🇬🇧 Eddie Irvine

Eddie Irvine was an established professional racing driver competing in single-seater championships from 1988 to 2002. His primary career was in Formula 1, where he drove for Jaguar across 147 starts from 1993 to 2002. He also raced in International Formula 3000 and Formula 3 Macau, competing against amateur, semi-professional and graded professional drivers in all three series.[1]

Irvine's Formula 1 career yielded four wins and 26 podiums across ten seasons. His strongest result came in 1999, when he finished second in the World Drivers' Championship with Ferrari, the team where he spent the bulk of his career; his final season in 2002 brought a ninth-place championship finish with one podium from 17 rounds. In the junior categories, he took a win and five podiums in International Formula 3000 and a win with two podiums in Formula 3 Macau.[2]

In Formula 1 he ran closely with Heinz-Harald Frentzen and Rubens Barrichello, both established professionals who shared his time in the sport. He also finished ahead of Mark Webber, an elite professional who would go on to win the 2016 WEC LMP1 championship, on four occasions, and repeatedly outpaced Mika Häkkinen, a two-time Formula 1 world champion, across their years in the same field.