Nick Heidfeld

Nick Heidfeld

Heidfeld during 2011 pre-season testing at Catalunya
Born	10 May 1977 (1977-05-10) (age 34)
Formula One World Championship career
Nationality	German
Active years	2000–2011
Teams	Prost, Sauber, Jordan, Williams, BMW Sauber, Renault
Championships	0
Wins	0
Podiums	13
Career points	259
Pole positions	1
Fastest laps	2
First race	2000 Australian Grand Prix
Last race	2011 Hungarian Grand Prix
2010 position	18th (6 pts)

24 Hours of Le Mans career
Participating years	1999
Teams	AMG-Mercedes
Best finish	DNF (1999)
Class wins	0

Nick Lars Heidfeld (born May 10, 1977 in Mönchengladbach, West Germany) is a German racing driver.

Despite scoring regular podium finishes in 2007 and 2008, Heidfeld has yet to win a race since entering Formula One in 2000. This means that amongst the current drivers, he has had the most GP starts without standing at the top spot on the podium. Heidfeld has now started over 170 races, so if he were to eventually win a race he would break the record for most starts before a maiden victory. This is currently held by Mark Webber, who claimed his first victory on his 131st attempt. Heidfeld also currently holds three other records; he is the driver who has scored the highest number of world championship points without a Grand Prix win, holds the record for the most podium finishes without a Grand Prix win (13),^[1] and has the most second place finishes without a win, with 8. He also holds the record for the most consecutive race classifications with a tally of 41, and shares the record for most finishes in a season with Tiago Monteiro and Felipe Massa after finishing all 18 races in the 2008 season.

In 2011, Heidfeld raced in Formula One for the Renault team as a replacement for the injured Robert Kubica, his former BMW Sauber teammate, ^[2] before being replaced by Bruno Senna.

Early life and career

Nick Heidfeld Lola F3000, West Competition

Heidfeld was born in Mönchengladbach, West Germany, on May 10, 1977, and began racing karts at the age of 11 in 1988. In 1994 he moved into the German Formula Ford series, gaining widespread attention by winning 8 of the 9 races to take the title that season. In 1995 he won the German International Formula Ford 1800 Championship, and came second in the Zetec Cup. This led to a drive in the German Formula Three Championship championship for 1996, where he finished third overall, after taking 3 wins. He entered the end of the season Macau Grand Prix and won the first heat of the race, attracting the attention of compatriot Norbert Haug, who later signed him up for the West Competition team.

Junior career

The following year Heidfeld won the German F3 Championship for Bertram Schäfer Racing, with support from McLaren/West, including a win at the Monaco Grand Prix Formula Three support race. In 1998, he won three races and was runner-up in the International Formula 3000 championship, with the West Competition team. At the final race of the season he was demoted to the back of the grid from pole position, after his team used non-compliant fuel.^[3] He finished the race ninth and out of the points, losing the championship by seven points to Juan Pablo Montoya. During that season, he was also the official test driver for the McLaren-Mercedes Formula One team. In 1999, he won the International Formula 3000 Championship. That year he also took the official track record at the Goodwood Festival of Speed which still stands today.^[4] He was also a member of the Mercedes squad that raced at the 1999 24 Hours of Le Mans.^[5] But the team withdrew after the Mercedes-Benz CLR back-flipped on the Mulsanne straight while Mark Webber and Peter Dumbreck were driving.

Formula One career

2000: Prost

Heidfeld was signed as a race driver for the Prost Grand Prix F1 team for the 2000 season, alongside Formula One veteran Jean Alesi. Heidfeld struggled with his new car and suffered a string of retirements, as well as colliding with his team mate on more than one occasion.

2001–2003: Sauber

He departed Prost at the end of that season, before signing a three-year contract with Sauber for 2001. He was partnered with then rookie driver Kimi Räikkönen. After the announcement of Mika Häkkinen's retirement, many thought that Heidfeld would replace him in the McLaren team,^[6] as he had outperformed Räikkönen over the year, including a podium position in the Brazilian Grand Prix. However, the McLaren seat went to Räikkönen, and Heidfeld stayed with Sauber for 2002 and 2003, where he raked up a small number of points finishes. In 2002 he outperformed another rookie team mate, Felipe Massa, but was then beaten by his more experienced fellow countryman, Heinz-Harald Frentzen, in 2003.

