Top 10 WORST F1 Drivers (2000-2023)
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- Опубликовано: 19 май 2024
- Formula One has always seen the best drivers in the world battle it out to be the very best... well most of the time... Every now and then someone slips through the net and becomes a menace to the rest of the sport for a year or two... here's my list for the top ten worst drivers to reach F1, focusing on the sports modern era from 2000 onwards...
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Lets be honest latifi is no where near top 10 worst of the last 23 years
fax he's only here for clicks, respect the hussle tho 🤑
Latifi might not be the absolute worst… but Goatifi is hands down the absolute best of the millennia
He’s defs not the worst but he’s defs very far up in the worst
I miss Latifi! I was hoping he would jump over to Indy.
GOATifi forever
Goatifi was bad in Formula 1 but really didn’t belong in this list. He did far better than the rest of the list and it’s not even close. Honestly I miss him on the grid because he was a nice dude and funny and when he spun or crashed he rarely took out other drivers - just caused a safety car and made the race bunch up and be more interesting. Goatifi we won’t forget what you did to make F1 fun again!
He was much slower than his teammmate and everyone else. Didn’t do much of note. He does deserve it or Atleast honorable mentions
@@mike04574 how can he be slower than his teammate if he beat George Russel?
@@rileyshuman2553 look at quali and come back
@@mike04574 but the rest of the guys on this list were horrifically bad. On their best days, they were as good as Latifi on his worst days. There's levels to this.
@@mauryeetss3561 I think he should at least earn the 10 spot,he's certainly worst than De Vries but way better tan Mazespin
Estaban Guitterez should be on this list. He scored 6 points in his F1 career compared to his team mates 80. That's a much worse ratio than the likes of Latifi and Maldonado.
I agree. He should replace Maldonaldo on that list. Maldonaldo did crash a lot, that's true, but when he didn't he was quite fast.
@@piast99there’s crashing a lot and then there’s Maldonado
I believe qualifying was close between Gutierrez and Grosjean at Haas in 2016, but I cannot defend him too much other than that.
Gutierrez was so forgettable I guess Will forgot him with regards to his driving...
@@laurierastogi3512
So not being beaten too badly by Grosjean in Quali is where the bar has been set?
🤣🤣🤣🤣
Latitfi started racing karts 8 years later than most drivers, considering this his career wasnt so bad imo.
If he started the same time everyone else did he might have been a pretty solid F1 driver. Maybe Sainz level.
Would've loved to see him in endurance
He started at the same age as senna, just saying.... I agree though, if he stares at least 5 years earlier he could have been much better
Doesn’t excuse
@@foxy126pl6 yes but the level of the avrage f1 driver is much higher than in the 90´s, right now if you put everyone in the same car they would be slipt by like .5s and it used to be like 5 whole seconds
I enjoy your content mate, but this may be the worst list I’ve ever seen.
Having drivers like De Vries, Maldonado and Nakajima on this list, who were competitive and with Maldonado even a top level talent if he wasn’t in the wall, over someone like Sakon Yamamoto, Rio Haryanto, Karun Chandhok, Patrick Friesacher, or Tarso Marques is borderline disgusting.
In other words, I disagree :)
He just went for the meme picks
ok
@@anusername8350yes that's why I downvoted this shite list
100% agree with you, even devries is miles better than some of the old pay drivers. There are way more drivers that should have been in this list
I kinda feel like he went for drivers that had something you could actually point to in order to say they earned a shot on the F1 grid. A notion that becomes suspect by the inclusion of Nikita Mazepin, but you can rightly point to the fact that he had to win multiple F2 races to earn enough SL points to be allowed onto the grid, which happens to be one of only two positive things you can accurately say in relation to him(the other being that he's mercifully gone from the grid), so my feeling does add up.
The only one that actually breaks out of this is old man Nissany, who only seems to have been included because everyone in the world forgets he was ever in an official F1 session.
