Sämsta f1 föraren 1990-2004

[Audi Sportsline]

Satt med polarna vid grillen och pimpla öl. Frågan som kom upp var
vilken var den sämsta f1 föraren sen 1990 tills dags datum.
Det slutade fan nästan i slagsmål......
Så vad tycker ni på forumet??????

[Bernie]

Taki Inoue imponerade inte

[LuckyStrike1]

Deletraz utan tvekan ... menar att det var i början av 90-talet han bidrog med sin fantastiskt långsamma körning.

[mopar]

Va hette han nu igen han som var så kass att 107% regeln infördes.... han torde vara sämst.
I modern tid minns man gärna Tarso Marques

/mopar

[Granis]

Ricardo Rosset var val ingen hojdarforare direkt

[LuckyStrike1]

Va hette han nu igen han som var så kass att 107% regeln infördes.... han torde vara sämst.
I modern tid minns man gärna Tarso Marques

/mopar

Det var antalet dåliga stall och inte en enskild förare som var orsaken till att 107% regeln infördes vill jag minnas

[Bopper]

Finns det nån anledning att man använder just 107%, och inte 106 eller 108? Eller är det bara någon tradition? MotoGP använder väl också 107%, åtminstone i 125-klassen.

[JG]

Utan tvekan Taki Inoue

[Bernie]

Inoues karriär sammanfattad

A pay-driver pure and simple, the much maligned Taki had an adventurous GP career - his F1 stint included being flipped over by the safety car at Monaco, and being infamously run over by the marshals' car in Hungary.

[LuckyStrike1]

Så dålig var väl inte Inoue? Ingen stjärna och knappt medelmåttig men inte en katastrof. Tror han får oförtjänt uppmärksamhet pga av andras misstag: funktionärer i Monaco som vände upp och ner på hans bil med honom i och en ouppmärksam läkarbilschaufför i Ungern som inte förstod att bromsträckan på gräs är längre än på asfalt ...

Deletraz däremot ... det var en katastrof. Kvalade in en F1:A på en tid som knappt hade räckt till att kvala in i samma lopp i F3000 ... Varvad efter 5-6 varv då han helt enkelt fysiskt inte orkade kröa längre ...

One can probably safely assume, though, that he wasn't just making up the fact that he had a solid amount of sponsorship money to offer to prospective employers. It was money that looked particularly attractive to the Larrousse Ford F1 team as it headed towards its doom at the end of 1994. As any team in dire financial straits will tell you, loyalty is nothing in F1, and cash is everything. And so for the final round of the year in Australia, out went long-serving stalwart Erik Comas, and in came Délétraz.
With such a modest racing CV, not much was expected of the Swiss newcomer, and the F1 community hardly gave him any notice, in a year when 46 men no less, including a monotonous raft of pay-drivers, took part in Grand Prix racing. So there was some mild surprise in the paddock when Délétraz qualified his car 25th, two seconds slower than David Brabham ahead of him, but just ahead of the better-rated Domenico Schiattarella in the Simtek.

However, the race was a different matter altogether. Having been passed by more aggressive Schiattarella by the first corner, he began to progressively fall away from the field, taking an overly conservative approach. He was, as Autosport put it, "staggeringly slow", to the point where he was lapped by Michael Schumacher and Damon Hill on lap 10. In nine laps, he had already fallen behind by some 80 seconds. Maybe, by constantly being lapped by the leaders, it was a way of giving his sponsors some exposure!
Ironically, it was certainly cause for some mirth when he was called in on lap 37 for a stop-go penalty for speeding in the pit lane after his first pit stop - his third speeding penalty of the weekend! Suffice to say, he never got the hang of the pit lane speed limiter. But after his second pit stop, the downshift on his gearbox began to falter, and eventually his Grand Prix debut ended on his 57th lap, by which stage he had already been lapped ten times.

Jonathan Palmer - expertkommentator på BBC:

"Yes Délétraz, really, here having no business in Formula One. And demonstrating it there: he's spending all of his modest effort, frankly, keeping the car on the road."

