Top 5 Worst Performing BMS Scuderia Italia Drivers



Top 5 Worst Performing BMS Scuderia Italia Drivers
By: Brian Cotnoir

BMS Scuderia Italia’s F1 cars were painted like Ferrari’s, but they drove like Minardi’s.   This Italian F1 team from Lombardy, Italy started out with Touring Cars and Sports cars before making their debut in Formula 1 in 1988, however the team would yield some rather dismal results and would shut down its F1 Program after only 5 Season in the sport.  Like Minardi, BMS Scuderia Italia ran with mostly Italian drivers.  The only non-Italian to drive for the team was Finnish driver JJ Lehto, but don’t worry he won’t be appearing on this list as he scored one of the teams 2 total podium finishes.  However, the worst of this team produced some truly horrendous results in Formula 1.

5.)  Alex Caffi, 2 Seasons, 4 Total Points Scored, Average Final Points Finish 19th

Alex Caffi was BMS Scuderia Italia’s first F1 driver.  He ran a single car entry for the team in 1988, and returned for one more season with the team.  His best finish was a 4th at the 1989 Monaco Grand Prix, and he also finished 6th at the Canadian Grand Prix that same year, he finished the 1989 season with 4 Championship Points to his name.


4.)  Pierluigi Martini, 1 Season, 2 Total Points Scored, Final Points Finish, 16th (1992)

Pierluigi Martini’s only season in Formula 1 where he didn’t drive for Minardi came in 1992.   He scored the teams only points that season with back-to-back 6th place finishes at the Spanish and San Marino Grand Prix’s


3.)  Emanuele Pirro, 2 Seasons, 1 Point Scored, Average Final Points Finish 18th

Emanuele Pirro spent two dismal seasons with BMS Scuderia Italia.  His first season was plagued with multiple race retirements, and in his second season he failed to qualify for a handful of races.  His lone point scored came from a 6th place finish at the 1991 Monaco Grand Prix, it would be the last point he ever scored in F1, and he was let go by the team at the end of the season.  Pirro never raced in Formula 1 again.


2.)  Luca Badoer, 1 Season, 0 Points Scored, 2 DNQ’s

Luca Badoer made his debut in Formula 1 with BMS Scuderia Italia in 1993.  Unfortunately for Badoer, he failed to score a single point for the team, didn’t qualify for the European and Monaco Grand Prix’s that year, and the team shutdown with just 2 races left in the season.  After slumming it at Minardi and the Forti F1 team for a couple seasons, Badoer decided to follow his heart and spent almost a decade as the test and reserve driver for Scuderia Ferrari.  Badoer would replace the injured Felipe Massa at Ferrari for 2 races in the 2009 season (a decade removed from his last F1 start), but failed to capitalize in both races.


1.)  Michele Alboreto, 1 Season, 0 Points Scored, 5 DNQ’s

Luca Badoer’s teammate at BMS Scuderia Italia in 1993 was former Ferrari driver Michele Alboreto.  Alboreto missed 7 total races that season (5 DNQ’s and the team shutdown with two races left in the season), and it’s really sad because Alboreto deserved so much better.  He won races for Ferrari during the dark noncompetitive years in the 1980’s when Grand Prix’s were being dominated by the likes of Williams, McLaren, and Brabham.  Alboreto only ran one more season at the new merged Minardi Scuderia Italia team in 1994, he only scored 1 point, bringing a sad end to the career of a man who finished 2nd in the Drivers Point Standings to Alain Prost in 1985.  


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