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Drivers who have struggled in F1 having shown genuine promise in lower formulae
Three suggestions for starters:
Jan Magnussen - won a record number of British F3 wins in one season (1994). Yet struggled with Stewart in F1 and ended up being sacked by the same team who described him as the 'next Senna' a few years previously.
Tarso Marques - another who struggled in F1. Yet (still only a teenager) he won the 1995 Estoril F3000 race from the pole and also started on pole in Pau that year.
Ricardo Rosset - in 1996 he never outqualified Verstappen at Arrows and in 1998 failed to qualify for several races with Tyrrell. Yet in 1995 he won his first ever F3000 race from the pole (Silverstone), won a second race at Enna and finished second to Vincenzo Sospiri in the championship. The Autocourse review that year stated that Rosset was ready for F1 having nothing left to prove in F3000.
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