Unfulfilled talents - those who never achieved potential? - Page 11

Alan Raine · 5 Jan 2008, 15:46 (Ref:2100137)

Quote:

Originally Posted by davyboy

Care to reveal your identity John ?

Ooh, another Quiz!

Is it John Morrison?

**ghinzani** · 5 Jan 2008, 16:45 (Ref:2100155)

Yes, He told us years ago in a previous post.

Thundersports · 5 Jan 2008, 18:03 (Ref:2100196)

Quote:

Originally Posted by Alan Raine

Ooh, another Quiz!

Is it John Morrison?

A rapid peddlar if I may say so.....

Alan Raine · 5 Jan 2008, 18:57 (Ref:2100227)

Quote:

Originally Posted by Thundersports

A rapid peddlar if I may say so.....

So would I

gfm · 5 Jan 2008, 19:00 (Ref:2100230)

You're very kind guys.
We did have real fun.

Alan Raine · 5 Jan 2008, 19:03 (Ref:2100233)

Quote:

Originally Posted by gfm

You're very kind guys.
We did have real fun.

Out of interest are you the same John Morrison that did Super Vees in the 70's as well as Saloons in the 80's?

davyboy · 5 Jan 2008, 21:10 (Ref:2100301)

Thanks for revealing your identity John... and I imagine you're the famous one...

http://www.brdc.co.uk/brdcarchive.cf.../member_id/147

gfm · 5 Jan 2008, 21:29 (Ref:2100314)

Rumbled!

**chunterer** · 31 Jan 2008, 17:17 (Ref:2117897)

He he, and he managed to stay incognito for so long!!

Enrique Bernoldi's name cropped up on a GP.com news story yesterday. Have we covered him yet?

Perhaps another one might be Thierry Tassin. Career ruined by the huge 3000 smash at Silverstone but he had already proven his class and was a great touring car driver as well. Often wondered why Ford, BMW, Volvo or TWR didn't give him a works deal. All of those squad had Belgian drivers on their books at various times IIRC?

gazzalnt · 17 Feb 2008, 13:43 (Ref:2130871)

what about richard dean he should have gone all the way .a true tallent

gazzalnt · 17 Feb 2008, 13:57 (Ref:2130880)

what bout dan wheldon mackmot?

sterling49 · 17 Feb 2008, 21:31 (Ref:2131206)

I have been reading this thread with great interest to see other folks valued opinions, here are my names that I believe could have done such great things, if only.....
Reine Wisell,John Miles,Francoise Cevert and Boley Pittard and Lorenzo Bandini, these are in no particular order, and you will see that they come from a wee while back......I saw them all race and marvelled at the skill each had behind the wheel. I would obviously agree with earlier posts that the three British drivers, Tony Brise, Tom Pryce and Roger Williamson, would all have achieved the ultimate prize, if their careers were not so tragically curtailed.

**chunterer** · 8 Mar 2008, 12:19 (Ref:2146860)

Here's a handful of Brazilians who missed the boat.

Niko Palhares in particualry went horribly off the rader after winning FF1600. Instead of doing V/O Euroseries he did F3 with un fancied team and then went off to Germany I think? He should've gone a lot further.......

Eduar Merhy Neto. Had Ayrton's support IIRC. Star in Opel Lotus but after a couple of poor races in F3 he disappeared without trace. Where's he now??

Jose Cordova. Top little driver. Again things didn't work out for him.

anyone know what happened to these guys?

Jason Elliott was not Brazilian, but one of a good crop of Brits in late 80's who's talents didn't ever get maximised probably because of budgetary constraints?

Paddockman · 9 Mar 2008, 18:22 (Ref:2147639)

Terry Fullerton ,Darren Gibbs. Dave Coyne.

Thundersports · 9 Mar 2008, 18:43 (Ref:2147657)

chunterer have to agree with you on Niko and Cordova but Jason Elliott? Whenever I saw him he was very wild and usually crashed, not very quick either.............

davyboy · 9 Mar 2008, 20:29 (Ref:2147723)

Quote:

Originally Posted by Paddockman

Terry Fullerton ,Darren Gibbs. Dave Coyne.

