Jean Alesi sliding through Monaco with Tyrrell

Jean Alesi '4 wheels sliding' through Monaco with his Tyrrell in 1990. John Watson was imo the best F1 commentator ever.

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• Jean
• Alesi
• Monaco
• F1
• Tyrrell
• John
• Watson
• 1991
• sliding

[giugiu13]

He is a driver like F1 needs..

[BorlandRIP7]

His best year in formula one..

[HotttyXx]

He got an offer from williams to drive alongside mansell and maybe become a world champion, but he chose for ferrari instead.

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@beetleman64

Yeah, he has a great natural car control, the wish to overtake everytime, I hope so much he´ll have better luck than Alesi (or many other drivers of this driving style like Peterson, Gilles Villeneuve, Mansell and Montoya) !!!

[AlejjSi]

@starlionblue Actually in the FIA 1995 review Alesi is called to be the rainmaster (mostly for his drive at European and Japanese GP) and Schumacher was marked as the only one to be able to compete

[beetleman64]

I think the closest we have to Alesi now is Kamui Kobayashi. Like all fan favourites, he's flawed, but he always gives his best and is really, really exciting to watch as well.

[MrGF95]

alesi a fait que des mauvais choix d'ecurie durant sa carriere, dommage il aurait du avoir un meilleur palmares s'il avait signé chez williams au lieu de ferrari a l'epoque

[starlionblue]

@swistral1 Agreed. Alesi seemed to be the only one who could fight Schumacher in the rain. He did pretty well at Spain in '96 by finishing second (Schumi won and Hill crashed!).

[starlionblue]

@BorlandRIP7 I agree but I feel he did better at Benetton in '96 even though the damn car broke down when he was leading at Monaco. The Benetton didn't look like an easy car to drive - teammate Berger lost control of it and crashed when they were first introduced to it. Interestingly, Jean sometimes preferred a full steering wheel so he could keep his hands at the 2 and 10 o'clock positions while most of the others had those funny looking square "wheels".

[starlionblue]

@jwdogfst 1.5 seconds faster?! Unbelievable! Remember, this is the same Frenchman who shocked Senna at the US GP with a Tyrrell-Cosworth and LED for 15-20 laps! Even Ken Tyrrell was shocked. This is like using a Yugo to beat a Corvette. Unfuckingbelievable. Jean Alesi is still one of the greatest of the underrated drivers F1 has ever seen.

[starlionblue]

Such an unfairly underrated driver. I was overjoyed to see him finally win in Canada. He OWNED everyone in Monza the same year but the damn car had to blow up when a surefire win was in sight. I know he would have won that race too. Ironically, he damn near won Monaco the following year but the bad luck gods must really hate him: his Benetton's suspension failed several laps from victory as he was leading and had fastest lap of the race.

[racebends]

If there is anyone who got screwed with lowsy equipment it was Ivan Capelli at Ferrari. And how they treated him and blamed all the cars faults on him was chickenshit. I never liked them after that!