7 Craziest Mid-Season F1 Driver Swaps
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 11 มิ.ย. 2024
- It's crazy to think the likes of Michael Schumacher, Carlos Sainz, Max Verstappen and many more were mid-season substitutes and have all ended up being pretty successful!
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Gasly moving to Toro Rosso ended up being a good move... For Gasly.
I wouldn't say that, yes he regained his confidence but his career opportunities are looking pretty ropey he's either got to stay at red bull b team and slap up whatever rookie redbull have or settle for a Williams drive or something similar so IMO disagree
@@pandre5458 fair enough. It's more likely that the confidence thing has mostly motivated my thoughts. Seeing him be happy at AlphaTauri, nabbing a race win and maturing significantly? It's hard to argue with that.
@@carlyslebrown1601 I agree with you. he doesn’t have a spot on another team but he’s in a better position to earn one and get where he deserves !
@@pandre5458 better to be an okay midfield driver than a terrible top driver no?
@@Learningfunimation Perhaps. Only time will tell.
Ok , so now imagine Bottas is sent to Williams and if they do a brawn gp next year because of the new regs and he becomes world champion
It would be the greatest payback story ever, if Bottas wins the championship with Williams next year.
It would be hilarious
It would be even funnier if Latifi becomes World Champion
@Cristián Salinas no bottas is a joke
@@iemanddatkan7152 nah hes good but very unlucky
So Max took Kvyat's seat and his girlfriend, Damn that's harsh.
Even more: Kvyat is the father of her child
@@dominik6439 damn
“Kvyat….. ghhhhhhggggg…..I am your father”
And she is Nelson Piquet's daughter...
We need an episode just on this saga.
And still no Mahaveer Ragunathan to Mercedes yet smh
And people say Alex Albon was robbed.
Lewis wouldn't allow it, can't have someone outperforming him
We mustn't joke about The Lord this way pls, he works in mysterious ways
Clearly Toto doesn't know to run the team
Our Lord and saviour even makes Hamilton look like a mere mortal
What about lord delada?
lets not forget that Kvyat absolutely demolished Seb in Russia
After Dany started the China race screaming into turn 1 like a torpedo
Quite literally
You should’ve added Nelson Piquet Jr. swapped with Romain Grosjean in 2009. While the swap wasn’t really shocking, the repercussions were just that: Piquet used his firing as a way to expose Renault for fixing the 2008 Singapore Grand Prix which ultimately lead to one of the biggest scandals in F1 history. I’m actually producing a video on it as we speak haha
Now that's a good self plug 💪
All those spammers should learn something from you
If not for that crash, Massa could've won the grand prix and perhaps the WDC eventually. It certainly was a game changer.
@@psy__ and Hamilton will only have 6, last ferrari champion is massa, last McLaren champion is mika, wow it is game changing
@@fuzzfizz it changed the outcome of the championship
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To be honest I don't expect merc to actually change bottas either but next season most likely
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Russel would have the same experience at Mercedes. He would be stupid to think Mercedes want's a new Rosberg, Hamilton team dynamic.
Thing is Rosberg and Hamilton couldn't get along off the track but since Russel does seem like a nice enough bloke
@@jakemorandthemomoz8154 Hamilton's gonna leave soon, so Russell only needs to play Bottas for maximum 2 years probably.
@@jakemorandthemomoz8154 Toto will make sure George understands his position as second driver for a year or two to became the first driver when Lewis retires
Was really shocked when G2 Pengu popped up lol. Didnt expect that.
Fabian better
Seeing these older liveries makes me wish they'd do a throwback weekend. That old Renault color scheme was great.
I was actually surprised by the Gasly Albon swap, I wasn't expecting to and Red Bull should have let Gasly have the whole season
One of the reasons why I don't like RedBull. I think it wasn't fair.
remember kvyat? Red bull has a history of doing swaps like this
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Gasly was trash at red bull
Gasly was absolutely horrendous at Red Bull. Often not up to Q3 and his racecraft was sooo far away. 2019 Albon did much better really. Hell, even Kvyat was pretty nice.
I'm so early, Gasly is still in a Red Bull
it's ironic how half of this video is about the Redbull teams smh
However, when you think about it. Benetton 91, Renault 04 and Renault 2017 is all "The Enstone Team". They have had a lot of fancy stuff over the years.
