Nicolas Steele

Nicolas Steele (born October 22, 1989 in Austin, Texas, USA) is a former American racing driver known for his career in the F1RWRS and its successor the ARWS. His best finish was second place on five separate occasions. Steele currently holds the record for the driver with most races, podiums and points scored without a win and has entered the fourth-highest number of races of any driver in F1RWRS/ARWS history. Having been replaced by Gregor Pascal at Blokkmonsta following the German GP, Steele is now one of the team's two test and reserve drivers, alongside Connor O'Heagan.

F1RWRS Career

Steele started his career with a bang by scoring in his debut race, a fifth position. However, he only started two more races, not qualfying for the rest of them. Steele was disqualified at Eastern Creek for careless driving after taking out John Zimmer and Hagane Shizuka (both recovered). Steele was fired after the season. He then signed for Pacchia-Coswojuddhartlambo, but that didn't last too long after the team only qualified for one race. He signed with Team Calinetic and raced three times.

For 2013 Steele re-signed with Calinetic but that didn't last long as he left the team after two races due to his teammate, David Koczo, being uncompetitive in pre-qualifying, while Steele nearly topped both charts. He signed with Kahama for the rest of the season, and has been resigned for 2014.

His rivalry with former teammate Jari Kekkonen was at it's peak in 2012 when the two were constantly bickering between each other, and trash talking. The rivalry has cooled but the two are not good friends.

His two podium positions early in the 2014 season have given him lots of interest in the paddock, but his handling of his engine failure in Adelaide gave him the nickname of "a complete James Allen". He did, manage two second podiums at Belgium and Italy later that year. He had a good position in the drivers' championship, but the car's unreliability cost him as he fell down the standings from 3rd. Despite this, Steele remained optimistic of the teams' potential in the near future, and signed a contract for the 2015 season.

However, the 2015 season went badly for him, only scoring one point in eleven races for Kamaha before being sacked. According to Steele, the car was undriveable and unreliable. He was picked up by DGNgineering for the last four races of the season, and managed to pick up a podium in Macau.

His good strings of results managed to get him signed to Aeroracing for the 2016 season. However, he was sacked after one race (despite placing in sixth position during the race) in favour of Kay Lon. Steele sat on the sidelines in the next race but managed to find a drive at Autodynamics Grand Prix. He impressed them (and the whole paddock) by posting two straight 4th place finishes at Italy and Austria.

After a fifth place finish in Long Beach, he disappointed the team by posting a DNPQ in Road America. Fortunes improved for the race at the Norisring, as Steele finished in ninth. But the best race of the season up to that point would be in Zandvoort, where he would benefit from a double DNF from Scuderia Alitalia to finish 2nd in an Autodynamics 1-2.

Racing record

Complete F1RWRS and ARWS results

(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	DC	Points
2011	ArrowTech ART	ArrowTech AT-01	Cosworth CR-6 3.0 V10	BAV	GER	SAX	LUX	BEL	GBR 5	ENG 13	KEN DNPQ	NED DNPQ	TAS DNPQ	AUS DNS	NSW DSQ	SUR DNPQ	CHN DNPQ	USA DNPQ				26th	4
2012	Pacchia-Coswojuddhartlambo	Pacchia LP-03	Coswojuddhartlambo V.3	BAV Ret	SAX DNPQ	GER DNPQ	LUX DNPQ	BEL DNPQ	NED DNPQ													33rd	0
	Team Calinetic	Calinetic CAL3	Ford Boss 302 V8							GBR 11	KEN DNPQ	ENG DNPQ	TAS DNPQ	SUR DNPQ	NSW 26	AUS DNPQ	CHN DNPQ	USA DNPQ	500 25
2013	Team Calinetic	Calinetic CAL4	Ford HB I	TAS DNPQ	AUS DNPQ																	29th	1
	Kamaha Motorsports	Kahama KM-4	Ford EDCX			MEX Ret	USA Ret	MON Ret	FRA 7	GBR Ret	GER Ret	NED Ret	BEL 10	POR Ret	MED Ret	MAC Ret	CHN 10	JPN 10	BRA 6
2014	Kamaha Motorsports	Kamaha KM-5	Yamaha OX10	TAS Ret	AUS Ret	BRA 3	MEX Ret	USA 3	MON 2	FRA Ret	GBR Ret	GER 9	BEL 2	ITA 2	MED Ret	NED Ret	MAC 12	CHN Ret	JPN Ret			5th	26
2015	Kamaha Motorsports	Kamaha KM-6	Yamaha OX10A	TAS Ret	AUS Ret	MED Ret	MON Ret	MEX Ret	USA 6	CAN Ret	GBR 7	GER Ret	BEL 8	AUT 10	ITA							12th	10
	DGNgineering	DGNgineering CD-03	Chrysler 1294A													NED Ret	CHN 2	JPN 4	BRA Ret
2016	Aeroracing Engineering	Aeroracing ARE01-2	Audi AF1-4	AUS 6	NSW																	10th	16
	BOC Autodynamics GP	Autodynamics AGP16	Gillet GV11			GBR Ret	ITA 4	AUT 4	CAN 9	USS 5	USN DNPQ	GER 9	NSE 2	MON Ret	BEL DSQ	MEX DNPQ	ARG Ret	CHN 7	JPN Ret
2017	BOC Autodynamics Grand Prix	Autodynamics AGP17	Gillet GV11B	AUS 3	NSW 3	GBR 8	ITA Ret	AUT Ret	CAN 7	USS Ret	USN 9	GER 9	NED 7	BEL 4	MON DNPQ	MOR Ret	ARG DNPQ	JPN DNPQ	CHN 10†			10th	13
2018	RUF Blokkmonsta Grand Prix Team	Blokkmonsta GPR-01	Holden LSWS-18	AUS 10	NSW Ret	ITA DNPQ	MAR Ret	CAL 18	USA 16	CAN DNQ	GBR DNQ	AUT Ret	GER DNPQ	SCA	BEL	MON	RSA	BRA	ARG	JPN	CHN	31st	0
2019	RUF Blokkmonsta Grand Prix Team	Blokkmonsta GPR-02	Holden LSWS-19	AUS	NSW	KIN	ITA	MAR	CAN	500	GBR	AUT	GER	SCA	BEL DNQ	MON DNPQ	RSA	BRA	ARG	JPN	CHN	44th	0

* Season still in progress.
† Did not finish, but was classified as he had completed more than 90% of the race distance.