Alonso pulling that Ferrari into title contention was phenomenal. Vettel's late season comeback was thrilling. And the special wins and podiums of Kobayashi, Maldonado, Schumacher, Raikkonen, Perez, and Rosberg was the cherry on top. What an unbelievable season!
It still amaze me that Aloson gived absulotuly everything to Ferrari but still be remember as a jerk by the team. Before the 2019 Monza race Ferrari posted a poster with all the drivers had been in the team, but Alonso didn't even has his face on it. It seem the team doesn't want a driver, they want a puppy.
@@dova3839 People forget just how talented Vettel was when he came into the sport. He was Max Verstappen level of talented. You don`t win four on the bounce against that hyper-stacked driver line-up without immense talent- regardless of what car you drive. Today is easier. All the legends are gone and those that remain aren`t as good/not in competitive cars, Lewis is the last one left truly standing. Came in to Red Bull and immediately competed with Brawn for the title in 2009. Ferrari broke the man, but the legend still remains.
This kind of stuff is incredibly rare. There have only been 108 different race winning drivers in 70 years of F1. Getting 7 different race winners in a single season almost never happens
Meerkat More to play devils advocate that’s what gives formula 1 prestige. If random people could win a race and there isn’t any consistency then what’s so special about winning a Grand Prix or even getting podium.
The midfield challenging for podiums (not like today when they get podiums if top teams have retirements). The championship contenders would qualify P4 and P5 some races, not always on the front row. Lotus was the Redbull of today, but Williams, Mercedes ect. could win races and podiums sometimes on raw pace.
that lot who thinks that there's no difference between RB and Mercedes era is either visually impaired or new to Formula 1, even 2011 and early 2013 wasn't as bad as the hybrid era years. Only in the late 2013 that we will see a precursor to the Mercedes dominance when Vettel won 10 races in a row, back then everyone went crazy over that and throwing cheating and unfair advantage accusation towards Red Bull, it was crazy.
@@jamiesantos6935 2010 was more Red Bulls to lose, it was only so close because they bottled so many wins due to driver and team errors or reliability issues. However 2012, they were defintely pace- wise on par with Red Bull and should have won it... Too bad, that the team and reliability were bad.
true, hamilton could easili win the WC that year if he doesn't DNF from first place in Singapore and Abu Dhabi because of the shit reliability, and McLaren had a ton of issue at the pit also
In my opinion, Schumacher's 2012 season was one of his best considering he was 43 and the car he was driving, if you dig deep into the season, you will see countless times he was near the front, qualifying in the top 3, running 3rd or 4th before either the car failed, taken out by Grosjean or it just wasn't fast enough to keep the Red Bulls and McLaren's behind. Australia, Malaysia, China, GBR, Germany, Italy, USA, he was always starting near the front and running in the top 3 or 4 but wasn't able to stay there. Then of course we can also mention the Monaco pole, the podium in Valencia. That qualifying lap he done in Austin in the pneultimate race of career was incredible, to qualify 6th (and then start 5th because of grid penalties) in a Mercedes which detoriated in speed throughout the season was an amazing job. In Brazil he had a puncture and was near dead last and came back to finish 7th, with the help of the safety car of course but it was reiminscient of how he came back in Brazil 2006. Schumacher had the best race results for Mercedes in 2011, and then in 2012 also out-raced Rosberg whenever they both finished (Schumacher's car had awful unreliability), and outqualified Rosberg on average in 2012 over the season by -0.192s, this is the same Nico Rosberg who was more than a match for Lewis Hamilton. Schumacher's comeback was far far from a failure, you could argue it was a success if it wasn't for the awful relaibility and luck in 2012.
Nope, Rosberg was by far the better of the two. Michael showed sparks of brilliance but was very error prone, plus the bad luck, plus the penalties. Nico was much more solid and brought the points home consistently.
You might have to watch the season back again then mate, if you think Rosberg was the better driver in 2012 you haven't seen the season, Rosberg had one amazing weekend in China and got promoted because of Michael's penalty in Monaco, all the other times he was in the midfield between 8th-12th and Michael was up near the front with the bigger teams.
@@nitrox150 That really isn't true, though. Rosberg and Schumacher were closely matched and after Monaco/Canada, Mercedes never had the pace to get a podium on merit. Michael himself never managed to get higher than 7th after Valencia and even his podium in Valencia was more down to the chaos and few drivers being unlucky.
12 reasons the 2012 season was great. 1. Alonso vs Vettel 2. Alonso vs Vettel 3. Alonso vs Vettel 4. Alonso vs Vettel 5. Alonso vs Vettel 6. Alonso vs Vettel 7. Alonso vs Vettel 8. Alonso vs Vettel 9. Alonso vs Vettel 10. Alonso vs Vettel 11. Alonso vs Vettel 12. Maldonado
Alex The Great RIP ANTOINE HUBERT 1. The handling on the new games is much more rewarding than the lock to lock steering of 2012 2. The career mode is much more developed in 2019 than 2012 (driver transfers, f2, storyline, interviews etc.) 3. The graphics are miles better on the new games (look at the 2019 Bahrain footage!) 4. Classic cars are not in 2012 5. Formation lap is not in 2012 6. The damage in 2012 is nothing compared to the modern games 7. The engineer is a lot more charismatic in the modern games (and in 2010) 8. The interface is much more clean on the modern games 9. There’s more control over the car (e.g ers and driving in the pits) in the modern games 10. The A.I actually put up a fight and follow racing etiquette in the modern games 11. The character models are much better on the modern games (bit of a reach, I know) 12. There’s much more immersion in the modern games than in 2012 There you go, 12 reasons why F1 2012 is NOT the best Codemasters F1 game of all time.
Fun fact: 2012 had every f1 title holder from 2000 to this day. Schumacher (2000-04), Alonso (05-06), Raikkonen (07), Hamilton (08, 14, 15, 17-20), Button (09), Vettel (10-13) and Rosberg (16).
In the last 20 years, I’ve never seen a driver drive better than Alonso in 2012. Alonso was deserving of the title and was voted best driver by the team principals despite losing the WDC.
@@gigasigma8373 Well, technically he had the same points as Hamilton, and don't forget Mclaren was giving more support to Hamilton (British driver in a British team). Anyways, Hamilton having a better car got beat by Alonso from 2010 to 2013. At some points, Ferrari was even the 4th car of the grid while Mclaren was the second best car in those years.
7 driver 7 winner in first seven races but the result on 20 track 20 wins Vettel 5x Bahrain and the Asia Tour Hamilton 4x Canada Hungary Monza and Usa Button 3x Australia Belgium and Brasil Alonso 3x Malaysia Valencia and Hockenheim Webber 2x Monaco and Silverstone not bad for Nr.2 last but not least the one race winner the Iceman Abudhabi the Maldonartor and the Blondie Britney Nico Rosberg
Also the thing with Kimi's comeback season was that he managed finish 3rd in the championship only behind Vettel and Alonso...beating BOTH Mclaren drivers, Webber and Massa in the process.... And he scored so many points that Lotus essentially could not even pay him all his bonus money later.
@@ardaakdeniz3905 Agreed, people really forget how many opportunities they missed out to win races, especially because their drivers often underperformed in qualfiying (Bahrain and Canada as examples)
Absolutely he is the greatest of all time ....people judge drivers by how successful you are for eg Martin Brundle...he is always a fuckliton Fan always praises hamilton ......sorry brundle hamilton is successful bcz he always had a competitibve car but alonso has always earned a good drive ... actually to be honest F1 was and is never a fare Sport...bcz of different cars with diff engine diff manufacturers diff budgets.....so Alonso may not be the most successful driver in F1 but he is still the greatest in f1 ....and many people believe in the same way....