Kvyat was NOT underperforming in 2016. They obviously wanted Max in as early as possible, but this is being straight up DISHONEST.
Well if you have bottas in you're team for alot of money and you see Hamilton in you're junior team for wayyyyy less money.. Obviously you would pick Hamilton
yeah kvyat beat daniel!
and now he is out of a seat
Indeed they had Max but the realized they could not hold unto Max much longer if he stayed at Toro Rosso with the Sainz family stirring up the team. So they swapped them with full backing as well. It paid off
4:03 PENGU!
ohh boi didn't know Acez watches these vids
PENGU!!
Mans so famous now, he is even in F1 videos
Acez what are you doing
I like the gif of confused Pengu from G2 when Matt talked about Hamilton
The thing that confuses me about the Albon Gasly swap is that Kvyat had been demolishing Albon when he was at torro rosso, I think that Albon only beat Kvyat in a race twice. Daniil should have been promoted, not Albon
red bull argued the mid-season swap to albon was to gather data about him in a rb... but we both know that they were just high on their egos
Comparing Kvyat's run before and after the swap, I think that really hurt him.
He was definetely the best Toro Rosso but at the second half of the season he began torpedoeing people again
Helmut Marko: Write that down WRITE THAT DOWN!!!
4:03 PENGU POGCHAMP
Does the video editor knows him or its just a coincidence? Wtf is he doing here ? X)
Villeneuve and Kubica in 2006 at BMW . Coulthard and Mansell in 1994 for Williams. Verstappen/Lehto/Verstappen/Herbert in 1994 for Benetton, Magnussen and Verstappen in 1998 for Stewart (Jan and Jos, not Kevin and Max) Frentzen and Sato in 2001 for Jordan. Lots more but these stand out for me.
Sato didn't race for Jordan in 01. But in 02, and raced the last race for BAR in 03. However Frentzen was fired from Jordan mid 01, being replaced by Zonta for a race, then Alesi joined in, while Frentzen took the spot Alesi left vacant at Prost.
01 had a bit more fun as well. As Prost had signed Gaston Mazzacane for his money, but also with a performance clause, so Mazzacane was fired after four races. 4 races was all Luciano Burti got for Jaguar as well. Burti was replaced by de la Rosa at Jaguar, while Burti took Mazzacane's place at Prost (remember, it had just been 4 races in the season, and both Burti&Mazzacane had their first races for the teams they raced for). To make matters even more complicated, de la Rosa was initially a Prost test-driver!
Later in the season, Alex Yoong would replace Tarso Marques at Minardi. Burti crashed heavily at Spa and was ruled out for rest of the year with Tomas Enge replacing him at Prost, who then ended the season using 5 different drivers in the races, while the two test-drivers they had, who also had F1 experience didn't get to race.
4:03 i always knew matt was a man of culture, my man pengu lookin good
This could easily be the Briatore Bunch - as well as the Trulli-Villeneuve and Moreno-Schumacher swaps, there's Piquet jr-Grosjean in 2009 at Renault and Johnny Herbert twice!
Firstly being replaced by Emanuele Pirro in 1989 but then coming back to Benetton in 1994 to replace Jos Verstappen - father of Max.
As has been mentioned by others in this thread, dropping Nelson Piquet jr eventually lead to Flavio's downfall - so at least some good came of that one.
4:03 pengu looking just as confused as i am about why he is in this video
4:02 They used a pengu meme lol
How did Pengu make it into a F1 video? 😂
@@niklas2981 I have no idea, but I love it
Weird Kelly Piquet wasnt here, thats the biggest driver swap.
Kvyat out. Verstappen in.
