Who Became World Champion the Year You Were Born?

FullMetalJack · Post by **FullMetalJack** » 08 Jul 2011, 18:04

MansellsEyebrows wrote:the year of Alain Prost's last championship.

This.

eagleash · Post by **eagleash** » 13 Jul 2011, 17:31

tommykl wrote:
Phoenix wrote:
Conventi wrote:So am I the dinosaur here ?!?
My year is Emerson Fittipaldis first World Champonchip title...

No, you indeed aren't

In fact, I believe someone's answer would be Alberto Ascari.

You must mean "JimClarkForever"

Phoenix · Post by **Phoenix** » 13 Jul 2011, 22:26

Is there someone here born the same year as when Ferenc Szisz won the first ever GP, or the day HWNSNBM scored in the Minardi? Now that would be quite epic.

TomWazzleshaw · Post by **TomWazzleshaw** » 14 Jul 2011, 01:03

Phoenix wrote:...or the day HWNSNBM scored in the Minardi?

That'ld make Mr Krautmeir look middle-aged :lol:

shinji · Post by **shinji** » 14 Jul 2011, 01:19

Phoenix wrote:Is there someone here born the same year as when Ferenc Szisz won the first ever GP, or the day HWNSNBM scored in the Minardi? Now that would be quite epic.

They'd be 105, or 7, so I'd say that's unlikely. Give it 5 years, 12 would be the youngest we'd get, probably.

Jeroen Krautmeir · Post by **Jeroen Krautmeir** » 14 Jul 2011, 09:06

Wizzie wrote:
Phoenix wrote:...or the day HWNSNBM scored in the Minardi?

That'ld make Mr Krautmeir look middle-aged

Sadly it will happen in the distant future...

Phoenix · Post by **Phoenix** » 14 Jul 2011, 22:39

Jeroen Krautmeir wrote:
Wizzie wrote:
Phoenix wrote:...or the day HWNSNBM scored in the Minardi?

That'ld make Mr Krautmeir look middle-aged

Sadly it will happen in the distant future...

Don't worry. We'll make you the Honorary Youngest Member on the Forum :lol:

FMecha · Post by **FMecha** » 15 Jul 2011, 05:04

Phoenix wrote:Don't worry. We'll make you the Honorary Youngest Member on the Forum

Have you look at his sig?
Incidentally, I was born the same year as Mr Krautmeir (Hakkinen's 1st WDC)...

Jeroen Krautmeir · Post by **Jeroen Krautmeir** » 15 Jul 2011, 11:36

FMecha wrote:
Phoenix wrote:Don't worry. We'll make you the Honorary Youngest Member on the Forum

Have you look at his sig?
Incidentally, I was born the same year as Mr Krautmeir (Hakkinen's 1st WDC)...

Blasphemy! What month?

Ferrim · Post by **Ferrim** » 15 Jul 2011, 15:30

I've been doing a different thing with the years: list every year and the corresponding F1 World Champion(s) who was (were) born that year to see which years were the greatest. Feel free to add champions from other series:

1906: Giuseppe Farina
1911: Juan Manuel Fangio
1918: Alberto Ascari
1926: Jack Brabham
1927: Phil Hill
1929: Mike Hawthorn and Graham Hill
1934: John Surtees
1936: Jim Clark and Denny Hulme
1939: Jackie Stewart
1940: Mario Andretti
1942: Jochen Rindt
1946: Emerson Fittipaldi and Alan Jones
1947: James Hunt
1948: Keke Rosberg
1949: Niki Lauda
1950: Jody Scheckter
1952: Nelson Piquet
1953: Nigel Mansell
1955: Alain Prost
1960: Ayrton Senna and Damon Hill
1968: Mika Häkkinen
1969: Michael Schumacher
1971: Jacques Villeneuve
1979: Kimi Räikkönen
1980: Jenson Button
1981: Fernando Alonso
1985: Lewis Hamilton
1987: Sebastian Vettel

No year has seen more than two champions, and the 1940s are the most successful era, with six world champions. Still, and mainly thanks to Michael Schumacher, the 1960s hold the biggest amount of titles, with 12 (although had Senna been born a few months earlier, the 1950s would have 13 and the 1960s only 9!).

The current crop are up to five titles so far -and they will be six by the end of the year.

shinji · Post by **shinji** » 15 Jul 2011, 16:08

Schumacher hogged the late 60s/70s generation.