@@sumitblogs15 well he works for sky and there's a huge british team bias in F1....you can tell from their reporting, like ferrari cheating on their engines or when merc is fastest because of engines no one complains
Grosjean could've won the Bahrain GP, Hulkenberg could've won the Brazilian GP, Perez could've won the Malaysian GP, ofc Massa could've won a gp at least, Schumacher could've won the Monaco GP
2012 was a fantastic season and one that I remember fondly. The cars were so close especially at the beginning of the year and 7 teams scored a podium and apart from Toro Rosso and the 3 new teams they all won or had a legit shot at winning a race . Also for example in Valencia Q2 Alonso was only 0.2 of a second off the fastest time and still got eliminated that is unheard in today's F1.
Alonso’s drive in this season was the best 1 season performance from a driver I can remember in the last 30 years. He was driving a bath tub and should have won the title!
Not really. Kubica's 08 or Raikkonen's 03 are every bit as impressive. Vettel's 2013 or Schumacher's 2004 and 1996 spring to mind too. It was excellent but certainly not unique or special.
@@alexjohnward that's not how it works. Coulthard was way slower compared to Raikkonen than Massa was to Alonso. 2003 grid was FAR more spread, driving a top 3 car pretty much guaranteed big points. 2012 grid was much tighter so being 3 tenths off your teammate might mean no points.
Uhh... The cars were just good in different areas. RB and McLaren were faster, but also faaar more unreliable. Alonso only got close due to retirements from RB and McL; that's not impressive. He still had the 3-4th fastest car that was incredibly reliable, he had a good package.
And 2019 the sameif the start wasn't so dominated by Mercedes. However they wouldn't have backed off in the latter half had they not had such a huge lead by then
@@saiyerugara2629 It was a very lucky win but its no surprise that Alonso fanboys hold a victory where Vettel retired from the lead as his greatest win ever. Its obviously a product of his lack of titles for 14 years. Clearly you guys are so desperate due to his lack of success, compared to other drivers who have completely eclipsed him, that the circumstances of his wins just don't matter. Imagine Hamilton winning a race when it was gifted to him through other drivers misfortune? The internet would be flooded with people pointing out that he didn't win on merit so Alonso isn't above this either. He did not win on merit. It was a lucky win and Alonso fanboys need to get a grip
@@MT-pv2rf well just as lucky as vettel when alonso drove a slower ferrari all year long and the heavens opened for his third championship and their angel grosjean took alonso out...
A cool season in many ways; Maldonado earned that win, Hamilton leaving McLaren seemed inevitable after they kept having failures (especially Singapore) but Mercedes definitely was a question mark. The development of Mercedes performance was one of the most interesting things: to me at the time 2012 China didn't feel like a "turning point" as much as an outlier along a trendline...it was evident for awhile that Mercedes was blisteringly quick over a lap but couldn't maintain their rear tires. The 2012 China win came on a circuit that didn't punish their rears; after that, the Mercedes continued to show the trait all the way through the rest of 2012 and into 2013. Hungary 2013 is where Mercedes made it clear, to me, that they were a true threat instead of being one of those teams that just occasionally pulls off a good result.
@M C Great comment RE mercedes. To this day, mercedes still struggles on rear limited circuits. They've immensely improved but its still their 'achillles heel'. The china win, as you said wasn't a turning point, it was an exception. That trend didn't continue throughout the season, it was no different that pastor winning spain or Perez almost winning Malaysia. Since the pandemic, I've been rewatching the 2012 season and my biggest take away is tires. The unpredictable pirelli made the racing. No one team managed to consistently place the tires in the window. This resulted in wild swings in performance often 2-3 seconds! It's why you'd often see the lower midfield reel off fastest laps. 2012 was a tire lottery.
Yeah Merc's race performance in 2013 got better after Britain when Pirelli had to change the tyre composition after multiple structural failures. Unfortunately that change also strengthened Red Bull and weakened Ferrari and Lotus, and the championship fight was over very quickly.
@@thegooner-49 that's nonsense. Use your eyes and form your own opinion. Vettel brakes LATER than the two cars ahead of him. And from 2 cars back, a guy in a Williams, OFFLINE, tries to outbrake two cars, one of them a Red Bull like 4 car lenghts ahead, braking on the grippy normal line. 100% Senna's fault.
Yep I say it all the time. Especially for the fact he was only getting older and actually improving since comeback. 2012 he was actually better than Rosberg but the car kept breaking down, In the early few races he was qualifying 1.30 tenths off the McLaren’s, in the wet Qualifying he was always near the front runners they only beat him because of car pace advantage. During the start of the races he would make up the most places and overtakes and on several races he was in P3 or P4 at start and then the tires would go off and the faster cars would catch up. It would have been interesting if Schumacher had that Redbull car he would have shown is skills better. For a 40+ to have have the speed against these guys was impressive. 🏎
@@Bahamuttiamat You are just going to any positive comment of Schumacher and leaving nonsense there, Sky mentioned in Canada that they had a look at everyone's statistics and had Schumacher finished in his race positions before he retired (and won in Monaco), he would of been leading the championship.
@@DaniMacYo Yeah, there are some great examples, he was very close to pole in Malaysia, and in the rain at Silverstone he only had one run compared to Alonso and Webber who had 2 on the intermediates, he even said in the press conference that he could have done better, and he still qualified 2 tenths off pole in P3.
Saif Juniad Mehmood Yeah that was a good Q3. I enjoyed the little battle he had at the start of the race with Massa, then Vettel it may of been short lived but it was still nice to see.
Unpredictability. Spa 2012, when Kimi overtakes Michael in Eau Rouge, was a brilliant move. Missed opportunities come at a high price for a title contenders.
Some people feel 2010 to 2013 were poor years due to Red Bull's dominance, but I tend to disagree. 2013 was a bit of a dud year but 2010 and 2012 were fantastic seasons while 2011 saw some of the best races of the decade (despite Red Bull's dominance of the year).
This was when Formula One had stumbled upon the formula to have things unpredictable and competitive. But the Powers That Be wouldnt have this and quick changes were made to facilitate Team Dominance again: hence the 2014 onwards Hybrid Snooze Fest with one team dominating again
It was a great season. McLaren had the fastest car, but reliability issues, bad strategies and Hamilton and Button couldn‘t always get the maximum out of the car. Vettel, Alonso and Räikkönen had a great year, performing superb. The final race as a title decider was maybe the best race I saw do far. Over the year the performances of the teams were varied a lot. The top teams were close together and 8 teams had the chance to win a race on their own. I think, Vettel, Alonso, Räikkönen and Pérez were the drivers of the year.
I take issue with you saying at 2:00 that Alonso's only two retirements of the season were caused by crashes triggered by others. While yes, Spa was obviously not his fault, the photo you showed while you said it is of Suzuka (the other of two retirements) where he and Kimi collided, that was not Kimi's fault. I don't want to take anything away from Nando, his 2012 campaign stands higher in my eyes than Lewis's brilliance since 2014, but I can't let this one slide.
Only a delusional fan can think that Alonso was blameless at Suzuka. Especially for someone claiming to always leave a space. And the next year, Ferrari chose to hire... Kimi.
Grosjean seems like a genuinely nice guy, but in 2012 he was absolutely erratic and the ban was more than well deserved. As an Alonso fan i still haven't completely forgiven him Spa 2012. Without him, Alonso probably would have won the title that year...
@Bruce Wayne He had such a good car that year. But his erratic driving cost him and his team dearly. To this day, he still blames lewis for the crash... -_-'
@@Bahamuttiamat Yeah I actually like Grosjean, but in the recent video with Nico Rosberg where they talked about his time in F1 and his crash in Bahrain of course, he claimed that if you look at the onboard you could see that Lewis could have left him more space in Spa. Wtf?
