10 false dawns in F1

hope can be a dangerous thing in formula one just when you think everything's on the up and great things are on the horizon it can fizzle out or even come crashing down this has happened to plenty of teams and drivers over the years in f1 so we've picked out 10 that were particularly memorable we had far too many to choose from so tell us which ones would have made your list in the comments and if you like what we're doing here at the race consider hitting that subscribe button and the notifications bell to stay up to date with all of our videos we're talking about kevin here rather than his dad jan's one-off our team with mclaren in 1995. like father-like son mclaren picked up kevin and supported his junior career resulting in a full-time f1 drive for 2014. sensationally magnuson took a podium on his debut in australia but unfortunately that was as good as it would get mclaren wasn't strong enough technically to make the most of the mercedes engine advantage in 2014 magnuson showed pretty well against jensen button but he didn't kick on in the final part of the season the way the team had hoped a strong end to the year for button meant he won the battle to stay on his teammate to fernando alonso that meant magnuson was bumped down to reserve driver for 2015 and since then he spent his career in the midfield first with renault and then haas williams's regular declarations of we will win again were getting a bit old by 2012 but the seemingly impossible came true at that year's spanish grand prix pastor maldonado took the team's 114th victory ending what was then its longest dry spell dating back to the end of 2004. while 2012 was a bonkers year for f1 williams had a good car and maldonado was a deserving winner that day unfortunately he and bruno cena didn't make enough of their opportunities that year and williams then produced a poor car for 2013. there was another revival under the new engine rules for 2014 but williams slipped to the very back of the field over the years that followed juan pablo montoya's start to life at mclaren couldn't have gone much worse when he was ruled out through injury after just two races of the season depending on which story you believed he either picked up the shoulder injury playing tennis or riding a motocross bike perhaps he was doing both at the same time montoya missed two races and it delayed him adapting to a car concept that was very different to what he was used to at williams but once he felt comfortable with the formidable mp420 midway through the year his season came alive he won three races and the scene was set for mclaren to be a force with montoya and kimi raikkonen in 2006 but the team failed to win a race things started to turn sour with montoya in december 2005 when ron dennis delayed picking up an option on his services for 2007. montoya started to lose interest in mclaren and f1 and after triggering a pile up at the start of the us grand prix by hitting raikkonen he walked away mid-season returning to america to race for chip ganassi in nascar adrian newey produced one of the most influential car designs of the modern era with his march 881 in 1988 many of the concepts on that car were ideas he carried over to his dominant williams designs of the 1990s in 1988 it made ivanka pele one of the few drivers able to get anywhere near the dominant mclaren mp44 despite a major power deficit but the little team failed to kick on in 1989 it took nearly over a year to work out why the 1989 car was flawed because of a fault with the wind tunnel the team was using but by the time newey had discovered that and worked out a fix in 1990 he was on the verge of being fired his last act for the team was to design updates to solve the problems he then sat at home to watch cappelli almost win the 1990 french grand prix only being denied by alain prost due to falling oil and fuel pressure in the closing stages unfortunately leyton house again wasn't equipped to kick on it had got rid of its design genius and team owner akira akagi was in financial trouble that would lead to his arrest he eventually sold the team which limped on for 1992 as march before closing alain prost buying legier was an on-again off-again saga that ran through most of the 1990s even when prost was still racing eventually he bought the team on the eve of the 1997 season and things started well prost was the leading team on the new bridgestone tyres and olivier panis was a front runner on several occasions early in the year prost lost its way that season after panis broke his legs in a crash at the canadian grand prix french hopes were high when peugeot joined as engine supplier for 1998 but prost called the three years he spent with peugeot the worst period of his life the team switched to ferrari engines for 2001 but those came at a cost of 28 million dollars for the season huge bills like that plus an exodus of sponsors after 2000 meant the team folded after just five years under prost's leadership f1 had already spat roman grosjean out once after a part season with renault in 2009 and his second chance in 2012 seems set to be defined by the ban he picked up for causing a massive crash at the start of the belgian grand prix but things really came together at the end of 2013 when grosjean emerged as one of the only consistent threats to the dominance of sebastian vettel and rebel most memorably he led a chunk of the japanese grand prix and finished second to vettel at austin with four podium finishes in the final six races it seemed a matter of time before he became an f1 winner then 2014 happened the radical lotus twin tusk design was off the pace hampered by an underpowered and unreliable renault engine the switch to mercedes power for 2015 brought one more podium but by this point a lack of investment in the endstone team was starting to hurt grozon left to lead haas into f1 in 2016 and despite some star performances in the midfield both team and driver weren't consistent enough to achieve anything more than that bar was renamed honda for 2006 and that first year ended well not only did jensen button take his and the team's first win in hungary but over the final six races of the year he outscored everyone on the grid including title contenders fernando alonso and michael schumacher the honda failed to kick on the drivers complained of the earth car ra107 feeling draggy on the straights but having no downforce in the corners and honda plummeted to eighth in the championship with just six points things weren't much better in 2008 but honda had a plan it poured all of its resources into the rule changes coming in for 2009 then pulled out of f1 that winter i wonder whatever happened to that car it developed gianna lacy spent the early part of his career turning so many heads that plenty of people in f1 must have had neck ache he starred on his debut for tyrell in 1989 then confirmed his status as a superstar of the future by going toe-to-toe with erton cena on the streets of phoenix in 1990 that set up a year of giant killing performances with tyrell and made a lacie a man in demand early in 1990 he'd signed a contract with williams for 91 but he started to panic when frank williams kept delaying announcing the deal williams didn't tell a lacey why but it turned out he was trying to get et and cena eventually a lacie got fed up with being messed around by williams and signed for ferrari bad cars in 1992 and 93 sucked some of the momentum out of his career but he and ferrari bounced back culminating in a first win in 1995 but that would be his only f1 victory he switched to benetton for 1996 and couldn't make the most of a car the team believed would have won the world championship if michael schumacher had stayed and after two seasons that were okay rather than brilliant lacy slipped into the midfield for the rest of his 201 race career toyota's crazily expensive stint in f1 was such a disappointment that we made an entire video about it and if we've pressed all the right buttons hopefully a link to that has just appeared on the screen the biggest false dawn for toyota came in 2009 it was one of only three teams to start the year with the controversial double diffuser and everything looks set to finally come together at that year's bahrain grand prix yano trillium teemo glock locked out the front row of the grid helped by qualifying on lower fuel loads than the other front-runners but at their early first stops both drivers were fueled heavy and put onto the harder tyres which proved to be a disastrous combination a miserable glock plummeted down the order while truly struggled on to claim third behind jensen button and sebastian vettel another chance to win went begging when truly picked up damage at the start at spa and at the end of the year toyota quit f1 with no victories to show for all the money it spent michael schumacher's broken leg in 1999 and a scruffy season from mclaren and mika hakkanen left things wide open that year jordan and heinz held friendson launched an unlikely title charge while ferrari threw its support behind eddie irvine in the end both came up short eddie jordan proudly declared at the end of the year that he hoped 99 would be looked back on as the season his team established itself as a title contending force but unfortunately it never got close again despite losing out to mikahaka the final round with ferrari irvine could look to 2000 with optimism as he was joining jaguar ford had bought and rebranded jackie stewart's upwardly mobile team which was a regular towards the front in 1999 and took its first win with johnny herber the nurburgring but jaguar's four was even sharper than jordan's irvine stuck around for three lucrative years following up his ferrari title challenge with just two more podium finishes you

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Length: 11min 21sec (681 seconds)

Published: Fri Oct 30 2020