Today's look is "man who stayed up to 4am doing stewarding for a Hyundai esports series". I'm hoping it takes first prize at the Met Gala. Also- Yes, the car was a brick. But despite being that, it could do some good stuff!
I know there's nobody with me but the early f 310 is my favourite Racecar ever. I love how the sidepot intakes are formed and if you look straight at the Back it looks like a fighter jet. Also it was my proper first season as a Motorsports fan.
Schumacher: We need to change with the times in order to win. We have to replace the V12 with a V10. Ferrari engineers: Oh, we can't do that. Schumacher: Why not? Ferrari engineers: It's a Ferrari! Schumacher: It's a shit box!
the fact that the 95 car can't be twitchy when schumi was setting it up again parallels what the movie said about the ferrari in the 70s, the understeer was crazy.
That's the race which gave Damon his reputation for being bad in the wet. But it's completely undeserved - Williams had inexplicably put a dry setup on the car that day. People forget what had happened already that season. The preceding race at Monaco in wet, greasy conditions the shoe was on the other foot. Damon didn't put a foot wrong and was the class of the field, while Das Regenmeister crashed out on lap 1. And in Brazil in horrendously wet conditions which they wouldn't even think of racing in these days Damon was the one making everyone else look like amateurs - lapping everyone except Alesi (considered a wet specialist), including Schumacher in 3rd. Then there's his epic wet 1994 Japanese GP win. And later Spa in 1998, where people remember Schumacher driving away from everyone else from the start at something like 3.5 seconds a lap. But forget that Damon was the second quickest in the early stages, not as fast as Schumacher but still pulling away from the rest by around 1.5-2 seconds a lap.
Excelent video. This was the first F1 Ferrari for me as 1996 was the first year I started watching F1, so good memories even if Damon Hill was my favourite driver at the time.
Irvine must of been distracted by the gratuitously sized cockpit sides that he thought he was nested between a pair of bosoms. Also MSC had a radically different helmet to everybody else that year for aero, and would tilt is head to one side down the straights of Hockenheim to aid airflow to the airbox IIRC
What's fascinating to observe about the early 1990's Ferraris is that starting with the 643, every new car seemed to be a fairly radical departure from the previous car, which was of course indicative to the organizational disarray the Scuderia was in at the time. Admittedly, most of those Ferraris were actually incredibly beautiful albeit not successful on the track. I do wonder if given enough development time, Ferrari could have turned at least some of them into actual winners. Ironically, they went through so many new iterations that some features, like the jet engine style side pods first appeared on the F92 and then somehow reappeared on the F310. I think those unusual side pods alone deserve an episode btw! Finally, for some reason I had always assumed that John Barnard only designed the F310 but the fact that it slowly morphed into a Benetton look-alike was due to Ross Brawn and Rory Byrne getting involved already in 1996, which I guess they didn't. Or was this transition perhaps actually due to Schumacher's presence in the team, i.e. him wanting something that behaved more like the Benetton he had been so successful with. Anyway, great video Aidan!
The car was oddly beautiful, even if the high nose guise looked awful. Put it next to that year's Hogan IndyCar and you have two nearly identical liveries,somehow,some way though
Fast forward a year and it was two Mercedes engines going bang on consecutive laps at the Nurburgring, in full view of the Mercedes Benz grandstand. When they looked set to win the race.
I still have a model of this car that I bought at an Italian service station on the day I did a tour of the San Siro and accidentally turned up at practice for the 97 Italian Grand Prix. That, my Frentzen 99 Jordan I bought in the Monaco tunnel, and my Damon Hill model helmet from Monza are the only bits of f1 memorabilia I kept after Abu Dhabi
@ Not to go over old arguments, but the way the whole thing was handled and the suspect stewarding prior just killed my enthusiasm for f1, and I was the kid who would jabber away about mansell and senna in my high chair
I actually like how the low nosed 310 looks :) it was actually the first model F1 car I had at that time, I wasn’t a Ferrari fan though, just a F1 fan that liked cool cars :)
For those taking a critical view of Autosport Magazine, it simply was the F1 bible back then in the pre-internet days. Everyone read it, even the teams. You wouldn't get to see shots of the new cars anywhere else, nor their lap times. It may have gone down a strange route in recent years, but it shouldn't be forgotten just how important it was. The 310 wasn't bad because it was slow, it was bad because it was unreliable. There was a massive culture shift going on at Ferrari when Michael joined, and it took them several seasons to change from being about power, passion and politics to the ruthless efficiency that we saw from 2000 onwards.
3:38 they were fun fact though around 1997ish McLaren Williams and Ferrari all have very very similar amount of race wins at the same and similar WCC to go with it I believe McLaren had the most wins by any team at the start of 1996 or Ferrari were leading by literally 1 race win
Imagine owning a private factory that spends many millions building a private car, and not being allowed to drive it on your private track outside your private factory. This also happens to Ducati, and they have 8.bikes on the grid. It must be very dangerous for the people snooping around with cameras.
The F310 engine was developed enormously during the season. In Italy and Belgium, engine circuits, the car was seriously fast. Go to any video of the Belgium GP and check the Huge rear wing Michael had compared to the one Villeneuve had.
I always felt the 310B was the beginning of it all for Schumi and Ferarri, the car just kept getting better each year and closer and closer to the dominance they enjoyed.
@Sam-rl5hs Todt and Brawn led the line, Schumacher had more mechanical intelligence than most ever had at the time and the rest fell into place including Byrne etc but thise 2 where the main force behind it all.