@@Warrioruk Grosjean is a plant. My wife cried when he crashed in bahrain. Heck, even I felt bad. Upon reflection maybe he didn't deserve our sympathy.
Big Button fan but as we all know every driver has a Bandwith within which he's comfortable in the car. Call it a percentage and each drivers widley varys , Alonso and Hamilton might be 80, 90 %, Buttons bandwith was very , Very narrow,,,,, :(. But boy when he was hooked up he was one of the Greats, could beat anyone.
Spa that year was most surprising performance in my opinion. Not so much that he took his first (and only) pole position for McLaren, but the fact that he comfortably had the pace and made the one stop strategy work. As Ben Edwards said in commentary, "he has dominated this race."
There was a nice symmetry to Button's wins - the opening race of the season, a race in the middle of the season and the final race. Imagine if he'd stayed when Brawn sold to Mercedes and they kept him until retirement. He would have been a multiple world champion. I didn't give enough credit to Alonso for his title challenge that year because I had lost respect for him and Ferrari over Germany 2011 and it took a long time for him to win it back. I think Paul Di Resta could have won in Brazil too but he made a mistake in the wet and crashed out. I reckon that's why Force India eventually dropped him. I think, given a chance and the right equipment, he could have potentially been a multiple race winner, but that's just my opinion. Schumacher gifted Vettel a place in Brazil because it was his last race and he wanted his fellow countryman to be world champion. I was definitely a fan of there being 7 different winners in the first 7 races.
2012 was so much better than 2021, I know this seems biased for me to say as I’m a huge Sebastian Vettel fan, but look how much competition there was in 2012, 7 different winners in 7 races and no massive controversy between Vettel and Alonso unlike Verstappen and Hamilton.
Thanks to Sebastian Vettel, Mark Webber, Lewis Hamilton, Jenson Button, Fernando Alonso, Felipe Massa, Kimi Räikkönen, Romain Grosjean, Nico Rosberg, Michael Schumacher, Sergio Perez, Kamui Kobayashi, Nico Hulkenberg, Paul Di Resta, Pastor Maldonado, Bruno Senna, Jean-Eric Vergne, Daniel Ricciardo, Heikki Kovalainen, Vitali Petrov, Timo Glock, Charles Pic, Pedro De La Rosa and Narain Karthikeyan for remarkable season
The 2012 season was superb for three reasons: 7 winners in the first 7 races, Fernando Alonso's greatest performance over a season and the wild performance swings over the year. The fact that it went down to the last race, the title battle, was the icing on the cake
Hamilton and Alonso drove in GOD mode that season. Too bad team messing ups for one and lack of performance on saturdays for the other doomed their titles aspirations.
Wakanda Foreva Despite having the arguably fastest car and starting from the first row every sunday. Mechanical failures hit him a couple of races that’s why he was that far behind at some point. Hamilton and Alonso were used to recover many grid positions facing far more risks. The later even managed to have a shot at the title on Brazil. Unbelievable. That’s why I rate both superior to Vettel that season. Make no mistake, Vettel* was on a league of its own with that driver/car combo. Edit: *Redbull.
@@gigasigma8373 correct me if I'm wrong but he was 42 points behind Alonso before SPA . The only reason Vettel made up 42 pts was cause Alonso crashed out of the Belgian and Japanese gp neither of which were his fault. Vettels good but nowhere close to 4 time world champion good.
F1 is such a great team sport! One false move by any member of the pit crew or pit wall and it’s game over! Great drivers = Great teams! 2012 had an abundance of both!!
The great Micheal Schumacher drove brilliantly in 2012 despite the retirements due to unreliability Micheal still showed us that even in a useless car like that Mercedes was he still managed to pull off a stunning pole position lap in Monaco and finished in a brilliant 3rd place in Spain he proved that he was still the master of motorsport Micheal Schumacher is the greatest of all times and he's my hero ever since I was a little boy I just loved watching Schumacher winning and driving Grand Prix cars to there very limits and sometimes beyond especially when he was driving for Ferrari get well soon champ
There were 6 World Champions on the grid for 2012: Schumacher Alonso Raikkonen Hamilton Button Vettel While it would have been great to have seen Schumacher in the mix with the rest at front, time was not on his side, regardless of his vast F1 experience. Also the last season with 24 cars on the grid, with HRT folding at the end of the year
ok... that's right.. a highly skilled driver and a great car made a good comhination after that. but the 2018 and 2019 season was so predictable due to this only reason...😌😌😌 no offence.. but it's my point of view...
Anyone who uses the “jenson outpointed Lewis over the 3 years” stat should watch this video and see how many points Lewis lost from unreliability in the lead of races. Not to mention the fuel fuck up in Barcelona that cost him a likely victory plus the crashes that weren’t his fault at Valencia, spa and interLagos. Lewis outperformed jenson much more convincingly than the points tally will ever show.
No mention of the fact that Hamilton would have coasted to the title in 2012 had McLaren not bungled it for him? Car failures (notably from the lead), pit stop errors, fuelling errors in qualifying... The 'Hamilton to Mercedes' story is only framed in terms of setting up the narrative for the V6 Era and not part of the 'Hamilton Would Have Been a Triple or Quadruple Champion by 2012 Had McLaren Not Consistently Made a Dog's Dinner of Things and He Felt He Needed to Get Out' narrative, which is always overlooked in favour of the 'Bigging Up What Alonso Could Have Achieved' narrative. A narrative which requires putting to one side the fact that Alonso's heroic charge for the title would have been a heroic charge to a distant 2nd Place had McLaren not thrown the title away. What's more, this is part of the reason why Hamilton, despite his success, still gets panned for 'only being able to win the best car'. To hype Alonso, the media focus on how only the car stopped him winning more titles but overlook the fact that is at least as true of Hamilton as it is of Alonso. As a result, focus in the popular imagination is drawn to Alonso being let down by his car and being hailed as a genius despite achieving only a fraction of what Hamilton has in the sport (and being beaten by him as his team-mate) and drawn away from Hamilton having had the same issue and creating a widely-held yet utterly unfair perception that Hamilton needed the best car to win (whilst also overlooking that Alonso was handed 2005 on a silver platter with a non-existent Ferrari challenge, a hopeless teammate, and a McLaren that broke down in the lead left, right, and centre, handing him wins). 2007: Car failure cost him the title 2008: Champion in inferior machinery. Only the 9th (and most recent) driver to win in a car that didn't win the Constructor's Title, with a team-mate who finished 7th in the championship. 2009: McLaren produced a dog that regularly finished outside the top 10. Whilst everyone focuses on Spygate, they ignore Hamilton starting 18th and being 3rd at the flag in Australia. Whilst everyone focuses on Button dominating the first half of the season and Vettel the second, they overlook that Hamilton was on the podium in every race the car finished in the second half of the year, which no other driver can claim. 2010: The top performer until well into the second half of the season. This one wasn't McLaren's fault, though. Red Bull were streets ahead but had reliability issues of their own and a couple of silly contacts cost Lewis this year. It was just one of those things. 2011: The Annus Horribilis 2012: McLaren blow it for Hamilton like they did in 2007 and 2009. The media draws attention to how Alonso only DNFd due to collisions but ignore that Hamilton was also taken out by Grosjean at Spa and that Hamilton was taken out by Hulkenberg when leading in Brazil. If Hamilton is ever to be given the recognition he deserves, the F1 media need to give the 'Oh, What Hamilton Might Have Won with a Better Car' stuff the same attention they give the 'Oh, What Alonso Might Have Won with a Better Car' stuff.
