2012 F1 driver biographies and statistics updated
2012 F1 season
Jean-Eric Vergne joins the roster of F1 drivers in 2012
The F1 driver biography pages on F1 Fanatic have been given an overhaul.
They now feature statistics on every driver’s season and allow you to find other F1 Fanatic readers who support the same drivers as you.
And the biographies have been fully revised and rewritten to bring them up-to-date, and many of them have had new images added.
2012 F1 driver biographies
We don’t have a definitive list of 2012 drivers at present. All the drivers from the 2011 season are listed below plus those who have already been confirmed for 2012 such as Jean-Eric Vergne and Charles Pic.
View the revised and updated biographies for each driver here:
2012 F1 driver statistics – Championship positions
This table shows every championship finish by each driver since their F1 debut. You can hide or show different drivers using the controls below:
| 1991 | 1992 | 1993 | 1994 | 1995 | 1996 | 1997 | 1998 | 1999 | 2000 | 2001 | 2002 | 2003 | 2004 | 2005 | 2006 | 2007 | 2008 | 2009 | 2010 | 2011 | |
| Adrian Sutil | 19 | 20 | 17 | 11 | 9 | ||||||||||||||||
| Bruno Senna | 23 | 18 | |||||||||||||||||||
| Daniel Ricciardo | 27 | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Felipe Massa | 13 | 12 | 13 | 3 | 4 | 2 | 11 | 6 | 6 | ||||||||||||
| Fernando Alonso | 23 | 6 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 5 | 9 | 2 | 4 | |||||||||||
| Heikki Kovalainen | 7 | 7 | 12 | 20 | 22 | ||||||||||||||||
| Jaime Alguersuari | 24 | 19 | 14 | ||||||||||||||||||
| Jarno Trulli | 15 | 17 | 11 | 10 | 9 | 8 | 8 | 6 | 7 | 12 | 13 | 9 | 8 | 21 | 21 | ||||||
| Jenson Button | 8 | 17 | 7 | 9 | 3 | 9 | 6 | 15 | 18 | 1 | 5 | 2 | |||||||||
| Jerome DAmbrosio | 24 | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Kamui Kobayashi | 18 | 12 | 12 | ||||||||||||||||||
| Karun Chandhok | 22 | 28 | |||||||||||||||||||
| Kimi Raikkonen | 10 | 6 | 2 | 7 | 2 | 5 | 1 | 3 | 6 | ||||||||||||
| Lewis Hamilton | 2 | 1 | 5 | 4 | 5 | ||||||||||||||||
| Mark Webber | 16 | 10 | 13 | 10 | 14 | 12 | 11 | 4 | 3 | 3 | |||||||||||
| Michael Schumacher | 13 | 3 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 2 | 5 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 2 | 9 | 8 | ||||
| Nick Heidfeld | 20 | 8 | 10 | 14 | 18 | 11 | 9 | 5 | 6 | 13 | 18 | 11 | |||||||||
| Nico Hulkenberg | 14 | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Nico Rosberg | 17 | 9 | 13 | 7 | 7 | 7 | |||||||||||||||
| Paul di Resta | 13 | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Pedro de la Rosa | 17 | 16 | 16 | 21 | 20 | 11 | 17 | 20 | |||||||||||||
| Robert Kubica | 16 | 6 | 4 | 14 | 8 | ||||||||||||||||
| Romain Grosjean | 23 | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Rubens Barrichello | 17 | 6 | 11 | 8 | 13 | 12 | 7 | 4 | 3 | 2 | 4 | 2 | 8 | 7 | 20 | 14 | 3 | 10 | 17 | ||
| Sebastian Vettel | 14 | 8 | 2 | 1 | 1 | ||||||||||||||||
| Sebastien Buemi | 16 | 16 | 15 | ||||||||||||||||||
| Timo Glock | 19 | 10 | 10 | 25 | 25 | ||||||||||||||||
| Vitaly Petrov | 13 | 10 | |||||||||||||||||||
| Vitantonio Liuzzi | 24 | 19 | 18 | 22 | 15 | 23 | |||||||||||||||
| Pastor Maldonado | 19 | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Sergio Perez | 16 | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Narain Karthikeyan | 18 | 26 |