Maldonado was a fair bit better than a lot of people think. He was similar to groesjean in a lot of ways, inconsistent and crash prone, but still fast many times. I think he would have been better off as an honorable mention rather than on the list proper.
I always thought Maldonardo was very much a Jeckyl and Hyde character. It was just down to which one turned up for the event.
Maldonado was far extreme than Grosjean: more talented but messier.
I did not expect to see a testdriver there. Putting De Vries, Latifi, and Maldonado there is maybe a bit harsh (maybe dishonorable mentions), but there are others who could have been included on this list: Esteban Gutierrez, Gaston Mazzacane, Sakon Yamamoto, Bruno Senna, Karun Chandhok, Will Stevens, Max Chilton, and Charles Pic.
Also Sean Gelael *BRUH*
Putting Maldonado on this list is EXTREMELY harsh
Haryanto, Palmer....
@@neverenoughgames72 I forgot about those guys, but they are contenders as well. I also forgot about Giorgio Pantano and Gianmaria Bruni. I almost put Ericsson on the list as well. I can't say he was good during his time in F1 but in comparison to those other guys...
@@jayveehaitch Yes i completely forgot those you listed aswell. Will 'The Lad' Stevens (Nr1 for cringey nicknames) is also on there.
I disagree with almost every entry.
Maldonado was bloody quick especially in quali, but he loved crashing.
There are also many drivers who are much worse than Latifi especially in the beginning of the 2000s.
De Vries is mid and overhyped but 10 worst ? Definitely not.
Ide should be P1 without question.
Maldonado I would replace with Antonio Pizzonia, Ralph Firman, Gaston Mazzacane,Esteban Gutierrez or Ryo Haryanto. And Chanoch Nissany shouldn't have been on the list anyway since he never entered a single grand prix
De Vries on top 10 worst is really unrealistic anyway, that is 100 percent recently bias.
You know, making a bad list will make more viewer interactions.
I think the Manor/Virgin/Marussia drivers should have been better represented. Very few good drivers outside of Bianchi, Ocon, and Wehrleine.
When Lotus had both Grosjean and Maldonado, I was just like "Lotus...are you OK?"
After Spa 2012, my line of thinking was more like, "Romain, are you okay? Why don't you brake Romain?"
Lotus "does it look like we're okay?"
@@JohnSmith-mk5jtreading your comment I was like "all the cars around you brake, take a look in the mirror who's behind you? Don't go and punt somebody "
@@JohnSmith-mk5jtand He was until 2020
fun fact: Nakajima was the only driver in 2009 who competed in every race to not score a point
That just how bad he is.
At least he had been classified in 13 races out of 17. Compare it to Villeneuve's 4 out of 16, back in 1999: and he was a WC two years prior!
Maldonado being on this list whilst he has won a race is disgraceful
He's not on this list for being a slow driver. He's there because he's a maniac
The fact he won a race means he should be excluded entirely
@@Martinspireregardless. He has achieved too much to be on a worst driver of the century list. And yes, 1 win and 1 pole alone should exempt you from such lists
Say that to the drivers he nearly killed being a crash test dummie.
@@trololo5540It still has to as after this race, his errors start to increase and start to being out-qualified by his teammate more often, especially 2013.
I will not stand for this Goatifi slander
I think it was a solid description
Had a good debut season, and was decent (if unspectacular) for 99% of the 2021 season until Abu Dhabi....
I honestly think the abuse he received from the fans of hashtag blessed completely ruined him.
@@MrSniperfox29 it's a shame, he didn't deserve the death threats and they went too far.
Those people who attacked Latifi aren't fans.
@@harry69007 That's the sad thing though, they are fans.
I know people like to try and claim otherwise, but that's the world we live in.
No different following the Dutch GP when Hannah Schmidt was abused by the same fan group.
Some people are just assholes.
😂😂😂😂
@@harry69007they are fans. Team LH… we race as one and all
Latifi shouldn't be here, like for real, he wasn't that bad. Esteban Gutierrez, Nelson Piquet Jr., Anthony Davidson, Karun Chandhok, Max Chilton, Giedo Van der Garde, Pietro Fittipaldi...