Phoenix · Post by **Phoenix** » 15 Jul 2011, 23:28

FMecha wrote:
Phoenix wrote:Don't worry. We'll make you the Honorary Youngest Member on the Forum

Have you look at his sig?
Incidentally, I was born the same year as Mr Krautmeir (Hakkinen's 1st WDC)...

I meant in a few years time.

FMecha · Post by **FMecha** » 16 Jul 2011, 06:47

Jeroen Krautmeir wrote:
FMecha wrote:
Phoenix wrote:Don't worry. We'll make you the Honorary Youngest Member on the Forum

Have you look at his sig?
Incidentally, I was born the same year as Mr Krautmeir (Hakkinen's 1st WDC)...

Blasphemy! What month?

You know what I said in the very, very, small text? :shock:

Jeroen Krautmeir · Post by **Jeroen Krautmeir** » 16 Jul 2011, 08:51

FMecha wrote::o You know what I said in the very, very, small text?

Um, yeah?

Thunderer · Post by **Thunderer** » 19 Jul 2011, 20:38

Myself - Nelson Piquet
Missus - Niki Lauda
Bairn 1 - Michael Schumacher
Bairn 2 - Vettel. Could be born when Vettel takes his 2nd title at the going rate!
Father and Stepmother - Jack Brabham
Mother - Graham Hill
Sister 1 - Alain Prost
Sister 2 - Ayrton Senna
Brother - Ayrton Senna
Father in Law - Alberto Ascari
Mother in Law - n/a (just before the championship started!)

nome66 · Post by **nome66** » 19 Jul 2011, 23:34

bairn?

anyways i'll do sort of the same list.

Sister(youngest)- Jacques Villeneuve('97)
Meself- Schumi('94)
Brother- Mansell('92)
sister(older than me)- Prost('89)
sister(oldest)- Senna('88)
Mom- Phill Hill('61)
Dad- Jack Brabham('60)

DanielPT · Post by **DanielPT** » 20 Jul 2011, 10:53

I will also do the same list:

Me: Piquet (83)
Sister 1: Prost (86)
Sister 2: Schumacher (95)
Mom: Fangio (57)
Dad: Fangio (54)

Except my mom, everyone else is born when a driver won his 2nd title...

Thunderer · Post by **Thunderer** » 20 Jul 2011, 11:22

nome66 wrote:bairn?

Northern English slang for Kid/Child.

dr-baker · Post by **dr-baker** » 20 Jul 2011, 12:54

Thunderer wrote:
nome66 wrote:bairn?

Northern English slang for Kid/Child.

Thought it was a Scottish term. But from the south-east of England, it's all "up north!"

shinji · Post by **shinji** » 20 Jul 2011, 15:48

My weird family:

Me - Schumacher
Father - N/A
Mother - Fangio
Half Brother 1 - Stewart
Half Brother 2 - Stewart
Half Sister - Hunt
Nephew 1 - Schumacher
Nephew 2 - Alonso
Nephew 3 - Hamilton
Niece - Vettel

Post by **tommykl** » 21 Jul 2011, 06:34

Me - Damon Hill (96)
My mum - Emerson Fittipaldi (72)
My dad - Jim Clark (65)
My brother - Mika Häkkinen (99)

pablo_h · Post by **pablo_h** » 21 Jul 2011, 13:22

Jackie Stewart in the Tyrrell!
I never knew that, I had to look it up. Found it in wikipedia on this page http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Fo ... _Champions

LOL, my older brother, also a Jackie Stewart in a Tyrrell year, my younger brother AJ in a Williams

Priceless · Post by **Priceless** » 23 Jul 2011, 03:38

Feeling a bit old, too...

Me: Keke Rosberg
Bro: Alain Prost (3rd title)
Mom: Juan Manuel Fangio (4th title)
Dad: Juan Manuel Fangio (1st title) - had to look it up...

Peter · Post by **Peter** » 23 Jul 2011, 07:21

Me-Damon Hill
Sister-Ayrton Senna
Mother-Graham Hill
Father-Juan Mangel Fangio

FullMetalJack · Post by **FullMetalJack** » 23 Jul 2011, 12:02

Me - Alain Prost
Brother - Mika Hakkinen
Mother - Graham Hill
Father - Jim Clark

dnhrudi · Post by **dnhrudi** » 23 Jul 2011, 18:14

My dad was born the first year that the Indy 500 was designated as a Grand Épreuve....

cretoxyrhina · Post by **cretoxyrhina** » 24 Jul 2011, 03:44

dnhrudi wrote:My dad was born the first year that the Indy 500 was designated as a Grand Épreuve....

