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Top 5 Worst Performing Junior Johnson & Associate Drivers By Brian Cotnoir Towards the end of 2019 we lost Junior Johnson.   The man Tom Wolfe called “The Last American Hero” and first ballot NASCAR Hall of Famer won 50 career races as a driver, but never a championship.   As an owner he would find even more success.   Junior Johnson fielded cars driven by future Hall of Famers Darrell Waltrip, Cale Yarborough, as well as Bill Elliott, Neil Bonnet, and many others.   As an owner Junior Johnson’s cars won 132 races and 6 drivers championships!   However, towards the end of his team he had some pretty lackluster drivers and teams, and today I’m going to talk about those drivers.   These are the 5 Worst Performing Junior Johnson & Associate Drivers 5.)   Sterling Marlin Sterling Marlin drove 2 seasons for Junior Johnson and actually did pretty well despite never winning a race.   He finish 7 th in the final point standings hi...

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 3 rd (2X) ...

Top 5 Worst Performing Prost Grand Prix Drivers By Brian Cotnoir Everyone who reads this blog knows I have a soft spot for the Ligier Formula 1 team in my heart.    Even though the team stopped racing long before I was interested in F1, I still regard them as one of the most underrated F1 teams in history and they are also the team that designed me favorite F1 car—the JS11—and also had my favorite F1 livery.    Well after, Ligier stopped running in Formula 1, the team was sold to 4-time Formula 1 World Champion Alain Prost, who renamed the team Prost Grand Prix.   Despite some early signs of success in their first season, Prost Grand Prix would struggle and would shut down after only five season in Formula 1; these are the 5 Worst Performing drivers who raced for Prost Grand Prix 5.)   Olivier Panis, 2.5 seasons, 2 Podiums, and 18 Championship Points Scored Panis scored Ligier’s last ever F1 victory at the 1996 Monaco Grand Prix.   That...

Top 5 Worst Performing ATS Wheels drivers By Brian Cotnoir The Nation of Germany is one of the largest producers of Automobiles in the world.    They have produced some of the most luxurious and fastest cars in human history with companies such as Audi, BMW, Porsche, and Mercedes-Benz.    In recent years, Mercedes has gone on to dominate the F1 seasons winning 6 consecutive drivers and constructors world championships!   However, the number of German F1 Constructors has been inconsistent over the decades.   Mercedes was absent (as a Constructor) from the F1 grid for over 40 years, Porsche hasn’t competed in F1 since the 1960’s and BMW bought stakes in the Williams and Sauber, but never officially opened their own F1 team.   Other German constructors saw very little success in Formula One, like the team I’m here to tell you about today ATS Wheels.   ATS Wheels ran for several seasons in F1 and had mixed results, often struggling to qualify ...

A Casual American F1 Fan’s 2019 Predictions: FINAL RESULTS By Brian Cotnoir I made A LOT of bold predictions this season, and I was feeling very confident about my predictions, I thought we were going to see some exciting races, and some changes to the field…but honestly, I was way off!   In fact, as you will see from my list of Predictions that I made before the start of the season, I was only accurate 40% of the time, but at the time I didn’t think I’d be that far off; and some of my predictions are open to interpretation.   Did anyone else here think that the only Podium finishers outside of The Big 3 Teams were going to be Toro Rosso and McLaren?   No!   So let’s take a look at how wrong I was (and a few times that I was actually right) this F1 Season! PREDICTION #1 Lewis Hamilton will win a 5 th straight Championship This one was a no-brainer.   I think picking anyone but Hamilton this season would have been stupid, and you know what I th...

TOP 10 BEST First Time Winners in NASCAR for 2019 A List Compiled by Brian Cotnoir Another NASCAR Season has come and gone, and while the Cup Series wasn’t anything to get too excited over (unless your favorite driver won lots of races), but we had a lot of first time winners across NASCARS top-3 series this season; eleven in fact!   So I’m counting down the Top 10 Best 1 st time winners in NASCAR this season!   Who is the one driver I’m leaving off this list?   Austin Sh!twreck of course!   Why?   Because screw him!   He only has that ride because his dad runs Penske’s IndyCar team, and he’s a dirty driver.   I’ve seen him dump other drivers to get wins in multiple series, and it’s not “ rubbing is racing incidents ”, it’s the-only-way-I’m-going-to-win-is-if-I-wreck-this-other-driver incidents!   So screw you Austin Sh!twreck consider this your (dis)honorable mention . Now without further ado let’s talk about the Good 1 st time Winners...

Top 5 Worst Performing Footwork Arrows drivers A list compiled by Brian Cotnoir Back when I published my article on the 5 Worst Performing Arrows Grand Prix drivers, I made it clear that I was purposely omitting the Footwork years, but did say that I might write a future list where I take a look at the Top 5 Worst Performing Footwork drivers, and today is that day.   Nothing else new to say, here are the Top 5 Worst Performing Footwork Arrows drivers (oh and if you haven’t read my Top 5 Worst Performing Arrows drivers list, I’ll leave a link at the bottom of the article. 5.)   Derek Warwick, 1 season (1993), 4 Championship points scored, Finished 16 th in the Final Points Standings Derek Warwick came back to F1 after a 3-year hiatus and ran his final season in F1 with the Footwork team.   Warwick managed to score 4 Championship points in his Final Season of F1.   His best finish was a 4 th place at the Hungarian Grand Prix that year. 4.)...