Heidfeld driving the Jordan EJ14 at the 2004 Canadian Grand Prix

2004: Jordan

At the end of the 2003 season, Heidfeld was replaced at the Sauber team by Jordan's Giancarlo Fisichella and looked to be without a race seat for the 2004 season. However, after a number of moderately successful tests, it was announced that Heidfeld would race with the Jordan team, alongside rookie Giorgio Pantano. Heidfeld had a poor season because of the slow and unreliable EJ14. He finished seventh at the Monaco Grand Prix and eighth at the Canadian Grand Prix (where he was beaten by team mate Timo Glock on his F1 debut) and finished the season with three points.

2005: Williams

Heidfeld driving the FW27 for Williams at the 2005 Canadian Grand Prix.

During the winter of 2004–2005, Heidfeld tested with the Williams team, in a 'shootout' against Antônio Pizzonia for the second race seat alongside Mark Webber. At the Williams launch on January 31, 2005, it was announced that Heidfeld would be the race driver for the team in 2005.^[7]

At the seventh race of the 2005 season at the Nürburgring circuit, his home Grand Prix, Heidfeld took his first ever pole position. He also achieved his best race position to-date in Monaco where he finished second, which he equalled at the Nürburgring.

Heidfeld missed the Italian and Belgian Grands Prix due to injuries suffered in a testing accident. Scheduled to come back for Brazil, he was injured again when hit by a motorbike when out cycling, and therefore forced to sit out the rest of the season.

2006–2009: BMW Sauber

2006

Heidfeld gained a contract with his then Williams' engine supplier, BMW, when they bought the Sauber team (BMW and Sauber merger) and entered Formula One as BMW Sauber for the 2006 season.

Heidfeld driving the F1.06 for BMW Sauber at the 2006 Monaco Grand Prix

During 2006 Heidfeld scored points several times for his new team. At Melbourne he ran as high as second until the safety car came out. He eventually finished fourth. At Indianapolis, he was eliminated in a spectacular first lap accident which saw fellow drivers Scott Speed, Jenson Button, Kimi Räikkönen and Juan Pablo Montoya also go out. Heidfeld's car was launched into a quadruple barrel roll, but he and the other drivers all walked away unharmed. The Hungarian Grand Prix saw Heidfeld give BMW Sauber their first podium finish and best result of the year, when he finished third, even though he had only qualified tenth on the grid.

At the end of 2006, Heidfeld was quoted attacking the media's saturation coverage of his teammate Robert Kubica, who had scored fewer points than him.^[8] This has happened two other times in the German's career; in 2001 when he was teammates with Kimi Räikkönen (whom he beat twelve points to nine) and in 2002, when he was teammates with Felipe Massa (whom he beat by seven points to four). Räikkönen and Massa later formed the 2007 Ferrari driver line-up.

2007

Heidfeld driving the F1.07 for BMW Sauber at the 2007 Canadian Grand Prix, where he took his best result of the season by finishing in second place

Heidfeld took second place at the 2008 Australian Grand Prix.

Heidfeld, who finished second in 2008 Australian Grand Prix, with race winner Lewis Hamilton on the podium

Heidfeld started the 2007 season strongly. In Bahrain, he chased down and overtook reigning world champion Fernando Alonso around the outside, finishing half a minute ahead of his BMW teammate Kubica. He scored three fourth places in the opening three races, a sixth in Monaco, and a second place at the Canadian Grand Prix, where he also out-qualified both Ferraris, equalling his best ever Grand Prix finish. After retiring from fifth place at Indianapolis, he was outscored by team-mate Kubica at both Magny-Cours and Silverstone. At an eventful European Grand Prix at the Nürburgring, Heidfeld's home circuit, where he collided with Kubica on the opening lap, he recovered and overtook Kubica on the final lap to finish sixth, despite making six pitstops during the race. Heidfeld returned to form in Hungary, qualifying second and finishing third to score his and BMW's second podium of the season. He finished fourth at the Turkish and Italian Grand Prix, and fifth in the Belgian Grand Prix. He eventually finished a career-best fifth in the championship with 61 points, outpointing Kubica by 22.

On 28 April 2007, Heidfeld drove three demonstration laps around the Nürburgring's legendary 14 mile Nordschleife track, which made him the first driver in 31 years to pilot a current F1 car there. About 45,000 spectators attended the event, which was held after a four hour VLN endurance race.