1923..?

dnhrudi · Post by **dnhrudi** » 24 Jul 2011, 08:15

cretoxyrhina wrote:
dnhrudi wrote:My dad was born the first year that the Indy 500 was designated as a Grand Épreuve....

1923..?

Voila

Sunshine_Baby_[IT] · Post by **Sunshine_Baby_[IT]** » 12 Jan 2012, 23:39

Verde wrote:Feeling a bit old saying that Ayrton Senna won his first championship.

So, me and you were born in the same year.

dr-baker · Post by **dr-baker** » 13 Jan 2012, 17:30

Sunshine_Baby_[IT] wrote:
Verde wrote:Feeling a bit old saying that Ayrton Senna won his first championship.

So, me and you were born in the same year.

Youngsters... :roll:

Although still the same decade as me...

Post by **Ataxia** » 13 Jan 2012, 17:38

When Alain Prost won his last title ('93)

RonDenisDeletraz · Post by **RonDenisDeletraz** » 13 Jan 2012, 21:33

Just to make everyone feel more depressed about their age.

Mika Hakkinen

Post by **DemocalypseNow** » 13 Jan 2012, 21:35

eurobrun wrote:Just to make everyone feel more depressed about their age.

Mika Hakkinen

dr-baker · Post by **dr-baker** » 13 Jan 2012, 22:42

kostas22 wrote:
eurobrun wrote:Just to make everyone feel more depressed about their age.

Mika Hakkinen

It would have been mega- :shock:

if you had said Alonso or Raikkonen and probably totally unbelievable if you said Hamilton, Button or Vettel...

Ben Purse · Post by **Ben Purse** » 13 Jan 2012, 23:46

Mika Hakkinen 98

WaffleCat · Post by **WaffleCat** » 13 Jan 2012, 23:48

Jacques Villeneuve in '97 for me,Damon Hill in '96 for my sis,Mike Hawthorn's year for my dad and Fernando Alonso for my dogs.

dinizintheoven · Post by **dinizintheoven** » 13 Jan 2012, 23:57

Mutter mutter youngsters mutter mutter get off my lawn mutter...

James1978 · Post by **James1978** » 14 Jan 2012, 00:12

dinizintheoven wrote:Mutter mutter youngsters mutter mutter get off my lawn mutter...

Saw your earlier post about Scheckter being your years champ and so you are younger than me!

Post by **DemocalypseNow** » 14 Jan 2012, 00:18

Just realised I never answered the actual question of this topic at any point, so...I'll let Phoenix do it for me.

Phoenix wrote:Let's do my own:

F1: Nigel Mansell.
International F3000: Luca Badoer [I approve of this ]
Japanese F3000: Mauro Martini.
British F3000: Yvan Muller. [I also approve of this ]
British F3: Gil de Ferran, Paul Evans (National Class).
Italian F3: Max Angelelli.
Japanese F3: Anthony Reid. [What the hell was he doing in Jap F3?!]
German F3: Pedro Lamy.
Austrian F3: Phillip Peter.
Sudamerican F3: Marcos Gueiros, Suzane Carvalho (Light Class).
French F3: Franck Lagorce.
Swiss F3: Jo Zeller. [Correct me if I'm wrong but he's still racing in Euro F3, how is that possible?!]
Brazilian F3: Marcos Gueiros.
Mexican F3: César Tiberio Jimenez.
Masters of F3: Pedro Lamy.
Macau F3 GP: Rickard Rydell.
Monaco F3 Support Race: Marco Werner.
BTCC: Tim Harvey, James Kaye (Independents Drivers Championship).
DTM: Klaus Ludwig.
CART: Bobby Rahal, Stefan Johansson (Rookie of the Year).
Trans-Am: Jack Baldwin.
NASCAR: Alan Kulwicki (Winston Cup), Joe Nemechek (Nationwide Series), Jeff Fuller (Whelen Modified Tour).
WRC: Carlos Sainz and Luis Moya.
Paris-Dakar: Hubert Auriol and Philippe Monnet (cars), Stéphane Peterhansel (bikes), Francesco Perlini (trucks).
WSC: Derek Warwick and Yannick Dalmas (C1), Ferdinand de Lesseps (Cup).
GP Motorbike racing: Alessandro Gramigni (125cc), Luca Cadalora (250cc), Wayne Rainey (500cc).

FantometteBR · Post by **FantometteBR** » 14 Jan 2012, 01:50

1984, the year of Lauda and his half-point