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🇦🇹 Roland Ratzenberger

Racing driver from Austria. Formula 1, Simtek.
Driver facts
Full name
Roland Ratzenberger
Born
4 July 1960(b. 1960)
Nationality
Austria
Current team
Simtek
Series
Formula 1
Status
Retired
Career wins
0
Career podiums
0
Career starts
2
Career DNFs
1
Racer Rating
3,384
Driver photo · 3:4
Racer Rating
3,384
RANK 1986 / 15,348 INDEXED · +0 SEASON
FIA Categorisation
Not on file
FIA CATEGORISATION NOT YET INDEXED
SOURCE · FIA.COM
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Roland Ratzenberger is a racing driver from Austria who last raced in Formula 1 for Simtek. Ratzenberger has recorded 0 wins and 0 podiums from 2 starts.[1]

A Racer Rating of 3,384 ranks Ratzenberger 1986th 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.

SOURCES: [1] INDEXED RACE CLASSIFICATIONS
1994 form
LAST 2 RACES · FINISH POSITION, HIGHER IS BETTER
P1P5P10P20DNFJPNITA
Recent results
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1994-05-01Autodromo Enzo e Dino FerrariFormula 1DNF−131
1994-04-17Okayama International CircuitFormula 1P11+40
Season by season
SeasonSeriesTeamRacesWinsPodiumsDNFsPolesPointsPosGain/LossRating
1994▸Formula 1Simtek200100P26−913,384
Recent coverage
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Roland Ratzenberger was an Austrian driver who competed in Formula 1 during 1994, the single season for which he has a record on the database. He made two starts for Simtek, a team that remained winless across its entire existence in the sport and fielded drivers of modest calibre; Simtek's strongest driver on record was Jean-Marc Gounon, a mid-field professional. Ratzenberger's average finishing position of eleventh across his classified starts reflects a driver competing at the lower end of the professional single-seater ladder against the world's elite.[1]

His Racer Rating of 3,384 places him in the upper amateur to lower professional range, a standing consistent with a brief spell in Formula 1 without points finishes or podiums. The record shows two starts in 1994, with a final classified finish of twenty-sixth; he did not score a championship point. His career on the database spans only this single season before his retirement from racing.[2]

SOURCES: [1] INDEXED RACE CLASSIFICATIONS[2] Wikipedia
How Ratzenberger beat the odds to realise his cruelly short-lived F1 dream[1]
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Roland Ratzenberger: The inside story of the Imola weekend[2]
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A racer through and through – Roland Ratzenberger remembered | Formula 1®[3]
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