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It may be a controversial choice, but I'd put Brundle forward. I never understood how he had such a long career in f1 or how he got his seat at McLaren.

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What about Michael Andretti?

And Hill promptly DNQ'd for the next 5 races...
Amati wasn't F1 level sure, but the worst ever?
There are plenty of others out there who have never qualified for a race despite many more attempts than Amati.
Slow doesn't necessarily mean worst.

I was less interested in DNQ and more interested in the '5 seconds slower than her team mate'. That's how I judge drivers, relative to another driver with the same equipment. Drivers like Takagi and Badoer may have been 5 seconds off the pace of a world champion but were never that bad.

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I remember when this website was all fields.

Since I started watching in 2009, the worst people I have seen in F1 have been Badoer and Nakajima

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Team Vettel, Ricciardo, Bottas and Button.

Nah, not Brundle. He had a good record against team mates and while he wasn't outstanding he was a competent and reliable driver at least...hardly one of the worst ever.

I do find the whole topic rather humbling if you think about it very deeply. Granted, some of us may just be the next Hamilton, Vettel or Alonso if we had had the same opportunities but I think a lot of these "worst ever" drivers would still whip some of us in the same car.

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Cucumber!!!!

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Karun Chandhok was a bit gherkin poor, not the worst but still not fast.

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Chandhok, no way he was half decent, he beat any team mate he had even senna. It's cuz his Indian isn't.

Why would I care if he's Indian?

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Please, please, please don't go around throwing around racist accusations on no other premise than you found an opinion that disagrees with yours. It's a throwback to the worst of what we see on threads about Hamilton and derails threads faster than you can say trainwreck.

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The underlying thing about all this,no matter how bright you are,no matter how logical one is or how much money one has,you have to be a completely stupid optimist...I believe there are about 3 million competition licences worldwide. -Perry McCarthy

To look on the bright side, Alex Yoong is a pretty good commentator - certainly the best on ESPN/Star Sports .

*slow clap* Bravo, very endearing comment. /sarcasm

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Extremely good as a commentator though. I loved the Friday/Saturday sessions when he was in the studio, the guy is a library of knowledge.

As a driver not very impressive, but we've seen worse

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Ohh my god do I have to say "sarcasm" like this jeez, what Iam saying is that every team mate he had he beat , I could think of worser drivers you coulda picked, but it's ok totally your opinion, all good

I wouldn't even joke about the 'racist' subject around here mate, it really doesn't go down well, for future reference.

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No worries matey, might wanna be a bit more alluring in ur post towards me next time, I might think it's racist or offensive, can't tell me not one person on this whole site has ever brought up Lewis and his black comments. Just a joke mate jeez, anyway sorry.

Don't take it personally like that. Just remember that this is a public forum, you have kids that can be reading here. Apart from that, without smileys or quotes or whatever, you can understand it can be hard for everyone to see that it was a joke, some may not get it; not all people are fluent in English here, not all people come from where you come so not all people may share your kind of humour and find it funny. I know it was not intended as a nasty racist remark, but you need to understand why people could misinterpret it.

No harm done anyway

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It didn't offend me don't worry, I only get offended if someone insults my dog! Just thought I'd warn you that a lot of people do take offence. I mean people take offence if you say their driver isn't as good as yours etc, so imagine what a potentially racist comment could do!
On a different tangent, I was quite amused you said to be more "alluring" in posts towards you. Doesn't "allure" mean to entice someone, to be subtly attractive? I just picture tarting my posts up to entice readers now haha. I'll stop being random now, it's been a long first half of the day in work...

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Well I had to post as iam part Indian and Lebanese so I didnt find racist otherwise wouldn't post, as fir word alluring, why it's perfect analogy, as if iam not attracted to wat ur gonna post, I ain't gonna read it hey. Sorry don't me to come across so harsh, just find it your so straight forward with your answer assuming I wasn't of that decent.

S'all good dude!
I like the word alluring... I might use it more in day to day conversation...

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Never saw this before... this guy.

This was quite an embarrassing incident:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-PYq9T8ukyk

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twas funny

Chanoch Nissany gives me hope - with him having started racing at 38, I can still become a F1 driver even if I don't start in another 20 years or so!