2008

Heidfeld scored his fourth second place finish of 2008 at the Belgian Grand Prix.

After several months of negotiations, BMW confirmed that Heidfeld would stay with the team for 2008.^[9]

Heidfeld began the 2008 season strongly, finishing second in Australia after qualifying fifth. In Malaysia, he qualified fifth but dropped down to tenth at the first corner after being pushed wide by Jarno Trulli. He got back up to sixth, also setting his first ever fastest lap in the process. In Bahrain he started from sixth place but he did not gain a place at the start, but passed Trulli and Heikki Kovalainen to climb up to fourth. He finished there and this fourth gave him second in the championship.

After a few disappointing qualifying sessions and races in the following weeks (after which the German press started to call him "Leidfeld", with "Leid" meaning "misery" in German),^[10] Kubica and Heidfeld made BMW Sauber history by securing the third-year team's first victory, and first one-two finish respectively in Canada. Heidfeld was positioned eighth on the grid and after losing a place at the start, before gaining it back, was sitting comfortably in eighth place once again before a safety car situation saw the top 7 cars enter the pits in what was to soon become a bizarre series of errors that left Heidfeld and Kubica battling for the top two places. Heidfeld was switched to a one stop fuel strategy and came out of his stop ahead of Kubica, but considerably heavier on fuel. Not long afterwards, Heidfeld moved off the racing line allowing Kubica to make an easy pass, which then allowed the lighter BMW Sauber to build up a considerable lead on Heidfeld, who was occupied with preventing Fernando Alonso, also in a lighter car, from chasing Kubica. The gap built by Kubica allowed him to rejoin the race comfortably in the lead after his final pitstop with no threats behind him. Heidfeld finished the race second, solidifying his fifth place position in the driver's points. Heidfeld had a disappointing race in France, failing to score any points. He came back strongly at the British Grand Prix, starting fifth and finishing second in the wet conditions. Another strong performance, where he set the fastest lap of the race for the second time this season, was his home grand prix at the Hockenheimring showed that, for the time being, he had reversed the performance deficit to his team mate. Another second place finish at the Belgian Grand Prix, followed by 5th and 6th place finishes in Italy and Singapore respectively put him just one point behind current World Champion Kimi Räikkönen with just three races remaining.

It was confirmed on October 6 that both Heidfeld and team-mate Kubica would remain at the BMW Sauber team for the 2009 season.^[11]

In the last three races Heidfeld scored four points, ending in sixth place in the standings after being passed by Fernando Alonso at the last round of the season. However, Heidfeld became only the second driver to finish 18 races in a single season, after Tiago Monteiro completed the same feat with Jordan in 2005. Heidfeld also became the first driver to finish every single race in a season since Michael Schumacher in 2002.

2009

Heidfeld tied Stefan Johansson's record for most podium finishes without a win by finishing second at the 2009 Malaysian Grand Prix.

Heidfeld began 2009 in Australia by qualifying in 11th place and finishing 10th in the race. At the Malaysian Grand Prix, Heidfeld again qualified in 11th, but started 10th as Sebastian Vettel was issued a 10 place drop (for an incident caused in Australia with Heidfeld's team-mate Kubica). The race was stopped due to torrential rain on the 33rd lap, when Heidfeld was third, but as set out in the regulations, the result was taken at the end of the penultimate completed lap, when Heidfeld had been running second.^[12] Because less than 75% of the race distance had been covered, the drivers only received half points. He scored a further 2 points at the Spanish Grand Prix, and finished 5th at Spa to score another 4 points. A seventh place finish at Monza added a further 2 points to his 2009 tally. Nevertheless, four points-scoring finishes in the final six races secured him thirteenth position in the Drivers' Championship, two points ahead of Kubica.

In Singapore, Heidfeld's run of 41 consecutive classified finishes was brought to an end due to a collision with Force India's Adrian Sutil.

