List of articles of F1: The Formula 1 archive

Introduction Way back in 1977, the two aspiring Britons of Frank Williams and Patrick Head co-founded a Formula 1 team, named Williams, with the ambition of showing people that engineers with drive and ambition could rival motor racing powerhouses like Ferrari at the time. This partnership evoked highly successful periods across a two-decade span where they took the fight to Ferrari, McLaren and Benetton, and came out superior in various years. However, fast forward 43 years

Introduction Four-time World Champion Alain Prost achieved almost everything Ayrton Senna did. In fact, by several measures, he achieved more. Yet ask almost any Formula 1 fan to name the greatest driver of all time and one name is likely to appear long before the other. Ayrton Senna became an icon. Alain Prost became a footnote. But why? The Numbers – Championships/Wins/Poles/Podiums In a debate so often driven by emotion, the fairest place to begin is with the e

Introduction When Michael Schumacher arrived at Ferrari in 1996, he was already a two-time World Champion racing for Benetton. Ferrari, meanwhile, had fallen behind the likes of Benetton, McLaren, Williams and even a Brabham team at times, and not won a Drivers' Championship since 1979. Fast forward 10 years, Schumacher had become Formula 1's most successful driver ever and Ferrari had become the dominant force of an era, culminating in the highest level of F1 driver and car