5 Formula 1 Drivers Who Failed Spectacularly in IndyCar

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Published: April 3, 2015

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For drivers who find themselves frozen out of Formula One, IndyCar is re-emerging as a viable alternative.

Since the end of last season, several stars of the 2014 grid have flirted with the American single-seater series, with former Marussia driver Max Chilton helping Carlin's preparations for a 2016 IndyCar assault, while Simona de Silvestro returned to the championship after her hopes of driving for Sauber evaporated.

Elsewhere, Jean-Eric Vergne told the official IndyCar website of his desire to race in the series soon after his departure from Scuderia Toro Rosso, and Kevin Magnussen explained to Autosport's Lawrence Barretto and Mitchell Adam that deputising for Fernando Alonso in Australia was the only thing which stopped him from racing Stateside in 2015.

A number of F1 drivers have excelled in IndyCar over the years, with Emerson Fittipaldi and Nigel Mansell winning the championship in 1989 and 1993 respectively.

Fittipaldi is also one of several drivers to win the Indianapolis 500—an event synonymous with IndyCar but once part of the F1 calendar—with Jim Clark (1965), Graham Hill (1966), Mario Andretti (1969), Jacques Villeneuve (1995) and Juan Pablo Montoya (2000) also victorious at the Brickyard.

But for all those success stories, there are those who didn't quite crack America.

And 22 years on from Mansell's crash at Phoenix, here are five drivers who got it wrong in IndyCar.

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