Formula one world champions

[schumi]

2008...Lewis Hamilton...McLaren
2007...Kimi Raikkonen...Ferrari
2006...Fernando Alonso...Renault
2005...Fernando Alonso…Renault
2004...Michael Schumacher…Ferrari
2003...Michael Schumacher...Ferrari
2002...Michael Schumacher...Ferrari
2001...Michael Schumacher...Ferrari
2000...Michael Schumacher…Ferrari
1999...Mika Hakkinen…McLaren
1998...Mika Hakkinen...McLaren
1997…Jacques Villeneuve...Williams
1996...Damon Hill...Williams
1995...Michael Schumacher...Benetton
1994...Michael Schumacher…Benetton
1993...Alain Prost...Williams
1992...Nigel Mansell...Williams
1991...Ayrton Senna...McLaren
1990...Ayrton Senna...McLaren
1989...Alain Prost...McLaren
1988...Ayrton Senna...McLaren
1987...Nelson Piquet…Williams
1986...Alain Prost…McLaren
1985...Alain Prost…McLaren
1984…Niki Lauda…McLaren
1983…Nelson Piquet…Brabham
1982…Keke Rosberg…Williams
1981…Nelson Piquet…Brabham
1980…Alan Jones…Williams
1979…Jody Scheckter…Ferrari
1978…Mario Andretti…Lotus
1977…Niki Lauda…Ferrari
1976…James Hunt…McLaren
1975…Niki Lauda…Ferrari
1974…Emerson Fittipaldi…McLaren
1973…Jackie Stewart…Tyrrell
1972…Emerson Fittipaldi…Lotus
1971…Jackie Stewart…Tyrrell
1970…Jochen Rindt…Lotus
1969…Jackie Stewart…Matra
1968…Graham Hill…Lotus
1967…Denny Hulme…Brabham
1966…Jack Brabham…Brabham
1965…Jim Clark…Lotus
1964…John Surtees…Ferrari
1963…Jim Clark…Lotus
1962…Graham Hill…BRM
1961…Phil Hill…Ferrari
1960…Jack Brabham…Cooper
1959…Jack Brabham...Cooper
1958…Mike Hawthorn…Ferrari
1957…Juan Manuel Fangio…Maserati
1956…Juan Manuel Fangio…Lancia-Ferrari
1955…Juan Manuel Fangio…Mercedes
1954…Juan Manuel Fangio…Maserati/Mercedes Benz
1953…Alberto Ascari…Ferrari
1952…Alberto Ascari…Ferrari
1951…Juan Manuel Fangio…Alfa Romeo
1950…Nino Farina…Alfa Romeo

[Genghis]

Schumi,

Where's 1955? And for 1956, you've got the wrong make of car.

1955... Fangio (Mercedes)
1956.... Fangio (Ferrari)

P.S. And the correct spelling for the 1994-95-00-01-02-03-04 champion is C-O-B-B-L-E-R-S ;D

[schumi]

In my defence I was working backwards and my list was working forwards. You're lucky I got so many right - I originally went from 1998 straight to 1987.

Anyway, corrected now, but you forgot to point out I spelled "Manuel" wrong in 1956.

Edit: but only you'd have noticed that. ;D

[donsking]

And being a super pedant, strictly speaking the car that Fangio took to the '56 championship was a Lancia/Ferrari

[schumi]

Men are never happy. Wish someone would let me in on the secret of pleasing you guys.

Modified.

[Genghis]

schumi said:

Men are never happy. Wish someone would let me in on the secret of pleasing you guys.

Modified.

Schumi, stop yer moaning woman and put the constructors champions up ;D ;D ;D

[Genghis]

donsking said:

And being a super pedant, strictly speaking the car that Fangio took to the '56 championship was a Lancia/Ferrari

Of course, 1956 included the most sporting gesture ever in F1.

In those days, there was a bizarre rule that drives and points could be "shared". So if your No. 1 driver's car broke down, you simply called in another car to the pits, swapped drivers, and each driver would get half points for the race.

Going into the final race of the 1956 season at Monza, three drivers could still win the championship, including the Ferrari pair of Fangio and young Peter Collins.

Disaster struck for Fangio when he retired, and furthermore Musso (??) wouldn't lend him his car, as he wanted to win home Grand Prix.

However, Collins then pulled up and gave Fangio his car, therefore losing his chance to win the championship and virtually hand it on a plate to the Maestro.

Extraordinary sportsmanship from Collins, who when asked, said he was young with plenty of time to win the championship.

Sadly, Collins was killed during the 1958 season, the year that Vanwall took the first ever constructors title for Great Britain, and Mike Hawthorn (Ferrari) pipped the great Strling Moss (Vanwall) to become the first-ever British World Champion, despte Hawthorn winning just one race to Moss's four.

Hawthorn, sickened by Collins's death, retired at the end of the season, but was killed in a road accident shortly afterwards. Meanwhile, Vanwall pulled out due to the death of one of their drivers (Stuart Lee-Aimes) at the final race.

It was a dangerous time to drive a F1 car, and things would get worse until the late sixties / early seventies when a F1 driver had a 50/50 chance of ending his career in a wooden box.