Derek Warwick

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Derek Warwick
Formula One Career
Nationality	British
Active years	1981-1993
Team(s)
Grands Prix	147
Championships	0
Wins	0
Podium finishes	4
Pole positions	0
Fastest laps	2
First Grand Prix	1981 Las Vegas Grand Prix


Last Grand Prix	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 2006 he will race in the inagural 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 Ayton 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

(Note: Grands Prix in bold denote points scoring races.)

Yr	Team	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12	13	14	15	16	Team
1981	Tole	USAW	BRA	ARG	SAN	BEL	MON	SPA	FRA	GBR	DEU	AUT	DUT	ITA	CAN	LAS		Tole
1982	Tole	SAF	BRA	USAW	SAN	BEL	MON	SAE	CAN	DUT	GBR	FRA	DEU	AUT	SWI	ITA	LAS	Tole
1983	Tole	BRA	USAW	FRA	SAN	MON	BEL	USAE	CAN	GBR	DEU	AUT	DUT	ITA	EUR	SAF		Tole
1984	Rena	BRA	SAF	BEL	SAN	FRA	MON	CAN	USAE	USA	GBR	DEU	AUT	DUT	ITA	EUR	POR	Rena
1985	Rena	BRA	POR	SAN	MON	CAN	USAE	FRA	GBR	DEU	AUT	DUT	ITA	BEL	EUR	SAF	AUS	Rena
1986	Brab	BRA	SPA	SAN	MON	BEL	CAN	USAE	FRA	GBR	DEU	HUN	AUT	ITA	POR	MEX	AUS	Brab
1987	Arro	BRA	SAN	BEL	MON	USAE	FRA	GBR	DEU	HUN	AUT	ITA	POR	SPA	MEX	JPN	AUS	Arro
1988	Arro	BRA	SAN	MON	MEX	CAN	USAE	FRA	GBR	DEU	HUN	BEL	ITA	POR	SPA	JPN	AUS	Arro
1989	Arro	BRA	SAN	MON	MEX	USA	CAN	FRA	GBR	DEU	HUN	BEL	ITA	POR	SPA	JPN	AUS	Arro
1990	Lotu	USA	BRA	SAN	MON	CAN	MEX	FRA	GBR	DEU	HUN	BEL	ITA	POR	SPA	JPN	AUS	Lotu
1993	Foot	SAF	BRA	EUR	SAN	SPA	MON	CAN	FRA	GBR	DEU	HUN	BEL	ITA	POR	JPN	AUS	Foot