Top 10 WORST F1 Drivers (2000-2023)

[@mauryeetss3561]

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!

[@mike04574]

He was much slower than his teammmate and everyone else. Didn’t do much of note. He does deserve it or Atleast honorable mentions

[@rileyshuman2553]

@@mike04574 how can he be slower than his teammate if he beat George Russel?

[@mike04574]

@@rileyshuman2553 look at quali and come back

[@mauryeetss3561]

@@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.

[@andreademarchi7495]

​@@mauryeetss3561 I think he should at least earn the 10 spot,he's certainly worst than De Vries but way better tan Mazespin

[@marcocatania8398]

Lets be honest latifi is no where near top 10 worst of the last 23 years

[@caseyf14483]

fax he's only here for clicks, respect the hussle tho 🤑

[@toyotaecw]

Latifi might not be the absolute worst… but Goatifi is hands down the absolute best of the millennia

[@MinhLe-kt5zg]

He’s defs not the worst but he’s defs very far up in the worst

[@jollyboy7]

I miss Latifi! I was hoping he would jump over to Indy.

[@zegzbrutal]

GOATifi forever

[@Moray2023]

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.

[@piast99]

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.

[@DeezNutsInYourFace]

@@piast99there’s crashing a lot and then there’s Maldonado

[@laurierastogi3512]

I believe qualifying was close between Gutierrez and Grosjean at Haas in 2016, but I cannot defend him too much other than that.

[@Corvus67]

Gutierrez was so forgettable I guess Will forgot him with regards to his driving...

[@aberamagold7509]

​@@laurierastogi3512 So not being beaten too badly by Grosjean in Quali is where the bar has been set? 🤣🤣🤣🤣

[@filipvitanovsky5413]

Latitfi started racing karts 8 years later than most drivers, considering this his career wasnt so bad imo.

[@anusername8350]

If he started the same time everyone else did he might have been a pretty solid F1 driver. Maybe Sainz level.

[@Ashley-iz9iy]

Would've loved to see him in endurance

[@foxy126pl6]

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

[@mike04574]

Doesn’t excuse

[@martixak]

@@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

[@SandroDoulis]

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 :)

[@anusername8350]

He just went for the meme picks

[@BloodNothinglol]

ok

[@shayzadg]

​@@anusername8350yes that's why I downvoted this shite list

[@kleb3609]

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

[@FormulaFox]

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.

[@w1ld51]

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.

[@simonkevnorris]

I always thought Maldonardo was very much a Jeckyl and Hyde character. It was just down to which one turned up for the event.

[@mattiasgarbi9470]

Maldonado was far extreme than Grosjean: more talented but messier.

[@MahmoudHAhmad]

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.

[@timy0218]

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

[@matevalkocz4180]

De Vries on top 10 worst is really unrealistic anyway, that is 100 percent recently bias.

[@hanse81]

You know, making a bad list will make more viewer interactions.

[@phightinphil25]

I think the Manor/Virgin/Marussia drivers should have been better represented. Very few good drivers outside of Bianchi, Ocon, and Wehrleine.

[@Noble8078]

fun fact: Nakajima was the only driver in 2009 who competed in every race to not score a point

[@luuduonghy659]

That just how bad he is.

[@tomastoth4018]

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!

[@Daniel-gd8uy]

nowadays sauber is doing the same

[@nathanb286]

Maldonado being on this list whilst he has won a race is disgraceful

[@Martinspire]

He's not on this list for being a slow driver. He's there because he's a maniac

[@jonathanpuggleworth8259]

The fact he won a race means he should be excluded entirely

[@trololo5540]

​@@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

[@jamiepirie7342]

Say that to the drivers he nearly killed being a crash test dummie.

[@luuduonghy659]

@@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.

[@thunderdragon6318]

When Lotus had both Grosjean and Maldonado, I was just like "Lotus...are you OK?"

[@JohnSmith-mk5jt]

After Spa 2012, my line of thinking was more like, "Romain, are you okay? Why don't you brake Romain?"

[@laurenmp7486]

Lotus "does it look like we're okay?"

[@random_username_thats_not_used]

​​@@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 "

[@matthiascerebri3315]

​@@JohnSmith-mk5jtand He was until 2020

[@54_ocram46]

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.

[@jax4113]

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

[@SrRookPA]

Jolyon palmer

[@FlankerB3]

@@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.

