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title<br/> 1957 – Last title for Fangio<br/> 1958 – Hawthorn takes tragic title</p> <p><a title="Juan Manuel Fangio" href="/web/20120625232238/http://www.f1fanatic.co.uk/f1-information/whos-who/whos-who-f/juan-manuel-fangio/">Juan Manuel Fangio</a> won the drivers championship five times in the first eight years it was held before retiring in 1958.</p> <p>Ferrari and <a title="Alberto Ascari" href="/web/20120625232238/http://www.f1fanatic.co.uk/f1-information/whos-who/whos-who-a/alberto-ascari/">Alberto Ascari</a> dominated the 1952 and 1953 championships which were run to Formula Two rules.</p> <h3>1959-1965: Engine revolution</h3> <p>1959 – Brabham ushers in a new era<br/> 1960 – Cooper on top<br/> 1961 – Ferrari master the new formula<br/> 1962 – Hill wins title for BRM<br/> 1963 – Clark crushes the competition<br/> 1964 – Surtees takes surprise title<br/> 1965 – Clark back on top<br/> 1966 – Brabham captures third championship</p> <p><a title="Jack Brabham" href="/web/20120625232238/http://www.f1fanatic.co.uk/f1-information/whos-who/whos-who-b/jack-brabham/">Jack Brabham’s</a> back-to-back title wins for Cooper in 1959 and 1960 heralded the arrival of rear-engined cars. He went on to become the only driver to win the championship in a car he built himself.</p> <p>A change in engine formula in 1961, restricting capacity to 1.5 litres, leads to much smaller cars.</p> <h3>1966-1973: The Cosworth era</h3> <p>1967 – The DFV arrives<br/> 1968 – Hill champion again<br/> 1969 – Stewart puts Matra on top<br/> 1970 – Posthumous champion<br/> 1971 – Tyrrell hit the top<br/> 1972 – Fittipaldi grabs title for Lotus<br/> 1973 – Stewart retires as champion</p> <p>After the ‘return to power’ in 1966, as three-litre engines made a comeback, a new engine designed by Cosworth changed the face of the sport.</p> <p>The DFV was soon being used by all bar a few of the teams. All the drivers listed above won their titles in DFV-powered cars.</p> <h3>1974-1977: Ferrari’s Renaissance</h3> <p>1974 – McLaren’s first championship<br/> 1975 – Lauda leads Ferrari to glory<br/> 1976 – Hunt grabs title from injured Lauda<br/> 1977 – Lauda leaves Ferrari after second title</p> <p>Ferrari reacted to the sustained success of the DFV-engined cars by mounting a comeback in the mid-seventies.</p> <p><a title="Niki Lauda" href="/web/20120625232238/http://www.f1fanatic.co.uk/f1-information/whos-who/whos-who-l/niki-lauda/">Niki Lauda</a> ended their 11-year championship drought but a fiery accident at the Nurburgring cost him a second title.</p> <p>After winning again for them in 1977 he fell out with Enzo Ferrari and left the team.</p> <h3>1978-1982: Ground Effect</h3> <p>1978 – Andretti wins title amid sadness<br/> 1979 – Battle of the Ferraris<br/> 1980 – Jones is champion for Williams<br/> 1981 – Piquet seizes title from faltering Reutemann<br/> 1982 – Rosberg claims title in controversial season</p> <p>Colin Chapman and Lotus pioneered another technical innovation that changed the face of racing. Ground effect aerodynamic increased car performance and cornering speeds.</p> <p>It became the focal point of increasingly bitter rows between the sport’s governing body, led by Jean-Marie Balestre, and a coalition of the teams, headed by Brabham’s Bernie Ecclestone. This provoked a series of public rows and even race cancellations.</p> <h3>1983-1988: Turbo Power</h3> <p>1983 – Turbo champion<br/> 1984 – The closest title ever<br/> 1985 – Prost first at last<br/> 1986 – Mansell denied<br/> 1987 – War of the Williams<br/> 1988 – <a href="/web/20120625232238/http://www.f1fanatic.co.uk/f1-information/history/1988-mclarens-zenith/">McLaren’s zenith</a></p> <p>Formula One engine output peaked at 1400bhp in the 1980s with monstrously powerful 1.5 litre V6 units supplied by major car manufacturers such as BMW, Porsche and Honda.</p> <p>The FIA tried repeatedly to limit turbo power before banning them outright. Four different drivers took titles with turbo power. In 1986, four drivers from three teams chased for the championship, but by the final turbo year McLaren-Honda were utterly dominant.