Top 5 Worst Performing Renault F1 Team Drivers
Top 5 Worst Performing Renault F1 Team Drivers
An Article by Brian Cotnoir
I had never heard of a Renault vehicle until I
started watching Formula 1, and still to this date I’ve never seen an actual
Renault vehicle in person, but from what I’ve gathered, the Renault F1 team is
the only presently operating French based team on the Formula 1 grid. They’ve had periods of great success, and
they’ve had periods where they struggle to finish races. As of the typing of this article (they’re
presently) ranked in the “Best of the Rest Category”; behind the big three
teams of Mercedes, Ferrari, and Red Bull.
They may have helped launch the careers of two of the most successful
drivers—Alain Prost and Fernando Alonso—into super stardom, but they’ve also
had their fair share of duds, and it is those duds we’ve come to talk about, so
without further ado, here are the 5 worst performing Renault F1 Team drivers.
5.) Derek
Warwick, 2 Seasons, 28 Total Points Scored, Average Points finish of 11th.
Derek Warwick scored 4 podiums with the team in his
first season in 1984, however when he wasn’t finishing on the podium he just
wasn’t finishing the race. His sophomore
season with team saw him finish more races, but he only finished in the points
3 times.
4.)
Jean-Pierre Jabouillie, 3 Seasons, 21 Total Points Scored, 2 WINS!
Average Points finish of 9th
This is the first time I’ve featured a Grand Prix
winning drivers on my Worst Performing F1 Drivers list. He was the first driver ever signed to driver
for Renault F1 Team, and so he had to deal with those uncompetitive growing pains years. He did however help score Renault F1 Team’s
first ever victory at the 1979 French Grand Prix, making it the first time in
F1 History that a French Driver won his home Grand Prix, for a French Team
(with French Tires, Michelin, too). His
only other win with the team came at the 1980 Austrian Grand Prix.
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| First time we've had a Winner on our Worst F1 drivers list |
3.) Nelson
Piquet Jr. 1.5 Seasons, 19 Total Points Scored, Average Point Finish of 16th
A lot of you were probably expecting Piquet Jr. to
be number one on my list, but I always felt like he got a bad rap in F1. His best finish was 2nd at the 2008 German Grand Prix,
he was let go from the team halfway through the 2009 season and that’s when he
admitted that his team ordered him crash his race car on purpose at the 2008
Singapore Grand Prix to help his teammate Fernando Alonso win, and then Crash-gate happened and well… you all
know the rest.
2.) Kevin Magnussen, 1 Season, 7 Total Points
Scored, Final Points Standing finish of 16th
Kevin Magnussen makes his 2nd appearance
on my Worst Performing F1 drivers lists, but I swear we’re not picking on him. I
think he’s a decent driver at Haas, but his time at Renault was much worse than
his time when he drove for McLaren, in fact the only reason why he’s not number
one on this list was because of his teammate in 2016…
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| Sorry Kevin |
1.) Jolyon
Palmer, 1.75 Seasons, 9 Total Points Scored, Average Points Finish of 18th
Jolyon Palmer’s father, Jonathan, was also a
Formula 1 driver, whose career never really panned out, and unfortunately for
Jolyon, neither did his career. Palmer
spent almost 2 seasons at Renault, and in his first season he managed to score
only 1 point. His second season with the
team he improved to score 8 points, but he was still let go from the team with
4 races left in the 2017 season and replaced by Carlos Sainz Jr. Palmer also had 2 DNS’s in his time at
Renault F1.
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