The 10 worst F1 cars to win a Grand Prix

not every car that wins the World Championship Grand Prix is brilliant sometimes through circumstances luck or inspiration machines that would otherwise be considered midfielders have their day in the Sun so let's take a look at what we believe there's ten worst cars to win in Formula One number ten ferrari f60 2009 Ferraris car for f1 is new 2009 regulations was poor not only did the team miss the double diffuser trick most effectively utilized by Braun the f60 also lacks the ideal weight distribution as a team used curves for the first time ferrari didn't agree with the legality of the double diffuser and didn't respond as quickly as it might have done and it took Kimi räikkönen and Felipe Massa four races to even score a point let's spar later in the year a safety car restart and the benefit of curse enabled Brighton in to snatch victory from Giancarlo Fisichella sports India which didn't have the added boost of the energy recovery system but the forgettable performances of Luca fedora and Fisichella both of whom stepped in after masses serious accident in Hungary underlined how difficult this car was number nine shadow dn8 1977 initially designed in 1976 the DNI scored points in each of its three f1 seasons but it was never cutting it on a good day in 1977 shadow could get one of its cars into the top six usually driven by future world champion Allen Jones on a bad day and there were a few it failed to finish and shadow was only seventh in the Constructors Championship that would have been eighth had it not been for a remarkable day at the Oscar eye cream Jones started 14 but a wet track on race day provided an opportunity most runners started on slicks and Jones made impressive progress in the early slippery conditions of the 16 of the 54 laps he was second with only reigning world champion James Hunt ahead hunt lurked in command until his MacLaren's engine cried enough of just 11 laps to go Jones was left to beat Niki Lauda's Ferrari by 20 seconds to secure shadows only F One World Championship victory number eight Toro Rosso str3 2008 the str3 was to put it simply a 2008 red bull with a Ferrari engine rather than a Renault but there was more to its win than just putting a different engine in Adrian Newey's chassis there are other key factors to it memorable Italian GP victory with Sebastian Vettel firstly Toro Rosso moved the cars weight distribution further back which improved traction out of Monza's slow chicanes the wet weather that weekend also played its path allowing Vettel to use the cars stability under braking to take pole position and then win the race comfortably number 7 Cyril Oh 11 B 1983 to cool the O 11 V a bad car might be rather harsh as it was always going to be outgunned by its turbo rivals but it was not normally on the pace the development of the reasonably competitive 1982 car the flat bottomed B version struggled to finish in the top 10 in 83 tight street tracks which minimize the power advantage of the turbos and highlighted their problems of lag for the last venues that Cosworth DFV engines still had a chance in Detroit Makeda Alboreto qualified sick and rose to four from the race material then got ahead of Keke Rosberg when the williams made a slow refuelling and tire stop he moved into second when fuel system problems but our runaway leader Rennie are new in the Ferrari although Alboreto kept the pressure on Nelson Piquet it wasn't until the Brabham picked up a puncture with ten laps to go when the non-stopping terrell first hit the front apart from our rhetta's win which was turell's last because best 1983 finish was fifth and it was replaced by the o12 before the end of the season number six Ferrari won 2-6 ck 1989 the first turbocharged Ferrari was all about a powerful engine strapped into a chassis nowhere near as good as most of his rivals somehow it won two races and amazingly they came at two of the seasons three slowest tracks the first was made possible by one of the great qualifying laps in f1 history Neil Villeneuve put the floor he's second on the grid in Monica Nelson Piquet is more nimble Brabham pulled clear in the early stages and Villeneuve soon had to make way for Alan Jones in Williams Jones inherited the lead when PK crashed in traffic but he was already suffering from fuel system problems but will allow vilna to sweep by his spluttering Williams with four laps to go to take the win next time out of her AMA Villeneuve rocketed from 7th to 3rd at the start then pass Carlos Waterman's Williams at the start of lat - when Jones went off from the lead on lap 14 Villeneuve was left to defend from the chasing pack by the end of the race - top five were covered by just one point two four seconds number five liji aj s 43 1996 on average the Mugen Honda powered Li Jie was a seventh fastest car of 1996 and panis qualified 14th in Monaco two seconds of Michael Schumacher's pole time but the wet race proved to be one of attrition and