@aidanmillward an idea for a future video perhaps doing a study on Alesi and Berger being together through 93 to 97 and how many races they should have won but didn't, especially Alesi!
This is the only F1 car I ever saw in person, and even had a chance to get inside. I now realize how expendable the chassis were back then. Now it's absolutely impossible to anyone to have a F1 chassi with all the restrictions of manufacturing.
Aiden, if you get a chance you should look into the story of Bigfoot 8, the monster truck that was so ahead of its time technologically that the main sanctioning body they competed under banned them from competition for a 1/4 of the season just to give the competition a chance at catching up in the championship points table, which in turn led toone of the most legendary championship showdowns in the history of the sport with the title being decided by a few tenths of a second.
the one thing I know for sure is that the 310B by VRC for assetto corsa is way too much fun to drive, both the Ferrari and the Williams are waaaaay too fast but they do a really good job at tricking your brain into thinking it really is pushing an F1 car to its limit.
On the topic of testing (4:36 - 5:12): I suppose most things which used to be ironed out by [on-track] testing á la Schumi are done in driver-in-loop simulators nowadays, meaning that a 1990s-esque testing program is barely needed.
Loved the 412 T2....it and the 312 are the only F1 models I have in the house. My strongest memory of the 95 F was a halfshaft bouncing down the pit lane. Can't find that footage anywhere....
One thing that was very odd in that season is the driver's carousel. The reigning 1995 F1 championship winner chose to leave the Benetton team, with which he had won 2 years in a row, to join "La Scuderia". Then, the two 1995 Ferrari drivers moved, together, to Benetton. I have been following F1 since 1978 and I do not remember such a bizarre situation.
Funny enough Schumacher later stated he was expecting reliability issues at the start of 1996 but at the time Ferrari had this string of misfortunes mid season he was actually expecting the car to run without issues. Also hungary was something: I think it was mid race that Schumacher's fly-by-wire system failed and his solution was to shut of and restart the engine at certain parts of the track. This went on until near the end of the race when he mistakenly flipped the wrong switch causing his car to stop.
I've always wanted to see the 1996 F310 without the giant armchair cockpit protector but to instead have the low version used by Williams that year and on the F310B in 1997. If they used the lower '97 style, they wouldn't have needed that bulky engine cover.
Ferrari are in a similar position now, aren't they? They won the constructors title in 2008, and their last champion was Kimi in 2007. Ferrari also went two seasons in a row without a win recently.
Like always amazing and I love your content but Ferrari won in 94 just 1time (Berger in Germany) and in 95 1time (Alesi in Canada). Sorry to be over correct but Yeah... Still amazing stuff 👏👏
Love the F310, Schumacher's first season with Ferrari and a flawed car that basically showed up his genius. Nobody who ever saw that race at Barcelona will ever doubt that man's brilliance behind the wheel. The F310 was a part of that bit of history. Shame it spent the next three to four races breaking down ridiculously easily....
If you didn't watch Schumacher and have recently started to watch F1 (Not a putdown btw) Then you really have no idea how scary he was. I've watched since around 94 (which I don't think is to dissimilar from Aidan) and the man was on a different planet. He like anyone could be beaten but when people try to compare drivers to him it's sometimes laughable. When you are the only guy on the circuit on inters with the rest of the field are on full wets and lapping seconds faster than everyone because when they put inters on they fall off the track ... I've only seen a few drivers be on that level. 20 Quali Laps in Hungary, His Race in Spain 1996 with the above car that was not really as good as Micheal made it look and his early domination races like the Spa one I reference above were literally light years ahead of the entire field. I wasn't a fan of Schumacher but even if he was starting at the back you were resigned to him coming through and battering everyone. People these days get _very_ upset when you say things like _I hope he crashes out_ because they think you are wanting the driver to get hurt when you really aren't, you'd take a mechanical fault and back then you really had to hope Schumacher got tangled in an incident or his car failed (which it so rarely did) to have ANY hope of seeing someone else win. At least that's how it felt at the time. In 1996 as a Damon fan, I was delighted he beat Schumacher. But make no mistake, Schumacher in that car would have won 85% of the races and had the title wrapped up by Spa. I think unfortunately because Schumacher did some questionable moves in his career that were very much put under the microscope people these days use it as an excuse for one particular drivers behaviour. The thing is Schumacher might have 1 or two questionable moments a season, the one particular driver i'm avoiding mentioning by name has multiple in one race. I bring this up for two reasons, one I literally hate this one particular driver and two because I'm abit sick and tired of the last few years the only time I see Schumacher mentioned is to say "HE WAS AMAZING AND CHEATY SO ITS FINE" It's such a narrowminded way to look at his legacy and his "bad" moments are far less frequent than fans of said particular driver would ever care to admit.
I don’t think Schumacher would have been as good under the current format. He tested constantly and learned what the car could and couldn’t do while Senna and those guys had the natural ability.
Think you also have to bear in mind the space-age aero of the cars from about mid-04/05 meant sheer physics made it near impossible to pass. Even Schumi himself struggled in 05, 06, and again in his comeback years, partly because he didn't have a god tier car à la F2004, but even a driver of his caliber often couldn't work his way up the field as he'd just get stuck in someone's dirty air the whole race in cars that depend on aero, so I don't think it's necessarily fair to say drivers since his era aren't as good because god-tier runs from the back of the grid aren't as common now. Had the likes of Alonso, Hamilton, Raikkonnen, and Verstappen drove in a 'low aero' era, I'm sure they'd have had similar drives, but ofc this is all hypothetical.