The final shot of Vettel reminded me of a scene in the movie Inglourious Basterds, in the way they show the number three. Vettel is showing it the "german way" and one of his mechanics shows it the "british way".
Incredible ❤️ video that words can't describe... another reason that leads to the fact that Raikkonen but especially Schumacher and Alonso have better driver quality than Hamilton... being able to to do so past their prime (Schumacher) and Alonso to be able to contend to the title with mediocre cars...
Everyone always talks about how amazing Alonso was but Lewis was also driving very well and mature, which was great after his 2011 disaster season. No one mentions how unlucky he was and the amount of points that were robbed from him. I think Alonso and Lewis both drove brilliantly but luck wasn't on their side. It made for an entertaining season anyway. 2010 and 2012 we will never forget
not only hamilton lost due to luck. So did Seb. Alonso was the luckiest driver, if people say belgium 2012 was unlucky then they didnt even watch the 2012 season
Not really, the only podium which he missed out due to bad luck was China and even this debatable considering he hold up the other drivers . You could also argue about Monaco but it was his own fault that he got a grid- penalty.
The way 2012 played out makes wish they'd kept the tyre's like they were because it was obvious that if a driver nailed his setup and drove to it's strengths, anyone on the grid could win on a given weekend!
Cars were skinny therefore we could see lots of overtakes and most of the big teams were actually solid at least for the first half of the season ! Schumi was still driving Alonso's win at Valencia Mercedes first win since they came back And more things that I can't remember rn
alonso was so close to win the championship with the 5 car on the grid, is absolutely ridiculous, its like if this year gastly win the championship with the alpha tauri xDD its the best performance ever of a f1 driver
What can we add ? Those are the things real F1 should be made of , with multiple winners , uncertainty to the end and the smallest point difference between the world champion and the rest. A sport of "nail baiting on the edge of the seat" fans., and genuinely euphoric drivers when achieving unlikely but possible outcomes. The dominance of Michael and Lewis does not help when is so overwhelming.
Alonso pulling that Ferrari into title contention was phenomenal. Vettel's late season comeback was thrilling. And the special wins and podiums of Kobayashi, Maldonado, Schumacher, Raikkonen, Perez, and Rosberg was the cherry on top. What an unbelievable season!
Webber's wins too, surely. That Silverstone race was sublime.
the thing is, the ferrari was actually fast after spain and was super reliable.
It still amaze me that Aloson gived absulotuly everything to Ferrari but still be remember as a jerk by the team. Before the 2019 Monza race Ferrari posted a poster with all the drivers had been in the team, but Alonso didn't even has his face on it. It seem the team doesn't want a driver, they want a puppy.
@@oscarshen6855 Facts, Ferrari is not the same as before they don't want to win
@Oscar Shen Mclaren do the same to Lewis. Don't take it personally.
Also 5 world champions finished 1st to 5th in the standings.
1.Vettel
2.Alonso
3.Raikkonen
4.Hamilton
5.Button
@@lostalone9320 lol imagine if you were serious
@@lostalone9320 if you put Vettel in third, so the two drivers bellow him jumps one place each one, that would be it
@@dova3839 People forget just how talented Vettel was when he came into the sport. He was Max Verstappen level of talented. You don`t win four on the bounce against that hyper-stacked driver line-up without immense talent- regardless of what car you drive. Today is easier. All the legends are gone and those that remain aren`t as good/not in competitive cars, Lewis is the last one left truly standing. Came in to Red Bull and immediately competed with Brawn for the title in 2009.
Ferrari broke the man, but the legend still remains.
Big. Kimi. Energy.
@@kiandocherty3589 Alonso deserved 2 out of 4 vettel's championship!
F1 has wished and still does to repeat the different winners streak ever since the 2012 season ended and the turbo hybrid era beginning in 2014
This kind of stuff is incredibly rare. There have only been 108 different race winning drivers in 70 years of F1. Getting 7 different race winners in a single season almost never happens
Meerkat, overall there were 8 winners in 2012
Meerkat More to play devils advocate that’s what gives formula 1 prestige. If random people could win a race and there isn’t any consistency then what’s so special about winning a Grand Prix or even getting podium.
@@weignerleigner3037 Without all random people who could win a race, Vettel would have won easily.
Mercedes don't. XD
The midfield challenging for podiums (not like today when they get podiums if top teams have retirements). The championship contenders would qualify P4 and P5 some races, not always on the front row. Lotus was the Redbull of today, but Williams, Mercedes ect. could win races and podiums sometimes on raw pace.
Sometimes even Vettel and Alonso didn‘t make it into Q3.
And once again, the lot of you who still say "what was the difference between RB-era and Mercedes-era":
The RB-era still gave us 2010 and 2012.
Totally; the 2011 and 2013 championships were Vettel and Red Bull walkovers, but 2010 and 2012 were genuinely uncertain until the last races!
there was actual competition in current era none....glad coronavirus has decided to end boring f1 once and for all 😂
@@iceman1125 yeah😂 because if it still continue, we would see 5 races and then we already know who is gonna win the championship..
@@muchtarlatif3282 we know who the champion will be at race zero too
that lot who thinks that there's no difference between RB and Mercedes era is either visually impaired or new to Formula 1, even 2011 and early 2013 wasn't as bad as the hybrid era years. Only in the late 2013 that we will see a precursor to the Mercedes dominance when Vettel won 10 races in a row, back then everyone went crazy over that and throwing cheating and unfair advantage accusation towards Red Bull, it was crazy.
included with #12 should be Alonso's 1000-yard death stare at the end of Brazil
I think he's said since that he was looking at Massa when that happened
@@sergeantsupreme4395 yeah, he said that massa was with his wife and kids and he was crying so he wanted to know what happened
McLaren Ferrari-ed this season. Absolutely bottled it
@@WinTech4074 yup and they wasted that
2010 and 2012 were missed opportunities for the Mclaren team.
@@jamiesantos6935 2010 was more Red Bulls to lose, it was only so close because they bottled so many wins due to driver and team errors or reliability issues. However 2012, they were defintely pace- wise on par with Red Bull and should have won it... Too bad, that the team and reliability were bad.
I like the 44 likes, but I'm going to like this comment.
true, hamilton could easili win the WC that year if he doesn't DNF from first place in Singapore and Abu Dhabi because of the shit reliability, and McLaren had a ton of issue at the pit also
In my opinion, Schumacher's 2012 season was one of his best considering he was 43 and the car he was driving, if you dig deep into the season, you will see countless times he was near the front, qualifying in the top 3, running 3rd or 4th before either the car failed, taken out by Grosjean or it just wasn't fast enough to keep the Red Bulls and McLaren's behind. Australia, Malaysia, China, GBR, Germany, Italy, USA, he was always starting near the front and running in the top 3 or 4 but wasn't able to stay there. Then of course we can also mention the Monaco pole, the podium in Valencia. That qualifying lap he done in Austin in the pneultimate race of career was incredible, to qualify 6th (and then start 5th because of grid penalties) in a Mercedes which detoriated in speed throughout the season was an amazing job. In Brazil he had a puncture and was near dead last and came back to finish 7th, with the help of the safety car of course but it was reiminscient of how he came back in Brazil 2006.
Schumacher had the best race results for Mercedes in 2011, and then in 2012 also out-raced Rosberg whenever they both finished (Schumacher's car had awful unreliability), and outqualified Rosberg on average in 2012 over the season by -0.192s, this is the same Nico Rosberg who was more than a match for Lewis Hamilton. Schumacher's comeback was far far from a failure, you could argue it was a success if it wasn't for the awful relaibility and luck in 2012.