🤭
Lehto in and out, Jos Verstappen in and out and Johnny Herbert in, Benetton 1994. A real case of musical chairs this one. JJ Lehto was hired by Benetton as the second driver in 1994 to Michael Schumacher. He had put in impressive performances in uncompetitive machinery, particularly Imola 1991, where in a Dellara, he qualified 16th, but finished 3rd behind only the two Mclarens of Senna and Berger and 1994 was supposed to be his big chance. Unfortunately, it turned into a bit of a nightmare. While preseason testing at Silverstone, trying in vane to match Schumacher's times, he crashed heavily, leaving him unconscious and fractured vertibrae in his neck. This ruled him out for the first two races of 1994, being replaced by Jos Verstappen, who was only in his second season racing in cars after starring in Karting. Verstappen struggled initially, finding the handling of the B194 didn't suit his driving style, he was barely in the top 10, while Schumacher won the first two races of the season and Verstappen had two DNF's. Lehto returned for the third round, the ill-fated race at Imola. Although he appeared to be closer to his team mate than Verstappen initially, qualifying 5th on the grid, he stalled at the start, and was hit from behind by the Lotus of Pedro Lamy. Lehto never really recovered from there. In Monaco, he was only 14th on the grid while Schumacher took pole position for the first time in his career, going on to win the race easily with Lehto out of the points in 7th, running 2 laps down on Schumacher at one point. He was on track for a great result in Spain, qualifying 4th, and was in sight of good points when his B194 suffered an engine failure, Schumacher finished 2nd despite running 2/3 of the race stuck in 5th gear. In Canada, Lehto was again underwhelming, qualified 20th with Schumacher fastest, and barely squeaked a points finish after Christian Fittipaldi was excluded for being underweight. From the French Grand Prix onwards, Verstappen was back in the car, but he wasn't much better initially, not scoring points until his podium finish in Hungary, but not before his most most famous moment, having his car burst into flames in a pit stop at Hockenheim.
Verstappen picked up a second podium after Schumacher was disqualified from victory in Spa, and Lehto made a brief return filling in for the Championship Leader, though at Monza and Estoril, neither of them could get anywhere near the levels of performance Schumacher was getting, the only points scored in the races Schumacher was banned was Verstappen getting 5th at Estoril. Estoril was the final time Lehto would race in the car before filling in at Sauber for the final 2 races in place of the retiring De Cesaris. The following round at Jerez was the last time Verstappen would be in the car, he spun out of that race, while Schumacher won. For Japan and Australia, Johnny Herbert, was drafted in (he had a contract for 1995 as well), but retired from both of them (he aquaplaned off in Japan and had gearbox problems in Australia). This merry-go-round of drivers, none of them being able to push Schumacher harder, or more importantly able to score good points when Schumacher couldn't. This, in my view, cost Benetton the constructors championship in 1994
Whenever I see video titles like this I need to quickly check in the news whether someone has just been replaced. Luckily not this time
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Kvyat still is one of the biggest young losses of the sport,hes super fast, especially in his first stint in red bull,but he was making mistakes,a season more and i think everything would be different,but the red bull team were eager to take max no matter what and i dont blame them,but kvyat definitely would be a multiple race winner now
Red bull seem very impatient in recent years, but now I think they've got a great pair of drivers.
Too bad there's no enough seats because Albon and Kyvat are both good. I didn't like Kyvat at first be he grew on me and he improved his results the 2nd half of last year. But all I could say was "too late".
@@Mr2it3881 With me its the exact opposite: I thought "That looks promising" when first seeing Kvyat but he grew on me... in the wrong direction. Hes good, but there are at least 10 guys in the lower Formulas that can match is talent projection.
kvyat beat daniel avacado
And so it did happen. GR finally gets his chance in merc lesss gooo
Me when I accidently went from redbull to alfa romeo in the middle of the season where I was battling hamilton for the championship
He should've also added Frentzen out Alesi in(2001) Frentzen moved from Jordan to Prost while Alesi moved from Prost to Jordan. Salo in Schumi(1999) out well it was not basically because Schumi was not performing well but his accident at 1999 British Grand Prix left him with a fractured leg. Luca Badoer out Fisichella in(2009) Badoer was drafted in to replace the injured Massa but because of his bad performances he was swapped with the Force India driver Giancarlo Fisichella.
Vettel in Toro rosso monza 2008: SUCK IT REDBULL!
Aaaand Pierre gasly in the same race 2020: suck it red bull
Christian horner: I'm starting to think we made a mistake now *proceeds to drop Alex off
Enjoyed your video and I gave it a Thumbs Up
Juan Pablo Montoya was an amazing NASCAR driver. My dad and I loved watching him race
And what do all these teams/cars have in common?
That’s right! They have a blue livery or a bit of blue on them
I would like to see Bottas move to Williams.
If it will happen^_^
No let a Young guy come in
Nice pfp there.
@@R3RS2024 For e.g: Dan Ticktum, Callum Illot (i think thats how you spell it) and Robert Shwartzman
@@R3RS2024 I'd think about replacing Latifi before not letting Valtteri come back to Williams.