Also, Maldonado was fast. Like, he would crash 9 out of 10 times, but at least he got a win by merit.
Nelson Jr? Man scored a podium, he has no business being here. Neither does Davidson, he got 1.25 seasons in poor Super Aguri’s. Nearly scored a podium in Canada 07 too
Jolyon palmer
@@jax4113but he also was the man that crashed intentionally to give Alosno the win in 2008 Singapore GP and Maldonado won and he is on this list. The fact that Piquet Jr. scored a podium due to brilliant team decision to pit him before safety car.
@@jax4113Although he close to be in the list, mostly due to his poor performance in 2009.
@@reichsfuhrermonika6469 I been watching every race, qualy and FP session since 2009 when I was 8
Judging by that thumbnail, we already know who's gonna be top in this...
Trust me, you don't.
I think recency bias played a part here, because I don't think Latifi and De Vries deserve to be there and while it might been fair to say Maldonado was a bad driver, he was still a race winner, so he do not qualify to be called a "worst driver", there's been only 133 Race winner and he is one of them and being a race winner is not something that is easy to accomplish without merits. It's just doesn't make sense to called Maldonado as worst, when he actually win a race. But I do enjoyed your take and I respect your opinion, keep up the good work bud 👍
Wait there’s only been 133 Formula 1 race winners?!
Mahaveer! You missed him by only 2 years?
Common man ... Mahaveer deserves a place on this list!
Mahaveer never was 8n f1
@@mixalis475loll He did an F1 test, that's gotta count right?
Lord Mahaveer has more talent in one finger than the entire 2023 F1 grid combined.
@@whermans he keeps getting invited back to test the McLaren so must do something to the table
@@mixalis475lollI liked how you used the digit 8
Roy Nissany is a 2nd gen paydriver? That explains why I've been seeing that name since forever.
Latifi and especially maldonado have no bussiness being on this list considering some of the specimen that raced at the pinnacle of motorsport in the last 23 years
After finally getting out of his Minardi, Channoch Nissany said he had crashed because the car had 'too much grip'.
What a lad.
Makes me wonder how much of it is a car, vs driver talent though. Ide was absolutely, head and shoulders worse than anyone else tbh. He didn't even try. When you are worse than Taki Inoue....that takes some doing. When you are worse than Rosset or JCB, then...well....
As a Malaysian, I'm happy to see Alex Yoong is in the list because he is a definite example of a pay driver and served as the precursor to other untalented pay drivers to Latifi and Mazepin.
Maldonado being in this list is make no sense at all. Winning a race sharing the grid with likes of Hamilton, Alonso and Vettel. He was quick and also crash prone. But worst its ridiculous. When a lot of drivers could not do it.
Yes but that was one race weekend. You have to look at the rest of the season 😒
@@BloodNothinglol Come on he was quick any given day. And the incident with Halmilton in Valencia nowadays will look like any Incident between Max and Lewis. There were and There are a lot and I really mean a lot worst drivers than him. You can crash if you are slow!!
@@BloodNothinglol Mick should be in this list for example if you want to compare crash prone and no delivering results. Its made non sense Maldonado to be in this list
@@kirliefiguera8627exactly Mick / Mazespin was a terrible lineup for Haas, and Mick actually wrecked more cars and accumulated more financial cost to the team than Mazespin.
Scott speed deserves a mention too, c'mon now
Borderline, 9-10th or dishonorable mention
No Max Chilton 😂denied! Gotta say though, despite how fun it is to slander Latifi, I rate him so much higher than some of the dreadful drivers of 2010's and 2000's
To be fair to Max, he was better than Stevens. I actually remember Merhi being better than Stevens overall for some reason.
@@Moray2023 There was definitely some really forgetful drivers in those days, feels strange looking back on now haha
Chilton finished every race of his debut year somehow lol
If its not Yuji Ide we riot
It's not, but the number 1 makes this forgivable.
