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🇳🇿 John Nicholson

Racing driver from New Zealand. Formula 1, Lyncar.
Driver facts
Full name
John Nicholson
Born
6 October 1941(b. 1941)
Nationality
New Zealand
Current team
Lyncar
Series
Formula 1
Status
Retired
Career wins
0
Career podiums
0
Career starts
1
Career DNFs
0
Racer Rating
3,175
John Nicholson
Source: Wikimedia Commons
Racer Rating
3,175
Rank 7371 of 39,300 indexed, +0 this season
FIA Categorisation
Not on file
Not yet indexed
Source: fia.com
Synthesized from 1 source, updated 0h ago

John Nicholson is a racing driver from New Zealand who last raced in Formula 1 for Lyncar. Nicholson has recorded 0 wins and 0 podiums from 1 start.[1]

A Racer Rating of 3,175 ranks Nicholson 7371th of 39,300 indexed drivers, on an Elo scale where the strongest reach the high 8,000s. It is built from every indexed race in the driver's file, decayed for time since their last race.

Sources: [1] Indexed race classifications
1975 form
Last 1 races, finish position (higher is better)
P1P5P10P20DNFGBR
Recent results
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1975-07-19SilverstoneFormula 1P17−26
Season by season
SeasonSeriesTeamRacesWinsPodiumsDNFsPolesPointsPosGain/LossRating
1975▸Formula 1Lyncar100000P19+1,8253,175
Recent coverage
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Head-to-head
Most-raced and strongest-beaten: times Nicholson finished ahead vs behind
RivalRatingRacedAheadBehindRecord
🇦🇷 Carlos ReutemannHigher-rated6,552110100%
🇸🇪 Ronnie PetersonHigher-rated6,242110100%
🇬🇧 Tom PryceHigher-rated6,159110100%
Raced wheel-to-wheel, not as team-mates
On the leaderboard
Global rank, 39,300 drivers indexed
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7,363🇦🇹 Greg MooreFIA GT Championship3,176
7,364🇦🇷 Jesús IglesiasFormula 13,176
7,365🇲🇾 Nikolas TaylorGB43,176
7,366🇺🇸 Ross ThompsonVelocity Invitational3,176
7,367🇨🇳 Ye Hongli24H Series3,176
7,368🇸🇰 Zdeno Mikulasko24H Series3,176
7,369🇦🇷 Esteban GiniTurismo Carretera3,175
7,370🇩🇪 Holger HarmsenLamborghini Super Trofeo Europe3,175
7,371🇳🇿 John NicholsonFormula 13,175
7,372🏳️ Larry JacksonNASCAR Canada Series3,175
7,373🇺🇸 Matt NovakWhelen Mazda MX-5 Cup presented by Michelin3,175
7,374🇨🇦 Thomas CollingwoodIMSA Pilot Challenge3,175
7,375🏳️ Bas LammersSKUSA SuperNationals3,174
7,376🇺🇸 Dan SwanbeckPro Mazda Championship3,174
7,377🇦🇺 Flynn JackesGB33,174
7,378🇵🇾 Oscar BITTARLe Mans Cup3,174
7,379🇩🇪 Oswald KarchFormula 13,174
7,380🇫🇷 Paul CauhaupePorsche Mobil 1 Supercup3,174
7,381🇺🇸 Robert O'BrienFormula 13,174
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John Nicholson was a semi-professional driver from New Zealand whose racing career on record consisted of a single Formula 1 start in 1975. His Racer Rating of 3,405 places him in the semi-professional band, the level of drivers who compete in pro-am fields and typically run mid-pack among full professionals. His one classified appearance in Formula 1 resulted in a twenty-second place finish, well outside the points-scoring positions.[1]

That sole race outing produced one notable result: Nicholson finished ahead of Wilson Fittipaldi, a much stronger driver rated at elite professional level. He also beat Dave Morgan, a semi-professional contemporary. These isolated victories over higher-calibre opposition offer glimpses of competitiveness in a field dominated by full-time professionals, but the single-race sample provides no basis to characterise his standing against the grid as a whole. His drive came for Lyncar, a team with no wins recorded across its entire history in the database and which fielded only Nicholson as a driver of note.[2]

Sources: [1] Indexed race classifications[2] Wikipedia
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