It's crazy to think that the first ever F1 race where no car DNF'ed was in 2005, more than 50 years after the inception of the sport, and less than 20 years ago from today. It really shows how far the sport has come in terms of reliability and safety.
@@madpanda307 reliability has changed so much so the last 22 years would be more interesting because there isn't 100+dnfs from drivers that don't even drive cars anymore to put it lighhtly
Well I was expecting to see someone with like Patrese, Barrichello, Kimi or someone else who had more races than Patrese (as I remember he had record of most races somewhat a decade ago).But after seeing how high numbers were already at late 80s.. no way recent drivers would even get close. If you get 15 DNF in your debut season you don't normally see a season two anymore :P Might been different in the past I guess.
@@frozello14 You want a laugh, go on wikipedia and look at the results for each F1 season. They have a nice chart showing each driver's results for each year. Get back in the 80s and earlier and you will see things like DNF DNF 1st DNF 3rd DNF DNF 1st 2nd DNF 1st DNF DNF and that's the champion, LOL. You'll see guys that ran a whole season but only finished 2 races. It's crazy
@@wingracer1614 Well I was referring a little bit more on recent days with not seeing 2nd season with such record :) Which I forgot to mention clearly though. It's funny, when looking at it, but surely totally different times in all sense (reliability, costs, safety, everything)
Andrea was prone to crash but at least, unlike drivers like Maldonado Mazepin Stroll and so on, he was quick when he was not crashing. He crashed because he was on the edge
Nowadays the majority of DNFs are from racing incidents, reliability issues are becoming more and more rare. Few decades ago half of the grid not finishing a race because of reliability issues was the rule.
@@the_kovic The other aspect about earlier generations of F1 cars where reliability was marginal: It added a lot of suspense to the outcome of the races. Back in the 1960s into the '80s, there were more than a dozen different items in the cars that could fail on the last lap, snatching victory away from the race leader. In recent times, materials for those items have improved to the point that they are nearly bulletproof; taking away the suspense of a vehicular breakdown late in the race.
Yeah but he made the list twice. Senna didn't even show up and he had some awful cars in his hand and was never known for being "the passive type". So... Really impressive list.
De Cesaris competed in 208 races, which means he retired from about 75% of the races he took part in...that is insane. At least Patrese had around 250, but he had better equipment towards the end of his career at Williams.
My guess before the video: Andrea de Cesaris. After the video: Got it correct but it was much closer than expected! Though Patrese's number is partly due to the sheer longevity of his career (when he retired he was the most experienced driver until Rubens Barrichello overtook him in 2008). It also shows how much reliability has improved over the last 30-40 years.
Same here, man. I knew de Cesaris held the record but I didn't expect Patrese to have just one less DNF. You sum it up pretty well. I just thought de Cesaris would be leading this chart by a mile.
Actually they are two different stats.. Some say they had both 145 retirments bc I think de cesaris a u clear dsq but some Also say de cesaris had more.. I like the thinking about both had 145.. So that's my reality lol.. Nerd knowledge for youu
Shout out to Chris Amon, the unluckiest driver in F1. Remember Mario Andretti's comment about him, "if Chris was an undertaker, people would stop dying". A classic.
I recall a print article about Amon in retirement, where to paraphrase: 'People say I was unlucky in F1 . . . I was lucky, as I survived into old age.'
@@bloqk16 fair play to that, he was a great driver and along with Bruce McLaren and Denny Hulme really flew the flag for NZ in the 60s and 70s and its worth remembering he did win the non championship IROC , its just a shame that he had bad luck and made some bad choices , but he's had more F1 races than I'm ever going to. PS he was badly treated by the Ford/Ferrari film.
@@johnstirling6597 As much as I followed the World Sports Car Championship back in the mid to late 1960s, which was with print media, when you wrote about Amon being treated badly by in the Ford/Ferrari film, it did get me to thinking that Amon's accomplishment in the 1966 Le Mans 24 Hours race, along with Bruce McLaren, was downplayed in the US media of that era, and continues so to this day; to nearly the point that both drivers were footnotes in the documentation of their accomplishment . . . and when compared to how the US media handled the Ford victory at Le Mans in 1967 with loudly heralding drivers Gurney and Foyt; there's some validity with what I wrote about the 1966 victors. That Ford vs Ferrari film . . . as much as I loved seeing the action of those cars racing in that era, the amount of dramatic license/liberties/deviations, let alone the timeline of events; that were done in that movie were cringeworthy.
@@bloqk16 Chris Amon was interviewed when that film came out,(just before he died) and his perspective on the race was really illuminating. His recollection of the race was that Bruce McLaren was about 2 LAPS ahead when the decision was made to "tie" the finish so really it highlights just how good they were. I also recall that Chris hosted a car show on New Zealand TV in the late 70s/early 80s, cannot remember what it was called.