Nice video
Would have swapped 1&2.
I mean: getting fired by the FIA is pretty hard to accomplish.
Not getting fired by your boss but by your bosses boss is mindblowing
This video seems rather poorly researched and clickbaity, the likes of de Vries, Maldonado, Merhi or even Latifi don't deserve to be on the list at all, since they were all quick on their day and clearly proved, even if outside of F1, that they could drive well. Considering any of them inept is either disrespect or ignorance.
Merhi was abysmal. I agree about the others.
Naah Merhi just takes a while to adapt, in the beginning he was way behind Stevens, but later in the season he was usually quicker than him, especially in the race... I read that when he returned to single seaters in 2014 (FR3.5, after 2 years of DTM) we has 10 seconds off the pace in his first test, but finished the championship 3rd, only behind Sainz and Gasly in what wasn't one of the better teams (teammate scored 0)
I thought Rio Haryanto would be included in the list
Merhi's bit it quite unfair, he was close to Stevens in a car that didn't have any upgrades during the season, Manor just brought all the upgrades to Stevens car cause he was the one paying, so he basically was racing in a 2014 Marussia F1 car against a year long upgraded one.
Also his stints at F2 were not bad considering he was driving for bad teams as a last minute replacement, snatching podiums in that situation is really impressive
I thought drivers had to do a test where they prove to the fia they can exit the car in under 5 seconds. Did the last guy just buy his way past that too?
That wasn’t a thing back then
He's lucky only his career very slowly went down in flames
Having Maldonado on the list basically making this video falls into the tier of "not a lot of critical thinking".
Even in his worst scoring seasons at 2013 and 2014 season, he had a 11-8 record over teammate Bottas (2013) and 8-8 over Grosjean (2014). If it's a list of "annoying" drivers to drive against, I won't argue with that. But as it's a list of "worst" drivers, having Maldonado there is not "controversial", it's straight up "incorrect".
Whilst I agree, when he kept it out of the wall he was quick. And as I said in the video, he had pace. But when you balance that with how many times he threw it in the wall… at the end of the day it comes down I think to how to define “worst” be it from a pace perspective, crashing and consistency, or the level of disappointment given their junior career. Tbf I should have made that bit clearer in the original video
@@FP1Will i agree you might be fast but if you keep making mistakes its basically means the same as not fast so i can agree with you here
It's a crime you didn't mention Nissany complained about "Too much grip" after his session.
Ign review of F1
I had Mazepin at number 1, but only because I'd actually forgotten about the other 2.
The thing about Pastor's win was it was a milestone birthday for Frank Williams and there was a fire in the Williams garage after the race. 🤔
I never heard of Roberto Merhi.
Just watched your vid and found it highly entertaining and amusing.
The comments even more so.
Your intro at the beginning told everyone what to expect.
I can only assume the comments must have been written by close family members of the drivers.
Have just subscribed AND liked.
Will now start and look at your back catalogue of vids.
Hating on Latifi may be popular but he was by no means a top 10 worst driver.
Guiterrez, Haryanto, Palmer... I get Maldonado on the list but i wouldnt have included him and De Vries on the list.
De Vries sadly had being featured in this list as he fail to deliver the expectation from the team.
Last few race he involved an accident with Haas which ruin his race.
So we’re not gonna talk about the brilliance that was Robert Doornbos?
What about Sakon Yamamoto? Wasn't he worse than Crashtor Maldonado?
Not having Mick Schumacher but including Mazepin has to be the most biased low tier journalism you can do
thats what I was saying, Mick was on the verge of bankrupting Haas
because mick was better than Mazepin... what's the issue
Wil, you should do a *Top 10 Worst F1 Drivers of All Time* video; and I'll give you one driver who deserves to be in that list: *Olivier Grouillard.* He was known for pissing off just about everyone he ever races against, by ignoring blue flags. He was a moving pylon, who failed to grasp the concept that when you're being lapped by the leaders, you need to let them pass you when you're shown blue flags. He was so bad, it was hilarious! One of the most ignoble F1 drivers I've ever seen.
