Paddy Driver is a racing driver from South Africa who last raced in Formula 1 for Team Lotus. Driver has recorded 0 wins and 0 podiums from 2 starts.[1]
A Racer Rating of 3,333 ranks Driver 2118th 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.
| 1974-03-30 | Kyalami | DNF | −112 |
| Season | Series | Team | Races | Wins | Podiums | DNFs | Poles | Points | Pos | Gain/Loss | Rating |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1974 | ▸Formula 1 | Team Lotus | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | P21 | −113 | 3,333 |
| 1963 | ▸Formula 1 | Lotus-BRM | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | P18 | −106 | 3,378 |
Paddy Driver was a South African racing driver who started a Formula 1 career with Team Lotus in the early 1960s. He made two championship starts across the 1963 to 1974 period, neither of which resulted in championship points; his final appearance came in 1974, when he finished twenty-first. His single-seater record places him in the middle tier of drivers who have competed in the sport, well below the level of his team's headline driver Jim Clark but consistent with a professional who raced at that era's grid depth.[1]
Driver's career spanned the transition from the front-engined to rear-engined Formula 1, a period of substantial technical change and increasingly competitive grids. The limited data on record suggests his time in the championship was brief and peripheral. The biographical record indicates he had also competed as a Grand Prix motorcycle road racer before his four-wheel career, though the specific results of that phase are not held in this database.[2]