Aw yiss, don't mess with my boy de Crasharis :D I'm also slightly amused by the fact it's 3 Italians in the top 3 spots... I suppose it shows how much passion they show towards the sport. I'm also amazed at some of the names up there, quite a few world champions... makes you wonder what would historical results be if the old cars were more reliable.
I just watched the 2nd place video, and early in his career, he had some 2nd place finishes. I'm sure at the time the team consoled him with "You're almost there, you'll have a win in no time at all!"
It's a nice graph, but also very sad to know that some DNFs are tied to fatal accidents: "like i saw the 1970 Italian GP and saw Jochen Rindt final DNF .... :( " (etc, etc)
@@ezrachristian718 because he said something very dumb, as if over the next 5 years there's only gonna be an average of 1 dnf per race, it's most likely gonna be next year, not in 5 years
I wonder who will have the dubious distinction of being the 10,000th driver to DNF from a race? At the current rate of retirements it would likely be 5 to 6 years down the road.
It's crazy to think that the first ever F1 race where no car DNF'ed was in 2005, more than 50 years after the inception of the sport, and less than 20 years ago from today. It really shows how far the sport has come in terms of reliability and safety.
Reliability also improved
More like reliability. Safety too, but that's a different statistic (albeit connected).
There were also two races In 2021 with 0 dnfs which was quite impressive
its more reliability than safety .
Actually no cars DNF'ed at the 1961 Dutch GP as well, look it up. There were 2 DNS which this video actually counts for DNFs but yeah
Do another one, but just for the last 22 years...
or maybe since the 90s
I agree
Up
Why??
@@madpanda307 reliability has changed so much so the last 22 years would be more interesting because there isn't 100+dnfs from drivers that don't even drive cars anymore to put it lighhtly
I'm amazed I don't see Kimi on here despite him having the most races record.
Those McLaren's he drove seem to break down once every other weekend.
He only had a couple seasons of bad McLarens. The rest of his time was in OK McLarens, good Lotus and bulletproof Ferraris.
Well I was expecting to see someone with like Patrese, Barrichello, Kimi or someone else who had more races than Patrese (as I remember he had record of most races somewhat a decade ago).But after seeing how high numbers were already at late 80s.. no way recent drivers would even get close. If you get 15 DNF in your debut season you don't normally see a season two anymore :P Might been different in the past I guess.
@@frozello14 You want a laugh, go on wikipedia and look at the results for each F1 season. They have a nice chart showing each driver's results for each year. Get back in the 80s and earlier and you will see things like DNF DNF 1st DNF 3rd DNF DNF 1st 2nd DNF 1st DNF DNF and that's the champion, LOL. You'll see guys that ran a whole season but only finished 2 races. It's crazy
@@frozello14 For example, I was just looking at 1980. Jean-Pierre Jabouille won a race that year. He also had a 10th. Then he had ELEVEN DNFs!
@@wingracer1614 Well I was referring a little bit more on recent days with not seeing 2nd season with such record :) Which I forgot to mention clearly though. It's funny, when looking at it, but surely totally different times in all sense (reliability, costs, safety, everything)
Salute to the legend Andrea de Crasharis, may he rest in peace.
Finally on the top of something
Barely edged Patrese who had reliability issues more than anything.
@@adampetten5349 De Cesaris' reliability issues was on the piece between the seat and the steering wheel...
Andrea was prone to crash but at least, unlike drivers like Maldonado Mazepin Stroll and so on, he was quick when he was not crashing. He crashed because he was on the edge
Died as he lived. Fast , and crashing into a safety barrier ....
Never expected Lauda and Graham Hill had that much retirements.
To be fair they had quite long careers and car back in the day were not at all reliable...
Lauda retired twice. ;-)
@@MKF1_official yeah I know, but I didn't expected it was sooo much, especially because these two were very smart drivers.
Lauda was the period of the (not so reliable) turbo's
Nowadays the majority of DNFs are from racing incidents, reliability issues are becoming more and more rare. Few decades ago half of the grid not finishing a race because of reliability issues was the rule.
I miss those days. It was a lot easier to swallow a team dominating when the dominant car broke down half the time.
@@the_kovic The other aspect about earlier generations of F1 cars where reliability was marginal: It added a lot of suspense to the outcome of the races. Back in the 1960s into the '80s, there were more than a dozen different items in the cars that could fail on the last lap, snatching victory away from the race leader.
In recent times, materials for those items have improved to the point that they are nearly bulletproof; taking away the suspense of a vehicular breakdown late in the race.