2012 F1 driver statistics – Race wins
Here’s how many races each current F1 driver has won in the years they competed:
| 1991 | 1992 | 1993 | 1994 | 1995 | 1996 | 1997 | 1998 | 1999 | 2000 | 2001 | 2002 | 2003 | 2004 | 2005 | 2006 | 2007 | 2008 | 2009 | 2010 | 2011 | |
| Felipe Massa | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 3 | 6 | 0 | 0 | 0 | ||||||||||||
| Fernando Alonso | 0 | 1 | 0 | 7 | 7 | 4 | 2 | 0 | 5 | 1 | |||||||||||
| Heikki Kovalainen | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | ||||||||||||||||
| Jarno Trulli | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | ||||||
| Jenson Button | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 6 | 2 | 3 | |||||||||
| Kimi Raikkonen | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 7 | 0 | 6 | 2 | 1 | ||||||||||||
| Lewis Hamilton | 4 | 5 | 2 | 3 | 3 | ||||||||||||||||
| Mark Webber | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 4 | 1 | |||||||||||
| Michael Schumacher | 0 | 1 | 1 | 8 | 9 | 3 | 5 | 6 | 2 | 9 | 9 | 11 | 6 | 13 | 1 | 7 | 0 | 0 | |||
| Robert Kubica | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | ||||||||||||||||
| Rubens Barrichello | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 4 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | ||
| Sebastian Vettel | 0 | 1 | 4 | 5 | 11 |
2012 F1 driver statistics – Pole positions
And here’s who’s started at the front:
| 1991 | 1992 | 1993 | 1994 | 1995 | 1996 | 1997 | 1998 | 1999 | 2000 | 2001 | 2002 | 2003 | 2004 | 2005 | 2006 | 2007 | 2008 | 2009 | 2010 | 2011 | |
| Felipe Massa | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 6 | 6 | 0 | 0 | 0 | ||||||||||||
| Fernando Alonso | 0 | 2 | 1 | 6 | 6 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 0 | |||||||||||
| Heikki Kovalainen | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | ||||||||||||||||
| Jarno Trulli | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | ||||||
| Jenson Button | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 0 | 0 | |||||||||
| Kimi Raikkonen | 0 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 5 | 3 | 3 | 2 | 0 | ||||||||||||
| Lewis Hamilton | 6 | 7 | 4 | 1 | 1 | ||||||||||||||||
| Mark Webber | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 5 | 3 | |||||||||||
| Michael Schumacher | 0 | 0 | 0 | 6 | 4 | 4 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 9 | 11 | 7 | 5 | 8 | 1 | 4 | 0 | 0 | |||
| Nick Heidfeld | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |||||||||
| Nico Hulkenberg | 1 | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Robert Kubica | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | ||||||||||||||||
| Rubens Barrichello | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 3 | 3 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | ||
| Sebastian Vettel | 0 | 1 | 4 | 10 | 15 |
2012 F1 driver statistics – Overall results
A record six former world champions will compete in F1 this year:
| Driver | Debut | Best championship finish | Wins | Poles |
| Michael Schumacher | 1991 | 1 | 91 | 68 |
| Fernando Alonso | 2001 | 1 | 27 | 20 |
| Jenson Button | 2000 | 1 | 12 | 7 |
| Sebastian Vettel | 2007 | 1 | 21 | 30 |
| Lewis Hamilton | 2007 | 1 | 17 | 19 |
