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None the former champions of the world of F1 is saved...

For a long time I wanted to write on this subject then this time, I go there!
When one looks at the history of the Formula One, in fact, the history of these champions, one realizes that there is not of them only one which did not have its career marked by the destiny or quite simply wasted by contrary circumstances. Not only one did not make a success of the perfect course: able to withdraw itself in full glory, to be complétement satisfied with the accomplished performance and to enjoy its retirement peacefully. How if the superhuman effort to conquer the titles were enough to put to you on a prohibited trajectory, definitively cursed!
As if the price to spend to become N°1 were paid inevitably with tears and bitterness, even sometimes (often even) with blood...






, you go must think that I run off the line or, at least, that I exaggerate but at all: it is enough to objectively examine the list of all the champions of the world to note it: not only one which finished well, not only one which did not finish with a regret, a failure, a decline or a drama.
Re-examined details, follow the guide!

Let us start with the first of enter them by chronological order: Farina.
Nino Farina was very first champions of the world, in 1950 after having valiantly resisted Fangio. But this first title arrives well late: Farina is already 44 years old when it takes down the reward suprème. The second world war confiscated its best years to him!
Thereafter, it will not cease declining, enchainant poor seasons and accidents. It withdrew at the end of 55 and committed suicide in a car accident in 1966.

Let us see the case of Fangio now. The man of the Pampa is a legend, even still today and its destiny of champion seems impeccable. But this perception does not resist the examination...
First of all, it made obviously the season of too (in 1958) whereas it could have been withdrawn in full glory after its 5th title in 1957. Then, Fangio was very marked by all the accidents fatal which marked out its course: at the end, it could not about it attend these dramas any more each Sunday (the time was much more dangerous than today as regards sport-car).
Therefore, even Fangio was marked by the curse and it is not finished!

- ONLY REGISTERED AND ACTIVATED USERS CAN SEE ALL LINKS - CLICK HERE TO REGISTER Much less known than Fangio but however considered as its equal to its time, Alberto Ascari is emblematic price of the blood of this curse: double champion of the world (52 and 53), it killed himself in a mysterious way at a meeting of tests in Monza in 1955...
With the following!

Mike Hawthorn formed a memorable pair with its pal Peter Collins. One (Mike) was champion of the world, the other (Peter) not. But the champion was broken by the death of his double and withdrew himself at once after his title in 1958 (with only one victory against 4 in Moss!) and committed suicide just after, on the road of London at the wheel of its Jaguar.

Phill Hill American but fine and was distinguished. A fine pilot also who was able to bring back the title at Ferrari in 1961 but in what a circumstances!
A competition internal with Von Trips and maintained by Enzo Ferrari finished in drama: Trips was killed in Monza (by also killing 15 spectators by the same occasion) whereas Hill gained race and title, which should have been a festival turned to the disaster. Hill will decline thereafter, unrelentingly, until being forgotten by the medium in 1968. Funny of reward for 1st American to have capped the world crown...

- ONLY REGISTERED AND ACTIVATED USERS CAN SEE ALL LINKS - CLICK HERE TO REGISTER The case of Brabham Jack deserves a turning: too much hard bark to be disturbed by the accidents, "Black Jack" empocha 3 titles and was the first and is the only one to have made a success of the exploit to triumph over its own car (in 1966). But, starting from this apogee, the things are spoiled clearly: in 67, it is its team-member (Denny Hulme) who takes down the drinking cup and the two men scramble themselves. The following seasons are much less brilliant for Jack the manufacturer and the pilot. Revenge must come in 1970 with a single-seater (the BT33) which it considers perfect.
But this season is a long succession of disappointments: the victory escapes to him each time as if the bad luck concentrated its capacity on him-only...
This guigne persistent ends up being right of its tenacity and it is destroyed Brabham which throws the sponge at the end of 70. Even Black Jack did not know to conclude in beauty!
with which it turn?