panis was inspired multiple shunts including Schumacher on the first lap helped panis but he was also prepared to make some aggressive passes perhaps his boldest move was on a tear vine which briefly left the Ferrari stationary at the hairpin by the time the remaining runners had switched to slicks panis was up to third behind Damien Hills Williams and the Benetton of Shana Laci Hill was 48 seconds ahead of panis when his Renault engine blew up and then the 16 laps to go Lacey retirement suspension damage panis took over at the front and successfully kept David cool files McLaren behind to record his only World Championship victory and the last Alicia number for Williams fwo 9 1984 the fwo 9 was the first williams turbo powered car and it struggled to deal with the Honda engines abrupt power delivery keke rosberg was better prepared for the sweltering heat of Dallas than his rivals having a water-cooled skullcap for round 9 of the season he started seventh but moved forward immediately quickly Rises into second and then taken the lead from Nigel Mansell's Lotus just after half distance Alain Prost McLaren then moved into the lead or the track surf is deteriorating many drivers ended their day in the wall and prosper one of them leaving Rosberg in the clear to win number three Lotus 43 1966 this troublesome Lotus failed to finish all five GPS it started part from Jim Clark's success in the United States Bart qualified in the top three every time he raced the car indicating the chassis wasn't abandoned the main issue however was the BRM t 75 816 engine which was too heavy unreliable and not as powerful as hoped under the new 3-liter engine regulations bart qualified second at Watkins Glen but his 816 failed at the end of practice and Lotus had to borrow BRM spare Clark Ram fourth but one by one the cars ahead failed and the double world champion was left to cruise to victory by lap number two ferrari 625 1955 1955 f1 season was all about the mercedes-benz w116 is of one manuel fangio and sterling moss with a superb but underfunded Lancia d50 showing hints of potential maurice trenton young qualified as the fastest Ferrari at Monaco but that was only good enough for nine 3.3 seconds behind pole sitter Fangio the Mercedes ace made the early running before going out with transmission problems Moss then took over as a front but he suffered a rare Mercedes engine failure with 20 laps to go Alberto Ascari would have taken a lead but instead had his famous dick in the harbour in his Lancia all that left Trenton jaan to take his first world championship GP win by 20 seconds thereafter the gap between Mercedes and Ferrari at the flag could normally be measured in minutes number one jordan ej 13 2003 normally selecting a number one spot in these countdowns is difficult but not this time for the next best result of seventh the 2003 jordan is easily the worst car to win a grand prix there were problems during the design stage that the team went the wrong way of its aerodynamic philosophy they have to cope with a switch from Honda to Cosworth engines in appalling conditions in Brazil the team persuaded Giancarlo Fisichella to come in for an early pit stop and he climbed the order as others crashed or pitted on lap 53 who is up to second behind Kimi räikkönen and a mistake from the McLaren allowed Fisichella to get ahead and cross the line to lead lap 54 Mark Webber's Jaguar then crashed heavily in the Renault of Fernando Alonso hit the debris bringing out the red flag räikkönen was originally handed the win on countback but it was subsequently corrected so the order was taken at the end of lap 54 when Fisichella was ahead woeful reliability and poor paceman that despite the victory jordan finished 9th in the 2003 Constructors Championship ahead of only Minardi even Jordan designer Gary Anderson agrees it is probably fair to call it the worst car in recent times to win a Grand Prix and the ej xiii underlined its quality by catching fire as Fisichella stopped in the Interlagos pit lane following what turned out to be a fortuitous victory which cars do you think were the worst to win f1 races in the history of the World Championship let us know in the comments below and don't forget to hit like and subscribe [Music] you

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Published: Thu Aug 22 2019

Reddit Comments

[u/Skulldetta]

Honestly, instead of the Ferrari F60 or the 126CK, would've put in the March 751 or March 761. Both only scored a single lucky victory without any further podium positions, finishing P7 and P8 in constructors respectively.

[u/djrabes]

Mercedes W10 /s

[u/ChubbMarshalJNJO]

What about the 86 Benetton ?. Despite poles outside of Mexico didn’t it blow up most races ?

[u/RAKtheUndead]

I've had a similar question recently: What is the worst Formula One car that, under any points system from 1960 to 2002, scored points (i.e. scored at least a sixth place finish)? That might really drag up some underwhelming cars.