Inspired by the exchanges in my Button/Brawn Contract thread I would like you to consider who for you have been the ultimate journeymen in F1.
Dictionary.com describes the negative use of Journeyman as "any experienced, competent but routine worker or performer"
For me a journeyman in F1 is one who spends their entire career in middling teams getting the job done, occasionally showing the odd flash of talent but never really achieveing. So, to kick you off I offer:
Andrea deCesaris - a 14 year career, 214 Grand Prix (208 starts), 59 points, no wins, 1 pole, 1 fastest lap. The largest number of Grand Prix contested without a win.
and my own personal hero
Jean-Pierre Jarier - a 12 year career, 143 Grand Prix (135 starts), 31.5 points, no wins, 3 poles, 3 fastest laps.
One other question which crossed my mind, can a driver become a journeyman after achieving great things? For example could the latter years of Graham Hill's career, or for that matter Damon's, earn them the journeyman tag? To quote Neil Peart - Sadder still to watch it die than never to have known it.
Dictionary.com describes the negative use of Journeyman as "any experienced, competent but routine worker or performer"
For me a journeyman in F1 is one who spends their entire career in middling teams getting the job done, occasionally showing the odd flash of talent but never really achieveing. So, to kick you off I offer:
Andrea deCesaris - a 14 year career, 214 Grand Prix (208 starts), 59 points, no wins, 1 pole, 1 fastest lap. The largest number of Grand Prix contested without a win.
and my own personal hero
Jean-Pierre Jarier - a 12 year career, 143 Grand Prix (135 starts), 31.5 points, no wins, 3 poles, 3 fastest laps.
One other question which crossed my mind, can a driver become a journeyman after achieving great things? For example could the latter years of Graham Hill's career, or for that matter Damon's, earn them the journeyman tag? To quote Neil Peart - Sadder still to watch it die than never to have known it.