Daniel Melrose

Daniel Melrose From Formula1RejectsAlternateChampionshipsDatabase Jump to: navigation, search Daniel Melrose Nationality Australian Born 26 June, 1985 Sydney, Australia Formula One Debut Season 2004 Latest Season 2010 Current Team Car Number Former Teams Minardi, Ferrari, BMW Sauber, Mercedes Races 124 (123 starts) Championships 5 (2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2010) Victories 62 Podiums 88 Points 1062 Pole Positions 61 Fastest Laps 51 First Race 2004 Australian Grand Prix First Victory 2004 Canadian Grand Prix Last Victory 2010 Brazilian Grand Prix Last Race 2010 Abu Dhabi Grand Prix Best Finish 1st (5 times) F1RWRS Debut Season 2010 Latest Season 2015 Current Team Simpson Motorsports Car Number 37 Former Teams JLD, MRT, ArrowTech, Jones Racing Races 71 (65 starts) Championships 0 Victories 2 Podiums 14 Points 159 Pole Positions 1 Fastest Laps 5 First Race 2010 German Grand Prix First Victory 2011 Belgian Grand Prix Last Victory 2011 English Grand Prix Last Race 2015 Mediterranean Grand Prix (ongoing) Best Finish 2nd (2011)

Daniel Melrose (Born June 26, 1985 in Sydney, Australia) is an Australian racing driver who is most famous for his stint in Formula One. In his 7 year career he became the youngest ever Formula One world champion at 20 years and 101 days, the youngest ever double and youngest ever triple world champion. He has also the inaugural (and so far only) F1 Rejects World Champion and is currently racing in the Formula 1 Rejects World Race Series. Contents

   1 Early Racing Career
   2 Formula One Career
       2.1 2004 - Minardi
       2.2 2005 - Ferrari
       2.3 2006-2009 - BMW Sauber
       2.4 2010 - Mercedes GP
   3 F1RWRS Career
       3.1 2010-2011 - JLD Motorsport
       3.2 2012 - Melrose Racing Team
       3.3 2013 - ArrowTech
       3.4 2013-2014 - Jones Racing
       3.5 2015-Present - Simpson Motorsport
   4 Personal Life
   5 Complete Formula One Grand Prix results
   6 Complete F1RWRS Results
   7 Career Summary
   8 F1 Records Held

[edit] Early Racing Career

Daniel spent most of his early childhood in Sydney, Australia where he did many kart races both in Sydney and around the state. He was inspired by Former World Champion Chris Dagnall after meeting him when he was just 6 years old.

In 1999 after spending several years as part of the Precision Motorsport young driver program alongside fellow Australian Dave Simpson he was invited by Ferrari to become part of their young driver program which he accepted. From there he rapidly raised through the ranks becoming 2001 Australia Formula 3 champion, 2002 British Formula 3 champion and 2003 International F3000 champion before being placed in the Minardi team for the 2004 Formula One Season. In the process of winning the British Formula 3 Championship he won the Macau F3 Grand Prix in one of his many top drawer aggressive drives that would typify his driving style for the rest of his career. [edit] Formula One Career [edit] 2004 - Minardi

In the 2003 off season Ferrari paid Minardi several million dollars (The actual amount was rumoured to be in the region of $30 million) to put Melrose alongside Hungarian Zsolt Baumgartner. Minardi put the money to good use as immediately it became evident that the Minardi PS04B suited Melrose's driving style and as a result a smattering of points for the Minardi team was expected.

Melrose kept up his end of the deal as in his very first qualifying session in Australia he put the Minardi a magnificent 12th on the grid before driving to a 6th place finish although it could have been better as he was running 4th with a few laps to go before running wide letting Ralf Schumacher and Fernando Alonso through. Round 2 was in Malaysia and Melrose made a mistake in qualifying which meant he was only 16th on the grid. However he more than made up for it in the race by finishing third to score his first podium in only his second start. He went one better in the shortened race in the inaugural Bahrain Grand Prix before scoring two more thirds and a second in the next 3 races. The European Grand Prix at the Nurburgring was arguably Melrose's best drive in his career up to that point. Despite retiring after a collision with Italian Giorgio Pantano, the Australian was consistently the fastest car on track and hounded eventual race winner Michael Schumacher for most of the race.