</p> <h3>1989-1993: Senna vs Prost</h3> <p>1989 – <a title="The greatest rivalry" href="/web/20120625232238/http://www.f1fanatic.co.uk/f1-information/history/1989-formula-one-season-history-the-greatest-rivalry/">The greatest rivalry</a><br/> 1990 – <a title="Senna's revenge" href="/web/20120625232238/http://www.f1fanatic.co.uk/f1-information/history/1990-formula-one-season-history-sennas-revenge/">Senna’s revenge</a><br/> 1991 – <a title="Prost walks away" href="/web/20120625232238/http://www.f1fanatic.co.uk/f1-information/history/1991-formula-one-season-history-prost-walks-away/">Prost walks away</a><br/> 1992 – <a title="Mansell writes new records" href="/web/20120625232238/http://www.f1fanatic.co.uk/f1-information/history/1992-formula-one-season-history-mansell-writes-new-records/">Mansell writes new records</a><br/> 1993 – <a title="Prost the champion, Senna the hero" href="/web/20120625232238/http://www.f1fanatic.co.uk/f1-information/history/1993-formula-one-season-history-prost-the-champion-senna-the-hero/">Prost the champion, Senna the hero</a></p> <p>Turbos were finally banned but McLaren due Ayrton Senna and Alain Prost remained the team to beat.</p> <p>After a tense 1988 their internecine rivalry became all-out war, culminating in two title-deciding crashes involving the pair. Prost was dropped by Ferrari but returned to edge Mansell out of the dominant Williams at the end of 1992, and took a final title before retiring for good at the end of 1993.</p> <h3>1994-1999: The Rise of Schumacher</h3> <p>1994 – <a title="Tragedy and controversy" href="/web/20120625232238/http://www.f1fanatic.co.uk/f1-information/history/1994-formula-one-season-history-tragedy-and-controversy/">Tragedy and controversy</a><br/> 1995 – <a href="/web/20120625232238/http://www.f1fanatic.co.uk/f1-information/history/1995/">Glimpses of greatness</a><br/> 1996 – <a href="/web/20120625232238/http://www.f1fanatic.co.uk/f1-information/history/1996-hills-reward/">Hill’s reward</a><br/> 1997 – <a href="/web/20120625232238/http://www.f1fanatic.co.uk/f1-information/history/1997-michaels-moment-of-madness/">Michael’s moment of madness</a><br/> 1998 – <a href="/web/20120625232238/http://www.f1fanatic.co.uk/f1-information/history/1998-regulation-revolution/">Regulation revolution</a><br/> 1999 – <a href="/web/20120625232238/http://www.f1fanatic.co.uk/f1-information/history/1999-last-man-standing/">Last man standing</a></p> <p>With Mansell and Prost gone, the 1994 title looked like Senna’s for the taking.</p> <p>But he was killed during a horrific weekend in Imola which also claims the life of Roland Ratzenberger. The rest of the 1990s was characterised by repeated attempts to slow the cars on grounds of safety, and the inexorable rise of Schumacher to claim two titles at Benetton, before being denied on three occasions at Ferrari.</p> <h3>2000-2004: Ferrari Domination</h3> <p>2000 – <a href="/web/20120625232238/http://www.f1fanatic.co.uk/f1-information/history/2000-hakkinen-vanquished/">Hakkinen vanquished</a><br/> 2001 – <a href="/web/20120625232238/http://www.f1fanatic.co.uk/f1-information/history/2001-%E2%80%93-the-new-generation-arrives/">The new generation arrives</a><br/> 2002 – <a href="/web/20120625232238/http://www.f1fanatic.co.uk/f1-information/history/2002-%E2%80%93-ferrari%E2%80%99s-tainted-perfection/">Ferrari’s tainted perfection</a><br/> 2003 – <a title="Michelin denied" href="/web/20120625232238/http://www.f1fanatic.co.uk/f1-information/history/2003-formula-one-season-history-michelin-denied/">Michelin denied</a><br/> 2004 – <a title="Bridgestone's year" href="/web/20120625232238/http://www.f1fanatic.co.uk/f1-information/history/2004-formula-one-season-history-bridgestones-year/">Bridgestone’s year</a></p> <p>Ferrari finally saw one of their drivers crowned champion for the first time since 1979. 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