5:34 He didn't.  He suffered concussion and apparently he still has memory-related issues.  Martin Brundle is incredibly lucky, but he did not walk away completely unscathed.

Doohan didn't debut at Australia, he raced at Abu Dhabi 2024.

“For 9 laps, he was living the dream” 😂

Starting your F1 Career by crashing... Mazepin really set the bar Low 😬

Actually Hans Heyer achieved more: a DNQ (did not qualify), a DNS (did not officially start), a DNF (did not finish the race) and a DSQ (got disqualified)

hans should have said "you cant disqualify me because i never qualified"

5:09 there we have the reason Martin Brundle is saying such crazy things these days

Just imagine if F1 drivers deserved their seat based on skill and not on the money they inject in the team.
It would be a different sport.

I remember Ide very well. He did not speak english AT ALL!  He didn't understand what his engineer was telling him. He didn't understand anything on the team meetings if someone wasn't translating. He struggled with everything, yeah, even with understanding the surrounding engineers...

Gabi didn't crash because of the rain, his suspension broke a few meters earlier

I'll give Stroll some credit. He has been consistent.

5:51 i dont believe that, in old days teams could test as much they want giving young drivers lot of experience before racing, hamilton is good example of that

Marco Apicella - one of Eddie Jordan's pay drivers who crashed 15 seconds after the start and never raced in F1 again
Jean Denis Deletraz - another useless pay driver who was 8 seconds off the pace and getting lapped every 12 laps

Al pease is still my favorite debut... He raced three GPs in Canada, with his final race getting him black flagged for being so slow that other drivers literally didn't have time to react to the mobile chicane, and they deemed him a danger!

But that was his final race, what about his first? Well, in 1967, he managed to TECHNICALLY finish his first race, despite being 43 laps behind, and he ended up not getting classified. He even started in 16th which was only 3rd last, and a healthy 8 seconds behind polesitter Jim Clark, on a track that was less than 4km long.
He managed all this by spinning off the track after already having changed battery earlier. He stalled, and then couldn't restart with the new battery also being flat! So he ran back to the pit, picked up a new one again, ran all the way back, changed it himself, and then finally got running so he at least crossed the finish line...

06:20 Imagine starting your F1 career like that and one year later, you're constantly just 2 places behind one of the best drivers of the last decade (who's probably still pretty much in his prime) in a car build entirely for him.

The Martini livery on that Williams is a masterpiece.

11:01 I don’t think there was a single positive that came out of Mazepin’s entire F1 career 😂

Michael Andretti 1993 SA honorable mention (followed by Brazil crash and Donington crash).

I think the 3 rookies all crashing out made it a softer blow for each individually.

"most intense conditions for a rookie debut'"
David Coulthard would like a word...