As a fan of said particular driver, the times I think of Schumacher’s questionable moments are when people use him and say “Schumacher would never do something so bad or something like that” YES HE DID. He has his bad moments and bad driving. It wasn’t ok when he did it, and it’s not ok when this particular driver does it as well. The only reason I think of this is because people try to make out this perfect image of Schumacher who could do no wrong, but the truth is, he could. Wasn’t ok with him, still isn’t ok with this driver, and I severely wish he could change those habits at some point.
@@AidanMillward While I agree that he probably wouldn't be as good in the current format, the idea that the secret to his success lies in hard work is overblown. Work ethic was definitely a big plus, but it's impossible to be at that level without that "natural ability" that makes the difference between good and great drivers. While it is possible to achieve success through hard work (Nico Rosberg), such an approach in any profession has a very limited shelf life, you burn out in the end. Just considering the tire situation nowdays, neither he nor Senna would do that well in the current format.
Aidan does the early low-nose version of the F310 exist in any game? I ask because I'm currently playing through Human Grand Prix: The New Generation for N64 and the Ferrari analogue in that game (Human Entertainment lost the Fuji TV F1 licence for some reason, so the cars, teams, and drivers are thinly veiled knockoffs of the 1996 season with humourous names, in this case the 96.FER F31-TYPE with a FER-046 V10, driven by S.Mihumacher and I.Ervine, sponsored by Slim Eyes and Apigi) is high-nose only. In game, it breaks down a lot when the computer uses it.
@@palm92 probably not. All the license games containing the 1996 season had the cars as they were at the British or French GP since those had the most censored tobacco liveries.
If the FIA wouldn't act, Peter Sauber was prepared to compromise the performance of his cars to make the drivers safer and avoid a repeat of Wendlinger's head injuries. What a guy! For 1996, Williams & Jordan were the only two teams which took a controversial alternate interpretation of the new cockpit regulations, which upset other teams. All the other teams went big like Ferrari, it was especially prominent on the McLaren also.
I find the high nose Ferrari cool, but is just me and my late 90's bulky cars. Also interesting to notice that in 1997 you could either see Villeneuve or Schumacher on the podium, but not both at the same time
Yo Aidan, could you make a video about the Safari-spec rally car in WRC? Because earlier this year in March (Kenya's wettest month) FIA decided to bring it back.
One thing I never managed to find any information on is why on this green Earth did Ferrari decide to go not with the sidepods from a car which worked in 1995, 1994 even 1993 but had the same style as the dreadful F92A?
I thought the car looked good at its launch. It was all mulbous and muscular looking but worked. It looked horrific in the high nose guise though. I remember Irvine's season being particularly bad. 9 or 10 consecutive retirments.
A couple things right from the start (paused at 5min so it might be addressed later on). When talking about The Micheal everybody tends to look at the stats and even when they do look at his beginning on Ferrari most people overlook the actual brilliance of his move: he took EVERYONE worth taking from Benetton to Ferrari and it was with the help of those people that Ferrari turned a 180 and finally became a challenge again after decades. Though I would say that if Prost had a good teammate in 1990 they could have won the tittle that year. And the unrelented testing Michael learned from Senna: when they first met Michael was a fan and not in F1 yet and asked Senna for advice. Senna would say 'test as much as you can and when they say you can't argue and go testing even more' I'm paraphrasing but that was the gist of it. And it paid off incredibly! Oh and a bit of trivia: who was the Brazilian driver helping Ferrari develop the flappy paddle gear? Yes, him! 😂
Schumacher's steps to dominance #1 Get into car #2 Drive car on track #3 Ram opponenta off the road #4 Claim its all their fault/"British Bias"/or just ignore the irrefutable evidence etc etc.
Sooo, Is Lewis Trying to Do A Michael Schumacher? Take a struggling Ferrari, that hasn't won much for a Prolonged period of time, and Get it back to winning?
It was more than just a new challenge, it was MONEY as well that lured Michael to Ferrari. Debatable as to which was the larger factor, only the Michael knows.
You don't have to let your nerves get pinched over "British bias". It's there and ramped up when Hamilton started, in which Autosport was a huge contributor. Address it instead of getting upset.
According to John Barnhard Schumacher liked a lot the 412t2 he tested with the V12 because of the engine breaking and he said to Barnhard that he would have won the championship more easily with the Ferrari than the Benetton (beyond the grid with John Barnhard). The F310 was so unreliable that they had to salvage parts from the 412T2 to repair them. According to Irvine this car was pure trash and all performance came from Schumacher
Didn't watch the video yet, but Schumacher saying he could win the 1995 championship in the 95' Ferrari is a whole load of BS, that V12 was thirsty and its limitations where exposed with Alesi driving it. They had to gamble on dry tyres at the Nurburgring just to be far enough ahead to mitigate the issues that Ferrari had that year and even then they couldn't win that race although traffic didn't help, but even then I don't think they would've won if there wasn't traffic.
The biggest hurdle was the Ferrari not being as reliable as Bennetton and Williams. It's uncertain whether it could've won anything, but in 1994-95, one thing was certain: that thirsty V12 was the reference both at Hockhenheim and Monza. It should've won there, had it not been for...well reliability. It's actually weird to me that teams abandoned V12s altogether when refueling was effectively reducing its one glaring issue: having too much fuel on-board. Perhaps because of how one could distribute weight across the chassis with a smaller tank?
Yeah, people forget that Schumacher is a merchant for playing mind-games with the press against his rivals to try and destroy their confidence. That side of him especially came out when Montoya joined the sport and played Schumi at his own game in terms of on-track antics, and the beauty of Juan-Pablo calling out his bs to his face at Imola 2004 instead of cowardly snide remarks to the press.