[@luuduonghy659]

@@jax4113Although he close to be in the list, mostly due to his poor performance in 2009.

[@54_ocram46]

@reichsfuhrermonika6469 I been watching every race, qualy and FP session since 2009 when I was 8

[@jayveehaitch]

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.

[@rolandmclovin1499]

Also Sean Gelael *BRUH*

[@JohnSmith-mk5jt]

Putting Maldonado on this list is EXTREMELY harsh

[@neverenoughgames72]

Haryanto, Palmer....

[@jayveehaitch]

@@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...

[@neverenoughgames72]

@@jayveehaitch Yes i completely forgot those you listed aswell. Will 'The Lad' Stevens (Nr1 for cringey nicknames) is also on there.

[@Adroityro]

I will not stand for this Goatifi slander

[@MrSniperfox29]

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.

[@harry69007]

@@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.

[@MrSniperfox29]

@@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.

[@JonBooth-bi8cl]

😂😂😂😂

[@pranc236]

@@harry69007they are fans. Team LH… we race as one and all

[@DedMan28]

Judging by that thumbnail, we already know who's gonna be top in this...

[@mandolo100]

Trust me, you don't.

[@countmorbid3187]

Mahaveer! You missed him by only 2 years? Common man ... Mahaveer deserves a place on this list!

[@mixalis475loll]

Mahaveer never was 8n f1

[@whermans]

@@mixalis475loll He did an F1 test, that's gotta count right?

[@tommythetreat000]

Lord Mahaveer has more talent in one finger than the entire 2023 F1 grid combined.

[@Moray2023]

@@whermans he keeps getting invited back to test the McLaren so must do something to the table

[@thefitguy7212]

​@@mixalis475lollI liked how you used the digit 8

[@kirliefiguera8627]

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.

[@BloodNothinglol]

Yes but that was one race weekend. You have to look at the rest of the season 😒

[@kirliefiguera8627]

@@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!!

[@kirliefiguera8627]

@@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

[@FlankerB3]

@@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.

[@dylansmit3883]

After finally getting out of his Minardi, Channoch Nissany said he had crashed because the car had 'too much grip'. What a lad.

[@jacekatalakis8316]

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....

[@samiraperi467]

Roy Nissany is a 2nd gen paydriver? That explains why I've been seeing that name since forever.

[@NoLuckJKMY807]

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.

[@d_cave486]

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.

[@skyhigh6089]

Merhi was abysmal. I agree about the others.

[@d_cave486]

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)

[@leonschultz8544]

Scott speed deserves a mention too, c'mon now

[@mattiasgarbi9470]

Borderline, 9-10th or dishonorable mention

[@RJFHMusic]

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

[@Moray2023]

To be fair to Max, he was better than Stevens. I actually remember Merhi being better than Stevens overall for some reason.

[@RJFHMusic]

@@Moray2023 There was definitely some really forgetful drivers in those days, feels strange looking back on now haha

[@Duval-In-The-Wall]

Chilton finished every race of his debut year somehow lol

[@richmont9557]

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

[@CytrusF1]

If its not Yuji Ide we riot

[@potatogirlcultist19]

It's not, but the number 1 makes this forgivable.

[@wenyhreg1752]

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".

[@FP1Will]

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

[@Sampexizcool]

@@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

[@filipkradijanseider7332]

The fact there were worse drivers than Mazepin is really scary

[@mr.mikemikey]

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

[@farizrizkyalfian1497]

I thought Rio Haryanto would be included in the list

[@coin5207]

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?

[@Nico_6967]

That wasn’t a thing back then

[@tokdo4960]

He's lucky only his career very slowly went down in flames

[@thomassf3]

People like Stevens and Haryanto are definitely worse than Latifi, De Vries and Maldonado IMO

[@barrymckockinner8476]

It's a crime you didn't mention Nissany complained about "Too much grip" after his session.

[@yondabigman4668]

Ign review of F1

[@DJBubbleBoy]

I had Mazepin at number 1, but only because I'd actually forgotten about the other 2.

[@victorgaviraflorido1876]

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

[@jedgamesguy]

Hating on Latifi may be popular but he was by no means a top 10 worst driver.

[@AnggaTangerang]

Putting Lord Maldonado as worst F1 driver is really crime.

[@crystalracing4794]

Full of meme picks. The likes of Gutierrez, Palmer, Mazzacane & Yamamoto have to be here.

