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🇦🇷 Miguel Ángel Guerra

Racing driver from Argentina. Formula 1, Osella.
Driver facts
Full name
Miguel Ángel Guerra
Born
31 August 1953(b. 1953)
Nationality
Argentina
Current team
Osella
Series
Formula 1
Status
Retired
Career wins
0
Career podiums
0
Career starts
1
Career DNFs
1
Racer Rating
3,160
Driver photo 3:4
Racer Rating
3,160
Rank 7479 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

Miguel Ángel Guerra is a racing driver from Argentina who last raced in Formula 1 for Osella. Guerra has recorded 0 wins and 0 podiums from 1 start.[1]

A Racer Rating of 3,160 ranks Guerra 7479th 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
1981 form
Last 1 races, finish position (higher is better)
P1P5P10P20DNFITA
Recent results
Tap a row for the full race
1981-05-03Autodromo Enzo e Dino FerrariFormula 1DNF−99
Season by season
SeasonSeriesTeamRacesWinsPodiumsDNFsPolesPointsPosGain/LossRating
1981▸Formula 1Osella100100P17+1,8103,160
Recent coverage
No recent coverage found.
Head-to-head
Most-raced and strongest-beaten: times Guerra finished ahead vs behind
RivalRatingRacedAheadBehindRecord
🇬🇧 Nigel MansellHigher-rated, 1× champion6,389110100%
🇮🇹 Elio de AngelisHigher-rated6,204110100%
🇳🇱 Jan LammersHigher-rated4,204110100%
Raced wheel-to-wheel, not as team-mates
On the leaderboard
Global rank, 39,300 drivers indexed
#DriverSeriesRating
7,469🇪🇸 Mikkel KRISTENSEN ILLANLe Mans Cup3,161
7,470🇬🇧 Philip Fotheringham-ParkerFormula 13,161
7,471🇳🇿 Reid Harker24H Series3,161
7,472🇺🇸 Steven ClemonsIMSA Pilot Challenge3,161
7,473🇺🇸 Bayliss LevrettFormula 13,160
7,474🇺🇸 Bill CantrellFormula 13,160
7,475🏳️ Clay KoevaryTrans-Am TA23,160
7,476🇮🇹 Giovanni AnapoliLamborghini Super Trofeo Europe3,160
7,477🏳️ Justin BrownNASCAR Whelen Modified Tour3,160
7,478🏳️ Leon KoehlerPorsche Carrera Cup NA3,160
7,479🇦🇷 Miguel Ángel GuerraFormula 13,160
7,480🇧🇪 Olivier Bertels24H Series3,160
7,481🇮🇹 Pietro PecceniniLe Mans Cup3,160
7,482🇿🇦 Ray ReedFormula 13,160
7,483🇺🇸 Steve ScullenIMSA Prototype Challenge3,160
7,484🏳️ Ben DrrGT World Challenge Europe3,159
7,485🇳🇱 Ben PonFormula 13,159
7,486🏳️ Danny ChisholmNASCAR Canada Series3,159
7,487🇬🇧 Freddie TomlinsonGT World Challenge Europe3,159
7,488🇩🇪 Georg SeverichFIA GT Championship3,159
7,489🇩🇪 Günther SeiffertFormula 13,159
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Miguel Ángel Guerra is a semi-professional driver whose rating of 3,390 places him in the competitive amateur band; this represents the upper tier of club and regional racing, where drivers are quick enough to race against professionals but do not sustain a career at that level. Guerra's record consists of a single Formula 1 start in 1981, driving for Osella in the San Marino Grand Prix at Imola. He qualified for the race but was caught in a first-lap collision with Eliseo Salazar's March, resulting in damage that sent him into the wall and injuries that ended his involvement in the race at position 22.[1]

The brevity of Guerra's racing record on file reflects the harsh mathematics of Formula 1 entry in the early 1980s, when constructors such as Osella competed with limited resources against established teams. His single classified start offers no meaningful measure of his capability; the collision that removed him from the race was not of his making. Osella as a team recorded no wins across its entire history in the database and fielded drivers whose capabilities ranged widely, with Alex Caffi representing the upper end of the roster. Guerra's career appears to have concluded after 1981, leaving him with no sustained record in any series from which to judge his competitive standing.[2]

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