What Happened to The WORST F1 Drivers?

[@MiguelSamford]

I mean, is not that surprising that horrible F1 drivers have good results in other categories. After all, they somehow managed to be F1 drivers at first place

[@brentopp1ermore]

yeah except for that one women driver, pure money, she dident even have expeierence with f3

[@JonathanWalker-u6h]

@@brentopp1ermore True, but she did place third in the Radical SR3 Cup.

[@deathtrooper2048]

It's not because F1 is the most skillful motorsport, it's because catahories like lmp2 have assists like tracion control where the cars drive themselves.

[@TheGhoulKhz]

@@deathtrooper2048 even F1 had eras where TC was allowed(early 90s/2000s)

[@User-wz1fl]

If you do the same thing for 20+ years since you are 4yo ,unless you are a redfish i think its not difficult tò obtein some results

[@madkent_]

115 race winners in F1 ever and Maldonado is one of them also giving Williams their last race win.

[@SafwanHayaat]

Maldonado win was also pure talent and strategy, i dont remember any major crashes in that race. It was a masterclass drive from him

[@rumbling3991]

@@SafwanHayaat for every good finish , maldonado had to pay back with 3 ridiculous crashes

[@Semmeltaube]

Don‘t talk bad about Papa Maldonado, he was the Goat before it became a trend word

[@privateinformation2960]

people can say all they like about Maldonado, he didnt just win a race, he did it in a car that had no business anywhere near the front of the grid in the first place. He legitimately did have... something there. unlike, say.... Riccardo Rosset.

[@andredornelles8014]

Nothing happened to him, he just morphed into a new form of daddy's payed driver: Lance Stroll

[@andredornelles8014]

PS: Obviously Mazespin is a worse driver than Stroll, but they are both part of the "not good enough for F1, with a whinning attitude and I'm calling daddy" racing team

[@nathanb286]

@@andredornelles8014 I feel like stroll is a bit underrated, he is not that far off Alonso. I know he has his stupid moments, but he always had a bit of speed especially during his first few seasons at Williams and Racing Point

[@killerdreck]

I think Stroll is still an okay driver. But you can easily tell he doesn't care anymore. What happened in Brazil was clearly a cry for Daddy Stroll to get him out. I'm starting to feel geniuinely sorry for him.

[@GanyusSimp]

Paid

[@PTrep2727]

Stroll has a pole , multiple podiums. Yes he is infuriating sometimes but he belongs. 🤷

[@edwardbyard6540]

Luca Badoer shouldn't be on this - or any - worst F1 driver list. Michael Schumacher said he was the best driver he'd ever worked with, and someone who knew how to setup a car properly and trusted his feedback 100% - Michael also said without Luca, he wouldn't have won all of his championships at Ferrari. Ross Brawn said much the same. Luca still holds the record for most number of laps around Fiorano, and also has the lap record at the old Monza layout circuit. He's also an architect of some renown, and his son Brando is now racing karts, as is mentioned in the video.

[@draganluzija3823]

TBH, Badoer was not that bad. He raced at time when only top 6 scored points and in 2009 even Fisichella didn't score any points in that Ferrari

[@TheShockninja]

He was just in some terrible cars or terribly unreliable ones.

[@zordiark9673]

Badoer hasnt raced in F1 for 10 Years in 2009. I dont know why people think you just suddenly become God when you have a good Car lol.

[@privateinformation2960]

luca badoer was an absolute stalwart as a test driver who got rewarded from time to time with some great drives in some great cars, but was never going to be big time.

[@oraszuletik]

Badoer was a part of Ferrari's dominate years in Schumacher's era. To get such success (just think on year 2002) you need a very solid team.

[@jackybeck2479]

After you release the Badoer video, here are some suggestions for the next WOAT video: Riccardo Rosset Al Pease (Only driver to be black flagged for being TOO SLOW) Jean-Denis Deletraz Hans Heyer (Only driver to not qualify, not finish, and be black flagged from the same race all at once) Dave Walker (In 1972, he scored 0 points while teammate Emerson Fittipaldi won the title) Claudio Langes (He has the most failed attempts to qualify for a race)

[@BlueFox284]

I remember reading about Hans Heyer on the old F1 Rejects site. "So did he start race? Yes, he did. Just because something happened when it wasn't supposed to happen doesn't change the fact that it did happen." That line always stuck with me. 😂 The 70's were wild. The absolute cheek of Hans & Co. to just say "FK it, enter the race anyway." Was ballsy.

