🇦🇷 Roberto Mieres

Roberto Mieres was an established professional competing in Formula 1, the sport's single-seater world championship. He raced for Maserati across three seasons from 1953 to 1955, taking 17 starts in the championship.[1]

Mieres scored 13 championship points across his Formula 1 career, finishing seventh in the championship standings in his final season of 1955. He competed alongside some of the era's strongest drivers, among them five-time world champion Juan Fangio, with whom he was a regular opponent; Mieres typically finished behind Fangio but beat Mike Hawthorn, who would become 1958 world champion, twice during their races together. He also finished ahead of Stirling Moss, an established professional with 67 Formula 1 starts to his name, at least once.[2]

Mieres raced in a field spanning amateur entrants through to graded professionals, a standard feature of Formula 1 in that period. His fourteen starts for Maserati placed him among the drivers of an established team that fielded 86 drivers across the index and claimed nine race wins overall, though Mieres himself did not win a Grand Prix.