Mera Deletraz som inte gav upp sina F1-drömmar:

Quite a bit of PR-speak there, one suspects, and up and down the pit lane not much was expected of Délétraz's return to Grand Prix racing at the Portuguese round. And unfortunately he did little to change the cynics' opinions. On Friday qualifying at Estoril, he let the revs drop too low at the uphill double-hairpin complex and stalled the car right on the racing line. He needed the marshals to push-start him, and for that his times for the day were disqualified.
Now this happened simply because Délétraz was driving too slowly; whether this was because of inexperience with the car, too conservative an approach, or the fact that he was just plainly struggling, is not known. Regardless, this particular event moved the hardened press corps so much, the straight-talking Nigel Roebuck proclaimed that Délétraz made Lavaggi look "like Nuvolari". Strike one

Saturday qualifying saw him beset by gearbox problems, and while he kept on talking about making 'progress' as he learnt the car, he ended up qualifying the Pacific dead last, over 12 seconds slower than pole-sitter David Coulthard, more than 5 seconds behind the cumbersome Fortis and almost 7 seconds away from his own team-mate, Andrea Montermini.
His time would have only qualified him 22nd for the F3000 support race. Now, whatever problems Délétraz and the team may have been having with what was admittedly a dog of a car, one can't deny that there was something quite disappointing about that. To add further insult, when the usually-polite Damon Hill was asked for his opinion of Délétraz, he was quoted as saying: "Let's hope he breaks down early in the race." Strike two.

Sadly, Délétraz wasn't making any friends as more and more people overlooked what good results he may have had in other categories and wrote him off as an inept F1 pilot. But perhaps they weren't totally unjustified. After three laps, Délétraz was already 40 seconds behind, and he was lapped after only seven tours. This led Roebuck to scathingly describe Jean-Denis' performance as a "very special interpretation of Grand Prix driving".
Eventually, Délétraz retired after 14 laps with cramp in his left arm. It came as a surprise to himself, especially when it was the first time in his career that he had to retire with a physical problem. But while Estoril's sweepers are undeniably demanding with heavy G-force loadings, it came as a surprise to the rest of the paddock that his cramp was in his left arm, when Estoril was a clock-wise circuit where the right arm does more work. Strike three.

And so the circus came to the European GP. After the horrors of Estoril, it came as a pleasant turnaround that Délétraz was more on the pace at the Nurburgring, for one does not like to see a driver humiliated. In Friday qualifying he posted a time only 9.1 seconds slower than Coulthard who was fastest, a second behind the Fortis and just over 3 seconds adrift of Montermini. Rain meant no improvement was possible on Saturday, although he did tangle with a Tyrrell after a misunderstanding.
In the race, Délétraz toured slowly around at the back, and actually finished in 15th and last place, a notable achievement, albeit 7 laps down. In one moment of glory he was even able to pass Mark Blundell's McLaren for position, but only because the Englishman was struggling around on slick tyres in the wet. At another stage during the race, Délétraz was also the focus of a lovely slow-motion replay ... largely because he was wedged in a raging battle between Schumacher, Hill and Gerhard Berger. One takes the publicity whenever you can get it!

Still, Délétraz was happy to finish the event, and said that "we have now to make progress in Japan and Australia". But when the championship hit Aida for the Pacific GP, Bertrand Gachot was back in the Pacific car, and Délétraz's F1 tenure was over. Wiggins had actually intended to place Japanese driver Katsumi Yamamoto in the car, but after they couldn't get a superlicence for him, rather than turning back to Jean-Denis they elected to plonk Pacific shareholder Gachot back in instead.
Although Yamamoto was also very much an unknown, it would have been interesting to see whether or not he could have fared any better than Délétraz did. As an aside, it demonstrated just how Euro-centric superlicence requirements were. But the question remained: why had Pacific let Jean-Denis Délétraz go? We'll let Wiggins explain: "He was defaulted on payment and on ability alone we are not prepared to keep him."

Lång post, men för mig är det utan tvekan: Deletraz är den sämsta F1-föraren någonsin vad jag känner till ...

[JTarnstrom]

Phillipe Adams. Ett lopp i en Lotus innan stallet säckade ihop. Killen hade inget i F1 att göra. Johnny Carwash (Giovanni Lavaggi) är ju också en annan elegant som borde ha hållt sig till sportvagnar.

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