Top 5 Worst Performing Jaguar Racing F1 Team Drivers

Top 5 Worst Performing Jaguar Racing F1 Team Drivers
By Brian Cotnoir

If there’s one team I’d like to see return to the Formula 1 grid someday It would be the Jaguar team.   Jaguar despite being one of the most successful luxury carmakers in Great Britain and winning multiple Endurance races and championships hasn’t really been around in F1.   They were born out of the Original Stewart Grand Prix and then after 5 short years on the F1 grid were sold again and became the Red Bull Racing team.    The Jaguar team will also hold a special place in my heart, for being the team that my favorite driver—the Late Justin Wilson—scored his only career F1 point with, and for their iconic Green liveries.    Jaguar has become a large part of Formula E, but I still hope someday they’ll be back in F1 (either as a Constructor or an Engine Supplier).

5.)  Eddie Irvine, 3 Seasons, 18 Total Championship Points Scored, Best Finish 3rd (2X)

One year after finishing 2nd in the Drivers’ Championship, Eddie Irvine decided to leave the shadow of Michael Schumacher at Ferrari and join the newly established Jaguar Racing F1 Team.   Irvine would score the team’s first ever points in F1, and score the only 2 podiums the team would ever achieve.  Irvine’s time at Jaguar was marred by multiple race retirements (he retired in 24-out-of 52 Grand Prix races entered), he was also the teams longest tenured driver, but sadly would retire after the 2002 season and never race in Formula 1 again.


4.)  Mark Webber, 2 Seasons, 24 Championships Points Scored, Best Finish 6th (4X)

Mark Webber raced for Jaguar for 2 seasons, and scored more points than any other driver for the team, but never could quite get on the podium, and never managed a finish better than 6th place.  After Jaguar was sold to Red Bull, Webber opted to run 2 seasons at Williams, before returning to Milton Keynes to race for Red Bull where he’d go on to have the most success in his F1 racing career.


3.)  Christian Klien, 1 Season (2004), 3 Championship Points Scored, Best Finish 6th at the Belgian Grand Prix

Webber’s teammate for the 2004 season—also the last season that Jaguar raced in F1—was Austrian, Christian Klien.   His only points finish was a 6th place finish at Belgian Grand Prix.  Klien would be retained by the Red Bull team the following seasons, and would share driving duties with Vitantonio Liuzzi in the team’s second entry.


2.)  Pedro de la Rosa, 2 Seasons, 3 Championship Points Scored, Best Finish 5th at the 2001 Italian Grand Prix

Pedro de la Rosa was brought in to replace Luciano Burti at the Spanish Grand Prix in 2001.   He would finish in the points at the Canadian and Italian Grand Prix.  The following season though he would fail to score any points for the team and retired from half of the races he entered.


1.)  Johnny Herbert, 1 Season (2000), 0 Championship Points Scored, Best Finish 7th (2X)

 In an F1 career that lasted more than a decade, British driver Johnny Herbert drove for several teams throughout the 1990s.   In 1999, he scored the only Grand Prix win for the Stewart Team.  The following year Stewart Grand Prix would be sold to Jaguar and Herbert would be retained by Jaguar for their first season, and teamed up with Eddie Irvine.  This would be Herbert’s last season in Formula 1, and he would finish the season scoring no championship points with a best finish of 7th place, bringing a sad end to his F1 racing career

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