Who doesn’t like the underdog pulling the unimaginable out of the bag? It can be interchangeable weather, a perfect set-up, or the bigger teams slipping up spectacularly. Here are 10 F1 teams that secured only a single pole position in their history.
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Tony Gwynn
The late great Tony Gwynn was a flat out monster from the plate. Has all the great hitting achievements by batting for over .300 in his career, to go along with his 3,141 hits, but he also had 8 NL BATTING TITLES TO HIS NAME. That is absolutely outrageous. He would have had a World Series title too, but my 1998 Yankees (best team ever) had something to say about that. (Source: Twitter)
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Barry Bonds
Did Barry Bonds take steroids? Yeah, probably, but do I care? No, no I do not. You don't hit 762 career home runs, as well as 73 home runs in a season on just steroids alone, you have to have some skill to do so, and my god did Bonds have the ability to hit the hell out of a baseball. He was just a good hitter, that his home run record may not even be the most impressive thing on his resume. His 2,558 career walks, and 688 career intentional walks, both MLB records, just proved how feared he was by pitchers. And like Pete Rose, it is a damn shame he's not in the Hall of Fame. (Source: Twitter)
Babe Ruth
Babe Ruth is the true American dream. Being a total fat slob, but also being an out of this world professional athlete who's the greatest of his time. I don't care if he was playing against a bunch of chumps, Babe Ruth would crush baseballs to the freakin' moon, while being the most out of shape guy on the field. God I love that guy. (Source: Twitter)
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What they said:
“I don’t know [how it’s happened],” said 36-year-old Fisichella. “It’s unbelievable – I didn’t expect to be on pole position, especially after yesterday. I was sixth and was quite surprised.
There was a lot of understeering. The measurement on the downforce was not good. This morning it was much better straightaway, and it was even better in qualifying than I expected.
It’s amazing. I’m so happy about that. I need to thank the team. They did a fantastic job.”
– Giancarlo Fisichella
“Unbelievable. Incredible. I was talking with my engineers and we said if it’s wet we have to go for pole position. It was difficult. The most difficult part was the Ascari chicane, where there was so much water. I never dreamt of being on pole.
I wasn’t very happy with the car in the wet yesterday but we made some changes overnight and it was much better today. And when you are confident in your car it is much easier in the wet.
In the second session it was quite difficult. I set my time quite early, and it got wetter and wetter, so the ones who delayed going out had a bit of bad luck.”
– Sebastian Vettel
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