Alesi drives round the outside of Hill at Japanese GP 1995

[miguel47562]

grande jean lastima tu mala suerte

[noveltybobel]

Jean Alesi was one of the most underrated drivers in the history of grand prix racing

[Kennyuk77]

alesi fans, remember the 94 italian gp?

[jerzinho92]

wowww...... amazing on this slîppy track!!!!! who's this guy?

[MrCanopius]

Alesi drove good cars (not the best cars) for so many years and what did he achieve? One single victory. Gerhard Berger was way ahead of him, because he knew what he was doing. Given a good car, Alesi was quick even under difficult conditions, but he was never a driver to win championships.

[fuckyou1214]

Nice one

[DeckardWill]

Find it so odd that... there's the Williams FW17, easily the best car on the grid... and it's being driven by Damon Hill, not Jean Alesi. The class divide between the two drivers is clear - imagine what Alesi would have achieved in that car.

[robertziggy]

Nightmare race for Damon

[wandererslegion]

Alesi was a class act. nuff said

[wawasgood]

Alesi definitely deserved more success in f1, never had a great car his whole career and outperformed the cars he was given as demonstrated here.

[redupfox]

@wawasgood Alesi had fast (but not fastest) cars through most of his career in F1 and won only 1 race.

Given his more than mediocre 1991, 1996 and 1997 seasons in good cars I wonder he gained so many fans.

[wandererslegion]

Alesi was an outstanding driver, and on top of that he was a big Senna fan. Yes, he had the talent to be a World Champion, but so did Damon Hill

[championjeep]

Beautiful pass!!!

[Smertyin092]

Jean is the most underrated driver ever. I believe the so-called WC, Damon Hill shat his pants at this overtaking. Jean was like "hm, well I can brake later whenever you do". Two weeks ago I commented on the video for his last race when he collided with Raikkönen. I wrote that its a shame how this legend left the sport because 'paying-drivers' in 2002. A douchebag replied me that "Hey, this legend is back for 2012!!!". I was like "Dickhead...I didn't mean Kimi by 'legend'...I meant Alesi!".

[redupfox]

@Smertyin092 sorry but there is a number of more underrated drivers.

Modena for instance was as good as Alesi but no one remembers him

[Smertyin092]

@redupfox

I do remember him, so do I remember for Nannini, Moreno, Katayama, Martini and so on...

But no had so much bad luck as jean had. OK, well it's not a pleasure to get injured in a helicopter accident, so Nannini might be the less luckiest

[redupfox]

@Smertyin092 Jean had plenty of good performances throughout his career (Phoenix'90, Estoril'93, Japan'95 etc) but alas sometimes he was his own enemy.

In 1996-1997 he has second fastest car on the grid but did realize its potential.

Indeed in Monza'94, Adelaide'94 and Japan'95 he had bad luck

[WASPTexas]

@redupfox

The 1996 Benetton was developed with Schumacher's driving style in mind. That didn't fit Alesi at all. In 1997 they had developed the car to fit Alesi and Berger more but by now almost ALL the Benetton designers had switched to Ferrari. The 97 Benetton only really worked on fast circuits like Hockenheim and Monza.

[redupfox]

@Smertyin092 of the 4 drivers mentioned only Nannini (and to some extent Martini) could be compared to Alesi and Modena

[EarlofCrawford]

I know it is a shitty thing to say, but Damon Hill is likely the LEAST talented F1 Champion.

[Westwoooooooood]

@EarlofCrawford

Each to their own

[superneddy]

@EarlofCrawford Agreed but lets be honest, his 97 season he was epic. Getting that dog of a car into the points, never mind almost winning a race with it shows he had something. All drivers who win the title have something. But of these drivers, prob Damon Hill was the least talented

[darthbandon10]

@superneddy I can think of worse drivers who lucked into a title, perhaps even Hill's own former teammate JV given the 3 inherited wins in '97 and his poor wet weather ability.

[superneddy]

@darthbandon10 You do have a point. Cant stand JV. Mind Damon has to be one of the least talented WC ever (in my opinion)

[redupfox]

@superneddy damon would have beaten alesi as a team-mate no doubt

alesi had natural speed but he could not work with the car. hill would have gained a significant advantage on that

[redupfox]

@EarlofCrawford Kimi is the least talented sorry. he was beaten by massa

[redupfox]

@EarlofCrawford oops, and beaten by heidfeld as his team-mate

[CaboArmorKing]

@redupfox Kimi is probably one of the most talented, but dropped back the second he became World Champion. Had poor motivation.

[X8X8X8X8X8X8X8X8X8X]

What a pitty he went to Ferrari in 1992 instead of Williams - Williams drove for the world championship each year until 1997. He was as least as fast as the Williams-drivers, and a really rare kind of driver in the younger days of formula 1. And Ferrari switched him and Berger against Schumacher and Irvine in 1996 - when Ferrari began to win again...