Paul Belmondo should be in that list too
Mazepin's crying interview is one for the ages
The fact there were worse drivers than Mazepin is really scary
Full of meme picks. The likes of Gutierrez, Palmer, Mazzacane & Yamamoto have to be here.
People like Stevens and Haryanto are definitely worse than Latifi, De Vries and Maldonado IMO
Holy the F1 2009 Game! I know it wasn't the best of F1 games but this was my childhood!
Listening to smug teenagers negatively review top category racing drivers will just never get old.
3 more names for you,
Yamamoto.. nowhere in that 2010 hrt car.
Vandoorne, destroyed by Alonso in the 2 years together. Had his career destroyed so badly he hasnt raced for time since in F1.
You listed Maldonado, but I'd rather have him in my team than Bruno senna. He did after all out pace him in all their time together, beat the gist of Alonso in a Williams and had numerous top 4 starts
Vandoorne hasn't done too bad, sadly 2018 was awful season for him as he fail to beat his teammate once in qualifying.
Pastor Maldonado is PROBABLY the worst driver to actually win a race in F1 history... And if he isn't, he's not far off.
When Maldonado wasn’t searching for hidden barriers, he was finishing 7th. Proving you can be a rapid driver and a vapid driver at the same time.
Amazing list. The icing on the cake is the Super Mario World ending theme.
people gave a bit too much praise for Nycks point scoring in Williams
It was at Monza, the track where top speed is key and through the entire season we knew that the Williams was only good in a straight line. It wouldve been a completely different story at lets say Hungary. Albon most likely wouldve picked up the points regardless if it wasnt for his medical condition. That and Nyck didnt help himself with the expectations before the season even began
If you go into the 20th Century then Al Pease has to be the all time worst. He was black flagged for driving too slowly. He was like a moving chicane 🤣
I’m pretty sure that Nissany complained about his f1 car having ‘too much grip.’ That’s all that needs to be said
Yep… you’re spot on with that
My first video I’m watching of yours and after hearing all the digs like Karen Hamilton and #blessed was too funny and I had to subscribe immediately keep it up I love it!
This video sums up the definition of recency bias
I did actually once see a collection of Mazepin fans at the Hungarian Grand Prix, I actually did double take when I saw them, they must’ve been the only ones in the world
It was that or the gulag… 🤷♂️
😂😂😂
Andrea De Cesaris had a fan club..
Great vid :) ide was such a legend for all the wrong reasons haha
"He's better at it than you" has never been, and never will be, a valid response to someone who is criticizing another. Not having a given capability/talent oneself does not mean one is incapable to looking at how a group of people stack up against each other and figuring out who is the most/least capable/talented among them. Criticizing such things on the basis of the person doing it not being as good as even the worst of the people being looked at might as well be saying, "I hate that you put someone on this list but I have no valid basis to disagree with it."
What is the name of the music you are using in this video?
Badoer wasn’t that bad…he was tester for Ferrari and in 1999 when he clearly better then salo , Ferrari decided to not bring him in. In 2009 he was that bad cause he had no experience with that car !
We need King Latifi back, the only one with the power to create new champions
The Nakajima non-talent seems to run in the family. It produced amazing commentary in the late 80s, like the infamous: "Nakajima, going through the barrier, clearly forgot to brake"... Classic!!!
Scott Speed? Esteban Gutierrez? Cristijan Albers?
De Vries is recency bias and unfair to put him on the list. The rest is fair game imo. But even if you pick 2000+ era, there's plenty of drivers worse than De Vries...
Interesting to see Merhi being the only driver in existence to get demoted from F1 to F2 lol
For all his errors, doing a disservice to Maldonado as a grand prix winner to put him on the list when the likes of Gaston Mazzacane, Tarso Marques, Sakon Yamamoto, Lucas Di Grassi and more don't make the list. Pretty much anyone who has made it into the points has got themselves out of the bottom 10
Di Grassi? Just cause he raced for Virgin? Are you actually dumb?
