Johnny motors around in Austria, well off teammate Senna's pace.

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As with many of Senna's teammates, Dumfries produced no threat to Senna at all. He was clearly out of his league, and while Senna would win pole position after pole postion, Dumfries never made it on to the grid higher than 8th. In fact he even DNQ'd at Monaco. He did, though, manage a couple of decent performances that landed him in the points, with a 5th at Hungry and a 6th in Australia, just enough to not get a full biography on this site. With JPS pulling out at the end of the season, there was no reason to keep Dumfries, and he later on found a home in sports car racing.

In 1988, Dumfries won the 24 Hours of Le Mans driving a TWR Jaguar V12. He was certainly more suited to sports cars than to Formula One.

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On his way to place his Rial 4th in the US - a thoroughly undeserved result after qualifying last.

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So Christian Danner scored a point for Arrows as a substitute in 1986 - big deal: his outings for Zakspeed in 1985 and 1987 did not catch the eye; especially when he was blown out of the weeds by team-mate Martin Brundle in 1987 (who incidentally did manage to score 2 points, Zakspeed's only ever score).

1989 in the Rial would be little better. One read of our profile of that team would tell you that DNQs handsomely outnumbered any other statistic for the German team that year. So what gets Danner out of gaol? Simply, the fluke result at Phoenix in 1989, where sheer reliability got him from bog last on the grid to a remarkable 4th place.

It saved Rial from pre-qualifying when it deserved to be in the lottery, and the three points keeps Danner out of a profile.

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Who know why or how, but successful Indy drivers just can't make it in F1 (meanwhile it would appear that unsuccessful F1 drivers seem to do just fine in the US...)

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If anything else, what should get Andretti in is his ridiculous attitude of living in the States and commuting to Europe for each race. Not only did this keep him away from his team, it meant that he was not immersed in a European environment and could never hope to succeed in F1 that way.

He is saved only by a few points scoring finishes, such as 5th in Spain, before a podium at Monza (in a fine drive from the back of the pack after an early pit stop) in his last F1 race before he bit the bullet and let in Mika Hakkinen, a man of infinitely more adaptability to F1.

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