@@nehylen5738 what if the v12's strong braking characteristic complimented his oversteery driving style in terms of helping the car rotate better in the corners? Maybe that's why he said that.
I agree that sounds like a PR statement to rile everybody up. The 1995 Ferrari gets a lot of hype but its actually a little worse than the 1994 Ferrari. That 1994 car was really powerful and it troubled the Williams on multiple occasions. The 1995 car had one pole and that was in a wet qualifying session where nobody could do a real lap.
I always felt he was referring more to the chassis, which was by all accounts excellent. Agreed with the V12's drawbacks. The V12's day was done by 1992 I'd say (in all honestly too, the Honda V12's 1991 WDC/WCC was an anomaly and they more or less admitted later it was probably the wrong direction to go in. Remember Mugen could have used the V12 from 1993-on but chose not to.) However I'll disagree. If Schumacher was driving it I think he could have pulled off a WDC based on his rival's form in 1995. But Hypotheticals are always unwise I guess.
The B189 looks great. The actual hideous Benettons are the the B191-B194 series. And yes the F310 is an ugly car, aping it's atrocious looking '92 predecessor. As you might be able to glean I am not a fan of the high-nose revolution effective as they were, sadly. The F310B is very attractive however.
Personally I always liked this design, and don't think it was ugly at all. Same as the 1995 McLaren which always gets a lot of hate for its looks. There were far worse designs in the 70s and 80s, and lets not even throw shade at any design when it is compared to the penis and tusk nosed cars of 2014.
Yes Schumacher was incredible in 1996 he Finished 3rd in the Championship. And Helped Ferrari Finish 2nd in the Constructors Championship. Won 3 Races in a Dog of a Ferrari laughable like you said.
Mega twitchy car, certainly unreliable for much of the season. What makes me laugh is the rose tinted narrative that Schumacher dragged wins out of a glorified Minardi, when it was the joint second fastest car (alongside Benetton) and Ferrari had unlimited resources.
Today's look is "man who stayed up to 4am doing stewarding for a Hyundai esports series". I'm hoping it takes first prize at the Met Gala.
Also- Yes, the car was a brick. But despite being that, it could do some good stuff!
Didn’t see a thing different
Well my first prize is some steel balls on my... You get the nuts
Yes
What happened to the video on how Ferrari forced Schumacher into retirement? The Resident evil referece video.
I know there's nobody with me but the early f 310 is my favourite Racecar ever. I love how the sidepot intakes are formed and if you look straight at the Back it looks like a fighter jet. Also it was my proper first season as a Motorsports fan.
Dude you`re not alone, I love this car, I love the bulky sidepods, the shape, the low Nose, the high nose...everything :D
I'm with ya. That and the Branham BT52 have to be my absolute favorite.
@@kevincross5174 I feel different about the high nose. It has to be the early one. Ahhh beauty
I'm with you on that one, specifically it's original guise with the low nose. Who wouldn't love Schumacher's first Ferrari?
You definitely aren’t alone
"Man [Damon Hill] was driving like prime Lando Norris," just made my day. 😂
For sure 😆😆😆😆😆
He's kind of right. Both seem too nice to be racing drivers.
I think a video on each of Michael’s Ferraris would be amazing
Schumacher: We need to change with the times in order to win. We have to replace the V12 with a V10.
Ferrari engineers: Oh, we can't do that.
Schumacher: Why not?
Ferrari engineers: It's a Ferrari!
Schumacher: It's a shit box!
probably a genuine transcript tbh
By all accounts, Schumacher loved the V12 and was really impressed with it's engine braking in comparison to the V10....
the fact that the 95 car can't be twitchy when schumi was setting it up again parallels what the movie said about the ferrari in the 70s, the understeer was crazy.
@@matthewbrown2772yeah, John Barnard said this in his Beyond The Grid interview
the 1996 Barcelona GP was epic imo. I still remember how crazy it was
He made Damon look like an absolute amateur in that race.
@@sanfordcurtis8242 Damon was still a relative amateur at the time.
That's the race which gave Damon his reputation for being bad in the wet. But it's completely undeserved - Williams had inexplicably put a dry setup on the car that day.
People forget what had happened already that season. The preceding race at Monaco in wet, greasy conditions the shoe was on the other foot. Damon didn't put a foot wrong and was the class of the field, while Das Regenmeister crashed out on lap 1. And in Brazil in horrendously wet conditions which they wouldn't even think of racing in these days Damon was the one making everyone else look like amateurs - lapping everyone except Alesi (considered a wet specialist), including Schumacher in 3rd.
Then there's his epic wet 1994 Japanese GP win. And later Spa in 1998, where people remember Schumacher driving away from everyone else from the start at something like 3.5 seconds a lap. But forget that Damon was the second quickest in the early stages, not as fast as Schumacher but still pulling away from the rest by around 1.5-2 seconds a lap.
@@ibex485 YOu can add San Marino in 95. Slippery conditions in which Hill won, and Schumacher stuffed it in the wall.
Hill was great in the wet. And great generally. Hungary 97 proves it alone. Spain 96 was just a bad day at the office.
The 310 is a charming, dorky looking thing.
Excelent video. This was the first F1 Ferrari for me as 1996 was the first year I started watching F1, so good memories even if Damon Hill was my favourite driver at the time.
Sowhere I read about SCH being impressed by the 412 T2's engine and how they didnt score more victories...
He was impressed by the whole car tbh, he thought the car was good enough to contend for the WDC
Actually, it was his manager Willi Weber who engineered the move to Ferrari.
He saw great potential in his client to uplift the struggling team.