2010: Different Stints

Mercedes and Pirelli test driver

Following BMW's decision to withdraw from the sport at the end of the 2009 season, Heidfeld's future in Formula One was uncertain.^[13] It was mentioned that he was considered to drive for Mercedes GP alongside fellow German Nico Rosberg but the team signed fellow German Michael Schumacher instead. Heidfeld was then tipped for a seat at Sauber alongside Kamui Kobayashi but they decided to go with Pedro de la Rosa.^{[citation needed]} Heidfeld was then in the running for a Renault F1 seat alongside fellow BMW Sauber refugee Robert Kubica,^{[citation needed]} but on February 4, Heidfeld was confirmed as the test and reserve driver for Mercedes.^[14]

At the Australian Grand Prix, Heidfeld was chosen to succeed Pedro de la Rosa as Chairman of the Grand Prix Drivers' Association.^[15] He left the position upon taking the role of Pirelli's test driver ahead of the Belgian Grand Prix, and was replaced by Rubens Barrichello.^[16]

In August 2010, with Heidfeld not yet having driven the Mercedes MGP W01 car, the team released him from his contract so that he could become the Pirelli tyre company's test driver. Heidfeld tested a Toyota TF109 car fitted with Pirelli tyres on a number of occasions in 2010, ahead of the firm's replacement of Bridgestone as the sport's sole tyre supplier in 2011.^[17] Heidfeld completed three tests for Pirelli in Mugello, Paul Ricard and Jerez before being released from his duties to join Sauber, with his place being taken by Romain Grosjean.^[18]

Returns to F1 with Sauber

Heidfeld driving for Sauber at the 2010 Japanese Grand Prix

In September 2010, Heidfeld returned to the Formula One grid, replacing Pedro de la Rosa at the Sauber team for the remainder of the 2010 season. This marked his third spell with them.^[19] On October 4, 2010, Sauber confirmed their driver line-up for 2011 as Kamui Kobayashi and Sergio Pérez,^[20] seemingly leaving Heidfeld without a drive for 2011.

2011: Lotus Renault GP

Heidfeld scored his thirteenth podium finish at the 2011 Malaysian Grand Prix.

On 9 February, Lotus Renault GP confirmed that Heidfeld would be sharing testing duties with Bruno Senna on the Saturday and Sunday of the four-day test at Jerez, to evaluate the drivers in preparation of replacing the injured Robert Kubica, who had suffered a crash whilst rallying in Italy, for the 2011 season.^[21] On the Saturday, Heidfeld set the quickest time of the day, stating that he enjoyed his day's running – 86 laps – with the team, and had fun driving the car.^[22] Heidfeld was confirmed as Kubica's replacement on 16 February 2011.^[2] In Australia, the first race of the season following the cancellation of the Bahrain Grand Prix, Heidfeld qualified 18th and ended 12th. On 10 April 2011, Heidfeld finished third, after starting sixth, in the Malaysian Grand Prix at Sepang, breaking Stefan Johansson's record of 12 podiums without a win. He added another 12th place in China, before a seventh place finish in Turkey after a close battle with team-mate Petrov. Two eighth places in Spain and Monaco were followed by a retirement at the Canadian Grand Prix, after running into the back of Kamui Kobayashi and causing damage to his front wing, which broke under acceleration and collapsed under the car. He was forced to retire after his car caught fire after exiting the pit lane on lap 25 in the Hungarian Grand Prix. Heidfeld was replaced by Bruno Senna ahead of the Belgian Grand Prix.^[23] Heidfeld officially parted company with the team on 2 September 2011.^[24]

Personal life

Nick Heidfeld race suit

Heidfeld lives in Stäfa, Switzerland with his fiancée Patricia, daughter Juni (born July 2005), and sons Joda (born July 2008) and Justus (born August 2010).^[25][26] He has an elder brother, Tim, and a younger brother, Sven Heidfeld, a former racing driver who is now a motorsport commentator for German television.

