Jenson Button in Dunlop British Touring Car Championship?

[Hazard]

Originally Posted by Kicking-back

They're all driving powerful rear wheel drive machines

Not a FWD car

And clearly not a generalisation...they're all DTM drivers, and the DTM/F1 link is pretty strong going each way.

Although I can think of a couple of drivers of S2000/Super Touring cars that have 'driven' F1 cars...they're usually occassional drives or test drives that went nowhere. The other way doesn't work well either...

Excellent tourers...naff F1'ers:
Gabriele Tarquini (Tyrrell 1995, AGS 1991)
Nicola Larini (Ferrari 1994, Sauber 1997)
Jo Winkelhock (drove for someone in the early 80's)
Jorg Muller (Sauber test driver, 1998-1999)
Kelvin Burt (Ligier test driver 1996)

Some of F1 drivers that were naff tourers:
Jean-Christophe Boullion (Renault 1999)
Nigel Mansell (previously mentioned, Ford 1998)
Derek Warwick (Vauxhall, 1997-8...at least he owned it)

[Kicking-back]

Derek did taste victory in a touring car.

And Larini was hardly a "naff" F1'er - he's been on the podium

[redshoes]

In Warwick's defence the 1995 Alfa was not a patch on the 1994 car (even Tarquini struggled to do much with it) and the 1997/98 Vectra was an absolute dog. That's not to say I would rate him as a particularly good TC driver.

Larini aside the first list is test drives or tail-end charlie teams so not surprising they failed to impress. Could anyone fail to be 'naff' in a Ligier or AGS?

[Neil Adams]

fair point but tarquini did out score warick even tho he only did a few rounds

[Hazard]

Originally Posted by Kicking-back

Derek did taste victory in a touring car.

And Larini was hardly a "naff" F1'er - he's been on the podium

Larini had good potential in F1, his podium at San Marino was easily forgotten though.

But his 1997 stint at Sauber qualifies as naff IMHO

[Hazard]

Originally Posted by redshoes

In Warwick's defence the 1995 Alfa was not a patch on the 1994 car (even Tarquini struggled to do much with it) and the 1997/98 Vectra was an absolute dog. That's not to say I would rate him as a particularly good TC driver.

Larini aside the first list is test drives or tail-end charlie teams so not surprising they failed to impress. Could anyone fail to be 'naff' in a Ligier or AGS?

Going way off topic now, but Ligier did win a race that season

AGS, okay - suppose. Probably more an indicator though that that was all that would hire him.

[redshoes]

Originally Posted by Hazard

AGS, okay - suppose. Probably more an indicator though that that was all that would hire him.

Or given the way most bottom-end F1 teams work, an indication that that was all his sponsorship dollar would buy him.