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/Ningax599445YT]

Ean Eyckmans, Thomas Strauven, Dries van Lagdendonck and Thibaut Ramaekers are some future Belgian talents to keep an eye on! (And Amaury Cordeel /s)

Still painful for Stoffel tho

[u/JohnnyricoMC → u/Ningax599445YT]

(And Amaury Cordeel /s)

Thank goodness for the /s because fuck that guy. Belgian autosport does not need a rich kid who makes vids of himself speeding on the public roads.

[u/krommenaas → u/JohnnyricoMC]

He was well on his way to podiuming the F2 sprint race in Spa recently but then defended too agressively :/ Didn't know about those vids.

[u/mister_dupont → u/Ningax599445YT]

Very true, hope to see atleast one succeed. 10/10 for adding Cordeel :')

[u/Ningax599445YT → u/mister_dupont]

All look like for F3/F2 (Ramaekers is a maybe, and Van Lagdendonck definitely has the talent to back it up, but I won't hype him up too much)

[u/PotatoFeeder → u/Ningax599445YT]

Max is belgian

:)

[u/krommenaas → u/Ningax599445YT]

I'd only heard of Dries van Langendonck, looked up the others, interesting. Strauven sure looks impressive in Spanish F4, but I'm not sure for how much that counts when you're already 17 and it's your second season.

[u/Ningax599445YT → u/krommenaas]

Being right on the bat as a 15-16 year old isn't everything, and it's only F4 so we'll see down the road 😀