The Most DNFs in F1 History

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[niallblackburn]

Heard that name a lot, but never really thought about the amount of retirements before

[AdavidPT]

ahh yes Patrese, poor lad, he rly was prone to dnfing, reliability back then was poor.

[DarkPhoenixDack]

When the car fails and its not your fault, you generally don't get sacked...

[francoisdvanderwesthuizen]

The thing is that when Patrese did finish, it was mostly up in the good points...

[Aragorn.Strider]

My honest guess: Riccardo Patrese
Later... oh my

[StefanVeenstra]

As a child in the 90’s I came into F1 through video games. Specifically 1991’s Grand Prix, which wasn't licensed so they used fictitious driver and constructor names. They left the option to rename however and we had a habit of using early 90’s drivers names to make it feel more authentic. It made me familiar with many 90’s drivers names and Patrese always stood out to me, besides Senna, Prost, Piquet and Mansell, whenever I think back at that time.

Many people think of DNF’s as either reliability issues or crashes and associate it with poor driver or constructor quality. Patrese ran with the best, from what I recall certainly not one to bin it due to driver error.

[moharikram]

And do not disrespect him. He came second in 92 which he only lost to his teammate - Mansell.

Good driver but reliability issue on that Geez...

[erwinr]

F1 back then was turbo charged in an era when everything was a living experiment and even when they moved back to the regular engines cars dropped left and right during a race. Ricardo had the most starts so ofc he has the most retirements. Another good candidate was Andrea de Cesaris who drove a long time for backmarker teams.

[FaintAcrobat]

People who've gotten into F1 recently don't understand how amazingly reliable cars today are. Before the 2000s it was a pretty regular occurrence that half the grid didn't finish the race.
Sure, a good chunk were crashes, but there were a lot of retirement up and down the grid because of car trouble.
It kinda makes F1 a bit boring nowadays because of the reliability. I remember watching races where the last quarter of the race, you're still fully on edge, just waiting for something to happen with some of the cars.
Now, if one of the top teams has the car blow up, it's a huge deal and it's talked about for weeks. Back then, every team blew up a few cars throughout the season.

[ieuanharries]

I would have thought it was Andrea de Cesaris because he crashed a lot but was unlucky with reliability as well

[AlessandroSpenga]

Reliability was a huge issue back in the 70-90s. It was waaay more frequent to see retirements for technical reasons. Also, cars were more fragile and much harder to drive, making it easier to crash or come out of a contact without damage.

[LopoBeater]

Stuff used to blow up quite often back then

[fliepp]

Doesn’t De Cesaris have 147?

Edit: he had 148 retirements in 208 starts

[StarTrekGeek]

It'd be interesting to note who has the highest retirement percentage, assuming a minimum of, we'll say, 18 starts.

[trev]

F1 car reliability is a fairly new phenomenon. Before the 2000s, half the field retiring with a mechanical was commonplace.

[Benedek_Varga]

My first guess would have been De Cesaris. Actually didn't know Patrese had that much

[mets]

Yeah nailed one. Line of thinking was 1. Long career 2. Raced in the turbo era where reliability was suspect. 3. Raced big hunks of their career with backmarkers.

[gazingsky]

If Kimi were to stay in McLaren, he would have been able to give this a run for most dnfs.

[Manu-Official]

In France we had a running joke for a while with Jean Alesi - always wondering if he was going to finish a race as he was constantly out of luck.

[ahmadzahraniAAZ]

Andrea De Cesaris has the biggest dnf streak.
18 dnfs in a row, that's not even the worst part.


*He did it TWICE*