[@ThePapaja1996]

Al Pease kzbin.info/www/bejne/oHnQaYZvp7GFm5Isi=Jr74ziHXGig0Rc1z

[@IGLArocknroll]

Shoutout to you for mentioning Claudio Langes, who still holds the record of being entered into the most F1 races without actually participating in one. Oh, and since you've mentioned Dave Walker, who managed to score a grand total of 0 points, while his teammate won the title, we shouldn't forget about Johnny Dumfries. He was the teammate of Ayrton Senna in 1986. Senna gave Piquet, Prost and Mansell a good run for their money, and ended up being fourth in the championship, while Dumfries managed to score a grand total of 3 points in that season.

[@edenkim4103]

Also Alessio Deledda and Tatiana Calderon both of them are F2 (CAL: 19, 22, DEL: 2021)

[@footynutguy]

That’s surprising about Inoui. I got told that he got a job to park supermarket trolleys and got sacked after an hour as he kept crashing them. I guess I was misinformed.

[@TheVredeHunter]

Thumbnail implying Mazaspin went on to become a soldier is just crazy. That guy knows nothing but being pampered and catered to

[@pacificbob24]

As a Canadian, please forget Stroll and Latif. We also had one of the all-time greats, Jaques Villeneuve.

[@LeeePowers]

Gilles > Jacques

[@privateinformation2960]

oh yeah the ex rock star who wanted to race cars... oh wait no sorry the ex racing driver who wanted to be a rockstar. my bad homie. kind of failed at both. yep got a championship but kind of turned into Paul Tracy... but without the longevity or talent.

[@fishii8237]

Those are literally the only other Canadians to score points, the dropoffs from best to second best to third to fourth to fifth are all insane😭

[@sierratango6574]

Am I the only one that remembers that Jacques gave Michael Schumacher a run for his money numerous times? I used to stay up all night to watch those races live. I was a crazy teenager F1 enthusiast. I remember some of the greatest competitive racing at that time coming from those two. I really miss those times.

[@JoshuaMorales-o1e]

Maldonado wasnt bad he was just had a too aggresive driving style

[@TheShockninja]

One driver who almost nobody thinks of is Otto Stuppacher. During his 3 rounds in 1976 he never raced. He initially failed to qualify for Italy, being 13.87 seconds off the pace and left the track before discovering that he was allowed to race after three drivers were excluded from qualifying. He also failed to qualify in Canada, where he was 12.696 seconds off the pace (his closest rival was nearly 7 seconds faster), and also DNQed in the United States where he was… 27.448 SECONDS OFF THE FREAKING PACE!!!! That was the end of his career and little known was heard about him before he passed away in 2001.

[@privateinformation2960]

yeah but then you would have to include about 1/3rd of the driver roster in the 90s and thats a damn long list.

[@JonathanWalker-u6h]

I for real didn’t even hear about We Compete as One before watching this video😂

[@privateinformation2960]

i love that tagline - "We compete as one - unless youre russian in which case it doesnt count because um... mazepin is the sole cause of every single russian act that ever happened. Sack Mazepin, because um.... he comes from the same place Stalin kil... oh wait no, we like stalin now dont we its people who arent as left leaning as stalin who are the facists now.... lemme think of something..."

[@GlitchingGecko]

To be fair to Giovanna Amati, she was replaced by Damon Hill, who also failed to qualify for the next FIVE races; that's how bad the car was.

[@fyrdraca77]

That's rather unfair on Badoer, he ran in back of the grid cars for all his career in the 90's, and nearly got a Minardi 4th at Nurburgring before the car broke down. He did sterling testing work for Ferrari in the 2000's and was a good behind the scenes factor for the car's improvement in those years.

[@AndyFromBeaverton]

Luca was below average as a racing driver, but in today's point system, he would have 26 points to his name.

