Ben Fleet

Ben Fleet is a British racing driver, currently driving in the Formula 1 Rejects World Race Series for the DGNgineering team for the 2014 season.

Originally Fleet, a so called 'pay driver' who brought with him significant personal wealth from his family, was employed by the Foxdale Auto Racing Team team part-way through the 2013 season, due to the teams dire unreliability and a shortfall in their budget which meant they were unable to rectify the problems preventing them from finishing races. Fleet's money for his drive went towards curing the issue, and was credited with providing the team with Douglas Mann's race victory at the Macau GP. Ben's season though was entirely made up of race retirements, but he showed promise by taking a string of pole positions and fastest laps through the year, to the extent that he held the record for the total of number of pole positions for an F1RWRS driver (7) before being tied for it with Phillippe Nicolas during 2014.

For the 2014 season, Fleet was initially out of a drive, before being handed a one-off outing for GRM in place of Frank Zimmer at the Brazilian Grand Prix. There he retired, but was back driving again after missing only one further race, but this time for defending champions DGNgineering. Fleet replaced the outgoing Nathan Scott who had left the team following some poor performances, and with DGN looking for an additional funding source to try and overcome the leading MRT cars, Fleet and his wealth were hired for the remainder of the season. Having never actually crossed the finish line in any of his previous 12 races, Ben scored first time out for DGNgineering with a sixth place at the US GP, though this was bettered by a brilliant second place in Germany. There was still a high volume of retirements for Fleet in his second season though, but he enjoyed two consecutive finishes towards the end of the year, with one bringing more points as Ben finished in fourth at Macau.

Away from racing, Fleet is currently dating the Foxdale team principal Pippa Mann with the two sharing a close relationship.

Complete F1RWRS results

Year	Team	Chassis	Engine	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12	13	14	15	16	DC	Pts
2013	Foxdale Auto Racing Team	Foxdale 001	Hart 415T	TAS	AUS	MEX	USA	MON Ret	FRA Ret	GBR Ret	GER Ret	NED 11†	BEL Ret	POR Ret	MED Ret	MAC Ret	CHN Ret	JPN Ret	BRA	=30th	0
2014	Garry Rogers Motorsport	GRM-002	HSV L12-2	TAS	AUS	BRA Ret	MEX													14th	10
	DGNgineering	CD-02	Zakspeed 1500					USA 6	MON Ret	FRA Ret	GBR Ret	GER 2	BEL Ret	ITA Ret	MED Ret	NED 7	MAC 4	CHN Ret	JPN
2015	Scuderia Alitalia	Alitalia SA-15	Lancia 015/1	TAS DNPQ	AUS Ret	MED DNPQ	MON 15	MEX Ret	USA 12	CAN 12	GBR 12		BEL Ret	AUT DNQ	ITA DNPQ	NED 11	CHN 8	JPN 10	BRA 9	=23rd	1
	Foxdale Auto Racing Team	Foxdale F1-4B	Renault RS1									GER 6
2016	Foxdale Auto Racing Team	Foxdale F1-5	Pure-Hart PHRWRS-1	AUS Ret	NSW Ret	GBR Ret	ITA 12†	AUT Ret	CAN 5	SUS Ret	NUS Ret	GER 12	NSE Ret	MON Ret	BEL Ret	MEX 12	ARG Ret	CHN EX	JPN EX	23rd	2
2017	Foxdale Auto Racing Team	Foxdale F1-6	Pure-Hart PHRWRS-1-17	AUS 12	NSW Ret	GBR Ret	ITA Ret	AUT Ret	CAN 19	SUS Ret	NUS 13	GER Ret	NSE Ret	BEL Ret	MON EX	MOR DNPQ	ARG Ret	JPN Ret	CHN Ret	37th	0

• * Season in progress
• † Driver did not finish the Grand Prix, but was classified as they completed over 90% of the race distance.