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🇩🇪 Volker Weidler

Racing driver from Germany. Formula 1, Rial.
Driver facts
Full name
Volker Weidler
Born
18 March 1962(b. 1962)
Nationality
Germany
Current team
Rial
Series
Formula 1
Status
Retired
Career wins
0
Career podiums
0
Career starts
21
Career DNFs
5
Racer Rating
5,767
Volker Weidler
Source: Wikimedia Commons
Racer Rating
5,767
Rank 410 of 39,251 indexed, +0 this season
FIA Categorisation
Not on file
Not yet indexed
Source: fia.com
Synthesized from 1 source, updated 0h ago

Volker Weidler is a racing driver from Germany who last raced in Formula 1 for Rial. Weidler has recorded 0 wins and 0 podiums from 21 starts.[1]

A Racer Rating of 5,767 ranks Weidler 410th of 39,251 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
1989 form
Last 20 races, finish position (higher is better)
P1P5P10P20DNFGER
Recent results
Tap a row for the full race
1989-07-30HockenheimringFormula 1DNF−133
Career-best drives
Ranked by rating won, which prices the opposition
Rating wonRaceSeriesFinish
+124Macau 1984Formula 3 MacauP4
+116Macau 1984Formula 3 MacauP4
+116Birmingham 1988International Formula 3000P4
+97Brands Hatch 1988International Formula 3000P6
+89Dijon 1988International Formula 3000P6
Season by season
SeasonSeriesTeamRacesWinsPodiumsDNFsPolesPointsPosGain/LossRating
1989▸Formula 1Rial100100P17↑404−1335,767
1988▸International Formula 3000Onyx900300P15+805,496
1986▸International Formula 3000Cowman Racing500100P21↑361+165,416
1985▸Formula 3 MacauWerner Schröder300000—+2135,039
1984▸Formula 3 MacauVolkswagen Motorsport300000—+3,4764,826
Recent coverage
No recent coverage found.
Head-to-head
Most-raced and strongest-beaten: times Weidler finished ahead vs behind
RivalRatingRacedAheadBehindRecord
🇫🇷 Pierre-Henri Raphanel5,983159660%
🇮🇹 Pierluigi Martini5,6521441029%
🇮🇹 Emanuele Pirro5,496126650%
🇬🇧 Russell Spence5,0441210283%
🇩🇰 John Nielsen5,498112918%
🇮🇹 Claudio Langes5,446116555%
🇫🇷 Olivier Grouillard5,111113827%
🇫🇷 Jean Alesi6,063103730%
🇯🇵 Marco ApicellaFIA Silver5,695103730%
🇫🇷 Michel FertéFIA Bronze5,557105550%
🇬🇧 Johnny HerbertHigher-rated6,02962433%
🇬🇧 Damon HillHigher-rated, 1× champion6,012220100%
Raced wheel-to-wheel, not as team-mates
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417🇺🇸 Austin DillonNASCAR Cup Series5,755
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419🇧🇪 Jordan PepperGT World Challenge Europe5,749
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Volker Weidler is a retired German professional single-seater racing driver. He competed in Formula 3 Macau, International Formula 3000 and Formula 1 across five seasons from 1984 to 1989, racing open-wheel cars in fields mixing amateur and established professionals. His main team in the international series was Onyx.[1]

Weidler took 21 starts across his indexed career. He raced Formula 3 Macau six times in 1984 and 1985, then progressed to International Formula 3000, where he started fourteen times for Onyx between 1986 and 1988 in a field that included drivers with 30+ starts in that series. His single Formula 1 appearance came in 1989 for Rial, yielding a 17th-place finish in the championship standings.[2]

In International Formula 3000 he ran closely matched against Pierre-Henri Raphanel, an established professional who went on to accumulate 32 starts in that series, beating him six times across their meetings. Against Pierluigi Martini, another regular in the field with 31 Formula 3000 starts and 120 Formula 1 entries, Weidler typically finished behind. He finished ahead of Damon Hill, the 1996 Formula 1 world champion, once across their encounters.

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