[@john2.099]

I don't understand how you don't understand that it's not -only- the money that got these folks into F1. You have to have considerable skill just to drive a hot lap, let alone win/podium/earn points. You being surprised F1 drivers win in other lower-end series is like being surprised the worst baseball player in the MLB goes down to high school level baseball and destroys them. Rule of thumb: Anyone who races professionally would love to drive in F1. They don't because they don't have the talent. If they did, they'd be racing in F1. So the 20 or so drivers on the grid are the top 20 or so drivers in THE WORLD give or take. There are thousands of other drivers out there and dozens upon dozens of other disciplines. The guy that's the worst F1 driver is still lightyears ahead of an average racing driver.

[@zordiark9673]

This... and Maldonado was in fact a GP2 winner and therefore was the jump into F1 a No-Brainer. Sometimes people just cant be good in F1, even if they dominated the junior categories.

[@brentopp1ermore]

Maldonado is basically albon except he was a little better

[@Neon-Neste]

I agree, that Badoer was unforgivenly awful in his stint at Ferrari, but bruh... He had not started a race in almost T-E-N years, not just in F1, but in anywhere. People always forget that he helped certain team called, Ferrari to develop world-crushing F2002 and F2004's. So... He had something!

[@Neon-Neste]

Not saying, that he would have been next Ascari or something, but in right circumstance's maybe "New Patrese".

[@h3llr4iser1]

Yeah no. Taki Inoue yes, Iuji Ide yes, Giovanna Amati was a publicity stunt; the others here don't remotely belong to this list. Maldonado won a race in a car that was midfield at best, beating ALONSO in the process (how, it's another matter - chances are, Williams guessed the setup right for that specific race!). Anyone who thinks Pastor, Stroll, Latifi, Mazepin and Badoer (who was instrumental in the Ferrari dominance years, he was the development driver for these cars) belong anywhere near a list of "worst of all times", has a serious lack of knowledge about F1 and the "playboy drivers" years, when literally anybody with a little cash could buy themselves a seat in F1...

[@jeffery7281]

Ide actually a pretty decent driver in GT catalogue, so the only problem is why someone will decided to put a GT driver into the cockpit of an F1 car.

[@therealf.b.i9468]

Mahaveer spent time improving his driving skills in the sim while he was out of f2 since 2020, his pace is quite decent but still 1.5 - 1.8 sec off the best simracer in the world. In real life it's all about confidence and he finally isn't scared of speed anymore. You can see his onboard on his channel, he's quite fast

[@privateinformation2960]

"Hes quite fast" compared to what? A wet week?

[@therealf.b.i9468]

@privateinformation2960 do your research mate. He set P3 lap time in WEC LMGT3 testing at Bahrain.

[@terzo9627]

So smooth transition to the sponsor of the video. Well done!

[@ChromolyCowboy]

I can't wait for stroll to be the next host of Canada's worst driver

[@itoshiigrauben]

I almost forget that show existed hahahaha

[@nicolesgaming8917]

To be fair, Stroll beat Sirotkin in 2018. Only once in 8 seasons has Stroll beaten a teammate across a full season, that's terrible.

[@TheMack177]

who was a rookie and has beaten Stroll in qualies

[@nicolesgaming8917]

@TheMack177 fair

[@starboy_1684]

12:27 Oh My God!!!! What was that..!!?

[@Soemtreinverhalen]

One word Painfull

[@ainsleycailipan2005]

Finally great content 🎉🎉🎉

[@omotayoogunrinde-w9d]

MAN i wanted to be an F1 driver when grow up but now I realize it expensive to be a F1 driver 😢😞

[@mnjofficial_yt]

hardwork will pay off start by karting in germany france uk or any major country and then reach f3 then f2 then get a chance in f1 thank me later

[@awesomezayd10]

Me too bruh

[@MericaAnderson]

Dont worry it took me a long road too you will get there

[@omotayoogunrinde-w9d]

@mnjofficial_yt Thanks man now I can able to be an F1 driver 😀

[@ChrisPieceman]

Me too.

[@jeffreytackett3922]

Wow. I've seen some people take things poorly, in my lifetime. I've never seen someone create an entire foundation aimed at soothing their ego. That's quite an impressive level of fit-pitching.

[@andreqw5]

I love your videos!

