Legends of F1 ® Season 1

For 21 years between 1979 and 2000, South Africa’s Jody Scheckter held something of a unique title - Ferrari’s last World Champion. He remains the only driver from his country to reign over the top level of motorsport.

Winning in sport for the first time always holds a special resonance. For Australia’s Alan Jones that comes in the form of being the first man to win the World Championship for one of Formula 1’s most historic teams, Williams.

Three World Championships and 14 Grand Prix victories attest to Australia’s Sir Jack Brabham’s skill behind the wheel but it’s his abilities as an engineer that have arguably left the greatest legacy.

He may not have been a driver, but such was the iconic status that Murray Walker achieved during his time behind the microphone commentating on Formula 1 that he remains more well-known and loved than many a World Champion.

Sky Sports F1’s Steve Rider sits down with the two-time champion by just 27, who showed that age, and a relative lack of experience in the pinnacle category of motorsport, should not necessarily be a barrier to championship success.

Triple World Champion Jackie Stewart is one of the greatest racing drivers of all time, he pioneered the sport’s drive to improve safety standards, became a success in the business world and returned to F1 to become a team owner.

Brave, determined and bold - he was the ultimate racer’s racer and the 1992 World Championship was the very least his racing talents deserved.

He deliberately set out to really do it all, danced on the limit longer than anyone and won in a mind-boggling array of disciplines. What’s more he succeeded. Ladies and gentleman, we give you 1978 World Champion Mario Andretti.

Finland’s only two-time World Champion, Mika Hakkinen was known as the ‘Flying Finn’ and for anyone who raced against him at his peak it was no wonder.

Mr Motor Racing. The best driver to never win the world championship. A 16-time grand prix winner (from just 66 starts), Sir Stirling was a trailblazer - and a classy one at that. A true British sporting icon if there ever was one.

John Surtees remains the only man to have been World Champion on two and four wheels. It was an astonishing achievement and one which seems increasingly unlikely to ever be matched.

Brooks, who originally trained as a dentist, isn’t one of Britain’s more high-profile former F1 race winners, the racer nonetheless still more than carved his name into the history books across just 38 starts between 1956 and 1961.

A ten-times grand prix victor, Gerhard Berger made his legendary name in F1 during stints with McLaren and Ferrari.

It’s easy to forget that but for a handful of points it would have been Irvine, and not Michael Schumacher, who would have ended Ferrari’s two-decade Drivers’ Championship drought at the turn of the century.

Four World Championships, 51 wins, and a podium strike rate of better than one in two shows just how consistent Alain Prost proved to be over his 13 years in the sport. That’s why he fully deserves his place among the elite.

A look at the career of the former Brabham, Lotus and McLaren racer who finished a career-high third in the 1982 season.

A look at the career of the Colombian driver who drove for both Williams and McLaren, achieving two third place finishes in the drivers’ championship with the former.

Niki Lauda is a true legend of Formula 1. A winner of three world championships, with the sport’s two most iconic teams, before returning to the paddock as a trusted advisor, Lauda was respected, idolised and loved by all.

A special episode of the series, shown as part of Sky Sports F1’s Senna Week. The Brazilian driver won the championship in 1988, 1990 and 1991.

Damon Hill returns to Imola with David Brabham, as they reflect on their respective teammates who sadly passed away at the 1994 San Marino Grand Prix.