One of my all time fave seasons and Schumacher in the Ferrari was glorious. I actually really loved the way that car looked
Irvine must of been distracted by the gratuitously sized cockpit sides that he thought he was nested between a pair of bosoms.
Also MSC had a radically different helmet to everybody else that year for aero, and would tilt is head to one side down the straights of Hockenheim to aid airflow to the airbox IIRC
Schumi indicated he could have won the WC in that car after Estoril, and in particular liked the brake effect the V12 had.
What's fascinating to observe about the early 1990's Ferraris is that starting with the 643, every new car seemed to be a fairly radical departure from the previous car, which was of course indicative to the organizational disarray the Scuderia was in at the time. Admittedly, most of those Ferraris were actually incredibly beautiful albeit not successful on the track. I do wonder if given enough development time, Ferrari could have turned at least some of them into actual winners.
Ironically, they went through so many new iterations that some features, like the jet engine style side pods first appeared on the F92 and then somehow reappeared on the F310. I think those unusual side pods alone deserve an episode btw!
Finally, for some reason I had always assumed that John Barnard only designed the F310 but the fact that it slowly morphed into a Benetton look-alike was due to Ross Brawn and Rory Byrne getting involved already in 1996, which I guess they didn't. Or was this transition perhaps actually due to Schumacher's presence in the team, i.e. him wanting something that behaved more like the Benetton he had been so successful with.
Anyway, great video Aidan!
The car was oddly beautiful, even if the high nose guise looked awful. Put it next to that year's Hogan IndyCar and you have two nearly identical liveries,somehow,some way though
I remember the British GP, the sight of two Ferraris going up in smoke was something to behold!
Todt was inches from being fired apparently!
Fast forward a year and it was two Mercedes engines going bang on consecutive laps at the Nurburgring, in full view of the Mercedes Benz grandstand. When they looked set to win the race.
I still have a model of this car that I bought at an Italian service station on the day I did a tour of the San Siro and accidentally turned up at practice for the 97 Italian Grand Prix. That, my Frentzen 99 Jordan I bought in the Monaco tunnel, and my Damon Hill model helmet from Monza are the only bits of f1 memorabilia I kept after Abu Dhabi
Nice collection. But what happened in Abu Dhabi?
@ Not to go over old arguments, but the way the whole thing was handled and the suspect stewarding prior just killed my enthusiasm for f1, and I was the kid who would jabber away about mansell and senna in my high chair
I actually like how the low nosed 310 looks :) it was actually the first model F1 car I had at that time, I wasn’t a Ferrari fan though, just a F1 fan that liked cool cars :)
For those taking a critical view of Autosport Magazine, it simply was the F1 bible back then in the pre-internet days. Everyone read it, even the teams. You wouldn't get to see shots of the new cars anywhere else, nor their lap times. It may have gone down a strange route in recent years, but it shouldn't be forgotten just how important it was.
The 310 wasn't bad because it was slow, it was bad because it was unreliable. There was a massive culture shift going on at Ferrari when Michael joined, and it took them several seasons to change from being about power, passion and politics to the ruthless efficiency that we saw from 2000 onwards.
44 to scud!!!!!! Keep going sir! Good vid😊
3:38 they were fun fact though around 1997ish McLaren Williams and Ferrari all have very very similar amount of race wins at the same and similar WCC to go with it
I believe McLaren had the most wins by any team at the start of 1996 or Ferrari were leading by literally 1 race win
Imagine owning a private factory that spends many millions building a private car, and not being allowed to drive it on your private track outside your private factory. This also happens to Ducati, and they have 8.bikes on the grid. It must be very dangerous for the people snooping around with cameras.
Please make a series talking about ferraris pre title years (1997-1999)
The F310 engine was developed enormously during the season. In Italy and Belgium, engine circuits, the car was seriously fast. Go to any video of the Belgium GP and check the Huge rear wing Michael had compared to the one Villeneuve had.
Eddie irvine said in an interview the car was nearly undrivable and only schumacher or senna could have competed in it
9:40 it done too much juice in the local gym... love it!
I always felt the 310B was the beginning of it all for Schumi and Ferarri, the car just kept getting better each year and closer and closer to the dominance they enjoyed.
The car was made better. Schumacher got Rory Bryne and Ross Brawn from Benetton
@Sam-rl5hs Todt and Brawn led the line, Schumacher had more mechanical intelligence than most ever had at the time and the rest fell into place including Byrne etc but thise 2 where the main force behind it all.
I love the F310 with every fiber of my being.
@aidanmillward an idea for a future video perhaps doing a study on Alesi and Berger being together through 93 to 97 and how many races they should have won but didn't, especially Alesi!
@@Bezza49 around 12
2:48 nope, SCH won the opening 4 races in 1994, the fifth round was won by Hill
@@Holanduzo 6 of the opening 7 is still a ridiculous stat for the time.
Yep, Hill won against Schumacher, who was driving with 5.Gear only for most of that race
That facelifted 310 looks like a snapping turtle. Absolute munter.
This is the only F1 car I ever saw in person, and even had a chance to get inside. I now realize how expendable the chassis were back then. Now it's absolutely impossible to anyone to have a F1 chassi with all the restrictions of manufacturing.
I like the way u think. Thanx for ur work.
1991-1995, 2 wins (1994 German Grand Prix Gerhard Berger, 1995 Canadian Grand Prix Jean Alesi)
Another memory of that year was Schuey going down the straights with his head leaned over to improve airflow into the a box for more power/speed.