@@bloqk16 tell that to red bull
Really goes to show how good Prost was at taking care of his equipment
I’m surprised he had more dnf’s than Senna tho
@@drazenbudis7881 he had a longer career tbf
Yeah but he made the list twice. Senna didn't even show up and he had some awful cars in his hand and was never known for being "the passive type". So... Really impressive list.
The Renault he had in ‘82 broke almost every race
De Cesaris competed in 208 races, which means he retired from about 75% of the races he took part in...that is insane. At least Patrese had around 250, but he had better equipment towards the end of his career at Williams.
Great video. It's amazing to think how few drivers get to drive in F1 yet 2 drivers have almost 300 dnf's between them.
Glad you enjoyed it!
My guess before the video: Andrea de Cesaris.
After the video: Got it correct but it was much closer than expected! Though Patrese's number is partly due to the sheer longevity of his career (when he retired he was the most experienced driver until Rubens Barrichello overtook him in 2008). It also shows how much reliability has improved over the last 30-40 years.
I already knew this, so I was just waiting for him to enter the chart and zoom up it like a boss!
Same here, man. I knew de Cesaris held the record but I didn't expect Patrese to have just one less DNF. You sum it up pretty well. I just thought de Cesaris would be leading this chart by a mile.
Patrese retired from more than half of his GP starts, crazy
Actually they are two different stats.. Some say they had both 145 retirments bc I think de cesaris a u clear dsq but some Also say de cesaris had more.. I like the thinking about both had 145.. So that's my reality lol.. Nerd knowledge for youu
Andrea's were mostly crashes .
Riccardo's were mostly a malfunctioning car.
19 drivers have failed to finish more races than Jim Clark raced in.
Great video… You should do one with DNF %, just to see the difference, because some drivers had a lot of races in their careers
Its kinda wierd to know that on some of these drivers the last dnf add, was the dnf that took their life.
You deserve much more followers, can't realise you just make something like this😮
Thanks for kind words!
That's impressive how casual DNF's was before the 2004'th season !!
Barichello was the last of this era ;)
Great Job !!
Wow, an all-Italian podium!!!
Italian drivers are fast, but with a violent tendency to cause drama
Shout out to Chris Amon, the unluckiest driver in F1. Remember Mario Andretti's comment about him, "if Chris was an undertaker, people would stop dying". A classic.
I recall a print article about Amon in retirement, where to paraphrase: 'People say I was unlucky in F1 . . . I was lucky, as I survived into old age.'
@@bloqk16 fair play to that, he was a great driver and along with Bruce McLaren and Denny Hulme really flew the flag for NZ in the 60s and 70s and its worth remembering he did win the non championship IROC , its just a shame that he had bad luck and made some bad choices , but he's had more F1 races than I'm ever going to. PS he was badly treated by the Ford/Ferrari film.
@@johnstirling6597 As much as I followed the World Sports Car Championship back in the mid to late 1960s, which was with print media, when you wrote about Amon being treated badly by in the Ford/Ferrari film, it did get me to thinking that Amon's accomplishment in the 1966 Le Mans 24 Hours race, along with Bruce McLaren, was downplayed in the US media of that era, and continues so to this day; to nearly the point that both drivers were footnotes in the documentation of their accomplishment . . . and when compared to how the US media handled the Ford victory at Le Mans in 1967 with loudly heralding drivers Gurney and Foyt; there's some validity with what I wrote about the 1966 victors.
That Ford vs Ferrari film . . . as much as I loved seeing the action of those cars racing in that era, the amount of dramatic license/liberties/deviations, let alone the timeline of events; that were done in that movie were cringeworthy.
@@bloqk16 Chris Amon was interviewed when that film came out,(just before he died) and his perspective on the race was really illuminating. His recollection of the race was that Bruce McLaren was about 2 LAPS ahead when the decision was made to "tie" the finish so really it highlights just how good they were. I also recall that Chris hosted a car show on New Zealand TV in the late 70s/early 80s, cannot remember what it was called.
Aw yiss, don't mess with my boy de Crasharis :D
I'm also slightly amused by the fact it's 3 Italians in the top 3 spots... I suppose it shows how much passion they show towards the sport. I'm also amazed at some of the names up there, quite a few world champions... makes you wonder what would historical results be if the old cars were more reliable.
No greater pleasure than seeing de Cesaris waltz up the list without any effort.
I just watched the 2nd place video, and early in his career, he had some 2nd place finishes. I'm sure at the time the team consoled him with "You're almost there, you'll have a win in no time at all!"
Almost 10k dnfs in those 72 years
Thanks to Latifi this chart is going to change
This must have taken so long to gather all the data for! Super interesting though, thanks for the video
Glad you liked it and thanks for support!
Imagine Mazepin being in F1 for 10+ years, He'd look like the Bezos of this graph for wealth
Such an interesting stat, Awesome job mate!
Thanks!