After that race at the Nurburgring Melrose backed it up by winning his first race with a stellar drive at the Canadian Grand Prix despite suffering an early puncture before a burn from the stern effort at the United States Grand Prix at the Indianapolis Motor Speedway, his first trip to the World Famous facility, only to be denied his second victory on the trot through sheer bad luck alone. More bad luck with electronic gremlins denied Melrose another win two weeks later at the French Grand Prix. He scored his first pole position 6 days later in Silverstone, the first race since the death of Minardi's sporting director John Walton but he couldn't convert it into a win the next day. The next 3 races were relatively quiet for the young Australian but he did score yet another podium at the Hungarian Grand Prix in Budapest. It was also during this time that he overtook early championship leader Rubens Barrichello to become the clear runner up in the championship behind runaway leader Michael Schumacher.

At the next race in Spa, he lost the chance to finish on the podium in the pouring rain when Barrichello collided with him whilst battling for third place which meant Melrose had to settle for fourth. Melrose got his revenge a fortnight later in Italy when he held off Barrichello in the showers that hit the track late in the race to win his second Grand Prix. With Schumacher retiring early on in proceedings, Melrose suddenly found himself in with a shot of winning the championship. That all ended two weeks later however when an engine problem restricted him to an 11th place finish. With Schumacher winning the race, the championship was wrapped up for the German. This didn't deter the young Australian however as he closed the season on a high note with his third career win with a dominating drive at the Japanese Grand Prix and his 16th points finish of the year at the season-ending Brazilian Grand Prix. This secured an incredible second place in the championship for both himself and the Minardi team in one of the best season-long campaigns the world had ever seen, proving once and for all that he was a man to watch in the future. [edit] 2005 - Ferrari

Over the off season Rubens Barrichello made some disparaging comments about his time in Ferrari which led to him being replaced by the 19 year old Melrose alongside reigning World Champion Michael Schumacher. Some thought that it was a risk for Ferrari to pick Melrose as it was the first time the Maranello squad had signed on someone so inexperienced since Frenchman Jean Alesi after he spent just a season and a half at Tyrrell. However encouraging pre-season testing pace from the Australian silenced some of the critics.

The pre-season form continued to Australia where Melrose became the third Australian to score a podium at his home race behind surprise winner Christian Klien and Mark Webber, who became the first Australian since Rhys Davies in 2002 to score that achievement, about half a minute before Melrose. However the next two races were disasters for Melrose as he failed to score points in either. Another pointless race in Spain came after he scored his first win for Ferrari in front of the Tifosi at the Imola Circuit. However it was his second win, by over a lap at Monaco no less, which really kicked off his championship campaign as he won 4 of the next 5 races including Monaco. It was during this period that Melrose had his first brush with officialdom in France where he got placed on probation for dangerous driving whilst trying to hold onto 6th place.

The race before in the United States was one of the most controversial in Formula One history and the situation at Ferrari after the race was even more controversial inside the team when Melrose broke team orders to return to the garage immediately after the trophy presentation. Instead, he returned to the podium to help longtime friend Dave Simpson celebrate his first ever podium finish in the Minardi. That probation turned into a suspended one race ban at the very next race at Silverstone after he was involved in a collision with Sauber's Jacques Villeneuve in the pit lane during the race. Sauber then appealed the decision handed down against Melrose as they felt he should have been banned for one race.

It seemed that the Australian was well on his way to his first world championship until the circus reached the Hockenheim circuit for the German Grand Prix. There rain fell for most of the weekend and in the dreadful conditions on Friday Melrose speared off the track at turn 1 head first into a concrete wall breaking his right ankle. Ferrari's test driver Luca Badoer was drafted in for the weekend and the next race at the Hungaroring where he scored his first world championship points for 7th place. Melrose was ready to return for the Turkish Grand Prix at the brand new Istanbul Park Circuit but Sauber had won their WMSC appeal which meant Melrose missed Turkey as well.