Aiden, if you get a chance you should look into the story of Bigfoot 8, the monster truck that was so ahead of its time technologically that the main sanctioning body they competed under banned them from competition for a 1/4 of the season just to give the competition a chance at catching up in the championship points table, which in turn led toone of the most legendary championship showdowns in the history of the sport with the title being decided by a few tenths of a second.
the one thing I know for sure is that the 310B by VRC for assetto corsa is way too much fun to drive, both the Ferrari and the Williams are waaaaay too fast but they do a really good job at tricking your brain into thinking it really is pushing an F1 car to its limit.
On the topic of testing (4:36 - 5:12): I suppose most things which used to be ironed out by [on-track] testing á la Schumi are done in driver-in-loop simulators nowadays, meaning that a 1990s-esque testing program is barely needed.
Loved the 412 T2....it and the 312 are the only F1 models I have in the house. My strongest memory of the 95 F was a halfshaft bouncing down the pit lane. Can't find that footage anywhere....
One thing that was very odd in that season is the driver's carousel. The reigning 1995 F1 championship winner chose to leave the Benetton team, with which he had won 2 years in a row, to join "La Scuderia". Then, the two 1995 Ferrari drivers moved, together, to Benetton. I have been following F1 since 1978 and I do not remember such a bizarre situation.
over time i think this car has gotten better looking
Funny enough Schumacher later stated he was expecting reliability issues at the start of 1996 but at the time Ferrari had this string of misfortunes mid season he was actually expecting the car to run without issues. Also hungary was something: I think it was mid race that Schumacher's fly-by-wire system failed and his solution was to shut of and restart the engine at certain parts of the track. This went on until near the end of the race when he mistakenly flipped the wrong switch causing his car to stop.
18:17 Liked video... you have done a good job!
Back when cars looked different to each other.
I liked it due to the ideas around the sidepods. Look at the Vettel redbulls and it follows the same theory
I'm not sure, are you doing the Spanish GP at a future date?
I've always wanted to see the 1996 F310 without the giant armchair cockpit protector but to instead have the low version used by Williams that year and on the F310B in 1997. If they used the lower '97 style, they wouldn't have needed that bulky engine cover.
I think this car is stunning...!
Michael Schumacher did say that he would’ve had an easier drive to the title with the 1995 Ferrari compared to the Bennetton
Ferrari are in a similar position now, aren't they? They won the constructors title in 2008, and their last champion was Kimi in 2007. Ferrari also went two seasons in a row without a win recently.
Yeah
Like always amazing and I love your content but Ferrari won in 94 just 1time (Berger in Germany) and in 95 1time (Alesi in Canada). Sorry to be over correct but Yeah... Still amazing stuff 👏👏
@@alexbuceavideo I know. It’s been pointed out several times.
Schumacher helped Ferrari finish 2nd in the Contructors Championship that season Schumacher was superb in 1996. Won 3 Races and 5 Podium’s.
Love the F310, Schumacher's first season with Ferrari and a flawed car that basically showed up his genius. Nobody who ever saw that race at Barcelona will ever doubt that man's brilliance behind the wheel. The F310 was a part of that bit of history. Shame it spent the next three to four races breaking down ridiculously easily....
If you didn't watch Schumacher and have recently started to watch F1 (Not a putdown btw) Then you really have no idea how scary he was.
I've watched since around 94 (which I don't think is to dissimilar from Aidan) and the man was on a different planet. He like anyone could be beaten but when people try to compare drivers to him it's sometimes laughable. When you are the only guy on the circuit on inters with the rest of the field are on full wets and lapping seconds faster than everyone because when they put inters on they fall off the track ... I've only seen a few drivers be on that level.
20 Quali Laps in Hungary, His Race in Spain 1996 with the above car that was not really as good as Micheal made it look and his early domination races like the Spa one I reference above were literally light years ahead of the entire field.
I wasn't a fan of Schumacher but even if he was starting at the back you were resigned to him coming through and battering everyone.
People these days get _very_ upset when you say things like _I hope he crashes out_ because they think you are wanting the driver to get hurt when you really aren't, you'd take a mechanical fault and back then you really had to hope Schumacher got tangled in an incident or his car failed (which it so rarely did) to have ANY hope of seeing someone else win. At least that's how it felt at the time.
In 1996 as a Damon fan, I was delighted he beat Schumacher. But make no mistake, Schumacher in that car would have won 85% of the races and had the title wrapped up by Spa.
I think unfortunately because Schumacher did some questionable moves in his career that were very much put under the microscope people these days use it as an excuse for one particular drivers behaviour. The thing is Schumacher might have 1 or two questionable moments a season, the one particular driver i'm avoiding mentioning by name has multiple in one race.
I bring this up for two reasons, one I literally hate this one particular driver and two because I'm abit sick and tired of the last few years the only time I see Schumacher mentioned is to say "HE WAS AMAZING AND CHEATY SO ITS FINE"
It's such a narrowminded way to look at his legacy and his "bad" moments are far less frequent than fans of said particular driver would ever care to admit.
LOL you can say its name lol you mean Verspunten?
I don’t think Schumacher would have been as good under the current format. He tested constantly and learned what the car could and couldn’t do while Senna and those guys had the natural ability.
Think you also have to bear in mind the space-age aero of the cars from about mid-04/05 meant sheer physics made it near impossible to pass. Even Schumi himself struggled in 05, 06, and again in his comeback years, partly because he didn't have a god tier car à la F2004, but even a driver of his caliber often couldn't work his way up the field as he'd just get stuck in someone's dirty air the whole race in cars that depend on aero, so I don't think it's necessarily fair to say drivers since his era aren't as good because god-tier runs from the back of the grid aren't as common now.