Hold, speak about other Hill: Graham.
Come with the motor race on late, the gentleman with the fine moustache made a very beautiful career. It is the only one to have made the large slam: titrate in F1 (several same!), victory with the GP of Monaco (5!), victory in Indy 500 and the 24 hours of Mans. Nobody did better, neither Surtess (which missed the victory in Indianapolis) nor Andretti (which missed the victory of little at the 24 hours of Mans 1995, by its fault besides...). However, the end of career of Graham Hill was painful. It continued beyond reasonable until knowing the humiliation of a not-qualification in Monaco (its favorite play-ground however!). And the end very short was straightforwardly tragic: it committed suicide with the orders out of its plane entrainant with him the members out of the team out of F1 which it had just created. The gods are cruel to those which they have a favoured time...

One has just evoked it, reconsider the case of John Surtess, "Big John" as called it Italian. Surtess is a really single case all the same: so far with to have only passed successfully of the motor bike in F1 and (almost) very to have gained in the 2 fields. But Big John was also difficult and it could not remain at Ferrari after its sacring of 1965. The continuation is disappointing: like Graham Hill, John Surtess will have a declining career. He tries to create his stable but will have no success there. Surtess especially suffered to be misunderstood.

- ONLY REGISTERED AND ACTIVATED USERS CAN SEE ALL LINKS - CLICK HERE TO REGISTER Let us pass To Jim Clark. Its destiny is known: a pure talent, recognized by all, able to gain under all the conditions but always with elegance. It was mown in full glory at the time of a race of second importance, outgoing of the road in straight line for still unknown reasons. This time, it is the death which comes to break a trajectory which was indeed perfect.

A case little known now: Denny Hulme. Hard New Zealander, fellow-member of Jack Brabham, it blew the title into 67 to him and then left to McLaren to join his compatriot, Bruce McLaren. He saves the stable following the death of his founder and accumulates the Edge-Am victories but the beginning of the modern era of F1 is appropriate to him little and he withdraws himself on the point of the feet at the end of 74.

Let us make a pause. Arrived at this stage, you undoubtedly think "Alain enlarges the feature with old memories, one time completed where the pilots often committed suicide... modern F1 has nothing to do with that". And well not, at all. We will see that even the modern era was cursed!

To start the modern era, let us begin with Rindt, still a tragic destiny. Endowed and determined, the Austrian Jochen Rindt dominated season 70 at the wheel of innovating Lotus 72. He dominated so much and so well (helped well in that by the bad luck striking Jack Brabham regularly) which he did not have to even finish: he committed suicide at the time of the qualifications of the GP of Monza and was finally crowned on a purely posthumous basis (a first!).

Let us pass to a "superstar", Jackie Stewart. Seemingly, Stewart has good: intelligent, course without fault, controls very class, 3 titles, withdrawn in full glory at the evening of its 3rd title. In here at least one which contradicts this history of curse, in here one which could do what it is necessary, as it is necessary, when it is necessary.
Not?
Not. In fact, one needed little of them. Stewart knew one failure, that to be able to keep the title 2 years of continuation: each crowning was followed one year "without" (finally, of the level of Stewart nevertheless!). In 1973, it decides one season of good-byes which is programmed like a triumphal round. But season 73 appears long and cruel: Stewart maintained the secrecy on its decision (only Ken Tyrrel is well-informed) and his wife corrodes bloods by seeing the accidents accumulating around her husband. Cevert and Stewart dominate, they accumulate doubled and Cevert rises clearly on the level of the Master.
Arrive the last GP, the 100ème of Stewart, that where it will announce its withdrawal, that of the release. But, once more, the gods are played of the programs tied up too well and will punish Stewart by striking down Cevert during the tests qualifiers. The festival turns to the tragedy. Because it is really a tragedy for Stewart which always will keep the regret not to have shared its decision with Cevert and thus cause a drop in the pressure on that which was obviously its worthy successor.

