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Steven LynchFebruary 10, 2015
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When was the last time the F1 world champion driver's team didn't win the constructors' championship? Has it happened often? asked Mark Linklater

The last time this occurred was in 2008, when Lewis Hamilton pinched the drivers' title by a point from Felipe Massa. Hamilton was driving for McLaren then, but the Ferrari team of Massa and Kimi Raikkonen shaded the constructors' championship.

It also happened in 1999, when Mika Hakkinen (McLaren) won the individual title, but Ferrari (largely Michael Schumacher and Eddie Irvine) won the constructors'. In 1994 Michael Schumacher won his first title in a Benetton, but the constructors' championship went to Williams.

It also happened in 1986 (Alain Prost won the drivers' title, Williams the constructors'), 1983 (Nelson Piquet/Ferrari), 1982 (Keke Rosberg/Ferrari), 1976 (James Hunt/Ferrari), 1973 (Jackie Stewart/Lotus), and back in 1958 - the first year of the constructors' championship - when Mike Hawthorn won the individual title in a Ferrari but Vanwall won the team event thanks to Stirling Moss and Tony Brooks.

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