Had the likes of Alonso, Hamilton, Raikkonnen, and Verstappen drove in a 'low aero' era, I'm sure they'd have had similar drives, but ofc this is all hypothetical.
As a fan of said particular driver, the times I think of Schumacher’s questionable moments are when people use him and say “Schumacher would never do something so bad or something like that” YES HE DID. He has his bad moments and bad driving. It wasn’t ok when he did it, and it’s not ok when this particular driver does it as well. The only reason I think of this is because people try to make out this perfect image of Schumacher who could do no wrong, but the truth is, he could. Wasn’t ok with him, still isn’t ok with this driver, and I severely wish he could change those habits at some point.
@@AidanMillward While I agree that he probably wouldn't be as good in the current format, the idea that the secret to his success lies in hard work is overblown. Work ethic was definitely a big plus, but it's impossible to be at that level without that "natural ability" that makes the difference between good and great drivers.
While it is possible to achieve success through hard work (Nico Rosberg), such an approach in any profession has a very limited shelf life, you burn out in the end.
Just considering the tire situation nowdays, neither he nor Senna would do that well in the current format.
Having a lot of time for testing is one thing. But building a faster car with the information is another story.
Ah, the flying bathtub!
Aidan does the early low-nose version of the F310 exist in any game? I ask because I'm currently playing through Human Grand Prix: The New Generation for N64 and the Ferrari analogue in that game (Human Entertainment lost the Fuji TV F1 licence for some reason, so the cars, teams, and drivers are thinly veiled knockoffs of the 1996 season with humourous names, in this case the 96.FER F31-TYPE with a FER-046 V10, driven by S.Mihumacher and I.Ervine, sponsored by Slim Eyes and Apigi) is high-nose only.
In game, it breaks down a lot when the computer uses it.
@@palm92 probably not. All the license games containing the 1996 season had the cars as they were at the British or French GP since those had the most censored tobacco liveries.
9:18 Sauber actually introduced them in 94
If the FIA wouldn't act, Peter Sauber was prepared to compromise the performance of his cars to make the drivers safer and avoid a repeat of Wendlinger's head injuries. What a guy!
For 1996, Williams & Jordan were the only two teams which took a controversial alternate interpretation of the new cockpit regulations, which upset other teams. All the other teams went big like Ferrari, it was especially prominent on the McLaren also.
@@ibex485 they were pretty massive on the Arrows too.
Michael Schumacher forever.
I find the high nose Ferrari cool, but is just me and my late 90's bulky cars. Also interesting to notice that in 1997 you could either see Villeneuve or Schumacher on the podium, but not both at the same time
Michael was very good in that 96 Ferrari.
15:25 looks like a fighter jet
Yo Aidan, could you make a video about the Safari-spec rally car in WRC? Because earlier this year in March (Kenya's wettest month) FIA decided to bring it back.
One thing I never managed to find any information on is why on this green Earth did Ferrari decide to go not with the sidepods from a car which worked in 1995, 1994 even 1993 but had the same style as the dreadful F92A?
I imagine it was for some aero reason but seeing as they were dropped in 1997, maybe another mistake?
First V10 season? Didn’t he have a Renault V10 in the back of his Benetton in 1995? Or did I miss something?
@@waldothebear did you read the title properly?
@ probably not…I just got back from 2 weeks in QLD (driving) and I’m tired, seeing double etc…😆
@ yeah, my car’s shit as well…
I thought the car looked good at its launch. It was all mulbous and muscular looking but worked. It looked horrific in the high nose guise though. I remember Irvine's season being particularly bad. 9 or 10 consecutive retirments.
Funny. But I thought 310 was very nice looking car. Oh well. Each to their own I guess 😉
Hot take: This car doesn't look nearly as bad as everyone says it does.
A couple things right from the start (paused at 5min so it might be addressed later on).
When talking about The Micheal everybody tends to look at the stats and even when they do look at his beginning on Ferrari most people overlook the actual brilliance of his move: he took EVERYONE worth taking from Benetton to Ferrari and it was with the help of those people that Ferrari turned a 180 and finally became a challenge again after decades.
Though I would say that if Prost had a good teammate in 1990 they could have won the tittle that year.
And the unrelented testing Michael learned from Senna: when they first met Michael was a fan and not in F1 yet and asked Senna for advice. Senna would say 'test as much as you can and when they say you can't argue and go testing even more'
I'm paraphrasing but that was the gist of it. And it paid off incredibly!
Oh and a bit of trivia: who was the Brazilian driver helping Ferrari develop the flappy paddle gear? Yes, him! 😂
I missed references to the V-shaped chasis...
"the engine has an oil leak" Ferrari PR speak for "the crankshaft has come through the block again". To be fair, that would cause an oil leak 😁
Yes Schumacher maybe could of won Monaco in 96.
When Ferrari decided to raise the front nose in the middle of the 1996 season, it looked like a giant came and punched them upwards.
Schumacher's steps to dominance
#1 Get into car
#2 Drive car on track
#3 Ram opponenta off the road
#4 Claim its all their fault/"British Bias"/or just ignore the irrefutable evidence etc etc.
@@dumptrump3788 tbf to Michael he never blamed us for any of it. He just denied it. 🤣
Sooo, Is Lewis Trying to Do A Michael Schumacher? Take a struggling Ferrari, that hasn't won much for a Prolonged period of time, and Get it back to winning?
He’s just ticking off a box on his to do list.
@AidanMillward yeah Ferrari is probably the team he's retiring with
When Schumacher went to Ferrari, a bunch of Benneton people went with him to rebuild the team. Lewis is just bringing himself.
