I won’t forget him. First GP Silverstone inside Copse and there was this car then appears Number 27 Ferrari. The noise the smell it won’t leave me. And I love watching Jean my#1
I remember the arrival of Jean Alesi well. That US gp in 90 was epic. This was a future world champion for sure. One race win says very little about the real talent he had
Alesi was the Chris Amon of our generation (80s-90s), but at least he got a win where Amon was cruelly denied. Had he gone to Williams, he would have won two or three World Championships.
I would love this would have happenned. I adored Alesi in the day but looking back now , I should recongnize he had downsides that would prevent him from ever getting in the Senna-Schumacher-Prost-Lauda league , just to stay with the drivers of the same era. 1- Mentally , too fragile. 2- Emotions put ahead of logic thinking. 3- Results of the above makes too much errors. 4-He was a choc with Tyrell. But in 1991 , he was around 0.3s a lap slower than Prost in quali and never better in races ( beside first laps aggressiveness.) 5- Later teamed up with Berger at Ferrari and Benetton. He always finished ahead on the points table but in 1994. He was way way better in wet/dump conditions , other than that the two were pretty much at equal. This thing also later striked me. There were tracks like Interlagos , Estoril , Old Hockenheim , Imola , may be another one or two where Berger always ( if not %80 per cent of the time ) outqualified and outraced Alesi. I mean , not each driver really very good everywhere and back than driver's best and worst tracks were more eye catching than today but still......that was year after year and never changed or evoluated. Having said all this, a driver signing for Williams in 93 and staying there 4-5 seasons would have at some stage win the title. Could have been Hakkinen from the younger generation if he was available ( was tied with Mclaren ) or Berger ( if he wouldn't have chosen high salary over high performance)
A LOT of ifs there. He wasn't even guaranteed a race seat at Williams, because the way Frank was holding out for other drivers, Ferrari made a more concrete offer and not knowing how to break the contract, he sought advice from Piquet, Piquet helped him with contract demands for Ferrari including a top of the range model - Ferrari were surprised but so keen were they that they signed the contract with him and then the whole negotiations with buying out the contract with Williams resumed. There's a good chance if he just kept to Williams he would have been stuck in a test driver role which is no way for a driver of his talents should end up. That would've been the biggest crime of all!
Bad decision? I don't believe he made any bad decision, actually. 1) I am sure he never actually had a Williams contract, and he was being messed around by a non-committal Frank Williams. He only had a pre-contract or MOU but Frank was not committing to converting it. So when Ferrari offered him the world, he really didn't have a choice if he wanted to continue in F1. Plus, when he signed for Ferrari his team mate for 1991 was 3x world champion Alain Prost while at Williams it might have been either (most likely) Riccardo Patrese. In the end, Mansell got booted out of Ferrari and Williams pulled him from his tempetuous "retirement". So, Ferrari looked like a much better performance bet AT THE TIME OF SIGNING than Williams. Plus, it's Ferrari...not some British garagista. 2) In 1990 Williams-Renault was nowhere, and in both 1990 and 1991 the Ferrari was much better than the Williams-Renault. It's only during the 1991 season that Ferrari started to lose their way and Williams found theirs as the FW14 started showing its potential. Don't forget that Senna and McLaren started 1991 in a dominant position and looked to be walking both championships...in the second half of the season Williams and Renault finally started coming good, but it was too late. Senna and McLaren-Honda still won both championships. And Prost was fired by Ferrari.
i love autosport's driver names. F1 names sound like... F1 names. Can't explain it but Formula 1 racers and cyclist 🚴 names are interchangeable as well it seems.
For a next Bad Decisions vid: Where in history, and of course there are multiple instances, that f1 technical and commercial decisions condemned it to become but a sad mocking of the sport it once was.
Ferrari also offered Alesi to step in for Schumacher after Silverstone '99, but Alesi wanted to stay committed to Sauber, only to then fall out with them hardly a month later. He would then join the awful Prost team for 2000. This guy couldn‘t make a good decision to save his life.
He was useless. But very entertaining. Was quick in the tyrrell with the Pirelli tyres. Pretty average after that. He and Berger had F1 careers so far beyond their talents they ought to play the lottery for a living. Neither would get a look in nowadays.
Great presentation. Going to enjoy running through the older videos. Nicely done.
The man has talent, I was privileged to be watching these races. It was surely when F1 was real.
4.43 You had me there man, thought I'd stepped into an alternate universe for a moment there 😀
I won’t forget him. First GP Silverstone inside Copse and there was this car then appears Number 27 Ferrari. The noise the smell it won’t leave me. And I love watching Jean my#1
I remember the arrival of Jean Alesi well. That US gp in 90 was epic. This was a future world champion for sure. One race win says very little about the real talent he had
Alesi was the Chris Amon of our generation (80s-90s), but at least he got a win where Amon was cruelly denied. Had he gone to Williams, he would have won two or three World Championships.
