See here - Racecar Engineering think it is but there is already debate...

http://www.racecar-engineering.com/news/ca...ks-records.html

Nico Rosberg may have done more mileage - and Alonso won more races in 2006 with his but did less miles...

any ideas?

Mercedes Benz engines

That is really really cool, and quite overlooked, in fact. Very nice

i thought its good to change chassis as sometimes any manufacturing faults can be realised as jensons chassis may have a fault in which he would never know if he tried another one

I didn't know Alonso used the same chassis for the while 2006 season nor that Button will be repeating that feat. It is quite incredible, usually the WC winning teams produced 7-10 chassis and drivers used 3-4 each.

Even back in 1984, in the era of lower budgets, it was a surprise when Lauda became the first "modern time" champion to use a single (prototype!) chassis whole year.

I presume that modern materials and higher standards manufacturing made this possible but in both cases the teams that set these one-chassis records were the obes with not the biggest budgets. Does anyone know how much R26s and BGP001s were produced?

GC

I think the Ferrari chassis 500-005 was the most successful individual chassis in GP racing, Ascari used it for all his wins in 1952-3, I think. But then again chassis numbers in those days tended to vary with the customs carnet...

Yes, Ferrari 500 05 and Tyrrell 003 are two most successful chassis....

GC

That's really cool. Possibly having a limited number of chassis is another way that costs can be reduced.

I seem to remember Ayrton Senna having a slump in 88 (spain and estoril) because of an old chassis. After receiving a new chassis he became on level with Prost again. They discovered an older MP4/4 lost its edge. Could this in some way being the reason Jenson isn't performing like the begining of the season?

I don't know about R26s (that was news to me also), but there appear to have been 3 BGP001s:
- Ross Brawn