To be fair, that Super Aguri was essentially a 2002 Arrows at that point in the season. Pointless comparison, we all know Ide was terrible in F1 but this isn't the video to prove it
Well, he is definitely the worst F1 driver of the century at least. Dude was almost 2 seconds slower than Sato on average (and Sato, although decently quick, ain't Michael Schumacher).
@@quentinhirschfeld9382 Yeah I'm not saying he's good but the title is kind of stupid in my opinion since it doesn't say "F1" anywhere in it, anyone good enough to get to F1 is certainly not "The worst driver of all time" he just might be the worst F1 driver which is still nothing to scoff at lol. And while Yuji was slow, I have to think either Nikita Mazepin or Lance Stroll would take the "Worst F1 driver of the century" over Yuji but that's just me personally.
I've seen Ide drive in Best Motoring (awesome Japanese car show where they race cars on tracks like Tsukuba) and he isn't that bad. Super Aguri was a crap team back in 2006 and he was already old for an F1 driver (31). Sure, he sucked, but honestly there was a 99% chance he would suck, given the equipment, his age and his inexperience driving F1 cars. Outside of F1, he really isn't a bad racing driver and he has a few wins and podiums in Japan, the most recent win being in 2020.
He isn’t bad but to be racing at this level and standard,it’s unfortunately bad especially against some of the best drivers in the world. Granted he has a lot of things working against him having a race chassis that is 4 years old,modified to fit a Honda v8 and the 2006 regs. Age being 31 and being inexperienced to work in a different form of single seaters which his boss told the media about it which is incredibly disturbing. Also let’s not forget the dude couldn’t not speak a word of English which further compounds his issues. Not terrible as a race driver but just not cut out for a job at this level
I don't think you can compare drivers skills in two very different cars. If you watch Alonso in Minardi at 2001 (compared to Schumacher) we could say he wouldn't win nothing in his carrer...
If you see Alonso's Minardi onboards he was punching well above what the car was expected to do, in the words of his team boss, paul stoddart. There's a lap of fernando at indianapolis from a session in which he obliterated jacques villeneuve's (BAR) lap time as well. Plus racing against Benettons at catalunya and against Arrows and BAR at Suzuka wasn't anything less than extraordinary for a minardi.
That rookie driver had a decent amount of experience in single seater, yet he was on average 2 seconds slower than his teammate Sato. In modern F1, it's unacceptable.
To be honest, hes drive is not bad! You compare his shitty car with the Ferrari. What do you expect? For sure he doenst has the class of Schumacher, but hes not a bad driver. Hes working on the steering wheel and tries to survive every corny with a rear end that is COMPLETLY lost. He was an ok driver.
Even with a terrible car he should accelerate out of the corners, instead of waiting until he is fully on the straight, nowhere near the outside of the track, before finally stepping on the gas
1 5 Germany Michael Schumacher Ferrari 1:33.310 1:32.025 1:31.431 1 2 6 Brazil Felipe Massa Ferrari 1:33.579 1:32.014 1:31.478 2 3 12 United Kingdom Jenson Button Honda 1:32.603 1:32.025 1:31.549 3 4 1 Spain Fernando Alonso Renault 1:32.433 1:31.215 1:31.702 4 5 4 Colombia Juan Pablo Montoya McLaren-Mercedes 1:33.233 1:31.487 1:32.164 5 6 11 Brazil Rubens Barrichello Honda 1:33.922 1:32.322 1:32.579 6 7 9 Australia Mark Webber Williams-Cosworth 1:33.454 1:32.309 1:33.006 7 8 15 Austria Christian Klien Red Bull-Ferrari 1:34.308 1:32.106 1:33.112 8 9 2 Italy Giancarlo Fisichella Renault 1:32.934 1:31.831 1:33.496 9 10 16 Germany Nick Heidfeld BMW Sauber 1:33.374 1:31.958 1:33.926 10 11 17 Canada Jacques Villeneuve BMW Sauber 1:33.882 1:32.456 11 12 10 Germany Nico Rosberg Williams-Cosworth 1:32.945 1:32.620 12 13 14 United Kingdom David Coulthard Red Bull-Ferrari 1:33.678 1:32.850 13 14 8 Italy Jarno Trulli Toyota 1:33.987 1:33.066 14 15 20 Italy Vitantonio Liuzzi Toro Rosso-Cosworth 1:34.439 1:33.416 15 16 21 United States Scott Speed Toro Rosso-Cosworth 1:33.995 1:34.606 16 17 7 Germany Ralf Schumacher Toyota 1:34.702 17 18 19 Netherlands Christijan Albers MF1-Toyota 1:35.724 18 19 18 Portugal Tiago Monteiro MF1-Toyota 1:35.900 19 20 22 Japan Takuma Sato Super Aguri-Honda 1:37.411 20 21 23 Japan Yuji Ide Super Aguri-Honda 1:40.270 21 22 3 Finland Kimi Räikkönen McLaren-Mercedes no time1 22