I would love this would have happenned. I adored Alesi in the day but looking back now , I should recongnize he had downsides that would prevent him from ever getting in the Senna-Schumacher-Prost-Lauda league , just to stay with the drivers of the same era.
1- Mentally , too fragile.
2- Emotions put ahead of logic thinking.
3- Results of the above makes too much errors.
4-He was a choc with Tyrell. But in 1991 , he was around 0.3s a lap slower than Prost in quali and never better in races ( beside first laps aggressiveness.)
5- Later teamed up with Berger at Ferrari and Benetton. He always finished ahead on the points table but in 1994. He was way way better in wet/dump conditions , other than that the two were pretty much at equal. This thing also later striked me. There were tracks like Interlagos , Estoril , Old Hockenheim , Imola , may be another one or two where Berger always ( if not %80 per cent of the time ) outqualified and outraced Alesi. I mean , not each driver really very good everywhere and back than driver's best and worst tracks were more eye catching than today but still......that was year after year and never changed or evoluated.
Having said all this, a driver signing for Williams in 93 and staying there 4-5 seasons would have at some stage win the title. Could have been Hakkinen from the younger generation if he was available ( was tied with Mclaren ) or Berger ( if he wouldn't have chosen high salary over high performance)
Gotta love how he used to swing his head side to side.
I saw him win in Montreal.
A LOT of ifs there. He wasn't even guaranteed a race seat at Williams, because the way Frank was holding out for other drivers, Ferrari made a more concrete offer and not knowing how to break the contract, he sought advice from Piquet, Piquet helped him with contract demands for Ferrari including a top of the range model - Ferrari were surprised but so keen were they that they signed the contract with him and then the whole negotiations with buying out the contract with Williams resumed. There's a good chance if he just kept to Williams he would have been stuck in a test driver role which is no way for a driver of his talents should end up. That would've been the biggest crime of all!
What are drivers watching on small screens from cockpit...other qualifing times?
Pirelli quali at Phoenix 1990; now that surprised me. Alesi in the FW14 A>
Bad decision? I don't believe he made any bad decision, actually.
1) I am sure he never actually had a Williams contract, and he was being messed around by a non-committal Frank Williams. He only had a pre-contract or MOU but Frank was not committing to converting it. So when Ferrari offered him the world, he really didn't have a choice if he wanted to continue in F1. Plus, when he signed for Ferrari his team mate for 1991 was 3x world champion Alain Prost while at Williams it might have been either (most likely) Riccardo Patrese. In the end, Mansell got booted out of Ferrari and Williams pulled him from his tempetuous "retirement". So, Ferrari looked like a much better performance bet AT THE TIME OF SIGNING than Williams. Plus, it's Ferrari...not some British garagista.
2) In 1990 Williams-Renault was nowhere, and in both 1990 and 1991 the Ferrari was much better than the Williams-Renault. It's only during the 1991 season that Ferrari started to lose their way and Williams found theirs as the FW14 started showing its potential. Don't forget that Senna and McLaren started 1991 in a dominant position and looked to be walking both championships...in the second half of the season Williams and Renault finally started coming good, but it was too late. Senna and McLaren-Honda still won both championships. And Prost was fired by Ferrari.
i love autosport's driver names. F1 names sound like... F1 names. Can't explain it but Formula 1 racers and cyclist 🚴 names are interchangeable as well it seems.
My memories of Alesia as a Ferrari fan during the early 90's were awesome....he was fantastic but so unlucky.
the Ricciardo of the 90"........
For a next Bad Decisions vid: Where in history, and of course there are multiple instances, that f1 technical and commercial decisions condemned it to become but a sad mocking of the sport it once was.
Ferrari also offered Alesi to step in for Schumacher after Silverstone '99, but Alesi wanted to stay committed to Sauber, only to then fall out with them hardly a month later.
He would then join the awful Prost team for 2000.
This guy couldn‘t make a good decision to save his life.
I wonder why Jean had his hands at 'ten to two' on the steering wheel? 😊
That was just the way he held the steering wheel.
misleading video title. Alesi was just outplayed by Mansell
Only a driver of such mercurial talent could make such awful cars so entertaining to watch.
Just one ?
One of the most unluckiest drivers in F1
Quick but lacked technical knowledge, similar to Daniel Ricciardo
He was useless. But very entertaining. Was quick in the tyrrell with the Pirelli tyres. Pretty average after that. He and Berger had F1 careers so far beyond their talents they ought to play the lottery for a living. Neither would get a look in nowadays.
@@mark4lev agree 110%