Worst Racing Driver
Discussion
sixpackpert said:
He blamed the idle strategy for that.
Personally I'd nominate Ralf Schumacher.
Ralf Schumacher 
Trulli, is technically a very good driver, he's just not much of a racer, Fisichella, like most Italian racing drivers, is weak in the head...
but worst racing drivers? - its difficult to say, and they are not the preserve of f1, it might be more constructive to talk about most disappointing racing drivers as compared to their junior success / hype, jan magnussen for example, talented but lazy, ditto stefano modena; christian fittipaldi - did you see him in a1gp - his uncle was embarrassed hideki noda, taki inoue, johnathan palmer, julian bailey, norberto fontana, esteban tuero, anyone in the no 2 seat at brabham including giovanna amati, jerkoff jarvilehto, jos verstappen - what did he really do in f1 to justify his career?
but the worst ever jean denis deletraz - even i am better than him.
Trulli, is technically a very good driver, he's just not much of a racer, Fisichella, like most Italian racing drivers, is weak in the head...
but worst racing drivers? - its difficult to say, and they are not the preserve of f1, it might be more constructive to talk about most disappointing racing drivers as compared to their junior success / hype, jan magnussen for example, talented but lazy, ditto stefano modena; christian fittipaldi - did you see him in a1gp - his uncle was embarrassed hideki noda, taki inoue, johnathan palmer, julian bailey, norberto fontana, esteban tuero, anyone in the no 2 seat at brabham including giovanna amati, jerkoff jarvilehto, jos verstappen - what did he really do in f1 to justify his career?
but the worst ever jean denis deletraz - even i am better than him.
There was some guy that drove for Minardi as the third driver at the Hungarian GP last year. He managed a few laps and spun, was ten seconds off the pace of the regular drivers and I believe the FIA rewrote the rules on issuing superlisenses after that! Forget his name, think he was Arabian. He must surely qualify as one the most inept drivers to take part in a GP weekend.
Then again I also remember Taki Inoue, drove for Footwork/Arrows in 1994...
Then again I also remember Taki Inoue, drove for Footwork/Arrows in 1994...
Well I don’t have the encyclopaedic knowledge of racing that some of you do but there was a bloke in British Touring Cars about 10 years ago who was always at the back crashing into anyone else unfortunate enough to find themselves there with him. He drove a Peugeot 406 at some point, Patrick Watts maybe?
team underdog said:
Then again I also remember Taki Inoue, drove for Footwork/Arrows in 1994...
The only man to ever get run over by a saftey car
Hungarian GP 1995.
And he also got his car turned over at Monaco the same year, a course car driven by Jean Ragnotti hit him whilst he was being towed back to the pits.
The man was a walking.......er. driving hazardous zone.
mr_yogi said:
Well I don’t have the encyclopaedic knowledge of racing that some of you do but there was a bloke in British Touring Cars about 10 years ago who was always at the back crashing into anyone else unfortunate enough to find themselves there with him. He drove a Peugeot 406 at some point, Patrick Watts maybe?
Might have been Watts, but nevertheless he's had a long and succesful 'career'. I say it like that 'cos he was an amateur, mostly. He's currently enjoying himself competing in historic stage rallies in a very powerful Sunbeam Tiger, challenging the Escorts and 911's.
heebeegeetee said:
mr_yogi said:
Well I don’t have the encyclopaedic knowledge of racing that some of you do but there was a bloke in British Touring Cars about 10 years ago who was always at the back crashing into anyone else unfortunate enough to find themselves there with him. He drove a Peugeot 406 at some point, Patrick Watts maybe?
Might have been Watts, but nevertheless he's had a long and succesful 'career'. I say it like that 'cos he was an amateur, mostly. He's currently enjoying himself competing in historic stage rallies in a very powerful Sunbeam Tiger, challenging the Escorts and 911's.
Actually, Patrick Watts is quite well regarded and didn't have that much of a reputation as a crasher.
I think the driver in question might be Eugene O'Brien, who was Watts' team mate for a season or two. He definitely got a reputation as being a bit wild, and he himself admits that he regularly over-drove the car. The BTCC Peugeots were chronically underfunded and it was a true 'works' effort - the guys who ran the cars had been taken off the production lines at the Peugeot factory on Coventry!!!
(This is at a time when most of the other works efforts were run by professional motorsport teams)
As much as "Twatts" was a a t
t, he was also a very good driver.
He raced for Dad in the mid/late '80s in a Fiat Uno Turbo (1.3 turbo-charged I think) and beat Dad in the 3.0 GSE Monza, Escort 1.6 RS Turbo and various others in their Mitsubishi Colt Starions (class above) in the wet.
You have to remember in the '80s Dad only employed people he could appreciate some sort of financial benefit from sponsorship or the fact they were very good and (un)fortunately Twatts was a good 'un!!
It would be exceedingly harsh to say he was rubbish and just remember him for his time in the 405 with the Irish gimp O'Brien!!
Twatts is doing very well as a gentleman driver in his Sunbeam Tiger rallying, so good luck to him.
t, he was also a very good driver. He raced for Dad in the mid/late '80s in a Fiat Uno Turbo (1.3 turbo-charged I think) and beat Dad in the 3.0 GSE Monza, Escort 1.6 RS Turbo and various others in their Mitsubishi Colt Starions (class above) in the wet.
You have to remember in the '80s Dad only employed people he could appreciate some sort of financial benefit from sponsorship or the fact they were very good and (un)fortunately Twatts was a good 'un!!
It would be exceedingly harsh to say he was rubbish and just remember him for his time in the 405 with the Irish gimp O'Brien!!
Twatts is doing very well as a gentleman driver in his Sunbeam Tiger rallying, so good luck to him.
Worst? That's a difficult question, even more difficult than "best".
Comparatively speaking, at F1 level, I'd say Yuji Ide would have to take the cake as the worst. You've got to be bad to lose your Super Licence, considering the number of other questionable drivers who managed to retain it.
Comparatively speaking, at F1 level, I'd say Yuji Ide would have to take the cake as the worst. You've got to be bad to lose your Super Licence, considering the number of other questionable drivers who managed to retain it.
Marki said:
Mr_Thyroid said:
I'll start you off with Ricardo 'even though the biggest F1 crash in history is happening in front of me, I'm sure if I just keep my foot down and close my eyes, I'll get through it' Rosset.
Ricardo DeCrasheris is surly the King in this department
Just to clarify I'm refering to the white car which is the last to pile into the main accident.
You mean Andrea DeCrasheris of course.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=r3SZZBrMeEk
stockhatcher said:
Fisichella, like most Italian racing drivers, is weak in the head...
thats tickled me no end...
rosset was an utter chump and no mistake.
halfy (ralf) is my choice, he just shouldnt be where he is. im sure i heard a rumour when he was signed up by toyota that the company board thought they were getting michael, which is why they offered so much money.... for the first year of halfies career he rarely made it through the first cornor without punting some poor sod off..
I've seen Andrea DeCh a few times and he wasn't particularly bad. He had a habit of holding up other drivers who were attempting to lap him but he was hardly alone in this. Most Tyrell drivers had the same problem.
I remember one time in Monaco when he drove a very clever race before being taken out by Piquet, ironically enough when he was lapping him.
I remember one time in Monaco when he drove a very clever race before being taken out by Piquet, ironically enough when he was lapping him.
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