Statistical anomalies in motorsports.
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While different circumstances, 2020 the championship leader ran out of fuel on the final straight allowing Kuminitsu to take the title winning the race
For 2021 where Kuminitsu were the championship leaders. The car was involved in an accident with the ARTA GT300 car with 19 Laps to go which cost them the title to the race winners.
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In the entirety of the 1990s, that is to say 1990-99, only three races did not feature a Williams, McLaren nor Ferrari on the podium:
1990 Japanese Grand Prix
Piquet (Benetton), Moreno (Benetton), Suzuki (Larrousse)
1998 Belgian Grand Prix
Hill (Jordan), R Schumacher (Jordan), Alesi (Sauber)
1999 European Grand Prix
Herbert (Stewart), Trulli (Prost), Barrichello (Stewart)
1990 Japanese Grand Prix
Piquet (Benetton), Moreno (Benetton), Suzuki (Larrousse)
1998 Belgian Grand Prix
Hill (Jordan), R Schumacher (Jordan), Alesi (Sauber)
1999 European Grand Prix
Herbert (Stewart), Trulli (Prost), Barrichello (Stewart)
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Eric van de Poele won the 1987 DTM despite not winning any races and only finishing on the podium three times in ten races. He even had to drop one of his scores.
Note: the underlines indicate the championship leader after that event.
Note: the underlines indicate the championship leader after that event.
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Volker Strycek won the first ever DTM championship with 0 wins and 5 podiums out of 15 races. Consistency was key.
It's hard to measure it accurately, but these guys probably rank pretty high in a hypothetical "champions with the least raw pace in their title-winning years" list along with the likes of Keke Rosberg and Alan Kulwicki.
...in fact, this guy never had a win. The only other driver I know of that has a title in a category and 0 career wins would be Oriol Servia in Indy Lights.
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at the number of people who entered at least one race!!
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Same for Chris Hodgetts in 1986 and 1987 but there is a clear nuance between class victories in an overall championship and having no wins in a single class championship, like the mentioned DTM. No wins at all.
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My original post was obviously talking about title winning seasons. There was no indication otherwise.
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I don't remember if this was ever mentioned here before but I recently watched a video about the 2003 British Grand Prix and after doing some digging, might've stumbled across one of the strangest oddities I can remember: Every time a track invasion occured (During the race, not any other session as what happened with practice for the 2015 Chinese Grand Prix), a Ferrari manages to win it.
- 1989 Brazilian Grand Prix: Some crazy guy runs across the track. The Winner? Nigel Mansell (The very driver that said crazy guy ran directly in front of)
- 2000 German Grand Prix: A Disgruntled Mercedes employee crosses the track. The Winner? Rubens Barrichello.
- 2003 British Grand Prix: A Priest by the name of Cornelius Horan (who as it turns out, had a frequent habit of invading or trying to invade sports events with his Armageddon propaganda) runs onto the track with signs and all before being tackled by one of the track Marshalls. The Winner? Rubens Barrichello.
- 2004 Spanish Grand Prix: A Spanish resident who goes by the nickname "Jimmy Jump" (Yet another person who for some reason feels compelled to interupt sporting events, but this time claims to save the world from control of the media or something and last I read, is deep in debt due to the amount of fines he has for said invasions) Sprints down the front straight during the warm up lap before being taken off track and arrested. The Winner? Micheal Schumacher.
- 2015 Singapore Grand Prix: A random tourist is caught on camera just casually strolling on track like this is all normal before being caught and arrested. The winner? Sebastian Vettel.
- 2022 British Grand Prix: While the race is red flagged, protesters take to the track and sit, causing a delay. The Winner? Carlos Sainz Jr.
So yeah, "Track Invasions" and "Ferrari" have a rather suspicious habit of being seen together frequently.
- 1989 Brazilian Grand Prix: Some crazy guy runs across the track. The Winner? Nigel Mansell (The very driver that said crazy guy ran directly in front of)
- 2000 German Grand Prix: A Disgruntled Mercedes employee crosses the track. The Winner? Rubens Barrichello.
- 2003 British Grand Prix: A Priest by the name of Cornelius Horan (who as it turns out, had a frequent habit of invading or trying to invade sports events with his Armageddon propaganda) runs onto the track with signs and all before being tackled by one of the track Marshalls. The Winner? Rubens Barrichello.
- 2004 Spanish Grand Prix: A Spanish resident who goes by the nickname "Jimmy Jump" (Yet another person who for some reason feels compelled to interupt sporting events, but this time claims to save the world from control of the media or something and last I read, is deep in debt due to the amount of fines he has for said invasions) Sprints down the front straight during the warm up lap before being taken off track and arrested. The Winner? Micheal Schumacher.
- 2015 Singapore Grand Prix: A random tourist is caught on camera just casually strolling on track like this is all normal before being caught and arrested. The winner? Sebastian Vettel.
- 2022 British Grand Prix: While the race is red flagged, protesters take to the track and sit, causing a delay. The Winner? Carlos Sainz Jr.
So yeah, "Track Invasions" and "Ferrari" have a rather suspicious habit of being seen together frequently.
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I kinda remember Spain as it was my actual first full year of watching F1 having only seen the inaugural Malaysian grand the year before (and its hard to forget some weirdo running on track with a red cap, much like how I imagine its hard to forget some crazed priest in THAT getup running directly towards cars with signs for some fans in 2003), but Brazil was completely new to me when I went digging around.
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The Eurobrun F1 team's first and last classified finishes were 13th places that came in North American races (Mexico 1988, United States 1990) with South American drivers (Oscar Larrauri from Argentina, Roberto Moreno from Brazil) who had Italian team-mates who failed to pre-qualify for said races (Stefano Modena, Claudio Langes).
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Jason Plato scoring 97 British Touring Car Championship race wins but only two titles in 2001 and 2010 despite finishing in the top 3 of the Driver's championship every year from 2006 to 2015.
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Craig Lowndes has a similar track record in ATCC/V8 Supercar history, largely thank's to being teamed with the most successful driver in championship history, Jamie Whincup.
Between 1996 & 2018, Lowndes scored 106 race wins, including 7 Bathurst 1000 victories giving him the best podium record in Bathurst history.
1996: claims the triple crown in his rookie year by taking out the championship, Sandown 500 & Bathurst 1000.
1997: Formula 3000 with RSM/Marko
1998: 1st
1999: 1st despite missing a Round following a roll-over at Calder & knee surgery.
2000: 3rd making it 2:1 over 3 years as teammate to 5-time champ, Mark Skaife.
2001-04: Four lean years after switching brands to Ford with results of 11th, 7th, 5th & 20th.
2005: Joins Triple Race Engineering after being signed by Roland Dane, and for the next twelve years will finish no lower than fourth in the championship standings, including six times as runner-up.
2017: 10th
2018: 4th including his final Bathurst 1000, 22 years after his first win.
This is just his ATCC/V8 Supercar career.
A remarkable career of success & duration that will take some beating from anywhere as competitive in the world.
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