The ten worst mid-season F1 driver swaps of the 21st century

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In the high-pressure world of F1, any change of driver is a fine line of risk and reward. Here are the risks that sadly didn't pay off.

A change of driver can make or break a season, or even a career. Whilst some become a failed roll of the dice, others can provide the springboard to driver’s time in Formula 1.

Along with performances versus the established team-mate, we have also considered ‘disaster’ races, where races have gone wrong regardless of speed or talent.With Ricardo Zonta’s last full F1 season being in 2000, the Brazilian had taken part in various substitute driver roles since then. Whilst we can’t call this a bad performance from Magnussen, it enters this top ten due to how disastrously it went. With the Dane likely already frustrated at his situation, it was to become even more irksome with the lack of pace from the new McLaren-Honda partnership. After qualifying behind his team-mate in an all-McLaren back row of the grid, Magnussen didn’t even make the start of the race due to engine troubles.

At a circuit that did not favour the Williams car and with minimal F1 car experience since 2013, naturally he was several tenths behind his rookie team-mate in qualifying, and was running at the back when he retired. The Scot had been a solid F1 driver in his career, but he was never destined to come out of that weekend looking good.

He did a reasonable job when he made substitute appearances in 2004, and found himself in the running for the second Williams seat for 2005. He lost a testing shootout to Nick Heidfeld, but got his chance later in the season when ‘Quick Nick’ picked up injuries during testing. He failed to score in three races, and Renault missed out on P2 in the Constructors’ Championship by 14 points.With Grosjean famously receiving his one-race ban for his part in the multi-car pile-up on the opening lap of the Belgian GP, the Lotus team turned to test and reserve driver Jerome D’Ambrosio to fill in for the Italian GP.

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