Rosset and the gearbox

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• Rosset
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[rich1701]

Ricardo decides he might be faster if he drove backwards...

[mazey90]

lol is he stuck in reverse??! hmmm maybe it wasnt his fault?? : /

even though this does look really stupid, i do have some sympathy for him lol

[nickyp28]

''Drivers outside 107% - Rosset''

[McLarenMercedes]

@mercsmania Badoer isn't so bad as his unenviable record (most races without scoring a point) tells he is. He was F3000 champion in 1992, beating guys like Barrichello, Coulthard and Panis. I think he did well in the bad cars he was given and he mostly did better than Pierluigi Martini, who actually once led a race with Minardi and was regarded as a stable and reliable driver.

In the European GP 1999 he was a strong 4'th in a bad Minardi, but 10 laps from the end the car broke down. Bad luck.

[McLarenMercedes]

@mercsmania

The 1999 European GP pretty much gutted Badoer and he accepted his role as a Ferrari test driver. In 2009 he was supposed to show his "worth" after a 10 year break and naturally the pressure on him proved too much. Italians driving for Ferrari are either made saints or brutally slaughtered by the Italian media as being "unworthy to drive for their team". The same applies to any Italian football player who has done a minor mistake.

Badoer wouldn't make my top 10 worst driver list.

[mercsmania]

@McLarenMercedes thanks! that's the guy i can never remember. apparently the car was a shoe in for every race as it was that good, yet this bloke failed to qualify the thing half the time and when he did it was always waaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaay down the field!

[mercsmania]

@McLarenMercedes i did mean salo, weird i wrote the wrong one! wasn't that impressed by him as when he went for pitstops, he was unable to fight up through the field. he did however do better than the other two mentioned who were out of their depth. and the scary thing is i'd pick badoer over rosset everyday of the week!

[McLarenMercedes]

@mercsmania

Takuma Sato never drove for Ferrari, but Mika Salo did and he did pretty well. He was leading the German GP in 1999 and would no doubt have won it, if not ordered by Ferrari to let Irvine past to win the race (Irvine was in the title hunt). Salo also outqualified Irvine for the German GP (his 2nd race for Ferrari) and also in the Italian GP where he finished 3'rd and Irvine 6'th.

Thanks to Salo's 10 points for Ferrari they were Constructors' Champions in 1999 (4 pts above McLaren)

[McLarenMercedes]

@mercsmania

Yes, I read on Stats F1 that Rosset usually was 1,5 to 2 seconds slower than his team-mate Takagi when qualifying the Tyrrell. In the races he was also almost 2 seconds slower for his best lap, compared to Takagi's when they both finished the race.

He was over a second slower than Sospiri when trying to qualify the Lola in '97.

Verstappen outqualified him 16-0 in '96.

Rosset must have the record of qualifying last in a race (and many times he didn't qualify at all).

[mercsmania]

@McLarenMercedes sorry mate have to disagree. remember when sato, fisichella or badoer got their little run out in the ferraris for various reasons. they took world class cars and did very little with them in real terms. those drivers were spanking rossett in WORSE cars. the tyrell wasn't a bad car and even takagi got that high up the grid. the lola was a mess in the end but not the worse...

[McLarenMercedes]

@mercsmania

Although Rosset was one of the worst drivers to drive in F1, I believe he would have at least scored points if he was sitting in the 1996 Williams or the 1998 McLaren and I doubt he would be 3 seconds slower than Hill or Hakkinen in every single race.