With Emerson Fittipaldi, one still approaches a special case: a first titrates very young person (at 26 years, only Alonso did better) in 1972 on Lotus but it supports badly that Chapman gets along so well with Peterson and share at McLaren... a second title in 1974 after a Homeric duel with Regazzoni. And then, at the end of 75, the fatal error: it leaves McLaren to assemble the stable Copersucar with his brother, a Brazilian stable, a first!
Alas, Copersucar will never arrive at the level of the English single-seaters and Fittipaldi will know a long decline for finally giving up in 1980. When it tries to return in F1 in 1983 like Lauda in 1982, it is made throw like a swine!
There will do one all the same (beautiful) second career with the USA (with 2 victories in Yndy 500 and one title in CART) but the wound of the rejection of F1 will remain always open.

Hold, precisely speak about Lauda. Champion first once in 1975, it had left well to follow one another itself when the terrible accident of Nurburgring into 76 occurred. Escaping from little from death, Niki gives up finally the title with Hunt at the time of the last GP to the mount Fuji (a courageous and reasonable decision considering the dantesques conditions of this race). It finds its title into 77 but with the regularity and because Andretti misses reliability. It leaves then Ferrari for Brabham but without success. It then turns the back on F1 first once at the end of 79 to return into 82 and to remove a new title at McLaren in 1984, of accuracy in front of Prost (come-back a successful, an almost single exploit, only Prost will make a success of such a performance after a shorter bracket, it should be underlined). However, Niki will make the season of too into 85 and will be withdrawn again, definitively this time at the end of 85. Niki undoubtedly does not have any regrêt but I consider that its course is suffisament marked so that the curse is there for something!

We have just evoked James Hunt, treat his case: endowed pilot, title deserved in 1976 very if the accident of Lauda facilitated the things. The continuation was only tumble... still one which could neither be maintained, nor to leave in time.

Let us come to another "superstar": Mario Andretti. Ah Mario!
American of Italian passport but of heart, it could have been champion as of 1970 if it had been more assiduous in F1. It must wait until 1978, collaboration with Chapman Hake and the Lotus with ground effect, the first single-seater of this type. The title would have come since 1977 if reliability had been there. In 78, Andretti has Peterson like equipping and its deux-là dominates outrageusement on gold and black Lotus board. The sacring must come in Monza and it is indeed "at his place" that Mario finally will cap the crown... but in what a circumstances!
A scuffle at the beginning causes the death of Peterson, the festival turns to the cauchemard. Following this drama, the spring is broken: Andretti will gain never again in F1. Still one touched in-depth by the curse.

Jody Scheckter resembled Denny Hulme in young person, they were coéquipers at McLaren in 1973 besides: the bear (Hulme) and the bear cub (Scheckter).
Its career traina a little whereas it had the fabric. It is only one time at Ferrari which it took finally the way of the title in 1979. But Jody made obviously the season of too in 1980, one season when it was truly rolled by its team-member Gilles Villeneuve whereas Ferrari (late in the field of the ground effect) was complement exceeded.

Alan Jones was appreciated little whereas it was a true combatant. It took down the title into 1980 in an undeniable way. The continuation was less happy: it wasted the following season and, if it did not manage to preserve its title, it was arranged so that its Reutemann team-member does not benefit from it!
It left F1 over this season 1981 when it made evil with everyone like with its image to turn over in its Australia cherished. Being bored a little, it grown to be able to return into 83 but it finds place only in stables of second zone. It passed a little time in bottom of grid and turned over definitively to Australia, punished.
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A special case now: Nelson Stake. 3 times champion of the world, it are nothing but Piquet had never renomée which is judicious outward journey with such palmarés and it was undoubtedly deserved.
Its first title, in 81, is a combination of circumstances. Its second (83) had an unhealthy perfume (cheating of Brabham), the third (87) asset on Mansell rested entirely on the psychological action rather than on piloting... not pretty-pretty.
The continuation was even less glorious: slow decline with some lucky victories that and to finish there by being properly ejected of its stable and the medium by certain Schumacher at its beginnings. Nelson was well punished but it had done everything for that.