Racing record

Career summary

Season	Series	Team Name	Races	Poles	Wins	Points	Final Placing
1994	German Formula Ford 1600	?	9	?	8	?	1st
1995	German Formula Ford 1800	ADAC Nordrhein Junior Team	?	?	?	?	2nd
1996	German Formula Three	Opel Team BSR	15	3	3	138	3rd
	Macau Grand Prix	Opel Team BSR	1	1	0	N/A	6th
	Grand Prix de Monaco F3	Opel Team BSR	1	0	0	N/A	21st
	Masters of Formula Three	Opel Team BSR	1	0	0	N/A	3rd
1997	German Formula Three	Opel Team BSR	18	5	5	224	1st
	Grand Prix de Monaco F3	Opel Team BSR	1	1	1	N/A	1st
	Masters of Formula Three	Opel Team BSR	1	0	0	N/A	7th
1998	International Formula 3000	West Competition	12	2	3	58	2nd
	Formula One	McLaren	Test driver
1999	International Formula 3000	West Competition	10	4	4	59	1st
	Le Mans 24 Hours	Mercedes-AMG (GTP)	1	0	0	N/A	NC
	Formula One	McLaren	Test driver
		Prost	Test driver
2000	Formula One	Prost	17	0	0	0	20th
2001	Formula One	Sauber	17	0	0	12	8th
2002	Formula One	Sauber	17	0	0	7	10th
2003	Formula One	Sauber	16	0	0	6	14th
2004	Formula One	Jordan	18	0	0	3	18th
2005	Formula One	Williams	14	1	0	28	11th
2006	Formula One	BMW Sauber	18	0	0	23	9th
2007	Formula One	BMW Sauber	17	0	0	61	5th
2008	Formula One	BMW Sauber	18	0	0	60	6th
2009	Formula One	BMW Sauber	17	0	0	19	13th
2010	Formula One	Mercedes	Test driver
		BMW Sauber	5	0	0	6	18th
2011	Formula One	Renault	11	0	0	34*	10th*

^* Season in progress.

Complete German Formula Three results

(key) (Races in bold indicate pole position) (Races in italics indicate fastest lap)

Year	Team	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12	13	14	15	DC	Points
1996	Germany Opel Team BSR	HOC1 6	HOC1 Ret	NÜR1 2	NÜR2 4	NÜR2 4	NOR Ret	NOR 3	DIE Ret	DIE 11	NÜR3 1	NÜR3 1	MAG 1	MAG 2	HOC2 17	HOC2 4	3rd	138

Complete International Formula 3000 results

(key) (Races in bold indicate pole position) (Races in italics indicate fastest lap)

Year	Entrant	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12	DC	Points
1998	West Competition	OSC 2	IMO 4	CAT 26	SIL 2	MON 1	PAU 3	A1R 7	HOC 1	HUN 1	SPA 4	PER 2	NÜR 9	2nd	58
1999	West Competition	IMO 1	MON 7	CAT 1	MAG 1	SIL 3	A1R 1	HOC Ret	HUN 2	SPA 4	NÜR 2			1st	59

Complete Formula One results

(key) (Races in bold indicate pole position) (Races in italics indicate fastest lap)

