Worst Driver?
 

Whose name would definitely come up in any bar conversation on who was actually the worst pro racer?

Andrea de Crasheris. ;)

What was the name of the driver that crashed at Monaco denying Ayrton Senna the race win and McLaren the perfect season? Schlessher?

Eddie Cheever. I never understood how he stayed in F1 so long. He wasn't bad, but just never produced anything until he won Indy '98 during the sorry azz IRL days.

Was "tora tora tora Takagi" the driver Michael Andretti referred to as the moving chicane? He was Japanese and raced in CART in the mid to late 90's and was a slow moving accident. Could have been Hattori.

The Dentist in Indy Car, Miller, he wasn't the best driver out there either.

Of the last decade or so......

Milka Duno????

She may have had other skills though :eek:

Anyone in modern day Nasty Car Driver.....all they can do is turn..left, and do flips off off the roof.
And cry like babies

scott speed, slick racin gardner, willy t ribbs.

My personal pet peeve bad driver has to be Buddy Lazier. Couldn't hack it in Champ Car but won the 500 once Tony George killed the sport.

Most unlucky has to go to Roberto Guerrero.

And bounce the car off the rumble strips at Watkins Glen 3-wheeling in a full drift right and left. Nah, they can't drive.

AFA stock cars go, the worst driver was Gilles Villeneuve on the road course.

Overall, Buckshot Jones may have spent more money for nothing in stock cars. But there have been a few of those.

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Could come up with a few excuses and far from ever considering him from being the worst. Cheever in F1 turbo era in the rain at Detroit - WOW! I'd like see Vettel or Hambone dice Cheever in the same cars, track and rain.

You're comparing a guy that ran in 143 F1 races and never won one, than ran 82 CART race and never won one and ran 77 IRL where he finally won 5 races to two F1 World champs because of one drive in the rain at one race? Sure why not.....

How about most hype vs least substance?

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I posted "de Crasheris" somewhat in jest, but then went and checked his wiki page and he might actually be the worst:

...and:

and finally:

SmileWavy

And yet ALL of them can out drive YOU. Too funny.

Aside from Danica...Kyle Petty?

Yuji Ide.

Granted, he had to drive a Super Aguri, but it takes a special talent to get your FIA Super License revoked after just 4 races.


Tim

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Did you meant to say Gilles son, Jacques?

Hero Matsu-s-h-i-t-a. What do I win? :D

Michael Andretti was disapointing considering the lineage.

^ Well, then Marco must have Mario considering cyanide pills.

You mean F' "King Hiro"

Formula One Rejects

On the topic of worst drivers...One of my favorite racing websites. Love the irreverent humor of these guys.

How can you say that???

Cart/Indy record:
317 Starts
42 Wins
32 Poles
1 Championship

what a bum!

Milka Duno was black flagged (for not keeping minimum pace) in more races than in ones she finished.

The argument could be made that Paul Tracy might be one of the worst - my theory is, someone with that much natural talent and raw speed should have won A LOT more races but he took himself out of contention with ill-advised, boneheaded moves.
(And I'm a fan. I think he should have been declared the winner of that infamous Indy 500)

Definitely her. Watched her do a whole IRL race on the apron moving at half the speed of the rest of the field. I knew why she was there, but can't figure out why the IRL let her out on track.

Jr.

Ah yes, the infamous FIRL 499.5. Can't let a Champcar boy win now, can we?

Jr was a very good racer. Had some personal problems. OK, a lot of personal problems.

+1
Honored this year at Portland Historics. And for us Porsche fans - footnote: Won the 24 Hours of Daytona in 1986 and 1987 driving a Porsche 962 with Al Holbert and Derek Bell


Al Unser, Jr. Honored at 2013 Portland Historics

I always used to feel so bad for that poor guy. He seemed like such a cool guy, but everything always went wrong for him.

OK, I'll mix it up a little and seem to be defending a few drivers mentioned.

The OP is talking 'professional driver' and believe or not, the great late #34 Walter Payton raced professionally.

His heart was in it but a real wild man on the track. I'll put him in the running as worst pro driver. A big time shunt in 1993 during a Trans-Am event practice at Road America ended his racing career.

Re: Guerrero, he has a beautiful and talented family.

http://blog.indianapolismotorspeedwa...17-300x225.jpg

Not so unlucky after all.

The Guerrero flock has grown now. Marco, 24, is a mechanical engineer who enjoys working with the technical part of race cars — and doing the Baja 1000 with his dad. Evan, 21, is graduating from Lehigh as a biology major and is headed to medical school. Haley, 17, is a high school junior who is already being recruited by colleges for their soccer programs.

“Looks like we’ll have a Dr. Guerrero in the family,’ Roberto said. “And mention Haley because people leave her out of stories, and I get in trouble.”

Source: Where Are They Now? Roberto Guerrero | The Official Blog of the Indianapolis Motor Speedway

I've seen his wife driving around SJC for years with the license plate, 92Pole, or something similar. I don't recall the year. I've always hoped to run into Roberto and chat with him, but never have. Cool dude.

1st time and just checked that site out. Thanks!

For the longest time I thought his name was Cow Patty...:)

Last year I was flipping stations and saw a roundy-round race on the tube, and Takuma "kamikazi" Sato was surprisingly in the lead.

I told my son, "that's weird. He usually crashes well before the half-way point of the race".

I had no sooner finished that statement when Sato plowed into the wall. The only question is will he just take himself out or will he take others with him?
Sure he won last week's LB grand pricks, but that's only because all the other drivers were hiding from him.

In F1 he crashed or was DQ'd in almost half the races he entered.
Bonzai!