@@Slimmeyy well latifi sponsored the team so I think William will keep him
Love the memes and animations 😂
Opinion: mercedes should have let frentzen get the Jordan seat rather than schumi.
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why
Frentzen was good, but it goes without saying that Schumacher was better
Opinion: That would be a bad move.
Frentzen was better than schumi in the sauber.
When the red bull section is 1/3 of the video
I think during the summer break Mercedes will look at the constructor's championship standings and announce a swap for the first race after the break...
Whaaaat crazy driver swaps and it doesn't include the Lehto - Verstappen - Herbert story?
Nice sense of humour, TH-cam recommendations
Surprised you guys didn’t mention the Toro Rosso swaps of 2017. Hartley coming in to replace Sainz and Kvyat coming back to the team to replace Gasly, the driver who replaced him originally, as Pierre was doing races in Japan that meant he would miss a few rounds. Only for Pierre to then replace Kvyat once again lol
Whoahhhh. Never expected to see pengu in these videos.
I love the pengu cameo
1:26 "Karma!"
can't help but hear Alonsos voice there :D
"He cut the chicken!"
That Pengu clip lmao
There was also villeneuve out, kubica in in 2006
And now Sergio Pérez has now tooken over Alex Albon and God,checo is good at red bull
Lol clapping Kimi was hilarious!
Why do I keep thinking that Kvyat got demoted because he got in a fistfight? Is this something I just dreamed up, I could have sworn I heard it somewhere?
0:27 Kimi is also enjoying.
Having my morning coffee, head over to TH-cam, and all of the sudden there's a Pengu cameo in my WTF1 video. Genuinely wonder what the Venn diagram of Siege and F1 fans look like. 2021 is a wild ride. (4:04)
4:02 why is Pengu in this video hahahah
4:03 Damn didnt expect pengu here😄
PENGU?!? Legend Siege player who just recently retired is your GIF for a head scratch. :D
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@@kentobento1645 ????
if both bottas and mercedes keep treating each other badly especially from mercedes' side yeah of course we'll see the swap with mr. saturday's strong performance every race
Trulli's substitute also failed to score a single point, I bet Flavio regretted sacking him
I am a JV fan, but that swap made no sense. The Renault that year was notoriously difficult to drive and suited Fernando more than anyone else (and even he had his woes), plus factor in that JV had been out of action for the best part of the year and had already signed for Sauber in 2005. Maybe sacking Trulli was unavoidable (well Flavio was in charge and we all know how he works) but it made no sense to bring in JV as surely there was a reserve driver more familiar with the car. It also made no sense for JV other than getting used to F1 machinary again. I do think JV took the drive because he wanted to knock BAR off their place in the championship that year. He may have still held a grudge.
I swear Frentzen appeared for a race in every back marker team after he left Jordan. I swear he drove for Sauber, Arrows and Prost all in one season. Do I remember that wrong?
2001 ej sack him and replace him with alesi. Hhf took alesi seat in prost. 2002 hhf drive for arrows full season 2003 hhf drive for sauber full season
@@ozamatazbuckshank7467 thanks!
didn't expect to see Pengu here
How could we forget Fisichella replacing Badoer for how horrendous he drove when he had to fill in for Massa
What helped Max win on his Red Bull debut was a turn 4 collision between the two Mercs that took both out
If they are that stupid to "kill" each other, it's a deserved win.
Okay, and what exactly is your point with this?
Bottas back at Williams.
Ah, the 2013-2016 memories(minus Massa tho :/)
and that beautiful Martini livery
Well look how the Bottas thing turned out
The 2005 Red Bull driver swaps are not too far off what Ligier did in 1995 with Martin Brundle and Aguri Suzuki.
Also, whenever Suzuki raced, Brundle would have his first forays in the commentary box with Murray Walker.
I was at the 2004 BGP and Trulli had a massive crash, got a bit of his car at home
Lmao what is Pengu doing here 😂
Riccardo replaced Kartikayan mid-way through 2011 season for HRT.
Mika Häkkinen replacing Michael Andretti with three races to go in 1993 and outqualifying Senna in his first race should be on the list!
Ligier did musical chairs with drivers 10 years before Red Bull with Martin Brundle and Aguri Suzuki sharing the second seat during the 95 season, the later to keep Mugen Honda happy IIRC.