Both De Vries and Latifi were simply too old by the time they stepped up to F1. Latifi in particular didn’t start even karting until he was ~13
Damon Hill proved there's nothing called "too old" to step into F1.
@@MikoyanGurevichMiG21 Different era, came from a racing family and started racing when he was like 4. Latifi was at least 12, I think even older.
Alain prost start his carting carrier at 14 and Kimi Räikkönen did start his at 11@@Snufflegrunt
I feel bad for de vries, being a mclaren junior from back in the vodafone days. his entire top end career had just been driving mercedes machinery, and a lot of effort spent over the last 10 years was towards a mercedes seat, he went off to formula e for mercedes, and came back for a 1 off in a mercedes powered williams. now that alpha tauri this year is a shit box and he made it look worse, but i do wonder if he'dve gotten the williams seat over sergeant or something could we have seen him do better in something more familiar
Choosing Nissany as no. 1 is a little suspect, he was only a Friday driver and was never scheduled to actually do a race... still bad enough that Minardi was desperate enough to let someone like this drive their car
No Nelson Piquet Jr? I think he earned it in Singapore 2008, even allowing for his lucky podium in Germany.
I'm surprised that Ricardo Rosset did not make the list - unless of course he was in F1 prior to 2000? I believe the Tyrrell team changed the name on the car to Tosser.
Rosset did not compete in Formula 1 in the 2000s. He's guaranteed a top spot on nearly every 90s list though.
@@extremegrieferbible I suspected that which is why I added "unless of course he was in F1 prior to 2000?". Going back prior to 2000 adds quite a few drivers! I've been following F1 since the early 1980s and have been to over 65 F1 GPs from 1989 to 2010 - things tend to merge after a while.
Zoomers didn't know about Jerome D'Ambrosio, Patrick Friesacher and Chanoch Nissany (yeah, the father of Roy Nissany)
As a fan of De Vires I was so disappointed with his performance in the races he did enter it just made his Monza race last year look like a fluke
Great vid , i think most would agree with this list
P.s you pronounce chanoch wrong hehehe its more of kha sound i guess , no english equivalent for it
I've watched every race since 2013 live and could only faintly remember Merhie, and literally only because I remembered seeing "MER" on the timing screen once and thought, "Who the hell is MER?"
I don't think Latifi deserves to be on this list, he wasn't good by any means, but he wasn't that horrible either. I wouldn't have put him on there anyway, I never understood the unbridled hatred of the man, while he wasn't the quality of driver to be in F1 he wasn't that horrible or dangerous like some of the drivers on this list either.
2:42 "Karen Hamilton",... 😂 LOL, brilliant! 😂
Completely get the idea of only doing the 21st century as really up to the late 70s you would have drivers doing one off drives, so it would almost impossible to do a list from 1950. But definitely do the 10 worst in the 80s and 90s some of those guys make Mazepin look like a top driver.
Giovanna Amati and Ricardo Rosset spring to mind (the Tyrrell mechanics changed the name to Tosser on his car).
@@simonkevnorris taki Inoue, Claudio Laganes and Jean Denis Deletraz. Movies and F1 drivers in the 80s and 90s were similar as in the best are probably the best ever seen, but the bad were probably the worst ever seen.
Me and my friends used to call Pastor Maldonado "Crashtor" for rather obvious reasons. Also has anyone ever figured out what Honda were thinking with Ide? There were Japanese drivers who were doing far better in lower levels of racing than he ever did, who also spoke English, that were right there.
0:52 Man I was really expecting you to flex a serious sim rig
Why is Mick Schumacher missing from this list?
Because he was faster than both his team mates
Because he is the "Son of Micheal Schumacher"
People put him on a high pedestal because of it
Hitting the Like button and now off my way to watch the video.