[@glinzo5431]

Great content, great voice. Sometimes your Voice sounds like Tiff Needell‘s

[@ficchiala3492]

In this channel you often speach about "daddy's cash" , you are right about the drivers that you mention, they cut some corners... but should be remembered that absolutely no one without a super super healty family can even hope to start a career in 4 wheel motorsport ... Meritocracy exists in the small group of people whose family has been able to afford to spend loads of money to arrive in some minor Formula and hopefully grow, improve etc... till GP2, F1 etc (obviously with some few exceptions)

[@faoxfalcofalcon7553]

If only they weren't going for F1 in the first place, their tale might have been different.

[@depressedFerrarifan]

Live your vids bro

[@hamdanali2036]

maldonado has always had one thing in his defence; when he’s behaving, he was INSANELY fast. the amount of times he qualified between 2nd and 5th in the 2012 season with that donkey williams was mental. but yeah… bro was more crash happy than logan sergeant on meth

[@IronPiper]

Perked me up when a saw a viddddddddddddd woooot. Thanks dude man guy :D

[@djvycious]

Luca Badoer, seriously? Yeah he was not going to fare well in 2009 after 10 years out of racing. It was a gift to him from Ferrari. The guy was in 4th in a Minardi and was on course for a podium finish before the car gave out. His stints in F1 were an awful Lola Scuderia Italia, an equally awful 1995 Minardi, a 1996 Forti running on a budget in the negatives, and an underdeveloped and underfunded Minardi. Badoer did what any competent driver could have done with his machinery, but no one was happy to see him retire from the Nurburgring in 1999.

[@Ben_Mayall]

Fun fact I have about Yuji Ide! He blocked me on Twitter. Why? I called him the GOAT.

[@hakurou8960]

Japanese F1 drivers tend to drift is somehow like a natural talent

[@edenkim4103]

@DailyFuelUp Top 10 Worst F1(ONLY) Drivers(Lord Mahaveer didn’t make it into F1) 1st: Giovanna Amati, 1992 2nd: Nikita Mazespin, 2021 3rd: Taki Inoue, 1995 4th: Yuji Ide, 2006 5th: Max Papis, 1995 6th: Bertrand Gachot, 1991 7th: Lance Stroll, 2021-24+ 8th: Luca Badoer, Everything but Europe 1999 9th: Esteban Gutteiez(?), 2013-14(ONLY) 10th: Nyck de Vries, 2023 34th: Lord Maldonado, Everything but Spain 2012 79th: Nicholas Goatifi, EVERYTHING

[@nathanb286]

Lance Stroll has been done dirty

[@Sainz55Forever]

​@@nathanb286ye, he isnt that bad

[@c3gfboy7]

nick de vries has been actually decent now in sports cars recently

[@thesnackbandit]

Putting Stroll in this list is absurd.

[@IGLArocknroll]

Bertrand Gachot and Max Papis? There were far worse drivers, even in the past couple of years (Sargeant, among others). I would've said Dave Walker (he failed to score a point while his teammate won the WDC), Johnny Dumfries (scored 3 points against Senna's 55, driving the exact same car), Claudio Langes (14 entries, failed to pre-qualify in all 14 of them), or Eric van der Poele (29 entries but only 5 starts)

[@KMerse1]

Hands off of Badoer! He was a very capable driver, and a great development driver! Schumacher and Todt themselves said that Badoer had a huge role in Ferrari's dominance and he actually drove a Ferrari F1 car more than anyone ever in history, based on kilometers due the countless days of testing. So yeah, Luca may not have been an elite driver, but he had some great results in lower categories.

[@malthesrensen4953]

14:08 He has NOT been dominated by every teammate. Did very well against Massa in his rookie season being only 18 years old. In his next season, HE dominated Sir Otkin

[@HereticalKitsune]

Now I wonder which are more common, good or bad pay drivers in F1.

[@InitialP_Photography]

Why is Hulkenshite never involved in these "worst drivers" things, the king of the bottle, the ultimate loser.

[@zordiark9673]

Because he is mediocre. Thats better than sucking..