| Kimi Raikkonen | 2001 | 1 | 18 | 16 |
| Rubens Barrichello | 1993 | 2 | 11 | 14 |
| Felipe Massa | 2002 | 2 | 11 | 15 |
| Mark Webber | 2002 | 3 | 7 | 9 |
| Robert Kubica | 2006 | 4 | 1 | 1 |
| Nick Heidfeld | 2000 | 5 | 0 | 1 |
| Jarno Trulli | 1997 | 6 | 1 | 4 |
| Nico Rosberg | 2006 | 7 | 0 | 0 |
| Heikki Kovalainen | 2007 | 7 | 1 | 1 |
| Adrian Sutil | 2007 | 9 | 0 | 0 |
| Vitaly Petrov | 2010 | 10 | 0 | 0 |
| Timo Glock | 2004 | 10 | 0 | 0 |
| Pedro de la Rosa | 1999 | 11 | 0 | 0 |
| Kamui Kobayashi | 2009 | 12 | 0 | 0 |
| Paul di Resta | 2011 | 13 | 0 | 0 |
| Vitantonio Liuzzi | 2005 | 13 | 0 | 0 |
| Jaime Alguersuari | 2009 | 14 | 0 | 0 |
| Nico Hulkenberg | 2010 | 14 | 0 | 1 |
| Sebastien Buemi | 2009 | 15 | 0 | 0 |
| Sergio Perez | 2011 | 16 | 0 | 0 |
| Narain Karthikeyan | 2005 | 18 | 0 | 0 |
| Bruno Senna | 2010 | 18 | 0 | 0 |
| Pastor Maldonado | 2011 | 19 | 0 | 0 |
| Karun Chandhok | 2009 | 22 | 0 | 0 |
| Romain Grosjean | 2009 | 23 | 0 | 0 |
| Jerome D’Ambrosio | 2011 | 24 | 0 | 0 |
| Daniel Ricciardo | 2011 | 27 | 0 | 0 |
Please leave any feedback or suggestions for improvements to the biographies below.
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Silverkeg (@silverkeg) said on 6th January 2012, 11:51
@keithcollantine The Overall Results list has Maldonado, Di Resta, Perez and D’Ambrosio debuting in 2010 instead of 2011.
Otherwise, the revisions look great, now I’m going to spend a moment of my time looking through each one :D
Keith Collantine (@keithcollantine) said on 6th January 2012, 12:17
@Silverkeg Fixed, thanks.
Silverkeg (@silverkeg) said on 6th January 2012, 12:23
@keithcollantine Sorry to bug you again, you changed Bruno’s to 2011, not Pastor’s.
I am enjoying reading through everyone’s, might take me a while though. I am learning a lot of their histories before Formula 1 which is very interesting.
Keith Collantine (@keithcollantine) said on 6th January 2012, 15:04
@silverkeg Oops, double blunder. Sorted.
OOliver said on 6th January 2012, 12:26
Keith, your table of driver overall results, you order them by wins or something else?
AndrewTanner (@andrewtanner) said on 6th January 2012, 13:50
I’m trying to figure it out too but I can’t see any pattern. Not that it’s a problem of course, quite fun trying to figure it out!
BasCB (@bascb) said on 6th January 2012, 14:37
first criterium seems to be best finishing position. After that I am not sure about it, but its not amount of wins, nor percentage.
Girts (@girts) said on 6th January 2012, 14:50
@BasCB @AndrewTanner I think it’s 1) Best championship finish 2) Points
AndrewTanner (@andrewtanner) said on 6th January 2012, 22:34
@Girts @BasCB @KeithCollantine Can you throw any light on this for us please, Keith?
Toro Stevo (@toro-stevo) said on 7th January 2012, 22:36
Definitely this, sorted by total championship points after top finishing position. Hence why Raikkonen is last of those finishing 1st, as he hasn’t raced in the last 2 seasons where wins were worth 25 instead of 10.
Jack Leslie (@) said on 6th January 2012, 14:25
its ordered by their highest finish in the WDC? :)
vjanik said on 6th January 2012, 12:30
filtering just Schumacher and Vettel in the championship position graph is very interesting. So far Vettel seems to be on a similar path.