Once again worth it
You also forgot that Nissany complained about having too much grip before returning to the pits.
The "Karen Hamilton" line got me dead😂😂😂🎉 .
5:40 made me laugh so hard, Vettel with his cucumber hahahaha
It's a good thing you took 2000 as the cutoff point, the 90's were atrocious, especially when the 107% rule wasn't in place. If your mechanics rearrange the letters of your name to spell 'tosser' (Riccardo Rosset), you know you must be bad.
Absolutely agree with Ide, Yoong, Mazepin, Merhi and Karthikeyan, but put some respect on my boy Maldonado. He's a damn race winner. The likes of Tarso Marques, Gaston Mazzacane, Luca Badoer, Patrick Friesacher, Rio Haryanto etc absolutely drowned in F1 and much more accurately fit the list.
The classification of 'F1 driver' is also a bit skewed. Chanoch Nissany bought an F1 practice session and was hilariously dreadful, but he was never really an F1 driver save for that one session. If you draw the line at 'did some FP running', you bring the likes of Fairuz Fauzy, Ma Qinq Hua, Sean Gelael etc into contention. I like the format but some of these are far from the worst.
Woah woah woah. No Albers? Friesacher? Mazzacane?!?!? Pic? Chilton? Bernoldi?
There's a touch of recency bias with this. But still, we all have different opinions which makes the world great. Good video, enjoyed it
Albers and Pic weren't bad drivers. They drove bad cars. Different things.
Maldonado here is a bit harsh. I wouldn't even count Chanoch Nissany on this list, as he only tested and never attempted to qualify or race in a race weekend. That being said, some awful drivers who should be on this list or get dishonourable mentions should include:
Ricardo Zonta, Pedro Diniz (one full season in 2000 before disappearing, got comfortably beaten by his team-mate Salo), Gaston Mazzacane, Luciano Burti, Tomas Enge, Enrique Bernoldi, Allan McNish (great sportscar driver, thrashed by Salo in his one F1 season), Anthony Davidson (good sportscar driver, horrid F1 career), Ralph Firman, Nicolas Kiesa (finished all 5 races he started at least, nowhere near the points and behind his team-mate Jos Verstappen in all of them), Giorgio Pantano. Gianmaria Bruni (decent sportscar driver, nowhere near F1 quality), Patrick Friesacher, Scott Speed, Sakon Yamamoto and Nelson Piquet Jr. (that 2nd in 2008 German GP was more the team than him).
He forgot estoban gutierez and Rio Harianto. They should be number 1
Me wondering where Scott Speed is on this list
Didn’t think you could top Ide, but damn you found someone that did 😂
Lol Daniel Ricciardo needs to be somewhere near this list if not on it😂
My fave is JD Deletraz from back when you could just walk in with a pallet of cash and get a seat, thank god we don't have that kind of losers anymore
Channoch Nissany is to Roy Nissany as a roasting-in-his-cockpit Jos Verstappen is to Max. 😄
EDIT: At least Lord Mahaveer was able to get out of his cockpit in his F1 test, that's a million negative points to Channoch.
If only Mahaveer Ragunathan was in F1 once…
Ikr…
Sakon Yamamoto, Tarso Marques, Rio Haryanto should all be considered in the dishonourable mentions. All drivers who brought a lot of money to struggling teams such as HRT, Minardi and Manor but no where near F1 worthy
Yeah no, you can definitely find guys worse than Maldonado and De Vries in the 2000s and 2010s, Rio Haryanto rings any bells?
Taki Inoue and Roberto Moreno deserve a pre 2000 list spot.
Narain Karthikeyan might not have been good, but he does still have a record on his name: He's the lowest placed finisher in F1 history. He first claimed that record during the 2011 Chinese GP, with only a single car retiring, and him finishing 23rd. In the European GP that same year he "improved" that record by finishing 24th in a race with no retirements at all. And with now only 20 cars on the grid, that record will likely never be broken.