[@kpal2946]

Lance Stroll is a science experiment, he is actually a saskquatch. They shave him down before each race. Now with that information he is the best saskquatch that has ever driven an F1 car

[@dycelord]

🤣🤣

[@Aovelius]

Question from me as the uninitiated, how do the no-podium racers rotate as the representatives of their teams? Is there a requirement for wins/positions or is the only requirement being"dont be dead last" in order to keep driving for the same team for multiple years. Not everyone can win, so do the "failed" racers get scrapped in favor of the new young blood or do they stay, and if they do then why?

[@AntoniWłodarczyk-u6h]

Kacper Sztuka won the F4 title and he's shit in F3. HOW?! Hate to say this as a Polish motorsports fan, but...

[@NormalPolishBoy]

Dang, now that i have heard of that... yeesh.

[@IGLArocknroll]

Well, he did what a Stuka does usually: flew high, then entered into a steep dive.

[@najmizulkarnaim4709]

Present W.O.A.T drivers:Nikita Mazespin+Nicholas Goathifi+Lord MR+Niels Hotlen Past W.O.A.T Drivers:Yuji Id1ck,Taki Innoying,First F1 Woman Driver that kick after 3 races.

[@darttroll7666]

I think you put Goatifi in the wrong category

[@zordiark9673]

Goatifi was at least better than Sargeant...

[@boabdownunder]

Maldonado had heaps of talent , won GP2 , put a back marker Williams on pole then won from pole. Was he hot headed and made some unbelievable decisions, yes. Worst. not by a long way. there are at least 3 drivers on the grid now worse than him

[@jiggmin1234]

The fact Mahaveer Raghunathan made into this video, despite never reaching F1, is fucking hilarious 🤣

[@jkim6200]

I know that Andrea de Cesaris showed some speed at Marlboro Alfa Romeo, but you(r) leaving him off the list is ridiculous

[@Butterfingers1989]

If you see a random tank doing 360s somewhere near Kharhiv, we know who it is.

[@shmet]

Stroll and Maldonado are debatable, but are absolutely not amongst the worst f1 drivers

[@Erredupizer]

oh god I misheard 'MBA course' as 'NBA course' and thought Goatifi wanted to buy his way into basketball next

[@Mogzilla86]

Can you do a video on Rosset?

[@RandomGuy08-f1j]

Can’t help but miss the W.O.A.T.s

[@dariussatius1621]

I'm eager to learn about Luca Badoer 😂 Legends need publicity

[@Aikisbest]

Pretty sure VPN providers HAVE to share data with certain authorities if needed.

[@goose4150]

Couldn't think of anything more "stay away from" than Mazepin in a Kamaz truck. Also has Sargeant been left out because otherwise it would have been a Williams drivers' rant?

[@fishii8237]

Its too recent, however he’s doing indycar testing

[@SuperNoviceDriver]

The worst big leagues athletes is probably still really good compared to a regular person or semi pro players

[@Gooner333333333]

But when it's more than 1 person driving the same car, can you call it a win for an individual driver?

[@sarthak_ingole]

14:55 this looks cool tho 😭

[@thisisfaka]

Maldonado was not that bad, I mean winning a race in an unreliable Williams during a season that had like 6 teams much better than that one..

[@Ice711official7]

Stroll: I’m still standing

[@Rupert_editz]

Tbf I never thought latifi was that bad, he got a few good points. Yes, maybe he wasn’t BRILLIANT, but he could compete. his debut season was good. Definitely dosent count as a WOAT in my opinion. Although this dosent mean he wasn’t not a good driver.

[@GEODUCK9]

You missed crashstappen, He is still in F1 but was def up there with one of the worst, got better, starting driving into people again recently

[@RetepElpmet]

I wonder if any of these drivers regret their time in F1.

[@AJ_Iredell]

I wouldn’t be surprised if Williams hires all these drivers

[@mcwhiskey3005]

The true G.O.A.T. is Latifi hands down... truly on another level😅

[@louisbeerreviews8964]

No

[@pain.497]

WOAT*

[@juanatethejetdryer7580]

Man that thumbnail had me have high hopes lol (I do wish he was on the front tho tbh)

[@Cylonknight]

Damn was Mazepin a straight up clone of his dad? That’s wild.

[@auricom8472]

I dunno if mazepin is the woat now simply because stroll is easily spearheading his way to claim that title.