[@JohnAgustinScuderia458595]

Holy the F1 2009 Game! I know it wasn't the best of F1 games but this was my childhood!

[@FormulaFox]

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.

[@miguelaraya6053]

We need King Latifi back, the only one with the power to create new champions

[@Mr.Goldbar]

Interesting to see Merhi being the only driver in existence to get demoted from F1 to F2 lol

[@EpIcPoWeR93]

Horrible list, it seems like you included the most memeable drivers and not the actual worst ones, Maldonado is nowhere near the top 10 worst drivers.

[@AA-ks7bo]

bruh you couldn't have picked a worse one for #10. de vries embarrassed himself for half a season and that makes him the 10th worst of the 21st century? meanwhile daniel ricciardo embarrassed himself for 2 full seasons... if you wanna completely ignore nyck's other racing successes, i see no reason why we shouldn't ignore everything danny ric did pre-mclaren.

[@FP1Will]

The difference is we’re looking at their time in f1. Danny ric had success there. De vries did not. By that logic we could include Michael Schumacher for his Mercedes stint

[@luuduonghy659]

@@FP1WillRicciardo done well on Red Bull, Renault

[@eamonahern7495]

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.

[@minhhoangle2418]

Stroll not included over Pastor should be a crime😂

[@gswizzy17]

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.

[@WizardOfOss]

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.

[@Deusstyles]

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.

[@MickPsyphon]

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.

[@gemellimusic931]

Paul Belmondo should be in that list too

[@Calilasseia]

Oh good grief, anyone unfamiliar with Grouillard should listen to the comments the late, great Murray Walker issued about him during race commentary. Walker would certainly vouch for Grouillard as a candidate.

[@ricky4129]

Mazepin's crying interview is one for the ages

[@Snufflegrunt]

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

[@MikoyanGurevichMiG21]

Damon Hill proved there's nothing called "too old" to step into F1.

[@Snufflegrunt]

@@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.

[@ThePapaja1996]

Alain prost start his carting carrier at 14 and Kimi Räikkönen did start his at 11@@Snufflegrunt

[@hjjubnh]

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

[@stephenyates962]

What about Sakon Yamamoto? Wasn't he worse than Crashtor Maldonado?

[@Martinspire]

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...

[@keio5274]

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

[@luuduonghy659]

Vandoorne hasn't done too bad, sadly 2018 was awful season for him as he fail to beat his teammate once in qualifying.

[@jakubklinger2289]

Maldonado was very fast at good days but extremly hot headed.

[@FormulaFox]

"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."

[@tobbsnobb1366]

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

[@The_MostHigh]

Why is Mick Schumacher missing from this list?

[@Moray2023]

Because he was faster than both his team mates

[@IIGrayfoxII]

Because he is the "Son of Micheal Schumacher" People put him on a high pedestal because of it

[@n1kok1ller]

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

[@jbaidley]

No Nelson Piquet Jr? I think he earned it in Singapore 2008, even allowing for his lucky podium in Germany.

[@pikestance8851]

A small comment for the apologetics. A driver is fast but prone to crashing is not a fast driver. racing is about being fast consistently.

[@gemellimusic931]

Zoomers didn't know about Jerome D'Ambrosio, Patrick Friesacher and Chanoch Nissany (yeah, the father of Roy Nissany)

[@lgndk11r]

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.

[@seymoursnewsandblogs5353]

He forgot estoban gutierez and Rio Harianto. They should be number 1

[@wingunder]

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!!!

[@Klassik_KT]

If only Mahaveer Ragunathan was in F1 once…

[@FP1Will]

Ikr…

[@jasonodlin8305]

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

[@alejandrogil2208]

Di Grassi? Just cause he raced for Virgin? Are you actually dumb?

[@jcdenton3062]

Maldonado was quick in quali, he just lacked awarenes in race conditions. Goatifi managed to get something out of really bad cars. He got more points than Gutiérrez in less races.

[@carljohnson3285]

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 !

[@adityasentosa359]

Scott Speed? Esteban Gutierrez? Cristijan Albers?

[@harmkuijpers6642]

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.

[@MrRando-cs1sn]

0:52 Man I was really expecting you to flex a serious sim rig

[@Durbanite2010]

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).

[@simonkevnorris]

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.

[@extremegrieferbible]

Rosset did not compete in Formula 1 in the 2000s. He's guaranteed a top spot on nearly every 90s list though.

