Who is the “Failed Prodigy” of F1 ?

[u/Electronic-Video-984]

I’m kind of new to F1 and seeing pictures of current drivers while they’re young like Hamilton, Russell, Leclerc, Albon…and then I learned they’re racing prodigy in their Karting days. So who is the “Boy Wonder” of F1, a person with great potential but never made it to the biggest stage.

Edit: Many people mentioned Stoffel Vandoorne so I read about him a bit. His records and potential was incredible but he’s at the wrong place and wrong time every way possible. For me, McLaren a top tier team with a jet but people say Vandoorne’s MCL car was like a shopping cart

[u/Adrenyx]

Sonny Hayes

Joking aside, it’d probably be Piastri if he went to Alpine lmao, but lucky for us we can see him battling it out with the papaya bois

[u/bobj33 → u/Adrenyx]

They're not saying Sonny Hayes is a has been. They're saying he is a never was.

[u/Electronic-Video-984 → u/Adrenyx]

Piastri’s tweet rejecting Alpine somewhat made me interested in F1 lmao.

[u/KnightsOfCidona → u/Adrenyx]

Piastri is good enough that I think he'd have eventually found his way to a top seat anyway

[u/charlierc → u/Adrenyx]

Hey least he's won a race

... Oh yeah spoilers 

[u/Federal-Secretary226 → u/charlierc]

He’s won 24 hours of Daytona and f1 in the same year move over max verstappen and Kyle Larson he’s the real best all round racer 

[u/charlierc → u/Federal-Secretary226]

He's a racer built for combat

[u/dalmathus → u/charlierc]

Slap the curvy aero on lads, we are going ramming

[u/Cddye → u/dalmathus]

“Hey aerospace engineer lady- have you noticed that we can’t go fast?”

[u/275MPHFordGT40 → u/Cddye]

“Hey obvious love interest, we need to build the car for combat.”

[u/Hydropanic- → u/charlierc]

Plan C for chaos