[X8X8X8X8X8X8X8X8X8X]

@X8X8X8X8X8X8X8X8X8X

But I read something interesting:

As a young boy he dreamed of beeing at the Italian GP at Monza (as he often was) and beeing asked by Enzo Ferrari if he wants to drive his Ferrari-f1-car for this race.

He lived his dream !!!

[xxllrr88]

I know Felipe Massa is no Jean Alesi, but any Hamilton lovers crying that Massa had no business being where he was at the same corner this year need to watch this. A perfectly reasonable place to put the car going into this corner.

[cb20051981]

didn't you know that there is the entire commentary of this Grand Prix? Check this playlist view_play_list?p=35EFB2289BD0B­AEE

[londongamer]

INNNNNCRED-I-BLE!! Good one Murray! ;) :)

[KIMI1428]

Alesi deserved to win this race!!!!

[cbr2500]

アレジ上手い！

[MikeSV1989]

WOW! Outside on Suzuka chicane! First and only time I saw that!

[dave41184]

@MikeSV1989 Irvine did it to Villeneuve in the 1997 race :)

[tor378a]

That was simply a sensational pass by Alesi.

[spooky78]

todays f1 cant overtake anymore without DRS

[MrThreshold2009]

Alesi was epic. Shame he never got a top car. Had he been in the Williams in '95 he'd have pushed Schumacher for the title.

[KIMI1428]

@MrThreshold2009 You're completly right !!!! Alesi was one of the best driver during the 1990's!!!

[arrielfim]

And people should know that in those days seeing a Ferrari doing something good during a race was as rare as the same for a Force India these days.

[davorsertic]

good old Murray Walker!

[Deltarally92]

Very good overtaking by Alesi.

[Bobobidodo]

Something tells me if that was Senna and Prost things would have ended differently ;)

[hamiltonfan4eva]

FAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAANTASIC Murray should have said XD

[cb20051981]

@hamiltonfan4eva I don't think so, because the "victim" was Hill... :P

[Phoenix1664]

Jean was awesome, so underrated!

[Fastbikkel]

@Phoenix1664 He was not underrated.

[Phoenix1664]

@Fastbikkel how do you work that out?

[Fastbikkel]

@Phoenix1664 Because the commentators and fans on tv always say that he is a talented driver. I have not heard or seen any bad ratings about him in the past. I have seen/heard people complaining about other drivers, like Luca Badoer or some pay drivers.

[Phoenix1664]

@Fastbikkel Ok fair play, but he wasnt ever quoted a "legend", or one of the "greats", which he should have been, and would have been if his luck wasnt so effing bad...

[Fastbikkel]

@Phoenix1664 True, i agree.

[MrMarinost]

@Phoenix1664

And Damon Hill SOOOOOOOOOOOO overrated !!!

[Phoenix1664]

@MrMarinost yeah, im English and even i was never a big Hill fan

[MrMarinost]

@Phoenix1664 you are a good man SIR

[schroeder1112]

@Phoenix1664

yes, and Damon was so overrated..

[Enri1989]

@Phoenix1664 Good driver, but not a champion

[Phoenix1664]

@Enri1989 should have been though, if he was given a better car!

[Enri1989]

@Phoenix1664 Probably... But he drove during schumi era...

[HammerLex77]

@Phoenix1664 Couldn't agree more!!

[altroval]

With all due respect to Alesi, this would not be a difficult move to defend against.

It appears to me that Hill simply was not expecting Alesi to try him on the outside.

[lcville]

@altroval Well, nobody has done it before or after at that chicane, on the outside. Maybe it means that Alesi IS a great racer, just like J.Villeneuve going outside of Schumacher at Estoril. Simply superb.

[gturner38]

@altroval Hill was attempting to defend the inside move and actually obeyed the blocking rules by not juking back to the outside. Once Alesi got any sort of overlap, it's clear there was nothing Hill could do to beat him to the corner.

[AccordGTR]

Passing someone going into a chicane is always unexpected but that's what makes it all the more challenging and creative! I will never forget my best pass of my career in a tight chicane kinda similar to the one in the video. Going into the left-right chicane I saw the driver in front braked too late and had to cut back to the left to make the chicane. I timed it perfectly and passed him on the inside of the 2nd corner of the chicane missing him by millimeters! I will never forget that

[m1357l]

@AccordGTR So you drive F1 cars too?

[AccordGTR]

@m1357l No. I race my own touring cars. For any racer, it doesn't really matter what you are racing. But racing your own car you built and developed is even much more exciting. You can learn a lot from watching F1 and apply it to touring car racing

[bren85q]

great move. great driving by damon tho would of been very easy to snatch a brake and take them both out .

alesi drive that day was by far the best of the season.

[dosbox92]

It's a very great overtake!!!!!!

[lcville]

I just love that pass. Best ever in 95!!

[DnylF1]

Nice one! Iv'e forgotten about this.

[18PacWest]

This is I think the most entertaining overtaking manoeuvre of the 1995 season.

[redupfox]

@18PacWest sorry but Schumi against Hill in Spa was by mile a more entertaining

[hellonpluto]

@18PacWest or most entertaining overtaking manoeuvre since 1995