[@simonkevnorris]

@@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.

[@awifayyadh3870]

As an Indonesian, I'm surprised not to see Rio Haryanto here lmaoooo

[@ferrari7700]

Almost all paid drivers aren't otherwise would qualify on the basis of their racing talent.

[@scsmith4604]

This list makes a great case that F1 does not necessarily have the best 20 drivers in the world at any one time.

[@tomhutchins7495]

Maldonado's win remains highly suspicious.

[@jo_een_noob]

Roy Nissany attacked himself with the car of Hauger in the clip it was so dumb of him

[@AbouTaim-Lille]

I think Nick De Vries problem is just lack of adaptation. He just didn't have the same DNA with the new car system which lead to him being not in a good form. The same lack of adaptation problem for example happened to Seb Vettel after 2013 season with the new regulations that turned out to be the limit that ended his brilliant career. It is like changing from Roland Garros to Wimbledon in tennis. Both are great tournaments in tennis but each one needs different skills and in each one there are special type of players that would flourish.

[@normanfernandez-robert4962]

Alex Young had not much choice, it was a Malaysian funded team and he was not ready for Formula 1. He had his arm twisted. Take the opportunity or stay in Formula 2 without funding.

[@jeffsparey9585]

Watching this just reminds me how boring boring boring ,sanitized F1 is nowadays

[@mauriciopimentel6451]

Yeah no, you can definitely find guys worse than Maldonado and De Vries in the 2000s and 2010s, Rio Haryanto rings any bells?

[@RexytheRexy]

"I bet you couldn't do any better" is one hell of a response. There's a key issue with that argument: it isn't FP1Will's job to drive an F1 car.

[@JDSilence]

De Vries and Maldonado on the list and you know that it’s not even worth watching the rest of this video.

[@matthiascerebri3315]

I would switch Maldonado in favour of Gutierrez, Haryanto, Bernoldi, Chandhok, Pic, Van der Garde or Speed

[@GerritsRem]

Nyck de Vries only looked bad cause they compared everything he did with his point scoring finish. But the sad truth was: the car sucked harder then the year before and ricciardo DID NOT do better for quite a few races either. Also the comparison with Maldonado makes no sense i am suprised to this day that (because it happened in the Williams) NOBODY ever talks about the fact that of all cars Williams won that year. That of ALL people Madonado won that race. That before he was even done with the podium celebration his ENTIRE pitbox burned down. And NOBODY ever found that suspicious.

[@GrandeSP]

Chandhok could have made it on this list. He was a terrible qualifier at a terrible Hispania team, at least as one of the honourable mentions

[@FlankerB3]

that moment when "he couldn't even enter the pitlane": have you noticed that Nakajima's front wing was stuck under his wheels preventing him from turning!!!!????

[@Ethan_Davies]

Maldonado is such a bizzare pick for the top 10 worst drivers. You could probably pick 2 or 3 drivers per season that were a lot worse than him.

[@PurestBollocks]

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

[@alejandrogil2208]

Albers and Pic weren't bad drivers. They drove bad cars. Different things.

[@RBMapleLeaf]

I know its only 2000-2023 (Well maybe 2024 as of this comment) but i kinda did expect Ricardo Rosset to be on the list mainly because of the 1998 season.

[@rikkgarcia1004]

lmaoo the nisanny guy got crashed by the same car he bumped onto😂

[@lukapagura]

I don’t think it’s fair to have pastor on this list. Even though he crashed a lot, and struggled to stay on the limit in races, he was super fast in qualifying and that is a pure racer. He was faster than most other drivers on the grid, despite his issues with consistency

[@nkanyezigumede3298]

Lol Daniel Ricciardo needs to be somewhere near this list if not on it😂

[@SIide12]

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[@Dolek135]

Tell me you know nothing about F1 without telling me you know nothing about F1. Stick to golf, mate.

[@mikeyoc24]

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

[@Kartingheadcase02]

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.

[@simonkevnorris]

Giovanna Amati and Ricardo Rosset spring to mind (the Tyrrell mechanics changed the name to Tosser on his car).

[@Kartingheadcase02]

@@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.

[@ChrisHopkinsBass]

Let’s face it - even the “worst” driver of the last 20 years is miles better than Delatraz, Grouilliard, Belmondo etc although Mazepin I’ll make an exception for