika Hakkinen somewhat reduces the quality of the experience below that of the classic cars included in F1 2013 which actually featured the official names and imagery of Ayrton Senna, Nigel Mansell, Damon Hill, Alain Prost, Mario Andretti, Emerson Fittipaldi, Mika Hakkinen, Michael Schumacher, Gerhard Berger and more besides.

«Be the driver, live the life» was the tagline for F1 2010, a game that featured press conferences and interviews with dialogue trees, and offered a rags - to - riches narrative in which you take a drive with HRT, Lotus or Marussia and work your way up to the top teams, challenging for championships.

McLaren Young Driver Lando Norris recently test drove a host of his team's classic FORMULA ONE ™ cars, as well as the striking MCL32 from this year's championship, in F1 2017, the official videogame of the 2017 FIA FORMULA ONE WORLD CHAchampionship, in F1 2017, the official videogame of the 2017 FIA FORMULA ONE WORLD CHAMPIONSHIPCHAMPIONSHIP ™.