Keke Rosberg does not deserve that one extends on his case: coarse pilot, his title of 1982 holds with an incredible combination of circumstances (Pironi should have been the champion of the world) which is cavity never represented. He then not did one but several seasons of too before being properly made roll by Prost in 1986. He tried to return thereafter but F1 did not want any more him, with reason.

Let us approach the case of Alain Prost with more respect. Alain had evil to reach the dedication finally but its first title was undeniable (in 1985), the second was most beautiful of all (into 86, of accuracy in front of Mansell and Piquet), the third will come from a long combat against Senna and its own stable (in 89 at McLaren/Honda) but it is the fourth (into 93 at Williams/Renault) will remain largely most painful. It is that Alain deserved at least 2 titles moreover: in 83 at Renault and 90 at Ferrari. After having been made transfer of Ferrari "thanks" to his concilliant character, Alain took one year sabatic into 92 to return to Williams into 93 where one offered to him the very hot place of Nigel Mansell. The gift was not poisoned, Williams of this time was well the best car but environment was to be crossed to the knife: one passed nothing to Alain, whether it is its stable or the medium. This season was more than painful with, all the same, the title with the end. But also, the setting with the door (to make the place with Senna).
Prost could not be satisfied with this bad exit and, fault of returning once again as a pilot (even if that A more than effleurer into 96 at McLaren), it turned over in F1 as a director of stable... there too, it paid it expensive.

- ONLY REGISTERED AND ACTIVATED USERS CAN SEE ALL LINKS - CLICK HERE TO REGISTER Nigel Mansell, still one which had to await a long time the dedication (1992) whereas the title could have returned to him since 1986 or, at least, in 1987. But, the title is not all and it was made transfer at hardly crowned Williams!
It made an escapade relatively successful in the USA into 93 and 94 but made the error to want to return all the same in F1 in 1995 at McLaren: the come-back transfered with the pantalonade and English did not even buckle the season. Still a beautiful potential wasted in the great widths!

Destiny of Senna is known and it illustrates well, if it of it were necessary, the capacity and the cruelty of this curse which strictly does not save any the champions of F1, even most talented.

Still the another transfered year of its title: Damon Hill. The son of Graham had made a success of the exploit to save the Williams stable of the shipwreck into 94 after the death of Senna and drew finally the fruits from his tenacity into 96, year of the sacring. Transfered at Williams for obscure reasons, Hill made then a few seasons of too (especially that of 99 where Frentzen did well better than him, with car equalizes) before withdrawing himself without glory... Too bad.

Wire of the unforgettable Gilles, Jacques Villeneuve had all: talent, intelligence, a certain charisma but he also managed to finish piteously!
After a title deserved in 1997, one average season at Williams made it emigrate in a cut stable overmeasures for him: BAR. But the dream-TEAM transfered with the free-for-all and even Jacques was victim. Today, Villeneuve runs after its glory passed dear Sauber/BMW and one knows already that it will not find it.

If it is one which deserved better than what it accepted, it is well Mika Hakkinen. Not only good but pilot classifies, clean, impeccable.
Its first title in 1998 suffered owing to the fact that McLaren were then too above the batch. Its second titrates the following year was depreciated a little by the accident and thus the absence of Schumacher. Mika failed to crack under the pressure with Monza (a missed rétrogradage sent it except track to the baffle and one saw Mika then crying behind the rail...). The season 2000 was too cruel so that Mika wants to continue (even if its victory with Spa will remain a long time in the memories of the experts).
It should not have tried to return because the medium obeys the curse: rejetté, it is comforted today in DTM as it can.

Traitons Schumacher in the last bus it is the chronological order which wants that I have respect for palmarés but not much for the man: Schumacher is a hooligan and it proved it many times. That does not want to say that it is not a pilot good but it is a pity which it thinks of having need for bad gestures to gain. After a considerable harvest of titles and victories, Schumy is seen from now on presenting the addition. It will be salted and bitter!
The curse holds a special treatment Schumacher, one does not have yet anything considering...

On the other hand, I am curious to see which will be the fate of Alonso... But I have confidence: the curse does not forget anybody and always strikes in an unexpected way!