Pedro de la Rosa

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Pedro de la Rosa
Nationality	Spanish
Car #	4
Current team	McLaren
World Championship career
Races	71
World Championships	0
Wins	0
Podium finishes	1
Pole positions	0
Fastest laps	1
First race	1999 Australian Grand Prix
Latest race	2006 Brazilian Grand Prix
2006 Championship position	11th (19 pts)

Pedro Martínez de la Rosa (born February 24, 1971) is a Spanish Formula One driver. He was born in Barcelona, Spain. De la Rosa has participated in 71 grands prix, debuting on March 7, 1999, becoming one of very few drivers to score a point at his first race. He scored a total of six championship points with the old scoring system, and an additional 22 points in the expanded scoring format.

Contents 1 Early career 2 Professional career 3 To Formula One 4 Complete Formula One results 5 References 6 External links

[edit] Early career

Unlike most drivers, de la Rosa started his career in European radio controlled off-road cars. He also twice the European radio controlled off-road car Champion during from 1983 to 1987. It was only after that when he started karting in a local Spanish Championship in 1988. He then joined the Spanish Formula Fiat Uno and became champion in 1989.

[edit] Professional career

In 1990 de le Rosa joined the Spanish Formula Ford 1600 and became champion. He also joined the British Formula Renault 1600 and got two podiums out of six races. In 1991, de la Rosa got fourth in the Spanish Formula Renault Championship with three podium finishes. In 1992 he won both the European and British Formula Renault. However, he slipped down the order in the next two years. In 1995, he was champion of the Japanese Formula 3 series and third in the Macau Grand Prix. In 1996 Pedro was 8th in both the Formula Nippon F3000 and All Japan GT Championship. The next year he was champion of the Formula Nippon F3000. He was also the Japan All GT Champion.

[edit] To Formula One

In 1998, de la Rosa shifted to the Formula One series as a test driver for Jordan. The next year, he joined Arrows and scored only one point in the driver's standings. He picked the point up in the Australian Grand Prix, his début race. In 2000, he bettered his performance by one point scoring at both Hockenheim and Nürburgring. For the next two years, he joined Jaguar Racing, having a difficult relationship with the team's lead driver Eddie Irvine. He scored 3 points in 2001 but was pointless in 2002 and was dropped in 2003 (along with Irvine, who retired).

He became a test driver for McLaren and made a points scoring debut at the 2005 Bahrain Grand Prix when Juan Pablo Montoya injured his shoulder. He came fifth and also set the fastest lap in the race.

On July 11, 2006 it was announced that de la Rosa would take over the second McLaren race seat with immediate effect following Juan Pablo Montoya's departure to NASCAR. It was initially unclear whether he would remain in the seat until the end of the season, but some successful results led to him being retained.

At the Hungarian Grand Prix of 2006 De la Rosa scored his first ever podium, coming 2nd behind Jenson Button.

After a long period of speculation as to who would be Fernando Alonso's team-mate in 2007, Lewis Hamilton secured the seat. De la Rosa will carry on as the team's test driver. ^[1]

Starting in 2005 he became a race commentator for Spanish broadcaster Telecinco until when in 2006 he had to race. He is commenting again for 2007.

[edit] Complete Formula One results

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Yr	Team	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12	13	14	15	16	17	18	19	Team	WDC	Points
1999	Arrows	AUS 6	BRA Ret	SAN Ret	MON Ret	SPA 11	CAN Ret	FRA 11	GBR Ret	AUT Ret	DEU Ret	HUN 15	BEL Ret	ITA Ret	EUR Ret	MAL Ret	JPN 13				Arrows	18th	1
2000	Arrows	AUS Ret	BRA 8	SAN Ret	GBR Ret	SPA Ret	EUR 6	MON Ret	CAN Ret	FRA Ret	AUT Ret	DEU 6	HUN 16	BEL 16	ITA Ret	USA Ret	JPN 12	MAL Ret			Arrows	16th	2
2001	Jaguar	AUS DNP	MAL DNP	BRA DNP	SAN DNP	SPA Ret	AUT Ret	MON Ret	CAN 6	EUR 8	FRA 14	GBR 12	DEU Ret	HUN 11	BEL Ret	ITA 5	USA 12	JPN Ret			Jaguar	16th	3
2002	Jaguar	AUS 8	MAL 10	BRA 8	SAN Ret	SPA Ret	AUT Ret	MON 10	CAN Ret	EUR 10	GBR 11	FRA 9	DEU Ret	HUN 13	BEL Ret	ITA Ret	USA Ret	JPN Ret			Jaguar	21st	0
2005	McLaren	AUS TD	MAL TD	BAH 5	SMR TD	ESP TD	MON DNP	EUR DNP	CAN TD	USA TD	FRA TD	GBR TD	DEU DNP	HUN DNP	TUR TD	ITA TD	BEL DNP	BRA DNP	JPN TD	CHN TD	McLaren	20th	4
2006	McLaren	BAH DNP	MAS DNP	AUS DNP	SMR DNP	EUR DNP	SPA DNP	MON DNP	GBR DNP	CAN DNP	USA DNP	FRA 7	DEU Ret	HUN 2	TUR 5	ITA Ret	CHN 5	JPN 11	BRA 8		McLaren	11th	19

[edit] References

1. ^ "Lewis Hamilton joins Formula 1 World Champion Fernando Alonso at Vodafone McLaren Mercedes", mclaren.com, 2006-11-24. Retrieved on November 24, 2006.

[edit] External links

• The official website for Pedro de la Rosa
• Pedro de la Rosa profile and statistics

McLaren

Founder: Bruce McLaren

Personnel: Ron Dennis | Martin Whitmarsh | Norbert Haug | Mike Coughlan

Current drivers: Fernando Alonso | Lewis Hamilton | Pedro de la Rosa | Gary Paffett

Formula One cars:

1960s: M2B (1966) | M4B (1967) | M5A (1967–1968) | M7A (1967–1969) | M7C (1969–1971) | M9A (1969) 1970s: M14A (1970–1971) | M7D (1970) | M14D (1970) | M19A (1971–1973) | M19C (1972–1973) | M23 (1974–1978) | M26 (1977–1979) | M28 (1979) | M29 (1979–1981) 1980s: M30 (1980) | M29F (1981) | MP4 (MP4/1) (1981) | MP4/1B (1982) | MP4/1C (E, 1983) | MP4/2 (1984) | MP4/2B (1985) | MP4/2C (1986) | MP4/3 (1987) | MP4/4 (1988) | MP4/5 (1989) 1990s: MP4/5B (1990) | MP4/6 (1991) | MP4/6B (1992) | MP4/7A (1992) | MP4/8 (1993) | MP4/9 (1994) | MP4/10 (B, C, 1995) | MP4/11 (B, 1996) | MP4-12 (1997) | MP4-13 (1998) | MP4-14 (1999) 2000s: MP4-15 (2000) | MP4-16 (2001) | MP4-17 (2002) | MP4-17D (2003) | MP4-18 (test car) | MP4-19 (B, 2004) | MP4-20 (2005) | MP4-21 (2006) | MP4-22 (2007)