I know we've had a similar thread before, but not in detail...
Someone asked me which individual F1 chassis has won the most races and I've come up with the following list:
Posted 15 September 2013 - 10:34
I know we've had a similar thread before, but not in detail...
Someone asked me which individual F1 chassis has won the most races and I've come up with the following list:
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Posted 15 September 2013 - 11:50
Per Oldracingcars.com, Lotus 72/R3 won a total of 22 races. Of course non of these were WC Grand Prixs, but it's still an impressive total for a single chassis.
Posted 15 September 2013 - 11:56
Per Oldracingcars.com, Lotus 72/R3 won a total of 22 races. Of course non of these were WC Grand Prixs, but it's still an impressive total for a single chassis.
I had seen that but really need to stick to WC GPs otherwise it becomes unmanageable...
Posted 15 September 2013 - 15:32
... individual F1 chassis...
Ferrari 500-05 won 11 (over 2 seasons = 5 + 6)
Of course the Ferrari 500 was not a F-1 car, but rather a F-2 car. That puts Tyrrell 003 and Lotus 72-5 into the lead.
(You knew somebody would bring this up...)
Posted 15 September 2013 - 17:55
I have a recollection of reading somewhere, in period, that Pat Symonds claimed Alonso used the same Renault chassis throughout 2006, not sure how or where one might verify that.
Edited by arttidesco, 15 September 2013 - 23:56.
Posted 15 September 2013 - 18:38
I have a recollection of reading somewhere, in period that, Pat Symonds claimed Alonso used the same Renault chassis throughout 2006, not sure how or where one might verify that.
http://www.f1technical.net/news/4406 says it was chassis R26-03 and it did indeed race for the full season in Alonso's hands claiming 7 wins.
Posted 15 September 2013 - 23:34
Of course the Ferrari 500 was not a F-1 car, but rather a F-2 car. That puts Tyrrell 003 and Lotus 72-5 into the lead.
(You knew somebody would bring this up...)
My admiration of Ferrari means I'd love to leave it out but it is the beginning of the Ferrari legend/myth (choose the word that suits your opinion of Ferrari)...
The Renault detail is appreciated - finding recent chassis numbers seems to be more difficult than older ones.
It's interesting that 7 wins in a season seems to be the maximum.
Posted 15 September 2013 - 23:55
http://www.f1technical.net/news/4406 says it was chassis R26-03 and it did indeed race for the full season in Alonso's hands claiming 7 wins.
Posted 16 September 2013 - 07:33
Ferrari 312T-023 won 6 over 2 seasons, 4 in 1975 and 2 in 1976 as a T2. All with Lauda driving.
Posted 16 September 2013 - 09:59
I'm pretty sure there were two different cars claiming the Lotus 72-R5 identity! Which neatly brings us to the dilemma of what constitutes an "individual chassis"...
Posted 16 September 2013 - 10:06
I'm pretty sure there were two different cars claiming the Lotus 72-R5 identity! Which neatly brings us to the dilemma of what constitutes an "individual chassis"...
I know what you mean but in this case it is the physical chassis rather than the chassis number that counts.
Posted 16 September 2013 - 10:31
I'm pretty sure there were two different cars claiming the Lotus 72-R5 identity! Which neatly brings us to the dilemma of what constitutes an "individual chassis"...
I suppose the original would have been a bit smelly if Fittipaldi, Trimer, Walker, Ikcx, Crawford and Henton had all broken wind in the same tub, but seriously looking at oldracingcars.com 72/R5 reads 1 win in '70 (USA), 2 wins in '72 (Austria and Italy) and one win in '73 (Spain) for 4 championship wins total. Then there were 4 non championship wins in '72 (Brands RoC, Vallelunga, and Brands 50k), another in the new tub for Ickx at Brands in'74 @-)
So 'keeping things manageable' 72/R5 should shirley be on 4 WC GP's not 8 ?
Posted 16 September 2013 - 18:31
' 72/R5 should shirley be on 4 WC GP's not 8 ?
...and don't call me Shirley!
(with apologies to Frank Drebin)
Posted 17 September 2013 - 07:18
...and don't call me Shirley!
(with apologies to Frank Drebin)
10/4 Tom
Posted 16 November 2013 - 21:42
Ferrari 312T-023 won 6 over 2 seasons, 4 in 1975 and 2 in 1976 as a T2. All with Lauda driving.