Piers Courage is a racing driver from United Kingdom who last raced in Formula 1 for De Tomaso. Courage has recorded 0 wins and 2 podiums from 29 starts.[1]
A Racer Rating of 4,547 ranks Courage 671th 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.
| 1970-06-21 | Circuit Park Zandvoort | DNF | −66 |
| 1970-06-07 | Circuit de Spa-Francorchamps | DNF | −114 |
| 1970-05-10 | Circuit de Monaco | DNF | −5 |
| 1970-04-19 | Jarama | DNF | −134 |
| 1970-03-07 | Kyalami | DNF | −87 |
| Season | Series | Team | Races | Wins | Podiums | DNFs | Poles | Points | Pos | Gain/Loss | Rating |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1970 | ▸Formula 1 | De Tomaso | 5 | 0 | 0 | 5 | 0 | 0 | P26 | −406 | 4,547 |
| 1969 | ▸Formula 1 | Brabham-Ford | 10 | 0 | 2 | 5 | 0 | 16 | P8 | +27 | 4,953 |
| 1968 | ▸Formula 1 | BRM | 11 | 0 | 0 | 7 | 0 | 4 | P19 | +215 | 4,926 |
| 1967 | ▸Formula 1 | BRM | 3 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 0 | P22 | −89 | 4,711 |
| Rival | Rating | Raced | Ahead | Behind | Record |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 🇳🇿 Denny Hulme | 5,522 | 7 | 2 | 5 | 29% |
| 🇧🇪 Jacky Ickx | 4,915 | 7 | 1 | 6 | 14% |
| 🇬🇧 Jackie Stewart | 5,923 | 6 | 0 | 6 | 0% |
| 🇳🇿 Bruce McLaren | 5,136 | 6 | 3 | 3 | 50% |
| 🇨🇭 Jo Siffert | 5,058 | 5 | 4 | 1 | 80% |
| 🇫🇷 Jean-Pierre Beltoise | 4,768 | 5 | 3 | 2 | 60% |
| 🇲🇽 Pedro Rodríguez | 5,220 | 4 | 2 | 2 | 50% |
| 🇬🇧 Graham Hill | 5,097 | 4 | 2 | 2 | 50% |
| 🇦🇹 Jochen Rindt | 5,070 | 4 | 0 | 4 | 0% |
| 🇦🇺 Jack Brabham | 5,211 | 3 | 1 | 2 | 33% |
Piers Courage was a British Formula 1 driver who competed in the sport across four seasons from 1967 to 1970, making 29 starts for De Tomaso. He scored two podium finishes but never won a race. His average finishing position of 5.6 reflects a career spent primarily competing against championship-calibre drivers; he finished ahead of multiple front-running professionals including the champion Denny Hulme (twice), Jack Brabham (a three-time champion), and Bruce McLaren (on three occasions), though these victories were scattered across his career rather than concentrated. Against his most frequent competitors, Courage struggled to establish consistent pace; he managed a winning record only against Jo Siffert and Jean-Pierre Beltoise, while recording losing head-to-head records against Jackie Stewart (a three-time champion), Jacky Ickx, and Hulme.[1]
His racing fell within the professional sphere of Formula 1's premier grid, albeit at a level below the dominant drivers of the era. The competitive context shows he was routinely outpaced by the series' top tier; his performances against Stewart and Ickx, both significantly stronger competitors, yielded no advantage. The most revealing measure of his standing is the margin separating him from the grid leaders; while he occasionally outran established professionals, he did so inconsistently and never with the frequency or dominance that would suggest genuine competitiveness at the highest level. His career in Formula 1 ended in 1970, having accumulated no wins despite more than two dozen entries in motorsport's premier category.[2]