GR (@gr) said on 6th January 2012, 12:35
I was thinking exactly the same thing. Schumi’s record before his comeback was astounding.
It’s interesting if you try to look at groups of contemporaries. Ie if you look at just Fernando, Kimi and Felipe, it’s clear to see that Felipe is just not a top tier driver. Especially when you consider that he’s been in a Ferrari most of that time
Mike (@mike) said on 6th January 2012, 13:41
That’s uncanny.
Keith Collantine (@keithcollantine) said on 6th January 2012, 14:57
Imagine if Schumacher hadn’t retired in 2006, and gone to Red Bull instead. He might have won ten championships by now.
BasCB (@bascb) said on 6th January 2012, 15:32
But viewing figures would be a lot lower, I guess!
Days of Thunder said on 6th January 2012, 20:15
Wow Keith that would be a perfect F1 for me :D
matt90 (@matt90) said on 6th January 2012, 21:40
Same could have happened if he’d stayed at Ferrari perhaps. Or moved to McLaren.
Josie Maunders (@jbmaunders) said on 7th January 2012, 0:47
The beginning of Alonso’s looks very similar to Vettel’s as well… Next year will be interesting.
Deurmat (@deurmat) said on 6th January 2012, 13:34
Srry if this is a stupid question but I can’t find where to follow a driver :/
Girts (@girts) said on 6th January 2012, 13:48
@Deurmat
Click here:
http://www.f1fanatic.co.uk/members/deurmat/profile/
Then go to Edit and then to F1 teams and drivers. You can pick as many as you want, just hold Ctrl if you support more than one driver / team. After that press Save Changes.
Deurmat (@deurmat) said on 6th January 2012, 13:51
Ty found it!
BasCB (@bascb) said on 6th January 2012, 14:38
Its amazing what kind of statistics and graphs you come up with @Keithcollantine, great idea!
Adam Tate (@adam-tate) said on 6th January 2012, 15:41
The graphs really show just how few of the drivers in the current field are race winners and pole sitters.
electrolite (@electrolite) said on 6th January 2012, 16:48
Adrian Sutil…
Nick.UK (@nick-uk) said on 6th January 2012, 17:02
Have to say Kieth, you love your crazy multi-coloured line graphs on this webiste. Haha :P
F1andy83 said on 6th January 2012, 17:06
Hamilton profile had 2009 where 2010 should be or the season title.
Alex (@smallvizier) said on 6th January 2012, 18:29
Small niggle: shouldn’t F1 drivers be shown with 0 wins in years they didn’t compete?
For example, Alonso should have no wins in 2002 (instead of 1/2), and Schumacher should have no wins in 2007 (instead of 5 and a bit).
Keith Collantine (@keithcollantine) said on 6th January 2012, 20:14
@smallvizier They aren’t shown with any wins for the years they didn’t compete (there are no data points for them).
ops30 said on 6th January 2012, 19:21
This is great Keith. Thank you for putting this together. Shows why you’re the best F1 blogger on the web.
TED BELL said on 6th January 2012, 22:31
Nicely done, thanks for your effort. I am color blind in life and admit to having some trouble following the paths of the colors. No complaint here, it is with admiration that you have gone to such extent to provide the details as you have. We are fortunate.
aja said on 9th January 2012, 0:09
Great stuff as always thanks Keith, I love the interactive graphs, quite illuminating,
Cynthia Aldridge said on 14th March 2012, 15:46
Hi, so much great information here! I’m looking for a list of F1 drivers with Twitter accounts. Do you have that? I have some and happy to share but not all or perhaps not that many are on.
BasCB (@bascb) said on 14th March 2012, 19:39
Hi Cynthia, nice to see you on here.
Keith put together a list of just that – the real and confirmed twitter accounts of the drivers (and teams, team members, … listed separately) here: http://www.f1fanatic.co.uk/f1-information/f1-twitter/