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9th February 2010, 16:15 #1
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World Champions Racing In One GP
Bahrain 2010 will feature 4 WC competing in the same GP, if Kimi had secured a drive, this would be 5. This is fairly rare, the record seems to be in South Africa 1968, where 5 champions did line up: Clark, G. Hill, Brabham, Surtees and Hulme. Sadly this was to be Clark's final GP.
At the other extreme, 1959 featured no champions competing, as Hawthorn chose to retire.
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9th February 2010, 17:04 #2
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4 champions is very cool IMO.
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9th February 2010, 17:04 #3
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I suppose it's just a function of how open the previous seasons have been. I would put 1959 (and most of the 1958 races come to think of it) down to the fact that Fangio pretty much owned the previous decade, same in 2007 when we only had one world champ (Alonso) racing thanks to Schuey's half decade of dominance.
In the 1960s nobody retained their title (well except Brabham who was defending a '59 title), and only Brabham, Clark and Hill won the thing twice in that decade.
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9th February 2010, 19:08 #4
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Several races in 1970 featured five World Champions: Brabham, Hill, Hulme, Stewart and Surtees.
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10th February 2010, 01:28 #5
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Originally Posted by Vitesse
The good thing about 2009 is that all four of the world champions should be in contention. We had four champions too in 1999 but Hill and Villeneuve were pretty much consigned to the midfield that year.
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10th February 2010, 03:23 #6
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10th February 2010, 12:10 #7
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It's also interesting that in the last four F1 seasons we have had four different WDC's - quite different to what we were used to during MS's domination (last time, we had 4 different champs in a row, was 1995-1998). But will we get a fifth different in a row in 2010? Who could that be? Schumacher? Vettel? Massa?
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10th February 2010, 13:01 #8
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How many seasons have seen a team fielding a world champion in both of their cars?
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Originally Posted by Mark
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1953 - Farina and Ascari - Ferrari
1967 & 68 - Clark and Hill - Lotus
1970 - Brabham and Hulme - Brabham
1986 - Prost and Rosberg - McLaren
1989 - Prost and Senna - McLaren
2010 - Button and Hamiton - McLaren
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