F1 Fanatic

So, I was lying in bed last night when an idea for a Forum thread suddenly appeared in my mind. And now that I’ve slept through my alarm and missed by lecture this morning, I have a bit of time to waste. Hopefully I’m not just ripping off an idea that’s been done before.

Take the best two drivers from each teams history, and the worst two drivers from each teams history, and put them together to make either a really great or really terrible line up. It doesn’t prove anything, it’s just interesting (I hope). Here’s an example:

Prost:
Best line up: Jarno Trulli and Jean Alesi
Worst line up: Shinji Nakano and Gaston Mazzacane

Hopefully this makes sense. And, to avoid using the same drivers in lots of different teams I’d suggest limiting each driver to a single team, but that’s up to you. Here are a few more:

Ferrari:
Best line up: Alberto Ascari and Niki Lauda
Worst line up: Luca Badoer and Nicola Larini

Renault:
Best line up: Alain Prost and Fernando Alonso
Worst line up: Nelson Piquet jr and Jaques Villeneuve (after he was good)

Lotus:
Best line up: Stirling Moss and Jim Clark
Worst line up: Pedro Lamy and Satoru Nakajima

Jaguar:
Best line up: Mark Webber and Eddie Irvine
Worst line up: Luciano Burti and Antonio Pizzonia

McLaren:
Best line up: Ayrton Senna and Lewis Hamilton
Worst line up: Jan Magnussen and Michael Andretti

And so on…

Jordan:

Best: Heinz-Harald Frentzen and Giancarlo Fisichella
Worst: Giorgio Pantano and Narain Karthikayan

Williams:

Best: Nigel Mansell and Damon Hill
Worst: Alex Zanardi and Kazuki Nakajima

Brabham:

Best: Jack Brabham and Nelson Piquet
Worst: Eric van de Poele and Giovana Amati

Benetton:

Best: Michael Schumacher and Gerhard Berger
Worst: JJ Lehto and Alexander Wurz

Ned, I don’t think Nakano was so bad for Prost. I’d nominate Burti instead – although your “one driver per team” thing may of course be a reason why you chose Nakano instead.

I’d also say Grosjean instead of Piquet at Renault. Regardless of the circumstances, Grosjean never showed anything like Japan ’08 where Piquet drove a solid race to 4th, or Germany the same year – although NPJ lucked into his podium he drove with a cool head once he got there, didn’t stick the car into a wall, fought sensibly with Hamilton and then held his P2. Although Grosjean never had a fair chance, the fact is he never looked like scoring points at any time during his short Renault stint.

Ned… if DC had been up to snuff, he would have won a lot more GP’s for Macca. He drove for them 9 bloody seasons and had just 13 wins.

I don’t think I’m being harsh… I’m being honest.

Ned, I disagree with you about Prost, Nakano was a nice driver, and he managed to do some good performances in 1997 and even in 1998 with the Minardi. I would nominate Burti and Mazzacane instead.

In Lotus, I don’t believe Lamy deserves that nomination, I would choose instead Bartels or Dumfries.

Minardi: Fernando Alonso, Mark Webber
Nicolas Kiesa, Tuero

Jordan: Frentzen, Hill
Khartykheyan, Baumgartner

Tyrrel: Stewart, Schekter (sorry Alboreto…)
Rosset, Bailey

Arrows: Hill, Patrese (sorry Warwick…)
Inoue, Rosset

Sauber: Heidfeld, Frentzen (sorry Raikkonen…)
Fontana, Boullion

As pathetic as it is

HRT’ Best Lineup – Senna and Klein

HRT’s worst lienup – Karthikeyan and Yamamoto(unless they find someone worse this season)

He drove for them 9 bloody seasons and had just 13 wins.

12.

How about:

Williams:(best) Ayrton Senna
Alain Prost

(worst)Alex Zanardi
Antonio Pizzonia (does he count because he only did a few races?)

Funny, I’ve just realised they all start with ‘A’. Spooky!