Terry Fullerton - Incredible driver and the adversary Senna said he most revered across his entire career. Britain's lost F1 world champion in my opinion.

Darren Gibbs - Multiple British karting champion that faded into the past.

On the subject of karting what about Micky Allen... or Mike Wilson. 6 times world karting champion, Wilson had the measure of everyone in the 1980s and surely would have done incredible things in F1 had he gotten there. Back in then I was confused as to why the 'Italian from Barnsley' never went to cars [he did a test or something in Italian F3 I think] but I read recently that he had a young family at the time and was making a reasonable salary as a works Birel and Kali driver and wasn't willing to take the risk of moving to cars.

Graz · 10 Mar 2008, 08:56 (Ref:2148098)

Terry Fullerton has been mentioned a number of times. I first heard of him when I read one of the books on Senna, can't recall which one. I would have been a little young at the time to know about him.

Can anyone give some details on him and what he's up to now? Cheers.

**ghinzani** · 10 Mar 2008, 12:54 (Ref:2148269)

Was making Fullerton brand kart chassis a few years back - mate of mine has a couple FGKs, they aint bad.

davyboy · 10 Mar 2008, 14:23 (Ref:2148372)

Quote:

Originally Posted by Graz

Terry Fullerton has been mentioned a number of times. I first heard of him when I read one of the books on Senna, can't recall which one. I would have been a little young at the time to know about him.

Can anyone give some details on him and what he's up to now? Cheers.

Terry did design Fullerton karts for a while, though he's not doing that now to the best of my knowledge. I ran his karts for several years and they were fantastic. He's now running a kart team at world championship level.
There was an excellent 3 page article on Terry Fullerton in the February 2007 issue of Karting Magazine, see below. Did you know that as a junior kartist, Terry featured in a Weatabix TV commercial back in the 1960s... and that he also raced under an Irish licence at one time !

Karting Magazine issue featuring Terry Fullerton

Paddockman · 10 Mar 2008, 18:24 (Ref:2148559)

Seen many many talented Karting Stars over the years ranging back to Herbert/Mcnish etc but have to say the one that really stood out from anybody else I have ever seen was Darren Gibbs, truly a natural talent.

**chunterer** · 13 Mar 2008, 20:35 (Ref:2151112)

Think I or someone else may have mentione him earlier but another ace karter was Danilo Rossi in late 80's. He moved to F3 and got a pole on his debut IIRC, but then drifted in and out and the last I know he did a season of Italian F3000 in late 90's?

jo white · 25 Sep 2008, 19:46 (Ref:2297885)

Quote:

Originally Posted by ensign14

Anyone remember Andy Sim from Vauxhall Lotus? He always looked quite decent in an underfunded car. Given he was up against Hakkinen and McNish, perhaps he should have had more of a shake of things.

andy sim used to work with me at reynards , we ran the likes of frank bradley, david leslie, etc etc. when andy was 17 i taught him to drive in my venerable morris minor and he passed first time. hes now happy back in glasgow area

The Shrew · 29 Sep 2008, 16:27 (Ref:2300479)

I always thought Alan Mcnish would make it in the big time in the early 90's but took his time to get into F1 and didnt stay for long.

Kelvin Burt
Mika Salo

What ever happened to Nannini ?

ensign14 · 29 Sep 2008, 16:54 (Ref:2300492)

Nannini was gravely injured in a helicopter crash that saw him lose an arm. It was reattached and he reverted to touring cars.

Glad to hear Andy Sim is doing fine.

**chunterer** · 30 Sep 2008, 12:10 (Ref:2301068)

Nannini wasn't really truly top drawer before the accident anyway was he? Plenty of his countrymen showed better potential in late 80's and even they never made it like Modena, Pirro, Caffi, Apicella and Larini for starters.

Similar Threads
Thread	Thread Starter	Forum	Replies	Last Post
potential new marshal	andrew_powell98	Marshals Forum	2	14 Oct 2004 08:35
F1 drivers that have achieved special things that marks them out as a bit special	Sato san	Formula One	59	11 Sep 2004 23:40
Unfulfilled Talent	Marshal	Motorsport History	12	24 Apr 2001 01:31
All time greats and top 3 talents of 2001	Damon	Formula One	56	17 Apr 2001 19:03