Jean Alesi - how many F1 races could he have won?

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Jean Alesi ultimately won just one Grand Prix (Canada 1995) and that was because Michael Schumacher was unlucky that day. The question is how many races could he have won if things had gone his way (what if???)? Surely at least quite a few.

Certainly he was unlucky not to win the following:

> Belgium 1991 - pulling away from a gearbox-troubled Senna when his car broke.

> Monza 1994 - in a race of his own until he failed to rejoin after his first stop.

> Monza 1995 - late race wheelbearing failure whilst leading comfortably.

> Nurburgring 1995 - notwithstanding an excellent comeback drive by Schumacher.

> Monaco 1996 - car failure with the race in the bag (OK by right this race should have gone to Hill but Alesi was on course for an easy win at the time he hit trouble)


There are others as well but they are left open for debate - the above were the races that sprung to mind.

Alesi should surely have won more races than he did but at least he did get one win thus avoiding the comparison with Chris Amon.