I always thought this too, he couldve been on the podium many times that season but had so much bad luck
Did Schumacher get a puncture in Brazil? I thought it was just Rosberg.
Nope, Rosberg was by far the better of the two. Michael showed sparks of brilliance but was very error prone, plus the bad luck, plus the penalties. Nico was much more solid and brought the points home consistently.
You might have to watch the season back again then mate, if you think Rosberg was the better driver in 2012 you haven't seen the season, Rosberg had one amazing weekend in China and got promoted because of Michael's penalty in Monaco, all the other times he was in the midfield between 8th-12th and Michael was up near the front with the bigger teams.
@@nitrox150 That really isn't true, though. Rosberg and Schumacher were closely matched and after Monaco/Canada, Mercedes never had the pace to get a podium on merit. Michael himself never managed to get higher than 7th after Valencia and even his podium in Valencia was more down to the chaos and few drivers being unlucky.
12 reasons the 2012 season was great.
1. Alonso vs Vettel
2. Alonso vs Vettel
3. Alonso vs Vettel
4. Alonso vs Vettel
5. Alonso vs Vettel
6. Alonso vs Vettel
7. Alonso vs Vettel
8. Alonso vs Vettel
9. Alonso vs Vettel
10. Alonso vs Vettel
11. Alonso vs Vettel
12. Maldonado
Kimi Raikkonen vs Lewis Hamilton vs Jenson Button.
Adrián Peñate you forgot about Vettel vs Alonso
Pure fight
@@kevinharding4271 Dammit! I knew I was forgetting something...
You had one job.
Maldonado should be 13.
Even Maldonado could won a gp. Imagine being in F1 and have less win than Lord Maldonado
Being Hulkenberg especially
Must be suck for hulkenberg and perez
@@baddoer please stop it h(is F1 career) is already dead =[
Kevin Hanandi at least Perez got a few podiums
Maldonado has more wins than any other driver this decade
Tense title decider was an understatement
That season was epic!
Keep up the great content too
For the nth time, *get the quote right.*
It's _"Just leave me alone, I know what to do."_
12 reasons why the F1 2012 is the best codemasters game of all time.
Wow. In 6 hours there are 25 likes.
1. It isn’t
@@lj5732 how is it not five me one reason
Alex The Great RIP ANTOINE HUBERT
1. The handling on the new games is much more rewarding than the lock to lock steering of 2012
2. The career mode is much more developed in 2019 than 2012 (driver transfers, f2, storyline, interviews etc.)
3. The graphics are miles better on the new games (look at the 2019 Bahrain footage!)
4. Classic cars are not in 2012
5. Formation lap is not in 2012
6. The damage in 2012 is nothing compared to the modern games
7. The engineer is a lot more charismatic in the modern games (and in 2010)
8. The interface is much more clean on the modern games
9. There’s more control over the car (e.g ers and driving in the pits) in the modern games
10. The A.I actually put up a fight and follow racing etiquette in the modern games
11. The character models are much better on the modern games (bit of a reach, I know)
12. There’s much more immersion in the modern games than in 2012
There you go, 12 reasons why F1 2012 is NOT the best Codemasters F1 game of all time.
@@lj5732 tbh 2012 was a step back after 10 and 11. Season mode and some challenges were nice, the immersion of career not so much.
Fun fact: 2012 had every f1 title holder from 2000 to this day. Schumacher (2000-04), Alonso (05-06), Raikkonen (07), Hamilton (08, 14, 15, 17-20), Button (09), Vettel (10-13) and Rosberg (16).
In the last 20 years, I’ve never seen a driver drive better than Alonso in 2012. Alonso was deserving of the title and was voted best driver by the team principals despite losing the WDC.
Bro he is the greatest of all time .....
@@sumitblogs15 the greatest of all time? He got beat by Hamilton on his fucking rookie season lmao. Alonso was cheating just to beat Hamilton...
@@gigasigma8373 That username definitely shows that you're unbiased towards Hamilton lol.
@Ryuusei Boi Wow, is that your best rebuttal for a sensible comment? If you have nothing to add, probably best to avoid commenting.
@@gigasigma8373 Well, technically he had the same points as Hamilton, and don't forget Mclaren was giving more support to Hamilton (British driver in a British team). Anyways, Hamilton having a better car got beat by Alonso from 2010 to 2013. At some points, Ferrari was even the 4th car of the grid while Mclaren was the second best car in those years.
7 driver 7 winner in first seven races but the result on 20 track 20 wins
Vettel 5x Bahrain and the Asia Tour
Hamilton 4x Canada Hungary Monza and Usa
Button 3x Australia Belgium and Brasil
Alonso 3x Malaysia Valencia and Hockenheim
Webber 2x Monaco and Silverstone not bad for Nr.2
last but not least the one race winner the Iceman Abudhabi the Maldonartor and the Blondie Britney Nico Rosberg
Also the thing with Kimi's comeback season was that he managed finish 3rd in the championship only behind Vettel and Alonso...beating BOTH Mclaren drivers, Webber and Massa in the process....
And he scored so many points that Lotus essentially could not even pay him all his bonus money later.
Yeah they owned him $15m, of which had got $10m. He ended 3rd because the lotus was a very good car.
@@Bahamuttiamat It was better than Ferrari and not far behind Red Bull. It was the 2nd best car.
In fact, Raikkonen completed all but one laps of the entire season. He finished a lap down in Brazil after he got lost.
@@ardaakdeniz3905 Agreed, people really forget how many opportunities they missed out to win races, especially because their drivers often underperformed in qualfiying (Bahrain and Canada as examples)
that season alonso pulled in one of the greatest ever performances ..I doubt anyone else could match his level in that car in F1.
Absolutely he is the greatest of all time ....people judge drivers by how successful you are for eg Martin Brundle...he is always a fuckliton Fan always praises hamilton ......sorry brundle hamilton is successful bcz he always had a competitibve car but alonso has always earned a good drive ... actually to be honest F1 was and is never a fare Sport...bcz of different cars with diff engine diff manufacturers diff budgets.....so Alonso may not be the most successful driver in F1 but he is still the greatest in f1 ....and many people believe in the same way....
@@sumitblogs15 for me also, he is the best F1 driver of all time and of he achieve the triple crown, he could become the best driver ever
@@aloter1680 sebastien loeb... valentino rossi... its not that obvious
@@sumitblogs15 well he works for sky and there's a huge british team bias in F1....you can tell from their reporting, like ferrari cheating on their engines or when merc is fastest because of engines no one complains
Yes he almost managed to win the title in that slow car
It could have been 9 different winners :c (Malasya 2012 - Sergio Perez)
Or 10(Brazil 2012 - Hulkenberg)
Maybe Massa would have a win or two
Grosjean could've won the Bahrain GP, Hulkenberg could've won the Brazilian GP, Perez could've won the Malaysian GP, ofc Massa could've won a gp at least, Schumacher could've won the Monaco GP
@@alief54 Imagine THAT season.
Midguet Arturo Garcia Torres Schumacher could have got a few if it wasn’t for terrible luck
A season I am still proud to have seen....
WOW !!!
2012 was a fantastic season and one that I remember fondly. The cars were so close especially at the beginning of the year and 7 teams scored a podium and apart from Toro Rosso and the 3 new teams they all won or had a legit shot at winning a race . Also for example in Valencia Q2 Alonso was only 0.2 of a second off the fastest time and still got eliminated that is unheard in today's F1.
Alonso is just the best driver
Alonso’s drive in this season was the best 1 season performance from a driver I can remember in the last 30 years. He was driving a bath tub and should have won the title!
Schumacher in 97 comes close, that Ferrari was a turd as well
@@ciaronsmith4995 Alonso monstered his teammate by a higher margin, both were weak cars.