Didn't expect to see Pengu of G2 from Rainbow 6 Siege to make appearance
4:04 pengu is in a f1 video. Nice
4:04 EYYYYY it's Pengu
2006 Villeneuve out -> Kubica in.
Bringing a rookie in a WC place was a shock. The other was, the rookie delivered way better :)
06:06 This was Kyvat!!
Montoya to NASCAR. That started a short lived trend of Indycar and F1 drivers in NASCAR that didn’t end well for any of them. :(
I think the "craziest" or at least smartest one happened in 2002.
Arrows went bankrupt, which left Enrique Bernoldi and Heinz-Harald Frentzen without a drive after the German GP. Fast Forward some races, and the second to last race of the season, the 2002 US GP. Felipe Massa had picked up one of the first (if not the first) grid penalties due to something happening the race before. But as this was new, the rules weren't written clearly or very good. It simply stated that Felipe Massa had a "10 place grid penalty at the next event".
Sauber being smart, realized that it said "next event" and not "the drivers next event". So they contacted their old driver Frentzen, and drafted him in for the US GP, as he wouldn't have a grid penalty, and then getting Massa back in the seat for the last race of the season. Massa effectively having served his penalty while being benched.
Needless to say, the rules was clarified not long after.
I got a red bull ad right before this
There were so many mid-season driver swaps, you could easily make one of these videos for each decade... I mean, in the early 90's alone, there were so many. Just look at Jordan in '93: Rubens Barrichello had five different teammates over the course of that season! During that season, Häkkinen replacing Andretti at McLaren after 13 races turned out to be quite important, too. He immediately outqualified his teammate, a certain Ayrton Senna, who had dominated Andretti by one to two seconds in each qualifying before that.
Albon "fought for a podium at Hockenheim"... that's straight up false. All the while his teammate got a podium and was spanking him in the championship.
Albon was ahead until Kvyat took a gamble on tyres- one that probably wouldn’t have happened if he were closer to the front, and thus had more to lose if the gamble didn’t pay off.
Then Gasly gave Albon a puncture, and completely ruined his race
@@rubywest5166 Albon didnt get a puncture, he continued and finished 6th I think. Gasly was out of the race
It was actually Albon that moved on the straight while Gasly would have overtaken him
I just realized that Matt does 7 because of Micheal Schumacher
As you can see, Gasly ended up getting the last laugh with his transfer
Has anybody noticed just how much Jarno Trulli looks like Alexander the great at 2:12
RBR, McLaren with driver changes. Name a more iconic duo.
I feel like I've seen this before...
Pepper spray hahaha
What’s about 2007
BMW: Kubica out-Vettel in
Toro Rosso Vettel out-Speed in?
I must say for the gasly/albon situation
They struggled to drive cars that were effectively built for Max Verstappen since Ricciado’s sudden switch to Renault in 2019, Red Bull kinda need to balance out the two drivers and also Adrian Newey needs to get his hat together.
It’s only my views on that situation
Mercedes won't blink. Whether they offer the second seat to George who wants the first seat is a matter of speculation at this point.
What about Alain Prost fired before the end of the 1991 season with Ferrari after being not so complimentary about that years car? Or Nigel Mansell and the 1995 McLaren debacle where he couldn't fit into the car at first and they was sacked after 2 races
0:45 Gesho Got arrested for pepper spraying a London taxi driver for self defence
Everyone :(Gasp) shocked
If RB believes Gasly has no chance in the senior team, they wouldn't bother keeping him in Alpha tauri
Max got Kvyat's seat AND his girl. F to Kvyat
Yep def.
The reason merc didn’t want Russel last year is now abundantly clear 😁
There is no clear enough lack of pace to justify replacing Bottas mid season. (Atleast so far.) He’s been extremely unlucky but they still kind of need him to help secure both championships this year. Russel’s skills are undoubtedly good but the dynamic between him and Hamilton is unknown as well as how he handles the pressure of delivering top tier performance from race to race in a team where he’d likely be a second driver.
I saw what you did with pengu there...
4:04
GEOOOORRRRGGGGEEE
Bottas be sweating after seeing this on his YT recommended 👀😅
He trains in sauna specifically for this type of stuff.
@@Michael_Dolences. 🤣💀
Who is here after the announcement that george is replacing bottas in 2022
You had the Red Bull section, but the first half of the video could have been called the Enstone section.