George Follmer is a racing driver from United States who last raced in Formula 1 for Shadow. Follmer has recorded 0 wins and 1 podium from 12 starts.[1]
A Racer Rating of 4,664 ranks Follmer 594th 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.
| 1973-10-07 | Watkins Glen | P14 | +26 |
| 1973-09-23 | Mosport International Raceway | P17 | −26 |
| 1973-09-09 | Autodromo Nazionale di Monza | P10 | +60 |
| 1973-08-19 | Red Bull Ring | DNF | −48 |
| 1973-08-05 | Nürburgring | DNF | −90 |
| Season | Series | Team | Races | Wins | Podiums | DNFs | Poles | Points | Pos | Gain/Loss | Rating |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1973 | ▸Formula 1 | Shadow | 12 | 0 | 1 | 5 | 0 | 5 | P13 | −136 | 4,664 |
| Rival | Rating | Raced | Ahead | Behind | Record |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 🇺🇸 Peter Revson | 5,214 | 7 | 1 | 6 | 14% |
| 🇳🇿 Denny Hulme | 5,522 | 6 | 2 | 4 | 33% |
| 🇧🇷 Emerson Fittipaldi | 3,999 | 6 | 0 | 6 | 0% |
| 🇬🇧 Jackie Stewart | 5,923 | 5 | 0 | 5 | 0% |
| 🇦🇷 Carlos Reutemann | 5,765 | 5 | 1 | 4 | 20% |
| 🇸🇪 Ronnie Peterson | 5,168 | 5 | 2 | 3 | 40% |
| 🇳🇿 Howden Ganley | 4,943 | 5 | 1 | 4 | 20% |
| 🇫🇷 Jean-Pierre Beltoise | 4,768 | 5 | 2 | 3 | 40% |
| 🇫🇷 François Cevert | 5,337 | 4 | 0 | 4 | 0% |
| 🇨🇭 Clay Regazzoni | 5,253 | 4 | 1 | 3 | 25% |
George Follmer was an American driver whose single-season Formula 1 career in 1973 with Shadow yielded one podium finish from twelve starts. He averaged a tenth-place finish across his classified races, competing against front-running professionals of the era including three-time champion Jackie Stewart, two-time champion Emerson Fittipaldi, and one-time champions Denny Hulme and Jody Scheckter. Against this field, Follmer finished ahead of Hulme twice, Scheckter once, and Reutemann once, though he was outpaced more often than not by the strongest drivers in his midfield. His head-to-head record against Revson and Peterson showed competitive balance; both drivers beat him more often, but he demonstrated the pace to finish ahead of them on occasion.[1]
The 1973 campaign represented the extent of Follmer's single-seater competition on record. His reputation as a road racer of the 1970s rested on a wider career in sports cars and endurance racing that lies outside this dataset. The podium he scored in Formula 1, achieved against world championship calibre opposition, marked his sole top-three finish in the series before his retirement from racing.[2]