When Melrose returned for the Italian Grand Prix his lead had been cut down to just 3 points over Fernando Alonso which became 1 point after the race had concluded. Determined to win the championship Melrose put in an absolutely stonking drive on an three stop strategy from pole to win the Belgian Grand Prix. A similar strategy at the next race in Brazil took him one step closer to the championship as he finished second behind Kimi Raikkonen. Another second place finish at the next race in the Japanese Grand Prix, despite lapping very slowly and lacking grip in the last few laps as he stayed out on inters as the track dried, meant that he became the youngest ever Formula One World Champion. Melrose's 2005 season ended with a quiet drive to 5th in China. [edit] 2006-2009 - BMW Sauber

Despite the championship win, tensions between Melrose and the Ferrari team built up and with two high-profile collisions with teammate Schumacher meant that his position in the Ferrari team became untenable. Melrose received offers from BAR and the new BMW Sauber team who he eventually signed for alongside German Nick Heidfeld. Pre-Season testing was again encouraging for the Australian and he didn't disappoint by winning 9 of the first 11 races. However one of the races he didn't win in that period is considered by many as the best drive of his career. At the start of the Malaysian Grand Prix Melrose got involved in two collisions with Honda's Jenson Button which was a precursor to a very messy first few laps. After an unscheduled pit stop for a front wing change Melrose found himself in 18th with his work cut out. However through pit strategy, other people's errors and sheer aggressive driving Melrose eventually made his way back up to third but many believed that the win was out of the question regardless of the first lap shenanigans as the Renaults were incredibly strong in the race. Regardless Melrose relentlessly piled on the points and wins and as a result won his second championship at the Hungarian Grand Prix. The last third of Melrose's season however left a lot to be desired as he only scored 3 wins, 2 poles and 1 fastest lap in the last 7 races of the season. However it was enough for him to record the highest ever points total scored by a single driver in a season, the second highest win total in one season, the highest podium count in one season and the biggest ever points gap between first and second in the championship.

Pre-season testing for 2007 was a different story as Melrose was slow and looked like he would lose out to the Ferraris, McLarens and even his new teammate Robert Kubica. However normal service quickly resumed and he won 10 of the first 11 races including a record 8 on the trot spanning from the Spanish Grand Prix to the Hungarian Grand Prix. His 11th win of the season at the Italian Grand Prix sealed the deal on his third world championship but his late season form slumped even lower than the previous season as he won only 2 of the last 6 races, including Italy. The 3 races between those 2 wins though were all out of the top drawer in a car that was losing its iron grip on the top of the tree. In Belgium a brilliant start catapulted the Australian from 8th to 5th before another one of his aggressive drives hauled him all the way back up to 2nd with a move on Sammy Jones into La Source with a few laps to go. The next race was at Japan where he qualified a relatively mediocre 7th on the grid but a mid-race decision by Melrose to change to a one-stop strategy hauled the Australian into podium contention before he was passed by Sebastian Vettel with 10 laps to go which meant he finished 4th behind first time winner Kubica, Lewis Hamilton and Vettel. A mid-race puncture in China put him out of podium and, seemingly, points contention before a textbook comeback drive hauled him up to 7th before the race was red flagged for a massive accident between Kubica and Spyker's Phoenix McAllister ended the race early. Melrose was adamant that had the race not been red flagged he could have finished higher than 7th as he was only 7 seconds behind 4th placed Mark Webber when the race was stopped.

2008's pre-season tests spelled even more trouble for Melrose as he was miles off the pace being set up the front to the point where he was simply embarrassing at the Barcelona test. However several brilliant performances including two brilliant strategic drives in Australia and Great Britain and a streak of 4 wins from Monaco to Britain meant that as the first half of the season came to a close, Melrose was only 3 points away from the championship leader Felipe Massa and in with a shot of winning a historic 4th world championship crown in unquestionably inferior machinery. However with the team stopping development on the F1.08 and Melrose's second half blues kicking in yet again meant he only scored a grand total of 17 points in the back 9 of the season which meant he finished a lonely 5th in the championship a long way behind the top 4 and a significant margin ahead of Vettel and Kubica. Despite the car's relative pace falling down the pecking order, he still managed to take it to a podium in Belgium and a pole position at the next race in Italy.

