Derek Warwick

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Derek Warwick
Nationality	British
World Championship Career
Active years	1981-1990, 1993
Team(s)	Toleman, Renault, Brabham, Arrows, Lotus, Footwork
Races	162
Championships	0
Wins	0
Podium finishes	4
Career points	71
Pole positions	0
Fastest laps	2
First race	1981 San Marino Grand Prix
Last race	1993 Australian Grand Prix

Derek Stanley Arthur Warwick (born Alresford, Hampshire, England, 27 August 1954) is an English racing driver. He raced for many years in Formula One, but never won a Grand Prix. He is considered to be among the best F1 drivers never to have done so. During the early 1980's he was thought more likely to achieve World Championship success than his contemporary Nigel Mansell. In 2005 and 2006 he raced in the inaugural season of the Grand Prix Masters formula for retired Formula One drivers.

When he joined Renault in 1984 after success with Toleman, he expected to have a race-winning car and led the Brazilian Grand Prix, his first drive for them, only to retire owing to a suspension failure. He went on to finish in second place in both the Belgian and British Grands Prix in 1984 and finished 7th in the championship. The turning point in Warwick's career was his decision to stay at Renault for 1985 and reject an offer to drive for Williams, the seat was instead offered to Nigel Mansell who, accepting the position, went on to win 2 races at the end of the season. 1985 was a poor year for Renault and the team withdrew from Formula 1 at the end of the year. Renault's withdrawal, and Ayrton Senna's refusal to let Warwick join him as team mate at Lotus, left Derek without a team for start of the 1986 season. Following the death of Elio de Angelis in a testing accident in May, Derek was invited to take his place at Brabham. Derek subsequently drove mainly uncompetitive cars for, Arrows (1987-1989), Team Lotus (1990) and Footwork (1993) with little success.

Earlier in his career, he also won the 1978 British Formula Three Championship. Warwick also raced successfully in sports car racing, winning the World Sportscar Championship in 1992, and was also part of the Peugeot team which was victorious at the 24 hours of Le Mans race that year. He drove sports cars for Jaguar in 1986 and 1991. He raced in the BTCC after retiring from Formula 1, winning a famous wet race at Donington in 1998, and co-founding 888 Racing to run Vauxhalls in the series.

He scored 71 Grand Prix points.

He was the older brother of Paul Warwick, who was killed in a racing accident in 1991.

[edit] Complete Formula One results

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Year	Entrant	Chassis	Engine	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12	13	14	15	16	WDC	Points
1981	Candy Toleman Motorsport	Toleman TG181	Hart	USW	BRA	ARG	SMR DNQ	BEL DNQ	MON DNQ	ESP DNQ	FRA DNQ	GBR DNQ	GER DNQ	AUT DNQ	DUT DNQ	ITA DNQ	CAN DNQ	LVG Ret		-	0
1982	Candy Toleman Motorsport	Toleman TG181C	Hart	RSA Ret	BRA DNQ	USW DNPQ	SMR Ret	BEL Ret	MON DNQ	USE	CAN	DUT Ret	GBR Ret	FRA 15	GER 10	AUT Ret	SUI Ret			32nd	0
		Toleman TG183	Hart															ITA Ret	LVG Ret
1983	Candy Toleman Motorsport	Toleman TG183B	Hart	BRA 8	USW Ret	FRA Ret	SMR Ret	MON Ret	BEL 7	USA Ret	CAN Ret	GBR Ret	GER Ret	AUT Ret	DUT 4	ITA 6	EUR 5	RSA 4		14th	9
1984	Equipe Renault Elf	Renault RE50	Renault	BRA Ret	RSA 3	BEL 2	SMR 4	FRA Ret	MON Ret	CAN Ret	USE Ret	USA Ret	GBR 2	GER 3	AUT Ret	DUT Ret	ITA Ret	EUR 11	POR Ret	7th	23
1985	Equipe Renault Elf	Renault RE60	Renault	BRA 10	POR 7	SMR 10	MON 5	CAN Ret	USA Ret	FRA 7										14th	5
		Renault RE60B	Renault								GBR 5	GER Ret	AUT Ret	DUT Ret	ITA Ret	BEL 6	EUR Ret	RSA	AUS Ret
1986	Motor Racing Developments	Brabham BT55	BMW	BRA	ESP	SMR	MON	BEL	CAN Ret	USA 10	FRA 9	GBR 8	GER 7	HUN Ret	AUT DNS	ITA Ret	POR Ret	MEX Ret	AUS Ret	21st	0
1987	USF&G Arrows Megatron	Arrows A10	Megatron	BRA Ret	SMR 11	BEL Ret	MON Ret	USA Ret	FRA Ret	GBR 5	GER Ret	HUN 6	AUT Ret	ITA Ret	POR 13	ESP 10	MEX Ret	JPN 10	AUS Ret	16th	3
1988	USF&G Arrows Megatron	Arrows A10B	Megatron	BRA 4	SMR 9	MON 4	MEX 5	CAN 7	USA Ret	FRA Ret	GBR 6	GER 7	HUN Ret	BEL 5	ITA 4	POR 4	ESP Ret	JPN Ret	AUS Ret	8th	17
1989	USF&G Arrows	Arrows A11	Ford	BRA 5	SMR 5	MON Ret	MEX Ret	USA Ret	CAN Ret	FRA	GBR 9	GER 6	HUN 10	BEL 6	ITA Ret	POR Ret	ESP 9	JPN 6	AUS Ret	10th	7
1990	Camel Team Lotus	Lotus 102	Lamborghini	USA Ret	BRA Ret	SMR 7	MON Ret	CAN 6	MEX 10	FRA 11	GBR Ret	GER 8	HUN 5	BEL 11	ITA Ret	POR Ret	ESP Ret	JPN Ret	AUS Ret	14th	3
1993	Footwork Mugen-Honda	Footwork FA13B	Mugen-Honda	RSA 7	BRA 9															16th	4
		Footwork FA14	Mugen-Honda			EUR Ret	SMR Ret	ESP 13	MON Ret	CAN 16	FRA 13	GBR 6	GER 17	HUN 4	BEL Ret	ITA Ret	POR 15	JPN 14	AUS 10

[edit] External links

• Derek Warwick Fansite

Preceded by Derek Daly Stephen South	British F3 Champion 1978 with: Nelson Piquet	Succeeded by Chico Serra
Preceded by Teo Fabi	World Sportscar Champion 1992 with: Yannick Dalmas	Succeeded by none
Preceded by Volker Weidler Johnny Herbert Bertrand Gachot	Winner of the 24 Hours of Le Mans 1992 with: Yannick Dalmas Mark Blundell	Succeeded by Geoff Brabham Christophe Bouchut Eric Hélary