🇬🇧 Derek Warwick

Derek Warwick was an established professional racing driver in Formula 1 between 1981 and 1993, competing as a solo driver across a single-class world championship field that mixed amateurs and semi-professionals with graded elite drivers. He spent most of his career with Arrows, a mid-field team that fielded 26 drivers across its history and won no races.[1]

Warwick made 148 starts over 12 seasons without winning a race, taking four podium finishes. His strongest finishes came against multiple-time world champions; he beat Alain Prost three times and Nelson Piquet once. Against Riccardo Patrese, a fellow established professional with 257 Formula 1 starts, he was closely matched. He regularly finished behind Prost, who would go on to become a four-time world champion. His final Formula 1 season was 1993, when he finished 13th in the championship standings at Footwork. Warwick's racing record includes significant success outside Formula 1; he won the World Sportscar Championship and the 24 Hours of Le Mans in 1992 driving for Peugeot, achievements that sit outside the Formula 1 results recorded here.[2]