BMW and Melrose redoubled their efforts over the off season after the disappointing 08 campaign which resulted in a car which was both incredibly quick and consistent in the hands of Melrose, much to the credit of test driver Dave Simpson who did much of the development work on the car. This resulted in Melrose dominating all of the pre-season tests as well as the first 4 races. Whilst he was running away with proceedings on track it didn't result in a big lead in the World Championship from second placed Jenson Button. Melrose was involved in a controversial incident at the end of the Spanish Grand Prix as he crossed the finish line with the entire front-right corner of the car an absolute mess after a last lap collision with Scott Speed in the USF1 car. At the next Grand Prix at Monaco he scored a historic 5th win which put him equal with Graham Hill on the all-time Monaco wins list and broke Nigel Mansell's 17 year old record of the longest winning streak from the first race of the season. On July 10, Melrose made an announcement that shocked the motorsports world when he announced that he was joining the Formula 1 Rejects World Race Series, the breakaway Formula 1 Championship, for 2010. Whilst he was dominating the season on track, it wasn't until Singapore that he officially wrapped up his fourth world championship crown ahead of Button. Melrose overtook Alain Prost for second in the all-time wins tally at the Japanese Grand Prix after a vicious chop on Button at race start having broken Nigel Mansell's pole record the day before. Melrose then dominated the last two races to beat his points record from 2006 as well as Chris Dagnall's 18 year old record for the most fastest laps in a single season. [edit] 2010 - Mercedes GP

With Melrose the biggest free agent on the market during the off season, teams up and down the grid and even around the world in other categories were clamouring for his signature for 2010. In the end he moved to the Brawn team which had just been bought out by German manufacturer Mercedes Benz. While some teams did offer higher salaries than Mercedes eventually paid for the superstar, Melrose picked them because the contract allowed him to drive in both F1 and the F1RWRS for 2010 before making his decision for 2011 and beyond.

If pre-season testing was anything to go by however, it looked like the Australian and his team would struggle through the year to fight for the world title. Those fears were confirmed in Bahrain with a relatively subdued 6th place from a mediocre 8th on the grid. Some more Melrose magic followed in Australia with pole and a podium finish after hounding the clearly superior Red Bull cars all weekend at home. Three more relatively quiet drives followed in Malaysia, China and Spain as he kept racking up the points.

By the time the circus came to Monaco however, Melrose finally managed to get the car working for him and took his sixth Monaco Grand Prix win as a result, equaling Aryton Senna's 17 year record at the same track. Two more wins followed as the reigning champ suddenly found himself solidly in the lead of the world championship having been seemingly an outsider at most a few weeks before. While a quiet European Grand Prix followed, the defending champ was back on form at the very next race at the recently renovated Silverstone Circuit. After a late steering wheel issue, Melrose drove like a bat out of hell in the dying stages which led to one of his greatest victories after a last-lap pass on race leader and hometown hero Sammy Jones. After the Grand Prix, Melrose finally revealed to the world what his plans for 2011 would be. Many had speculated that he would try to balance a Formula 1 season alongside the F1RWRS for a second year in a row but he defied all expectations and announced that 2010 would be his last year in Formula 1, despite being close to dead-last in the F1RWRS standings.

The Formula One championship was still far from over however with as many as half a dozen drivers still in realistic contention for the championship. Over the course of the next five races, two more victories for Melrose along with two third places, including a comeback drive in Singapore after an early strategic blunder, whilst all his major rivals failed to score any meaningful points meant Melrose was firmly in the box seat for his fifth, and possibly final, World Championship. He clinched that fifth world title at the very next race in Japan after a dominant showing to claim his 7th Grand Prix win of the season. He finished off the season with a gritty drive to 8th place in Korea before win number 8 of the year from pole in Brazil.

