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VICE CHAMPIONS WITH WORST CARS

After making the list of champions without having the best, for the sake of justice I made the list of runners-up with the worst cars. Explaining better, they are the runners-up with a car much inferior to the best car of the season. Below are these pilots and their justifications:

1) Senna with McLaren 1993:

In 1993, Senna had a spectacular season and was runner-up, as he raced in a McLaren that was much inferior to Williams (almost 2s slower in training and around 1s slower in races), and inferior to Benetton in several races. McLaren and Benetton were evenly matched, but overall for the season, Benetton was a little superior if we take into account race-by-race performances.

Benetton used a more powerful Ford Cosworth engine for half of the season and had better aerodynamics (shark beak), while McLaren used the eagle beak, already outdated in aerodynamic terms. But from the Italian GP onwards McLaren brought aerodynamic changes and from the Portugal GP onwards it brought hydraulic brakes and with these improvements McLaren passed to Benetton at the end of the year.

In a race-by-race comparison, taking into account speed and reliability, we can attest:

Best McLaren: Afr, Eur, Mon, Ita, Jap, Aus

Best Benetton: San, Can, Fra, Ing, Ale, Hun, Bel, Por

Draw: Bra, Esp

NOTE: Inadvertently some F1 fans insist that in 1993 McLaren was better than Benetton, which is not true. In 8 races in a row (Can, Fra, Ing, Ale, Hun, Bel, Ita, Por) McLaren had 1 podium, while Benetton was on the podium in all these 8 races. At this stage of the championship, McLaren was clearly inferior to Benetton.

Prost (Williams) 99 x 73 Senna (McLaren)

2) Alonso at Ferrari in 2012 e 2013:

In 2012 there was a certain balance between the cars, but after Belgium Adrian Newey introduced improvements to the car and Red Bull passed the competition. Ferrari was a good car, but it was still inferior to Red Bull and even McLaren, and Alonso is stillwas taken in two races (Belgium and Japan) by accidents, mas managed to push the decision to Brazil. Ferrari was the 3rd best car this season and Alonso had a spectacular season.

In2013Alonso raced a Ferrari far inferior to Red Bull Bull. The Austrian team won thirteen races while Ferrari won two, and Alonso managed to be runner-up,in front ofthe 2nd driver of Red Bull, Mark Webber was already in "pre-retirement".

Vettel (Red Bull) 281 x 279 Alonso (Ferrari) in 2012

Vettel (Red Bull) 397 x 242 Alonso (Ferrari) in 2013

3) Raikkonen at McLaren in 2003:

In 2003 McLaren started better and won two races. Then Ferrari and Williams won thirteen races (eight for Ferrari and five for Williams) and dominated F1. ICEMAN had a superb season showing a lot of consistency and regularity, reaching more podiums than Schumacher himself and taking the runner-up just 2 points behindGerman, with a car that was the 3rd best of the season.

Schumacher (Ferrari) 93 x 91 Raikkonen (McLaren)

4) Scheckter at Wolf in 1977:

In 1977, Niki Lauda had an overcoming season. DAfter losing the 1976 title and having doubts about whether he would be able to win again, the Austrian shut up the critics and won the championship with "one foot on his back".

But the surprise that season it was the South African driver Jody Scheckter, who in the small Wolf (team that ran in association with Frank Williams) made a surprising championship, becoming vice-champion in front of the Lotus, McLaren and the 2nd Ferrari driver. It's hard to say, but maybe the Wolf was the 3rd best car this season. This performancenho caught the attention of Enzo Ferrari who hired Scheckter to beyour pilot in 1979.

Lauda (Ferrari) 72 x 55 Scheckter (Wolf)

5) Peterson in March 1971:

Formula 1 belonged to Jackie Stewart in 1971. The Scotsman totally dominated the season at Tyrrell and scored almost DOUBLE the points of the runner-up.

But the revelation of the season was Ronnie Peterson in little March, whosince 1970 featured an innovation that would be used by every team: the streamlined sidepod. Even so, the Swede performed surprisingly well.in a good teamLower than the big three teams (Ferrari, Lotus and BRM) and became runner-up. March was the 3rd or 4th best car that season.

Stewart (Tyrrell) 62 x 32 Peterson (March)

6) Stewart at Matra in 1968:

the seasonof 1968 represented the loss of thende F1 genius, Jim Clark, and it fell to Graham Hill to lead the Lotus team to its second championship. The English had as opponents Denny Hulme (McLaren) and Jackie Stewart (Matra), but at the end of the year Lotus's English prevailed.

Jackie Stewart ended up with the runner-up, but taking into account that the new teamMatra did not have the structure of Lotus, Ferrari and BRM, it was a surprising result. That it already showed that Stewart had everything to be a multi-champion of F1 in the coming years, which in fact happened. The Matra was the 3rd best car this season.

Graham Hill (Lotus) 48 x 36 Stewart (Matra)

7) Moss on Vanwall in 1957:

In 1957 Fangio transferred to Maserarti had a fantastic seasonsticaand became the first and only champion for the Italian team.

Stirling Moss (Fangio's biggest rival) did the opposite, leaving Maserati to join the English team Vanwall and becoming runner-up, which was a surprising result given that Ferrari was already a big team, with a much better structure that Vanwall e all Ferrari drivers were behind the Englishman in the championship. Vanwall was perhaps the 3rd best car this season.

Fangio (Masearti) 40 x 25 Moss (Vanwall)

8) Fangio in 1953:

The Ferrari 52/53 is a car forgotten by F1 fans, but it was one of the all-time best cars in F1 history, winning 14 races out of 15 and giving Alberto Ascari his second championship.

In 1952 Fangio stayed away from F1 ddue to the serious accident at the beginning of the year with sports carin Italy. In 1953 the Argentine returned to F1 for Masearti, even with the total dominance of Ferrari, he won a race and became runner-up, in front of Farina, Hawthorn and Villoresi (all Ferrari drivers). This result was considered surprising, given that Ferrari was clearlywell honeyhor than Maserati.

Ascari (Ferrari) 34.5 x 28 Fangio (Masearti)

9) Schumacher in 1997 (Honorable Mention):

On the track, Michael Schumacher was runner-up in 1997, but FIA withdrew all his championship points due to his unsportsmanlike attitude in the European GP 97. For everything the German did during that season with a much inferior car, he must be mentioned here.

In 1997, Williams was far superior to all the cars on the grid (it took 11 pole positions and won 8 of the 17 races), but according to information from a Williams manager who did not want to be identified, Villeneuve and Frentzen did not know how to set up the car (Source : Anuário F1 Automotor 97 pg 111 and 113 and confirmed by Reginaldo Leme at GP Germany 97). To make matters worse Adrian Newey was leaving Williams, his two drivers made mistakes and had problems during the year, as a result Schumacher won 5 races (3 of them in the rain) and pushed the title race to the end of the year, thanks to the irregularity of Jacques Villeneuve in the season (in the best "win or wall" style).

Villeneuve (Williams) 81 x 78 Schumacher (Ferrari)

OBS: Schumacher lost the vice championship by determination of the FIA.