@danielhenderson8316 yep, Schumacher built Ferrari around him. I think Lewis Hamilton will get some wins in red though.
@@danielhenderson8316Schumacher has never driven a car in his life that Brawn didn't build.
He is a Brawn and test merchant.
It was more than just a new challenge, it was MONEY as well that lured Michael to Ferrari. Debatable as to which was the larger factor, only the Michael knows.
You don't have to let your nerves get pinched over "British bias". It's there and ramped up when Hamilton started, in which Autosport was a huge contributor. Address it instead of getting upset.
@@donnypopovski7251 nobody’s upset.
According to John Barnhard Schumacher liked a lot the 412t2 he tested with the V12 because of the engine breaking and he said to Barnhard that he would have won the championship more easily with the Ferrari than the Benetton (beyond the grid with John Barnhard).
The F310 was so unreliable that they had to salvage parts from the 412T2 to repair them. According to Irvine this car was pure trash and all performance came from Schumacher
Didn't watch the video yet, but Schumacher saying he could win the 1995 championship in the 95' Ferrari is a whole load of BS, that V12 was thirsty and its limitations where exposed with Alesi driving it. They had to gamble on dry tyres at the Nurburgring just to be far enough ahead to mitigate the issues that Ferrari had that year and even then they couldn't win that race although traffic didn't help, but even then I don't think they would've won if there wasn't traffic.
The biggest hurdle was the Ferrari not being as reliable as Bennetton and Williams. It's uncertain whether it could've won anything, but in 1994-95, one thing was certain: that thirsty V12 was the reference both at Hockhenheim and Monza. It should've won there, had it not been for...well reliability.
It's actually weird to me that teams abandoned V12s altogether when refueling was effectively reducing its one glaring issue: having too much fuel on-board. Perhaps because of how one could distribute weight across the chassis with a smaller tank?
Yeah, people forget that Schumacher is a merchant for playing mind-games with the press against his rivals to try and destroy their confidence. That side of him especially came out when Montoya joined the sport and played Schumi at his own game in terms of on-track antics, and the beauty of Juan-Pablo calling out his bs to his face at Imola 2004 instead of cowardly snide remarks to the press.
@@nehylen5738 what if the v12's strong braking characteristic complimented his oversteery driving style in terms of helping the car rotate better in the corners? Maybe that's why he said that.
I agree that sounds like a PR statement to rile everybody up. The 1995 Ferrari gets a lot of hype but its actually a little worse than the 1994 Ferrari. That 1994 car was really powerful and it troubled the Williams on multiple occasions. The 1995 car had one pole and that was in a wet qualifying session where nobody could do a real lap.
I always felt he was referring more to the chassis, which was by all accounts excellent. Agreed with the V12's drawbacks. The V12's day was done by 1992 I'd say (in all honestly too, the Honda V12's 1991 WDC/WCC was an anomaly and they more or less admitted later it was probably the wrong direction to go in. Remember Mugen could have used the V12 from 1993-on but chose not to.)
However I'll disagree. If Schumacher was driving it I think he could have pulled off a WDC based on his rival's form in 1995.
But Hypotheticals are always unwise I guess.
I like that thang
I think anyone who calls this ugly should have another look at the Benetton B189. That thing looks like a bus. And not even a good bus.
The B189 looks great. The actual hideous Benettons are the the B191-B194 series. And yes the F310 is an ugly car, aping it's atrocious looking '92 predecessor.
As you might be able to glean I am not a fan of the high-nose revolution effective as they were, sadly.
The F310B is very attractive however.
Personally I always liked this design, and don't think it was ugly at all. Same as the 1995 McLaren which always gets a lot of hate for its looks. There were far worse designs in the 70s and 80s, and lets not even throw shade at any design when it is compared to the penis and tusk nosed cars of 2014.
Out of interest did you like the 2009 Renault?
@@craigcharlesworth1538 The shape, yes. The livery, no.
@@caphowdy666 Odd proportions, bulbous nose, yeah I had a feeling you'd dig it.
That car was a minger, simple as that.
total junk was that the year the half shaft fell out of the ferrari in the pit lane.
I can't wrap my head around someone thinking this is "ugly".
I think it looks really cool.
Have you seen the cyber truck? That's ugly!!!
Michael Hated Damon.
An antidote to the Vegas tawdry cheese fest.
The Platypus of 2012 is still the ugliest. '96 was a chonky boi
I don’t hate how it looks, but I don’t adore it either. It’s whatever to me really.
That Ferrari was laughable, yet Schumacher won 3 races with it
Yes Schumacher was incredible in 1996 he Finished 3rd in the Championship. And Helped Ferrari Finish 2nd in the Constructors Championship. Won 3 Races in a Dog of a Ferrari laughable like you said.
Schumacher got the most out of it.
He did a great job
Those constant "fades to a blue background with a Lavazza car in it" get pretty boring and repetitive after a while. Clearly a space filler.
Ahh don't worry Sebastion will turn this franchise around!
Opps..... Lewis will turn this franchise around!!
Opps.....(insert has been here)
Lance?
Damon Hill was a very good driver but not on Schumachers Level.
Mega twitchy car, certainly unreliable for much of the season. What makes me laugh is the rose tinted narrative that Schumacher dragged wins out of a glorified Minardi, when it was the joint second fastest car (alongside Benetton) and Ferrari had unlimited resources.
@@azapro911 yeah it was not as slow as people think it was.
It was unreliable.
Aidan Mongward
What an ugly car that was.
Yes it was.
Car was a dog.
310B please