He started his final race from pole at the Yas Marina Circuit in Abu Dhabi. However, a loose front wing bolt demoted him to last after just two laps as he pitted for a replacement win. He then proceeded to pull out what was arguably the best drive of his career as he broke the lap record set by him the previous year a dozen or so times during the course of the event and passed up to 20 cars on track for position to claw all the way back into 2nd place by race end, behind Lewis Hamilton. His fastest lap ended up beating his pole time by half a second, and the old lap record by a mammoth 1.7 seconds set in the all conquering BMW of the previous year. [edit] F1RWRS Career [edit] 2010-2011 - JLD Motorsport

Looking for a new challenge and disenchanted by the high-stakes political bickering in Formula 1, Daniel Melrose followed Frank Zimmer to the Formula 1 Rejects World Race Series and signed on as lead driver for the JLD Motorsport team which was a joint effort between German manufacturer Mercedes and Porsche alongside former BMW Sauber and Precision teammate Dave Simpson. However unlike Simpson, Melrose tried to balance a full time Formula One campaign alongside the F1RWRS and ended up a lowly 17th in the championship after missing the final 3 races and being replaced by Chris Dagnall for the final two. There was some promise in Melrose's season as in the final race he did in Bahrain he put in a brilliant drive to a season best result of 6th place along with the fastest lap of the race.

In 2011 Melrose decided to retire from Formula One on a full time basis to focus on other categories elsewhere including the F1RWRS. For the second year in a row however his season started slowly with just a sole 5th to his name after round 3. However a brilliant mid-season streak from the Luxembourg to the Tasman Grand Prix including two wins and a second place put him solidly in the lead of the championship after 10 rounds. However the curse of the final third of the season struck Melrose yet again which included an embarrassing double DNPQ for the JLD team at the Australian Grand Prix at Bathurst. This coupled with a late season push by Briton Nathanael Spencer meant that Melrose ended up losing the championship by 7 points. [edit] 2012 - Melrose Racing Team

Over the second half of the 2011 season a consortium comprising of Melrose's own racing team, Melrose's former employers BMW and title sponsor QANTAS meant that a deal had been struck by the end of the season that MRT and BMW would take over the JLD team in a 70/30 split with Melrose and incumbent teammate Jeroen Krautmeir as the two drivers for the season. However Melrose's season got off to the worst possible start with a double DNPQ but came back strongly with a third place in round 3.

Both MRTs ended up having inconsistent seasons however and Melrose was absolutely thrashed by Krautmeir on occasion as the Australian simply couldn't get either the M3 or the M3B to work with his driving style. This problem reached a peak at the test MRT conducted at the Talladega Superspeedway where Melrose wrote off 4 cars in the space of 2 days plus another huge accident the next week at Laguna Seca meant that he had to sit out the season ending race at Indianapolis which was a double points race. This meant Melrose dropped from 5th heading into Indianapolis to 7th. At that point, disheartened by continual lack of success in the series, Melrose announced his retirement from driving effective immediately. [edit] 2013 - ArrowTech

For a few weeks Melrose seemed content with retirement at just 27 years of age but eventually decided to make a sensational return to driving duties for the ArrowTech ART team although nobody quite knew why. Not that it mattered much because immediately Melrose and the ArrowTech car gelled together and it showed with Melrose leading the team's challenge with 3 points finishes in the first 3 races including a sensational 2-3 finish at the 2013 Mexican F1RWRS Grand Prix with Melrose showing teammate Daniel Martins the way at Mexico City.

However after that point the team lost its way with Melrose only scoring 1 point in the following 6 races, the race where he scored that point being one of his best to date similar to several burn from the stern performances in the past before another simply stunning performance at the Belgian Grand Prix. There he damaged the front wing of his car early on before setting about simply driving the wheels off the ArrowTech car for 3rd place and his second podium of the season. However Melrose was adamant that had he not thrown it into the wall early on he stood a good chance of winning that race. After qualifying for the Mediterranean Grand Prix Melrose was arrested, charged and released on bail for trashing his hotel room after MRT's absolutely horrific showing in qualifying which resulted in a double DNQ. [edit] 2013-2014 - Jones Racing

After a spat with the new ArrowTech owner Prince Falik in the wake of the Mediterranean Grand Prix Melrose ended his two year contract with the team a year early before accepting an offer from Jones Racing to drive for them after driver Kay Lon got the sack after being arrested by Chinese authorities. Despite being disappointing in the two races for the Jones Team he got a full time contract for 2014. At the non-championship Budweiser 500, driving for Horizon Motorsport, he finished 10th from 19th on the grid, beating home new boss Jones by over a lap.