Year	Entrant	Chassis	Engine	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12	13	14	15	16	17	18	19	WDC	Pts.
2000	Gauloises Prost Peugeot	Prost AP03	Peugeot A20 3.0 V10	AUS 9	BRA Ret	SMR Ret	GBR Ret	ESP 16	EUR EX	MON 8	CAN Ret	FRA 12	AUT Ret	GER 12	HUN Ret	BEL Ret	ITA Ret	USA 9	JPN Ret	MAL Ret			20th	0
2001	Sauber Petronas	Sauber C20	Petronas 01A 3.0 V10	AUS 4	MAL Ret	BRA 3	SMR 7	ESP 6	AUT 9	MON Ret	CAN Ret	EUR Ret	FRA 6	GBR 6	GER Ret	HUN 6	BEL Ret	ITA 11	USA 6	JPN 9			8th	12
2002	Sauber Petronas	Sauber C21	Petronas 02A 3.0 V10	AUS Ret	MAL 5	BRA Ret	SMR 10	ESP 4	AUT Ret	MON 8	CAN 12	EUR 7	GBR 6	FRA 7	GER 6	HUN 9	BEL 10	ITA 10	USA 9	JPN 7			10th	7
2003	Sauber Petronas	Sauber C22	Petronas 03A 3.0 V10	AUS Ret	MAL 8	BRA Ret	SMR 10	ESP 10	AUT Ret	MON 11	CAN Ret	EUR 8	FRA 13	GBR 17	GER 10	HUN 9	ITA 9	USA 5	JPN 9				14th	6
2004	Benson & Hedges Jordan Ford	Jordan EJ14	Ford RS2 3.0 V10	AUS Ret	MAL Ret	BHR 15	SMR Ret	ESP Ret	MON 7	EUR 10	CAN 8	USA Ret	FRA 16	GBR 15	GER Ret	HUN 12	BEL 11	ITA 14	CHN 13	JPN 13	BRA Ret		18th	3
2005	BMW WilliamsF1 Team	Williams FW27	BMW P84/5 3.0 V10	AUS Ret	MAL 3	BHR Ret	SMR 6	ESP 10	MON 2	EUR 2	CAN Ret	USA DNS	FRA 14	GBR 12	GER 11	HUN 6	TUR Ret	ITA PO	BEL	BRA	JPN	CHN	11th	28
2006	BMW Sauber F1 Team	BMW Sauber F1.06	BMW P86 2.4 V8	BHR 12	MAL Ret	AUS 4	SMR 13	EUR 10	ESP 8	MON 7	GBR 7	CAN 7	USA Ret	FRA 8	GER Ret	HUN 3	TUR 14	ITA 8	CHN 7	JPN 8	BRA 17		9th	23
2007	BMW Sauber F1 Team	BMW Sauber F1.07	BMW P86/7 2.4 V8	AUS 4	MAL 4	BHR 4	ESP Ret	MON 6	CAN 2	USA Ret	FRA 5	GBR 6	EUR 6	HUN 3	TUR 4	ITA 4	BEL 5	JPN 14	CHN 7	BRA 6			5th	61
2008	BMW Sauber F1 Team	BMW Sauber F1.08	BMW P86/8 2.4 V8	AUS 2	MAL 6	BHR 4	ESP 9	TUR 5	MON 14	CAN 2	FRA 13	GBR 2	GER 4	HUN 10	EUR 9	BEL 2	ITA 5	SIN 6	JPN 9	CHN 5	BRA 10		6th	60
2009	BMW Sauber F1 Team	BMW Sauber F1.09	BMW P86/9 2.4 V8	AUS 10	MAL 2‡	CHN 12	BHR 19	ESP 7	MON 11	TUR 11	GBR 15	GER 10	HUN 11	EUR 11	BEL 5	ITA 7	SIN Ret	JPN 6	BRA Ret	ABU 5			13th	19
2010	BMW Sauber F1 Team	Sauber C29	Ferrari 056 2.4 V8	BHR	AUS	MAL	CHN	ESP	MON	TUR	CAN	EUR	GBR	GER	HUN	BEL	ITA	SIN Ret	JPN 8	KOR 9	BRA 17	ABU 11	18th	6
2011	Lotus Renault GP	Renault R31	Renault RS27 2.4 V8	AUS 12	MAL 3	CHN 12	TUR 7	ESP 8	MON 8	CAN Ret	EUR 10	GBR 8	GER Ret	HUN Ret	BEL	ITA	SIN	JPN	KOR	IND	ABU	BRA	10th*	34*

* Season in progress.
‡ Half points awarded as less than 75% of race distance was completed.

Formula One records

Heidfeld holds the following Formula One records:

Record	Number
Most podium finishes without a victory	13
Most consecutive classified finishes	41 (2007 French Grand Prix–2009 Italian Grand Prix)
Most consecutive race finishes	33 (2007 Chinese Grand Prix–2009 Italian Grand Prix)
Most finishes in a season*	18 (from 18 races in 2008)

* Record shared with Tiago Monteiro (18 from 19 in 2005) and Felipe Massa (18 from 19 in 2010)

Sports car racing

Le Mans 24 Hours results

Year	Class	No	Tyres	Team	Car	Engine	Co-drivers	Laps	Position	Class Pos.
1999	LMGTP	5	B	AMG-Mercedes	Mercedes-Benz CLR	Mercedes-Benz GT108C 5.7L V8	Christophe Bouchut Peter Dumbreck	75	39 DNF	6 DNF

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External links

• Nick Heidfeld official website (German)/(English)
• Nick Heidfeld 1st official Fanclub website (German)
• BMW Sauber F1 Team homepage

Sporting positions
Preceded by Mario Hilgert	German Formula Ford 1800 Champion 1995	Succeeded by Tomáš Enge
Preceded by Marcel Tiemann	Monaco Formula Three Support Race Winner 1997	Succeeded by Lewis Hamilton (2005)
Preceded by Jarno Trulli	German Formula Three champion 1997	Succeeded by Bas Leinders
Preceded by Juan Pablo Montoya	International Formula 3000 Champion 1999	Succeeded by Bruno Junqueira
Preceded by Pedro de la Rosa	GPDA Chairman 2010	Succeeded by Rubens Barrichello

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Name	Heidfeld, Nick
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Date of birth	1977-05-10
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