🇩🇪 Volker Weidler

Volker Weidler is an established professional who raced single-seater formulas in the mid-to-late 1980s, competing primarily in International Formula 3000 for Onyx between 1986 and 1988. He also contested Formula 3 Macau in 1984 and 1985, and made a single Formula 1 start in 1989 for Rial, finishing 17th in the championship standings across that season's 34 rounds.[1]

Across 21 starts in the indexed record, Weidler raced in fields mixing amateurs, semi-professionals and graded professionals. In Formula 3000, where he logged most of his racing, he was closely matched with Pierre-Henri Raphanel, an established professional, and regularly finished behind Pierluigi Martini, who went on to accumulate 120 Formula 1 starts and competed across multiple single-seater and sportscar series. Weidler beat Damon Hill, the 1996 Formula 1 world champion, once; he also held a 6-1 record against Raphanel across their meetings. At Onyx, a team that fielded eight drivers during its time in the index and recorded five race wins, Weidler accounted for nine of his career starts.[2]