2016 JAPAN

Nico Rosberg

19) Enrico Bertaggia 🇮🇹 #F1

Won 1987 Italian F3 series, 1988 Monaco F3 race & 1988 Macau GP

Failed to pre-qualify in 6 attempts in 1989 for Coloni

Did not participate in 🇿🇦 or 🇲🇽 for the risible Andrea Moda squad in 1992, before being dumped

22) Andrea Chiesa 🇨🇭 #F1

Fondmetal 1992

Scored a win & 2 podiums in F3000

Qualified just 3 times in 10 attempts before losing his seat to van de Poele

32) Andrea Montermini 🇮🇹 #F1

1992 F3000 runner-up to future Forti team-mate Badoer

Simtek 1994, Pacific 1995, Forti 1996

Achieved success in GT racing

23) Jan Lammers 🇳🇱

March 1992

Returned to #F1 after a ten year absence, where he won 1988 24 Hours of Le Mans

Having driven for Shadow, Theodore, ATS & Ensign, he never scored a point

29) Ricardo Zonta 🇧🇷 #F1

BAR 1999-2000, Jordan 01 & Toyota 04

Scored 3 points in his GP career

1997 International F3000 🏆

1998 FIA GT champion with Mercedes & Klaus Ludwig

30) Toshio Suzuki 🇯🇵 #F1

Debuted at age 38 for Larrousse in 1993

1990 Japanese Touring Car 🏆
1995 🇯🇵 F3000 champion
1999 runner-up at 24 Hours of Le Mans with Ukyo Katayama & Toyota

42) Franck Lagorce 🇫🇷 #F1

Ligier 1994 🇯🇵🇦🇺

Qualified 0.5 and 1.08 seconds slower than Panis at Suzuka & Adelaide

Despite 4 wins & runners-up in 1994 Int F3000 series, no-one gave him a 2nd chance

He has since raced sportscars at Le Mans

100) Rubens Barrichello 🇧🇷 #F1

Jordan 93-96, Stewart 97-99, Ferrari 00-05, Honda/Brawn 06-09, Williams 10-11

11 wins. Double runners-up. A magnificent driver in the wet.

1983 ITALY

Turbo F1 cars screaming at Monza

Sarah Fisher, McLaren-Mercedes MP4-17, 2002 Indy #F1

Kimi keeping it real as always

Felipe Nasr would have cooked at Lotus (later Renault). Joining Sauber ended up being a poor choice #F1

2003 BRAZIL

Fernando Alonso, Renault R23, Interlagos #F1

If anyone wants to know a random fact, I went to school with my club owner's son

DERBY BACK IN THE CHAMPIONSHIP 😃 🐏 😁 and no need for play-off clownery

Today in 1946 the first FA cup after the war saw Jackie Stamps, wounded at Dunkirk and told he would never play football again, smash the ball so hard that it burst. He scored twice in extra time to win the cup for Derby.

2005 HUNGARY

Narain Karthikeyan, Jordan-Toyota EJ15, Hungaroring #F1

2007 AUSTRALIA

David Coulthard (Red Bull) & Alexander Wurz (Williams) collide at Albert Park #F1

2003 BRITAIN

Rubens Barrichello, Ferrari F2003-GA, Silverstone #F1

1988 McLaren-Honda MP4/4 stripped bare and naked. #F1

Won 15 out of 16 races, the best victory percentage until Red Bull overtook it in 2023