He definitely qualifies on the list of worst F1 drivers though - talk about having no idea what you've gotten yourself into!

Yuji Ide... He should have stayed in JGTC or Formula Nippon.

Honestly, people said Pedro Diniz and Diniz was actually a solid driver and considering he was a pay driver he earned respect through the paddock after racing with Arrows and did quite well. Thats how he managed to get with Sauber.

Chandok is a top guy, but being an F1 driver was not his best deal. He did well in Le Mans, but F1 is another story.

Kazuki Nakajima was a decent driver as well. His first season was actually decent, but it was 2009 that pretty much rode him off. If, it was not for his dad and Toyota, I think he would have not gotten the seat, but he was decent.

Luca Badoer... All I have to say it German GP 1999. That just broke my heart as a child.

I did not see Deltraz or anyone else, so I do not really know.

I don't consider these guys to be bad because they maybe successful in other forms of motorsports and F1 is just not for them. They're professionals after all.

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No mention for Paul Belmondo yet?

Seen that clip many times, but every time I see it, damn how EMBARRASSING!!, I would have gnawed my way out of the car just not to get embarrassed in front of the motoracing world like that.

Unsurprisingly, he never made it anywhere near F1 but Andrew Ridgeley was as much use in an F3 car as he was in Wham!

Lol forgot about nissany, for all you other readers who didn't know my pick Taki Inoue was, this guy was the modern equiverlant

Mine too. That was an emotional race for a lot of people, with Frentzen losing a great chance to make up huge ground in the championship, Badoer and Stewart getting their first win. Badoer is a strange case because he has the dubious record of most races without a point so it's easy to think he was terrible, but he can't have been that bad or Ferrari wouldn't have retained him as a test driver all those years.

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The underlying thing about all this,no matter how bright you are,no matter how logical one is or how much money one has,you have to be a completely stupid optimist...I believe there are about 3 million competition licences worldwide. -Perry McCarthy

You also left out jarmo trullis first podium, that race is one of my favorite ever gps at one point ralf Schumacher looked like he would take his first one till tradegy struck, can't quite remember wat happened, puncture I think not sure.

I'd nominate Johnny Dumfries in the list. He was clearly there for hisone and only season because of his money but didn't show that much talent and was never looked by another team again

Yes that's the name coming to my mind too. He is easily the worst.

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Did Nissany ever participate in official qualifications or even friday testing? You can hardly call him an official F1 driver I think.

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I think nissany did a practice session at the hungarian gp dunno wat yr 2002 maybe don't know

He was driving in practice at Hungary 2005.

I say, steady on - that's a bit harsh. John Colum Crichton-Stuart, 7th Marquess of Bute (aka Johnny Dumfries aka John Bute) was pretty impressive in Formula 3. In 1984 he scored 14 wins and dominated the British F3 Championship and was runner-up to Ivan Capelli in the European F3 Championship. In 1988 with Andy Wallace and Jan Lammers he won the Le Mans 24 Hour Race.

He was less impressive in F3000 and F1, scoring only 3 points in his 1986 season with Lotus - though normal Lotus reliability meant that he retired from 9 of the 16 races. His presence in the Lotus F1 team had more to do with Ayrton Senna vetoing Derek Warwick as a team-mate than family money (he did not inherit the title and the fortune that went with it until 1993). He was replaced by Satoru Nakajima for 1987 - the price of Lotus getting Honda engines.

Incidentally, F3 success ran in the family, his older cousin Charles Crichton-Stuart was a successful F3 driver in the 1960s, winning the Argentine Temporada series in 1965. Charlie C-S later became an ace sponsor finder for Frank Williams, Ron Dennis and Alan Jones.

How about Gregor Foitek ? Ghinzani?

Not necessarily the worst drivers but drivers who came into F1 with teams who actually had a hope of scoring decent points, but were still pretty rubbish.

Antonia Pizzonia, Jan Magnussen, Michael Andretti, Ricardo Zonta, Shinji Nakano, Luciano Burti, Ralph Firman

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2013 - 10th Place - Winner of the Nico Hulkenberg Trophy and Mystic Eddie Jordan's Crystal Ball
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Pick 10 Podiums:
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3rd Place: China 2014