Driver's worst races in F1

Edited by BorkoF2012, 10 August 2012 - 23:47.

Schumacher - China 2004 or Hungarian GP this year

Edited by rossbrawn, 10 August 2012 - 23:47.

What were the worst races you have seen by a certain driver in F1? You can include drivers from the past.

Let's start with drivers from the current grid;

Alonso - he has been my favorite driver for years, but in the first half of 2008 season I really started to question is he such a good driver like everybody thought.. He was incredibly bad in Monaco, Canada, France and especially in Germany.. Germany 2008 has to be the worst race of his career - unsuccesfull overtaking moves, overtaken a few times, ran wide, spun. Awful race.

Vettel - has to be Monaco 2009.. He was very slow, held up everbody and than crashed

Hamilton - I'd say Fuji 2008.

Raikkonen - Hungary 2006. His best chance to win that year, started from pole, but he was so slow in the second stint, lost the lead and then crashed into Liuzzi.

Scumacher - China 2004 or Hungarian GP this year

Yeah that really was a shocker. Dropped it in T1 in (qualy?), dropped it coming onto the back straight during the race, Maldonado'd one of the Jaguars into the hairpin at the end of the back straight, meanwhile Barrichello cruised to victory...Tbh the way he lost the rear in two fast right handers that weekend I'm convinced there was something wrong with either the rear suspension or the diff, but either way it was a painful race to watch as an MSC fan. Whether or not it was more painful than his China 2005 antics I don't know...

Edited by BorkoF2012, 10 August 2012 - 23:59.

Massa - Silverstone 2008. Embarrassing for a driver. Spun 5 times I think? And finished two laps down in the fastest car.

Edited by Jimisgod, 11 August 2012 - 17:58.

Edited by Kingshark, 11 August 2012 - 06:14.

To be fair, Raikkonen span quite a few times in that race too and he's got some of the best car control I've ever seen, so there must have been something wrong with the Ferrari that day. IIRC it was to do with the throttle maps they had available, but who knows...There have been some absolute stinkers from Massa these past few years though, that's for sure...

To be fair, Raikkonen span quite a few times in that race too and he's got some of the best car control I've ever seen, so there must have been something wrong with the Ferrari that day. IIRC it was to do with the throttle maps they had available, but who knows...There have been some absolute stinkers from Massa these past few years though, that's for sure...

Edited by Kingshark, 11 August 2012 - 08:56.

About Silverstone 2008; at the end of the first stint I remember Raikkonen catching Hamilton a rate of 1 second/lap before Ferrari screwed over his strategy and he lost like 50 seconds of total time (7 seconds off the pace laps + an extra stop) and a lot of track position. In my opinion, if it wasn't for that Kimi would've finished at least 2nd. The Ferrari wasn't that bad, Massa was just disastrous in that race.

Though as for Raikkonen's worst drive, you can't look passed Monaco 2008 really.

Edited by Andromeda, 11 August 2012 - 09:21.

Edited by encircled, 11 August 2012 - 14:25.

Raikkonen - Malaysia 2009

I'd blame the team for 90% of the failure that day.

Edited by D.M.N., 12 August 2012 - 15:55.
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I am surprised no one has mentioned Schumacher at Silverstone 03.. He was just super slow that day..

Schumacher got the 4th place. It was not his best race but we are talking about the worst races of a driver and this really far away from that

As already said, Brazil 2003, Canada 2007, Japan 2007, Monaco 2008 and Belgium 2010 were all bad driving by Alonso, and only 2008 has a slight excuse of "bad car".

Edited by D.M.N., 12 August 2012 - 15:55.
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Brazil 2003 was a brilliant race until his stupid brain fade at the end. Japan 2007 was not a bad race, he just took a risk too many.

Like Canada 2007 and Monaco 2008, Hungary 2005 was rather bad. He was maybe unlucky in the first corner, but he didn't have the speed either in the entire race.

Edited by Jimisgod, 11 August 2012 - 12:53.

Edited by halifaxf1fan, 11 August 2012 - 14:07.

A lot of these 'bad races' seem to be based on one incident, where mostly the driver was having a very good race- e.g, Alonso in Brazil '03 or Hamilton in China '07.

Alonso's '03 incident was bad enough to cover several races IMHO

Massa- Silverstone 2008 for his spins or Malaysa this year (almost lapped by Alonso). Also Brazil 2002 where he spun trying to pass..... Webber's Minardi!

Massa - Silverstone 2008. Embarrassing for a driver. Spun 5 times I think? And finished two laps down in the fastest car.

Massa was just disastrous in that race.

Massa: earlier Hungary 2006 and Great Britain 2008, but too much in last 3 years.

Massa - Silverstone 2008 was that a record for the most amount of spins by one driver in a race?

Massa - Britain 2008

I must disagree with this popular opinion, as the performance wasn't really all that surprising given he did the same in 2002. Warning: annoying music in the video.

yeah...his 3rd best result of the 03 season...

Edited by Disgrace, 11 August 2012 - 14:53.

I must disagree with this popular opinion, as the performance wasn't really all that surprising given he did the same in 2002. Warning: annoying music in the video.

I'd blame the team for 90% of the failure that day.

Then why wouldn't you extend Hamilton the same courtesy for China 2007?

Funny how flouting the yellow flag rules and endangering safety is considered less bad than being off the pace by some on here.

Dumbest move of his career and easily could have ended it. Why several cars were able to sneak past without issue but Alonso went firing in at race speed is entirely his own fault.

yeah...his 3rd best result of the 03 season...

Edited by SpaMaster, 11 August 2012 - 19:53.

Did Webber get points as well?