Not really. Kubica's 08 or Raikkonen's 03 are every bit as impressive. Vettel's 2013 or Schumacher's 2004 and 1996 spring to mind too. It was excellent but certainly not unique or special.
@@alexjohnward that's not how it works. Coulthard was way slower compared to Raikkonen than Massa was to Alonso.
2003 grid was FAR more spread, driving a top 3 car pretty much guaranteed big points. 2012 grid was much tighter so being 3 tenths off your teammate might mean no points.
Uhh... The cars were just good in different areas. RB and McLaren were faster, but also faaar more unreliable. Alonso only got close due to retirements from RB and McL; that's not impressive. He still had the 3-4th fastest car that was incredibly reliable, he had a good package.
2010 and 2012 were legendary! 2017 and 2018 could it be too when the 2nd half of the season weren't dominate by Mercedes
And 2019 the sameif the start wasn't so dominated by Mercedes. However they wouldn't have backed off in the latter half had they not had such a huge lead by then
2019 races were good though, especially from Austria to Japan (except Russia)
2018 had more to do with Ferrari and especially Vettel making too many mistakes tbh.
Valencia 2012
-Alonso magical drive (overtaking MSC at T4 was great)
-Maldonado almost got podium
-Ferrari 'finish 1-2' (1-11 on classification)
-Iconic podium (Fernando, Kimi, Michael)
Valencia was a lucky win! Alonso fanboys are ridiculous.
@@MT-pv2rf It had fortune in it but it was one of his greatest performances. I would pick some other races over it though such as San Marino 2005.
@@saiyerugara2629 It was a very lucky win but its no surprise that Alonso fanboys hold a victory where Vettel retired from the lead as his greatest win ever.
Its obviously a product of his lack of titles for 14 years. Clearly you guys are so desperate due to his lack of success, compared to other drivers who have completely eclipsed him, that the circumstances of his wins just don't matter.
Imagine Hamilton winning a race when it was gifted to him through other drivers misfortune? The internet would be flooded with people pointing out that he didn't win on merit so Alonso isn't above this either.
He did not win on merit. It was a lucky win and Alonso fanboys need to get a grip
@@MT-pv2rf well just as lucky as vettel when alonso drove a slower ferrari all year long and the heavens opened for his third championship and their angel grosjean took alonso out...
Love the 2012 cars, love the nostalgia
A cool season in many ways; Maldonado earned that win, Hamilton leaving McLaren seemed inevitable after they kept having failures (especially Singapore) but Mercedes definitely was a question mark. The development of Mercedes performance was one of the most interesting things: to me at the time 2012 China didn't feel like a "turning point" as much as an outlier along a trendline...it was evident for awhile that Mercedes was blisteringly quick over a lap but couldn't maintain their rear tires. The 2012 China win came on a circuit that didn't punish their rears; after that, the Mercedes continued to show the trait all the way through the rest of 2012 and into 2013. Hungary 2013 is where Mercedes made it clear, to me, that they were a true threat instead of being one of those teams that just occasionally pulls off a good result.
@M C Great comment RE mercedes. To this day, mercedes still struggles on rear limited circuits. They've immensely improved but its still their 'achillles heel'. The china win, as you said wasn't a turning point, it was an exception. That trend didn't continue throughout the season, it was no different that pastor winning spain or Perez almost winning Malaysia.
Since the pandemic, I've been rewatching the 2012 season and my biggest take away is tires. The unpredictable pirelli made the racing. No one team managed to consistently place the tires in the window. This resulted in wild swings in performance often 2-3 seconds! It's why you'd often see the lower midfield reel off fastest laps. 2012 was a tire lottery.
Yeah Merc's race performance in 2013 got better after Britain when Pirelli had to change the tyre composition after multiple structural failures. Unfortunately that change also strengthened Red Bull and weakened Ferrari and Lotus, and the championship fight was over very quickly.
I loved 2012, the randomness and lots of different teams vying for wins, would love to see that kind of competitiveness and unpredictability in 2022
9:50 turned it?
Ok i know yall hate Seb but come on, dont say he turned into bruno senna when Bruno Senna literlly dive bombed Seb into the corner...
He didn't divebomb, even Brundle said that SEB turned in during the broadcast.
Tbh. Was racing incident. Senna had no where to go
@@thegooner-49 Brundle is a Seb hater. He hates german drivers since Schumacher.
@@thegooner-49 that's nonsense. Use your eyes and form your own opinion. Vettel brakes LATER than the two cars ahead of him. And from 2 cars back, a guy in a Williams, OFFLINE, tries to outbrake two cars, one of them a Red Bull like 4 car lenghts ahead, braking on the grippy normal line. 100% Senna's fault.
Total crap, Seb was at fault, Senna got shafted by Williams all through 2012.
Best season of all time. Had everything 1982 had, but results were not based on poor reliability.
The ban unfair? No not at all did he learn? Maybe, but he is still error prone
its unfair if it was awarded to anyone else but Grosjean
Liked the randomness of the first half. Wished it continued for the rest of that season.
I think Schumacher was massively underrated this season by Valencia if he didn’t have terrible luck would have been LEADING the championship
Yep I say it all the time. Especially for the fact he was only getting older and actually improving since comeback. 2012 he was actually better than Rosberg but the car kept breaking down, In the early few races he was qualifying 1.30 tenths off the McLaren’s, in the wet Qualifying he was always near the front runners they only beat him because of car pace advantage.
During the start of the races he would make up the most places and overtakes and on several races he was in P3 or P4 at start and then the tires would go off and the faster cars would catch up. It would have been interesting if Schumacher had that Redbull car he would have shown is skills better. For a 40+ to have have the speed against these guys was impressive. 🏎
He wouldn't have been leading the championship. He would've been closer though. Rosberg outdrove MSC by a significant amount.
@@Bahamuttiamat You are just going to any positive comment of Schumacher and leaving nonsense there, Sky mentioned in Canada that they had a look at everyone's statistics and had Schumacher finished in his race positions before he retired (and won in Monaco), he would of been leading the championship.
@@DaniMacYo Yeah, there are some great examples, he was very close to pole in Malaysia, and in the rain at Silverstone he only had one run compared to Alonso and Webber who had 2 on the intermediates, he even said in the press conference that he could have done better, and he still qualified 2 tenths off pole in P3.
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Yeah that was a good Q3. I enjoyed the little battle he had at the start of the race with Massa, then Vettel it may of been short lived but it was still nice to see.
Fun fact: 2012 had the most champion drivers contending in a seasons. 6 in total.
Vettel, Hamilton, Schumacher, Button, Alonso, Raikkonen
Or, a season that 7 of the drivers became world champion at some point.
When someone asks me how to describe Alonso... 2012 and nothing more
Amazing. Nothing to add
Unpredictability. Spa 2012, when Kimi overtakes Michael in Eau Rouge, was a brilliant move. Missed opportunities come at a high price for a title contenders.
Some people feel 2010 to 2013 were poor years due to Red Bull's dominance, but I tend to disagree. 2013 was a bit of a dud year but 2010 and 2012 were fantastic seasons while 2011 saw some of the best races of the decade (despite Red Bull's dominance of the year).
This was when Formula One had stumbled upon the formula to have things unpredictable and competitive. But the Powers That Be wouldnt have this and quick changes were made to facilitate Team Dominance again: hence the 2014 onwards Hybrid Snooze Fest with one team dominating again
6:15 Radio Raikkonen. I would definitely tune in all day. Imagine the tag line for the radio.
