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[HistoryFan]

With Mahaveer Raghunathan being banned I wonder what were the worst driver in Formula 1's second tier series.

 

Giancarlo Serenelli comes to my mind.

 

 

[Risil]

They were all a lot better than I am on iRacing.

[messy]

I remember a Russian driver in F3000 years ago who was absolutely brutal. Late 90s. Never qualified despite driving for a top team.

 

Pavlov? Something like that? 

[Frood]

I think Serenelli was probably the worst of the GP2 era. Ricardo Teixeira, Philo Paz Armand and Jason Tahinci were pretty useless too.

[Peat]

I remember a Russian driver in F3000 years ago who was absolutely brutal. Late 90s. Never qualified despite driving for a top team.

 

Pavlov? Something like that? 

 

Could you be thinking of the Russian Rocket 'Viktor Maslov'?
https://en.wikipedia...(racing_driver)

 

Bank-rolled Arden for 3 seasons for nil points.

Edited by Peat, 24 June 2019 - 12:22.

[Cornholio]

I remember a Russian driver in F3000 years ago who was absolutely brutal. Late 90s. Never qualified despite driving for a top team.

Pavlov? Something like that?

Maslov? Darren Manning's teammate when Arden were starting out in the first couple of years after Horner retired to focus on running the team. Think he brought Lukoil money that funded the whole team in those days.

From early F3000 times Jean-Pierre Frey always seems to feature in these discussions from what I remember. Just checked out his record and dozens of DNQs without a single start

[messy]

Yep, Maslov it is! Always remembered him being absolutely sh*t slow.

 

Zsolt Baumgarntner was also pretty terrible considering he actually ended up in F1

Edited by messy, 24 June 2019 - 12:42.

[ensign14]

You're never going to beat the record of Jean-Pierre Frey.  17 entries, 17 failures to qualify. 

 

There was a chap called Klaus Walz who DNQ'd at Hockenheim in 1979, 12 seconds off pole.  Later shot himself when the rozzers caught up with him as he was running a supercar-stealing consortium.  Also got involved with Lola in F1.

 

And then there is the mystery Austrian, Mario Waltner, who had two very very very slow DNQs in 1997 and then vanished to the obscurity from which he came.

[Silberpfeil]

You're never going to beat the record of Jean-Pierre Frey. 17 entries, 17 failures to qualify.

There was a chap called Klaus Walz who DNQ'd at Hockenheim in 1979, 12 seconds off pole. Later shot himself when the rozzers caught up with him as he was running a supercar-stealing consortium. Also got involved with Lola in F1.

And then there is the mystery Austrian, Mario Waltner, who had two very very very slow DNQs in 1997 and then vanished to the obscurity from which he came.

Kind of amazing that Walz was the SECOND murdery bloke (he’s alleged to have killed as many as four people over the years) who got involved with Larousse. Ironically, his investment there was also the reason the police was finally able to track him down.

[Fulcrum]

Yep, Maslov it is! Always remembered him being absolutely sh*t slow.

 

Zsolt Baumgarntner was also pretty terrible considering he actually ended up in F1

+1 for Baumgarden

[Izzyeviel]

What happened to the guy who lost the Monaco race because he didn't know where the finish line was?

[Bleu]

What happened to the guy who lost the Monaco race because he didn't know where the finish line was?

Björn Wirdheim won the title that year, was Jaguar test driver for a year participating Friday FPs, then moved to Champ Cars and then to Japan where he raced Formula Nippon and Super GT.

 

Last year he got a revenge and finally won at Monaco - at the Historic Grand Prix (F1 1966-1972)