Derek Warwick is a racing driver from United Kingdom who last raced in Formula 1 for Footwork. Warwick has recorded 0 wins and 4 podiums from 148 starts.[1]
A Racer Rating of 4,993 ranks Warwick 328th 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.
| 1993-11-07 | Adelaide Street Circuit | P10 | +38 |
| 1993-10-24 | Suzuka Circuit | P14 | −15 |
| 1993-09-26 | Autódromo do Estoril | P15 | −14 |
| 1993-09-12 | Autodromo Nazionale di Monza | DNF | −115 |
| 1993-08-29 | Circuit de Spa-Francorchamps | DNF | −46 |
| Season | Series | Team | Races | Wins | Podiums | DNFs | Poles | Points | Pos | Gain/Loss | Rating |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1993 | ▸Formula 1 | Footwork | 16 | 0 | 0 | 5 | 0 | 4 | P15 | −10 | 5,186 |
| 1990 | ▸Formula 1 | Team Lotus | 16 | 0 | 0 | 9 | 0 | 3 | P14 | −48 | 5,196 |
| 1989 | ▸Formula 1 | Arrows | 15 | 0 | 0 | 7 | 0 | 7 | P10 | +31 | 5,244 |
| 1988 | ▸Formula 1 | Arrows | 16 | 0 | 0 | 6 | 0 | 17 | P7 | +548 | 5,213 |
| 1987 | ▸Formula 1 | Arrows | 16 | 0 | 0 | 10 | 0 | 3 | P16 | −64 | 4,665 |
| 1986 | ▸Formula 1 | Brabham | 11 | 0 | 0 | 7 | 0 | 0 | P20 | −252 | 4,729 |
| 1985 | ▸Formula 1 | Renault | 15 | 0 | 0 | 8 | 0 | 5 | P13 | +40 | 4,981 |
| 1984 | ▸Formula 1 | Renault | 16 | 0 | 4 | 10 | 0 | 23 | P7 | +355 | 4,941 |
| 1983 | ▸Formula 1 | Toleman | 15 | 0 | 0 | 9 | 0 | 9 | P14 | +373 | 4,586 |
| 1982 | ▸Formula 1 | Toleman | 11 | 0 | 0 | 9 | 0 | 0 | P27 | −570 | 4,213 |
| 1981 | ▸Formula 1 | Toleman | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | P22 | −16 | 4,784 |
| Rival | Rating | Raced | Ahead | Behind | Record |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 🇫🇷 Alain Prost | 6,204 | 52 | 1 | 51 | 2% |
| 🇧🇷 Ayrton Senna | 5,691 | 44 | 9 | 35 | 20% |
| 🇧🇪 Thierry Boutsen | 4,852 | 37 | 18 | 19 | 49% |
| 🇧🇷 Nelson Piquet | 5,153 | 36 | 3 | 33 | 8% |
| 🇮🇹 Riccardo Patrese | 5,627 | 34 | 14 | 20 | 41% |
| 🇮🇹 Michele Alboreto | 4,733 | 32 | 14 | 18 | 44% |
| 🇬🇧 Nigel Mansell | 5,716 | 27 | 7 | 20 | 26% |
| 🇦🇹 Gerhard Berger | 5,635 | 27 | 6 | 21 | 22% |
| 🇺🇸 Eddie Cheever | 5,298 | 22 | 14 | 8 | 64% |
| 🇬🇧 Martin Brundle | 5,199 | 21 | 10 | 11 | 48% |
Derek Warwick competed in Formula 1 for thirteen seasons across 148 starts between 1981 and 1993 without recording a victory, though he secured four podium finishes. His career placed him in the middle-professional tier of single-seater racing, consistently competitive against strong fields but outpaced by the era's elite drivers. Across his classified finishes, Warwick averaged seventh place; he regularly raced against and occasionally defeated champions including Ayrton Senna, whom he finished ahead of on nine occasions across 44 shared races, and Nigel Mansell, beaten seven times in direct competition. However, his head-to-head records against the strongest drivers of his generation, Alain Prost, Nelson Piquet and Ayrton Senna, tell a different story; he finished behind Prost 51 times from 52 encounters, and behind Senna 35 times from 44, demonstrating the gulf between front-running championship contenders and the second tier of the grid.[1]
His longest team association was with Arrows, where he started 47 races. Warwick's most significant achievement came outside Formula 1, winning the World Sportscar Championship and the 24 Hours of Le Mans in 1992 driving for Peugeot, a period that represented the peak of his racing career and demonstrated his competence in endurance competition. His later Formula 1 seasons showed diminishing performance; his final year in 1993 yielded no podiums across 16 rounds and a fifteenth-place finish in the championship. Since retirement from racing, Warwick has remained involved in the sport in an official capacity, including roles as an FIA steward.[2]