It was a great season. McLaren had the fastest car, but reliability issues, bad strategies and Hamilton and Button couldn‘t always get the maximum out of the car. Vettel, Alonso and Räikkönen had a great year, performing superb. The final race as a title decider was maybe the best race I saw do far. Over the year the performances of the teams were varied a lot. The top teams were close together and 8 teams had the chance to win a race on their own. I think, Vettel, Alonso, Räikkönen and Pérez were the drivers of the year.
Hamilton was amazing in 2012. Don't put him in the same bracket as button for that year
Wow. You're so right. So much happened that year!!
The mix of winners was amazing!
I take issue with you saying at 2:00 that Alonso's only two retirements of the season were caused by crashes triggered by others. While yes, Spa was obviously not his fault, the photo you showed while you said it is of Suzuka (the other of two retirements) where he and Kimi collided, that was not Kimi's fault. I don't want to take anything away from Nando, his 2012 campaign stands higher in my eyes than Lewis's brilliance since 2014, but I can't let this one slide.
Only a delusional fan can think that Alonso was blameless at Suzuka. Especially for someone claiming to always leave a space. And the next year, Ferrari chose to hire... Kimi.
@@drybones7475 Exactly.
Grosjean seems like a genuinely nice guy, but in 2012 he was absolutely erratic and the ban was more than well deserved. As an Alonso fan i still haven't completely forgiven him Spa 2012. Without him, Alonso probably would have won the title that year...
@Bruce Wayne He had such a good car that year. But his erratic driving cost him and his team dearly. To this day, he still blames lewis for the crash... -_-'
Yep he took out 3 championship contenders in 2 races Hamilton Alonso and Webber. Clearly he was a blessing for Vettel.
@@Bahamuttiamat Yeah I actually like Grosjean, but in the recent video with Nico Rosberg where they talked about his time in F1 and his crash in Bahrain of course, he claimed that if you look at the onboard you could see that Lewis could have left him more space in Spa. Wtf?
@@Warrioruk Grosjean is a plant. My wife cried when he crashed in bahrain. Heck, even I felt bad. Upon reflection maybe he didn't deserve our sympathy.
Big Button fan but as we all know every driver has a Bandwith within which he's comfortable in the car. Call it a percentage and each drivers widley varys , Alonso and Hamilton might be 80, 90 %, Buttons bandwith was very , Very narrow,,,,, :(. But boy when he was hooked up he was one of the Greats, could beat anyone.
his been lap his own teamate
Spa that year was most surprising performance in my opinion. Not so much that he took his first (and only) pole position for McLaren, but the fact that he comfortably had the pace and made the one stop strategy work. As Ben Edwards said in commentary, "he has dominated this race."
The first 7 races were pure gold.
There was a nice symmetry to Button's wins - the opening race of the season, a race in the middle of the season and the final race. Imagine if he'd stayed when Brawn sold to Mercedes and they kept him until retirement. He would have been a multiple world champion. I didn't give enough credit to Alonso for his title challenge that year because I had lost respect for him and Ferrari over Germany 2011 and it took a long time for him to win it back. I think Paul Di Resta could have won in Brazil too but he made a mistake in the wet and crashed out. I reckon that's why Force India eventually dropped him. I think, given a chance and the right equipment, he could have potentially been a multiple race winner, but that's just my opinion. Schumacher gifted Vettel a place in Brazil because it was his last race and he wanted his fellow countryman to be world champion.
I was definitely a fan of there being 7 different winners in the first 7 races.
What happened in Germany 2011?
@@WinTech4074 you forgot about Valtteri its James Please hold your position and multi 21.Surely you hate hamilton and Vettel also
Man, what a season.
2012, 2008, 2003, 1999 - when will we got an overly exciting season like those?
2010 aswell
2019 had exciting races from Austria onwards. The Championship race was not exciting, but races were pretty good
07? The top three were seperated by 1 point. Kimi clinched it on the final race...
Vasisht Vasudevan if ferrari didn't mess it up and merc did not dominate the start of the year, god knows how good the year could have been
2012 was so much better than 2021, I know this seems biased for me to say as I’m a huge Sebastian Vettel fan, but look how much competition there was in 2012, 7 different winners in 7 races and no massive controversy between Vettel and Alonso unlike Verstappen and Hamilton.
This was the first season i watch as a fan that got me really into Formula one fully.
Does anybody know the name of the beat in the background they started using at 4:45 ?
soothing
It's Permanent Record by Sarah, the instrumentalist
That race in Brazil was absolutely brilliant... Sebastian Vettel was amazing!
Thanks to Sebastian Vettel, Mark Webber, Lewis Hamilton, Jenson Button, Fernando Alonso, Felipe Massa, Kimi Räikkönen, Romain Grosjean, Nico Rosberg, Michael Schumacher, Sergio Perez, Kamui Kobayashi, Nico Hulkenberg, Paul Di Resta, Pastor Maldonado, Bruno Senna, Jean-Eric Vergne, Daniel Ricciardo, Heikki Kovalainen, Vitali Petrov, Timo Glock, Charles Pic, Pedro De La Rosa and Narain Karthikeyan for remarkable season
The 2012 season was superb for three reasons: 7 winners in the first 7 races, Fernando Alonso's greatest performance over a season and the wild performance swings over the year. The fact that it went down to the last race, the title battle, was the icing on the cake
Hamilton and Alonso drove in GOD mode that season. Too bad team messing ups for one and lack of performance on saturdays for the other doomed their titles aspirations.
So did Seb. He was 42 points behind Alonso at one point and won the title...
Wakanda Foreva Despite having the arguably fastest car and starting from the first row every sunday. Mechanical failures hit him a couple of races that’s why he was that far behind at some point. Hamilton and Alonso were used to recover many grid positions facing far more risks. The later even managed to have a shot at the title on Brazil. Unbelievable. That’s why I rate both superior to Vettel that season. Make no mistake, Vettel* was on a league of its own with that driver/car combo.
Edit: *Redbull.
not to meantion grosjean stupidity at belgium gp. it affected the title snatch away from alonso
Alonso's spin in Japan cost him the championship
@@gigasigma8373 correct me if I'm wrong but he was 42 points behind Alonso before SPA .
The only reason Vettel made up 42 pts was cause Alonso crashed out of the Belgian and Japanese gp neither of which were his fault. Vettels good but nowhere close to 4 time world champion good.
I was at monza that year for the race, still one of the most memorable events in my life
yes. i couldn't agree anymore. 2012 was truly a blast
F1 is such a great team sport! One false move by any member of the pit crew or pit wall and it’s game over! Great drivers = Great teams! 2012 had an abundance of both!!
The great Micheal Schumacher drove brilliantly in 2012 despite the retirements due to unreliability Micheal still showed us that even in a useless car like that Mercedes was he still managed to pull off a stunning pole position lap in Monaco and finished in a brilliant 3rd place in Spain he proved that he was still the master of motorsport
Micheal Schumacher is the greatest of all times and he's my hero ever since I was a little boy I just loved watching Schumacher winning and driving Grand Prix cars to there very limits and sometimes beyond especially when he was driving for Ferrari get well soon champ
HRT and their awesome livery .
Best season I’ve ever seen
2012 has to be one of the best F1 seasons of all time
Number 1: Pastor Maldonado winning
That's GP2/F2 Champion, Rolex 24 winner, 6 hours of Spa and Williams's last winner Pastor Maldonado to you
Man, the 2012 season really had it all to create an exciting season
There were 6 World Champions on the grid for 2012:
Schumacher
Alonso
Raikkonen
Hamilton
Button
Vettel
While it would have been great to have seen Schumacher in the mix with the rest at front, time was not on his side, regardless of his vast F1 experience.
Also the last season with 24 cars on the grid, with HRT folding at the end of the year
Lewis Hamilton moving to Mercedes is probably one of the strangest and most amazing things that happened in 2012.