[@marjowanten6407]

I miss Jos Verstappen in this overview. He ended almost every race in the gravel. His name: “grindbak “ Jos.

[@IGLArocknroll]

Yet he was able to score points with some utter dogshite cars, in times when only the first 6 scored a point (1996 Argentina, 2001 Canada), plus he has shown good performance in a lot of other races. I remember vividly, when he held up Villeneuve for laps, while driving what was described by a commentator as a "mobile roadblock".

[@johannkrist]

Well the worst of them all has still one race left. Goodbye Sergio Perez.

[@walker8846]

DO NOT BALME GOATIFI FOR THAT CRASH IN MELBOURNE. We all know it was Stroll who was at fault. I demand an official retraction.

[@abduvwxyz]

Goat Mahaveer Raghunathan >>

[@toni8003]

Why is Mick Schumacher in the thumbnail?

[@Averageracingfan]

2022

[@boabdownunder]

Ide was a good driver, the politics of Honda and Super Aguri rocketed him to a seat along side Sato that he was never prepared for that. Jr Formula records pre and post F1 show he was talented but never an F1 level driver, they did the same thing with Yamamoto

[@keepwalkingVTEC]

I really was hoping for the Indian dude 😂😂😂

[@tomm1413]

I prefer to refer to them as COWs Completely Obsolete Worst

[@stralog]

So why no Grosjain in this video?

[@notanairbusa380]

It is true we love a lot of the bad drivers, except for *cough cough Lance Stroll cough cough*

[@G0nZ4Low]

And then there's MBS who ends up leading FIA

[@atomicgunpla]

The war with Ukraine and Russia had nothing to do with mazepin getting booted eh?

[@deathtrooper2048]

Where's Grosjean?

[@louisbeerreviews8964]

He isn’t worse

[@SuperEpicCookies]

Grosjean actually won some F1 races and when he didn't crash he did okay

[@NonUser881]

@@SuperEpicCookiesGrosjean never won a race in F1 he got 10 podiums

[@Claddaghplanes]

He isn't as bad as man city

[@patricklemire9278]

Today in QATAR the field was spread my like 1.5 seconds front to back. Even the worst driver in worst car. So in civilian scales none of them are terrible. Brendan Hartley and Antonio Giovannazi are studs in WEC. So, Lawrence Stroll please move Lance over to WEC HyperCars Aston Martin and give someone else a crack.

[@TheHoldenmcgroin]

"We Launder Money As One" more like....

[@DVAmarkera]

Петров Грожан Стролл 😂

[@tomorainns145]

What about andreas de cesaris? He was bloody hopeless

[@dayshi1989]

I would say that Taki Inoue ist still the goat of the worse f1 drivers

[@NeverNotHoopin]

Where is Mick on this list? He did more in damage than Mazepin while on same team. I guess he get gets a pass because of his hypocritical cheating dadd.

[@anthonycorbett8459]

Well said absolutely no respect for his dad !!!

[@ShInYaKu88]

Mick had less crashes boy. he just had more expensive ones. just think about the crash where his car brakes in two parts.

[@ShInYaKu88]

@@anthonycorbett8459 Schumacher is the GOAT, shut up

[@NeverNotHoopin]

@ShInYaKu88 I'm not your boy son. More expensive equals less money for development since it counts towards the budget cap.

[@osiris9918]

Love your vids but taking a dig at Luca's kid was... Uhm low yk

[@josephtww88]

The god stroll is still in f1

[@David1991.]

Yuki is still in F1 with no wins and pole positions

[@iavor3377]

Really the hate Stroll gets is way over the top.

[@Rupert_editz]

I agree.

[@zocker1600]

Somehow I really miss Pastor Maldonado :(

[@ggjb1892]

Bro u did not have to call him a kamikaze 😂😂😂 that’s gotta be racist

[@PlanXV]

Only way to drive a F1 car is fast or it will go off the track 😊

[@Yeet-or-be_Yeeten]

I was going to comment about some shit but man bring in “Swiss privacy laws” internet privacy provider compared to a bank is comedy

[@albertusaswin2012]

Lance Stroll is still around ffs 🙄

[@NicotineRosberg]

If u think Mazepin or Maldonado is nowhere near the worst to ever race in F1 then clearly u just started watching lol 😅😂