It's a nice graph, but also very sad to know that some DNFs are tied to fatal accidents: "like i saw the 1970 Italian GP and saw Jochen Rindt final DNF .... :( " (etc, etc)
Fascinating to see how reliability has improved.
A Honorable Mention goes out to Hans Heyer who at the 1977 German Grand Prix achieve the DNQ, DNF, DNF and DSQ Grand Slam in only one Race.
We italian people put so much heart and passion in driving, and this list is shows it!
English and Australians too!🤣
Maybe a bit too much...
This was much higher than I thought it would be. Also might get our 10,000th DNF this season
Nah, just in 5 years
@@samuelpedro99 it's not gonna take 5 years for there to be 115 dnf's 🤡
@@SN4KEBYTE what's the clown emoji for, that was uncalled 😂
@@ezrachristian718 because he said something very dumb, as if over the next 5 years there's only gonna be an average of 1 dnf per race, it's most likely gonna be next year, not in 5 years
@@SN4KEBYTE see? That's a much better comment, logical, sensible and harmless. There was no need to throw a random clown emoji for no good reason lol
Do another one considering rate (DNF/races) from highest to lowest and the other way round.
I'm shocked that Alonso/Button didn't make it to the list. I thought GP2 engine broke down a lot.
Me too but looks like back then the cars were pretty shit in the aspect of reliability.
Last 15 years teams run the cars from the pits and from the factory not the driver.
So sad I wasn't alive to witness the epic dnf battle between de Cesaris and Patrese. Must have been some fun tonwatch..
That's awesome bro, and what kind of orthography you use?
3 italian drivers on first 3 position
The list didn't change much from late 90s... Shows the reliability has greatly increased.
De Cesaris and Patrese were the Magnussen and Grosjean of their era😭😭
Doing Riccardo down unfairly mate. Most of his retirements were mechanical.
I guessed deCesaris right away, but it was only a guess. Surprised to see Patrese only 1 race behind, and Rubens so high up the ranks.
Rubens drove a lot of crap boxes.
Two full seasons with Peugeot power will do that to you.
Is there a full list to this somewhere? Or maybe a Top 50 / Top 100 that is available somewhere?
Wait what de cesaris did 208 races but only finished 62...
Jim clark raced i think 64 or 74 races won 25 of them but failed to finnish 29 races bcause of mechanical problems
makes one with the number of starts of all pilots. and makes the championship of 2010 and 2012 with the score of 2008.
Salute to Kimi, not on the list and the most races.
È l'unica classifica dove i nostri piloti sono ai 3 primi posti!
Andrea de Cesaris retiring at a rate of one race per race
Spectaular video. Brilliant.
Now one from 1970 to date plz.
That moment when.....
"De Cesaris has entered the chat"
i think there should be a stat where you can see the a driver dnf comparing to the mean of his era drivers dnf's
most dnf's 2010-2021 please
It would be interesting to see this in reverse chronological order
Can you make a video on the drivers involved in the most crashes?
Podium 100% italian
1975 had 20 DNFs? WHAT?! Today that would be the entire grid. I mean just 6 were left then...
How about highlighting the drivers when they are active?
Do another with the teams failed to finish most.
Il pilota romano Romano Andrea de Cesaris!
Can you do most DNFs but for crashes only ?
I saw the video title and immediately knew it was going to be de Cesaris lol
So, that makes him the most consistent driver of all times (?)
Yes Consistently Not Finishing
I wonder who will have the dubious distinction of being the 10,000th driver to DNF from a race? At the current rate of retirements it would likely be 5 to 6 years down the road.
Thank you exactly what I asked for
Glad you liked it :)
Can we see another, but it is costs in damages per driver?
115 to go.. come on!
Hmmm, perhaps another showing DNFs by constructor? Or engine manufacturer?
How does this work out as a percentage of races started?
Ah yes, The Indy 500 for F1
Andrea de Cesaris had a DNF in 65% of the races he starts, is there any drive that has a worse record than that?
Think about what if De Cesaris had finished all his races...
Don't you mean Damon Hill not Graham Hill in the late 1990s. Graham died a lot earlier
I was waiting for Andrea de Crasharis to appear.
The only way Mazepin can be at the top
I think his time is already over...
No more, bro 🤷
I think if you do it backwards it would be more interesting
#AndreadeCesaris has more DNFs (146) than any other driver in #F1 #history.
The 1980s would have won the video... If they had finished it.
And people say Romain is the King of DNF's
He only got 50 DNF about 27.9% of his races..
Where is lord maldonado
italian domination
OLD TIME. CAR ENGINES BROKE EASY LIKE MERC.
Ahhhh no Mazepin
do that in decades otherwise you can stop the video pretty much after the first half
Il pilota romano romano Andrea de Cesaris
Who is here for nikita mazespin? 😂