Anne Marie ikr then in a race in 2013 he went into the mclaren pit instead of Mercedes 😂
ok... that's right.. a highly skilled driver and a great car made a good comhination after that. but the 2018 and 2019 season was so predictable due to this only reason...😌😌😌 no offence.. but it's my point of view...
And maybe the best team switch of a driver ever.
well, some people said than he saw the V6 engine and their plans with it. Who knows, meaby he saw also than McLaren was not prepared
2018 was very close until that Germany crash destroyed Vettel's morale. 2014-2016 were not even close though, same with 2019 and 2020.
My fav season since I started watching in 2007
Anyone who uses the “jenson outpointed Lewis over the 3 years” stat should watch this video and see how many points Lewis lost from unreliability in the lead of races. Not to mention the fuel fuck up in Barcelona that cost him a likely victory plus the crashes that weren’t his fault at Valencia, spa and interLagos.
Lewis outperformed jenson much more convincingly than the points tally will ever show.
Points tell the true story. You’d never see Schumacher (pre return) or Alonso behind their team mates after 3 years.
Imagine telling somebody that year that the rest of the decade there will be the same amount of winners as in this year alone.
No mention of the fact that Hamilton would have coasted to the title in 2012 had McLaren not bungled it for him? Car failures (notably from the lead), pit stop errors, fuelling errors in qualifying...
The 'Hamilton to Mercedes' story is only framed in terms of setting up the narrative for the V6 Era and not part of the 'Hamilton Would Have Been a Triple or Quadruple Champion by 2012 Had McLaren Not Consistently Made a Dog's Dinner of Things and He Felt He Needed to Get Out' narrative, which is always overlooked in favour of the 'Bigging Up What Alonso Could Have Achieved' narrative. A narrative which requires putting to one side the fact that Alonso's heroic charge for the title would have been a heroic charge to a distant 2nd Place had McLaren not thrown the title away.
What's more, this is part of the reason why Hamilton, despite his success, still gets panned for 'only being able to win the best car'. To hype Alonso, the media focus on how only the car stopped him winning more titles but overlook the fact that is at least as true of Hamilton as it is of Alonso. As a result, focus in the popular imagination is drawn to Alonso being let down by his car and being hailed as a genius despite achieving only a fraction of what Hamilton has in the sport (and being beaten by him as his team-mate) and drawn away from Hamilton having had the same issue and creating a widely-held yet utterly unfair perception that Hamilton needed the best car to win (whilst also overlooking that Alonso was handed 2005 on a silver platter with a non-existent Ferrari challenge, a hopeless teammate, and a McLaren that broke down in the lead left, right, and centre, handing him wins).
2007: Car failure cost him the title
2008: Champion in inferior machinery. Only the 9th (and most recent) driver to win in a car that didn't win the Constructor's Title, with a team-mate who finished 7th in the championship.
2009: McLaren produced a dog that regularly finished outside the top 10. Whilst everyone focuses on Spygate, they ignore Hamilton starting 18th and being 3rd at the flag in Australia. Whilst everyone focuses on Button dominating the first half of the season and Vettel the second, they overlook that Hamilton was on the podium in every race the car finished in the second half of the year, which no other driver can claim.
2010: The top performer until well into the second half of the season. This one wasn't McLaren's fault, though. Red Bull were streets ahead but had reliability issues of their own and a couple of silly contacts cost Lewis this year. It was just one of those things.
2011: The Annus Horribilis
2012: McLaren blow it for Hamilton like they did in 2007 and 2009. The media draws attention to how Alonso only DNFd due to collisions but ignore that Hamilton was also taken out by Grosjean at Spa and that Hamilton was taken out by Hulkenberg when leading in Brazil.
If Hamilton is ever to be given the recognition he deserves, the F1 media need to give the 'Oh, What Hamilton Might Have Won with a Better Car' stuff the same attention they give the 'Oh, What Alonso Might Have Won with a Better Car' stuff.
Alonso and the f12 tractor was epic
hopefully 2022 gives such results in initial races
The final shot of Vettel reminded me of a scene in the movie Inglourious Basterds, in the way they show the number three. Vettel is showing it the "german way" and one of his mechanics shows it the "british way".
Fantastic to see that Perez endured for so long until Sakhir this year. This is a new beginning for him with Vershtappahn
Incredible ❤️ video that words can't describe... another reason that leads to the fact that Raikkonen but especially Schumacher and Alonso have better driver quality than Hamilton... being able to to do so past their prime (Schumacher) and Alonso to be able to contend to the title with mediocre cars...
2:36 Oof maybe not the best choice of salutes there, Michael
Can only wonder if schumacher waited for the silver arrows to dominate
He didn't. He was there to help with the development of the car and to fill in the N.2 slot.
Everyone always talks about how amazing Alonso was but Lewis was also driving very well and mature, which was great after his 2011 disaster season. No one mentions how unlucky he was and the amount of points that were robbed from him. I think Alonso and Lewis both drove brilliantly but luck wasn't on their side. It made for an entertaining season anyway. 2010 and 2012 we will never forget
not only hamilton lost due to luck. So did Seb.
Alonso was the luckiest driver, if people say belgium 2012 was unlucky then they didnt even watch the 2012 season
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Definitely the best of the decade
I watched brazil for the first time completely spoiler free today and WOW! Absolutely chilling.
Fantastic season 👍👍👍
Schumacher was so unlucky this season, he could have had multiple podiums at the start of the season but has about bad luck in the first 7 races
Not really, the only podium which he missed out due to bad luck was China and even this debatable considering he hold up the other drivers . You could also argue about Monaco but it was his own fault that he got a grid- penalty.
@@d.a.5135 In Australia he was third until he had to retire
@@CristianVillalobos Vettel was catching him quickly after he overtook Rosberg. I really doubt that he would have stayed 3rd.
D. A. Malaysia ? He was ahead of alonso before he was hit and then made no mistakes
Mark Webber was behind Schumacher in Monaco not rosberg, Webber started on pole
The way 2012 played out makes wish they'd kept the tyre's like they were because it was obvious that if a driver nailed his setup and drove to it's strengths, anyone on the grid could win on a given weekend!
2020 is The Race's best season! (Absolutely superb so far, chaps 😃👍 Can't wait for the real thing)
only season with no winners xD
2012, 2005, 2003, 2007, 2008.. all great seasons.. so bad they all are 8+ years ago.. :(
Cars were skinny therefore we could see lots of overtakes and most of the big teams were actually solid at least for the first half of the season !
Schumi was still driving
Alonso's win at Valencia
Mercedes first win since they came back
And more things that I can't remember rn
Yes
2009-2013 Modern F1 at its peak
alonso was so close to win the championship with the 5 car on the grid, is absolutely ridiculous, its like if this year gastly win the championship with the alpha tauri xDD its the best performance ever of a f1 driver
It had been 7.5 years since Williams last win, before Maldonado’s shock win. And it’s now been 8 years since that win.
The reason was ALONSO!
Absolutely
What can we add ? Those are the things real F1 should be made of , with multiple winners , uncertainty to the end and the smallest point difference between the world champion and the rest. A sport of "nail baiting on the edge of the seat" fans., and genuinely euphoric drivers when achieving unlikely but possible outcomes. The dominance of Michael and Lewis does not help when is so overwhelming.
2012 is still the best season in F1 in recent times. Every race was a guess and nobody can call it a day till someone takes the chequered flag.
Incredible season, in my 20 years of watching the sport it was undoubtedly Nando's best season, proved why he is one of the greats.
Unpredictability is what we need as fans
I didn't find the first 7 races too random, as each one was a tense and exciting battle, with plenty of great racecraft
Best season Ive ever seen