Longest career in F1 without really doing anything

[Sunshine_Baby_[IT]]

Timo Glock has to be on the active drivers list. He won the 2007 GP2 Championship and was supposed to be an up-and-coming talent at Toyota (and nearly took their first win) before slipping into total anonymity. He has also competed in 80 races which puts him well above most drivers on this list.

He committed career suicide going to Virgin/Marussia, although i'm unsure where he could now go.

Right, and he's supposed to stay at Marussia until the end of 2014 if I remember well.

[Wizzie]

Timo Glock has to be on the active drivers list. He won the 2007 GP2 Championship and was supposed to be an up-and-coming talent at Toyota (and nearly took their first win) before slipping into total anonymity. He has also competed in 80 races which puts him well above most drivers on this list.

He committed career suicide going to Virgin/Marussia, although i'm unsure where he could now go.

Right, and he's supposed to stay at Marussia until the end of 2014 if I remember well.

5 bucks says he'll find a way to weasel out of that contract at some point next year

[tommykl]

In the same vein as Nicola Larini, I'll add Gianni Morbidelli. Apart from that podium in Australia, he never had a chance in a top car for a reasonable amount of time.

[Stramala]

In the same vein as Nicola Larini, I'll add Gianni Morbidelli. Apart from that podium in Australia, he never had a chance in a top car for a reasonable amount of time.

If anything, Italian drivers as a whole belong in this list. But then again, people like Elio de Angelis and Sandro Nannini could have gone on to great things if their careers were not cut (tragically) short.

[dr-baker]

In the same vein as Nicola Larini, I'll add Gianni Morbidelli. Apart from that podium in Australia, he never had a chance in a top car for a reasonable amount of time.

If anything, Italian drivers as a whole belong in this list.

Barring Ascari, presumably.

[14 Hundred Hours]

5 bucks says he'll find a way to weasel out of that contract at some point next year

Get out Timo! Get out while you can!

[AndreaModa]

5 bucks says he'll find a way to weasel out of that contract at some point next year

Get out Timo! Get out while you can!

The only place I think he could go now would be DTM. My money's on him staying put until the 2014 regs come in, and if Marussia are still at the back, he'll get out and go there.

[AdrianSutil]

Why was Diniz put in the first list?! I think I saw his name floated about. He certainly didn't embarass himself and his family funding gave us the legend that is Forti. He had good races at Nurburgring 97 (5th), Monaco 98 (6th) and Belgium 98 (6th), plus a load of other 5th and 6th placed finishes. If there was a chaotic race with crashes and downpour, bet your bottom-dollar Diniz would crawl round, keep it out of trouble, and score a point or two.

Rant over...

[FMecha]

Can't believe Satoru Nakajima and Soopa Aguri Suzuki haven't been mentioned yet. (Sorry to be nasty to the Japanese...)

I can't stop laughing at Nakajima at Detroit '87 - while his teammate (yes OK its Senna fair enough) won the race, he was overtaken by Osellas and AGs on the first lap.

Also DNQing several times in 1988 with a HONDA engine!! And he lasted 5 full seasons in F1!!

Nakajima was probably the biggest DBTM of all time as he was comprehensively thrashed by all of his teammates.

57-7 against Senna in 1987
22-1 against Piquet in 1988
12-3 against Piquet in 1989
13-3 against Alesi in 1990
10-2 against Modena in 1991

Probably where his son learnt to be thrashed by Rosberg.

1987 gap: 50 points
1988 gap: 21 points
1989 gap: 9 points
1990 gap: 10 points
1991 gap: 8 points

Deserves 1987 DBTMOTY and DBTMOAT (dead-beat team-mate of all times).

[Sunshine_Baby_[IT]]

I think that if Jacques Villeneuve had not raced in 1996 and 1997, due to his results from 1998 to the end of his F1 career, he should be mentioned in this thread...

[East Londoner]

I think that if Jacques Villeneuve had not raced in 1996 and 1997, due to his results from 1998 to the end of his F1 career, he should be mentioned in this thread...

To be fair to old Jacques, his 2000 season with BAR was decent enough, but I assume part of the reason it was viewed like that was the clusterbathplug that was 1999 for BAR. Other than that, he were pretty awful.

[DOSBoot]

Thierry Boutsen
Piercarlo Ghinzani
Philippe Alliot
Nick Heidfeld
Eddie Cheever

None of them did much. Boutsen won twice, but that was about it. Always a number 2 driver.

Bousten won 3 races, not two. Like the others said, I think he made a good enough impression not to be unnoticable. One driver I think was like that was Jos Verstappen. Aside from his two podiums with Bennetton in 1994, a few good points finishes here and there, and his near good result in 2003, he pretty much was a guy who didn't live up to his expectations.