Alex Ribeiro is a racing driver from Brazil who last raced in Formula 1 for March. Ribeiro has recorded 0 wins and 0 podiums from 10 starts.[1]
A Racer Rating of 4,844 ranks Ribeiro 433th of 15,348 indexed drivers, on an Elo scale where the strongest reach the low five figures. It is built from every indexed race in the driver's file, decayed for time since their last race.
| 1977-10-23 | Fuji Speedway | P12 | +10 |
| 1977-10-09 | Mosport International Raceway | P8 | +77 |
| 1977-10-02 | Watkins Glen | P15 | −4 |
| 1977-08-28 | Circuit Park Zandvoort | P11 | +45 |
| 1977-07-31 | Hockenheimring | P8 | +72 |
| Season | Series | Team | Races | Wins | Podiums | DNFs | Poles | Points | Pos | Gain/Loss | Rating |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1977 | ▸Formula 1 | March | 9 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 0 | 0 | P22 | +56 | 4,888 |
| 1976 | ▸Formula 1 | Hesketh | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | P21 | +32 | 4,832 |
| Rival | Rating | Raced | Ahead | Behind | Record |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 🇿🇦 Jody Scheckter | 5,599 | 6 | 0 | 6 | 0% |
| 🇮🇹 Vittorio Brambilla | 4,573 | 5 | 2 | 3 | 40% |
| 🇦🇷 Carlos Reutemann | 5,765 | 4 | 0 | 4 | 0% |
| 🇮🇹 Riccardo Patrese | 5,627 | 4 | 3 | 1 | 75% |
| 🇦🇹 Niki Lauda | 5,364 | 4 | 0 | 4 | 0% |
| 🇺🇸 Brett Lunger | 4,831 | 4 | 1 | 3 | 25% |
| 🇩🇪 Hans-Joachim Stuck | 4,209 | 4 | 0 | 4 | 0% |
| 🇫🇷 Jacques Laffite | 5,186 | 3 | 0 | 3 | 0% |
| 🇫🇷 Patrick Depailler | 5,068 | 3 | 0 | 3 | 0% |
| 🇦🇺 Alan Jones | 4,943 | 3 | 0 | 3 | 0% |
Alex Ribeiro was a Brazilian single-seater driver who competed in Formula 1 during 1976 and 1977, entering ten World Championship Grands Prix for March without scoring points. His career placed him among professional drivers of the era, competing against established names and multiple champions. Across his classified finishes, Ribeiro averaged eleventh place, competing in grids where drivers like Jody Scheckter, Carlos Reutemann, and Niki Lauda were regular fixtures. He showed particular competitiveness against Riccardo Patrese, a graded professional, beating him in three shared races, and also outfinished Ronnie Peterson and Mario Andretti on occasion, though these remained isolated results rather than sustained patterns against drivers of that calibre.[1]
Ribeiro's time in Formula 1 was brief; his final season in 1977 saw him finish twenty-second in the championship without a podium finish. His most frequent rivals were front-running professionals of the mid-1970s, and the consistency of his presence in the field suggests he was a capable if unspectacular competitor. Against the grid's highest-ranked drivers, particularly Scheckter and the multi-time champions Lauda and Andretti, he typically finished behind them. The March team he drove for across most of his career was a constructor of modest success in the era, capable of producing race wins with stronger driver lineups elsewhere but not a leading force.[2]