🇳🇱 Christijan Albers

Christijan Albers is a retired established professional who raced single-seaters and endurance prototypes across six seasons from 1998 to 2012. He competed in Formula 1 for Spyker from 2005 to 2007, taking 46 starts, and earlier raced in International Formula 3000 and Formula 3 Macau. His final indexed appearance came in the 2012 WEC season, where he shared an LMP2 prototype for Lotus.[1]

Albers' Formula 1 career was his primary platform. He contested 46 races for Spyker across three seasons but did not finish on a championship point. His record in the series placed him against a field that included two-time Formula 1 champion Fernando Alonso, whom he finished ahead of once, and 2016 Formula 1 champion Nico Rosberg, also beaten once. He raced regularly alongside Mark Webber, an elite professional and later WEC LMP1 champion, and proved closely matched with him across their meetings. Earlier, in nine International Formula 3000 starts for European Arrows in 2000, Albers competed in a field spanning semi-professional and graded professional competitors. His single Formula 3 Macau appearance came in 1998. The bulk of his Formula 1 starts came for Minardi, a team that fielded 37 drivers over its history and secured no race wins with any of them; his time there coincided with Fernando Alonso's own period at the outfit.[2]