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Otto Stuppacher.
At Monza 1976, on his GP debut, he was 8 seconds off the next slowest guy (Merzario).
At Mosport, for his 2nd, he was 7 seconds off the next slowest.
At Watkins Glen, for his 3rd, he was 6 seconds off Henri Pescarolo, who had practice problems. The next slowest guy who had a trouble-free practice was 20 seconds ahead of him...
They used to have a 110% rule, then a 107% rule, as a cut off for DNQing. With Otto, his best performance would have required a 115% rule; his worst would have needed a 127% rule...
Needless to say he DNQ'd every time. At Monza he was too slow, even though technically he out-qualified Hunt et al after the Italian stewards cheated, so he would not have been allowed to race. Before you blame his old Tyrrell for his lack of pace, Alex Pesenti-Rossi (an average F2 driver) got the same model to the grid a few times fairly handily.
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