Pre-Season testing for the Jones team, and Melrose in particular, was promising and the Australian didn't fail to deliver as he scored podium placed finishes in both of the first two races. His performance in the season opener in Adelaide was particularly special as not only did he remain on the lead lap against the much faster cars of Dagnall and the MRTs but he was consistently the best of the rest in the race. A second podium at Bathurst, effectively his home race, plus more points at the United States Grand Prix confirmed his status as a dark horse amongst the upper-midfield runners. A couple of more third placed finishes in France and Belgium plus a number of other points finishes meant that Melrose spent the majority of the year right in the thick of the battle for best of the rest honours.

Before the Chinese Grand Prix, Melrose announced that MRT would open up a consultancy firm for 2015 which quickly lead to a technical partnership deal with Autodynamics Grand Prix, one of the two new teams for 2015. The proposal didn't sit well with Sammy Jones and it eventually lead to Melrose terminating his Jones Racing contract for 2015, albeit on amicable terms. Melrose's association with Jones Racing ended on a high note with a pair of second places at the two non-championship races at the Bud Light 800 and the Luxembourg Grand Prix [edit] 2015-Present - Simpson Motorsport

With Melrose the biggest free-agent on the market heading into the off-season, many teams up and down the grid were fighting for his services in 2015. Despite many predicting he'd go to Sunshine for 2015, Melrose signed a deal with the new Simpson Motorsports team, allegedly as return for the favour Melrose paid team boss and good friend Dave Simpson to get him the BMW reserve driver slot back in 2007. Regardless of what the reason was for the decision, the alarm bells were already ringing in pre-season testing as it became apparent very quickly that many of the midfield and backmarker teams from 2014 had made a huge leap forward in terms of performance, throwing the mostly conservative plans of the Simpson Motorsport team into turmoil. Despite persistent rumours that he was about to jump ship to Sunshine, Melrose kept his head down and tried to extract the maximum out of the ill-handling Simpson-BMW package in their bid to qualify for a race, with little success. [edit] Personal Life Melrose's Helmet design

Melrose has run the same basic helmet design for virtually his entire career. He initially started off with a green and gold helmet with the Southern Cross during his early karting days before he changed it to the Boxing Kangaroo, the unofficial mascot of Australia, upon joining the Precision Motorsport Young Driver Program. He has been one of the few drivers who are vehemently against running sponsorship logos on their helmet and bending over to the pressures of commercialisation for the sake of keeping the same helmet for the duration of their careers.

Melrose currently lives alone in Munich, Germany where his team is based after spending many years living in Liechtenstein. In his early career especially, his driving almost seemed to be a way for him to deal with the "demons" in his head that seemingly plagued him for years which ended up being the driving force of his career. Melrose has one younger sibling named Joel who is currently driving for JLD Motorsport in the F3RWRS.

Melrose is known for being incredibly talkative over the radio and, as a result, his strategic ability throughout his career is second to none and while his ability to set up a car is good, he has never considered himself a great technically minded driver as he usually ends up driving around any minor problems with the car. He also has a strange habit of listening to rock music over the radio fed to him by the team to help him get into 'the zone' on any given weekend. [edit] Complete Formula One Grand Prix results Year Entrant Chassis Engine 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 WDC Points 2004 Minardi Cosworth Minardi PS04B Cosworth CR-3 L AUS 6 MAL 3 BHR‡ 2 SME 3 ESP 3 MON 2 EUR Ret CAN 1 USA 2 FRA 2 GBR 2 GER 4 HUN 3 BEL 4 ITA 1 CHN 11 JPN 1 BRA 8 2nd 104 2005 Scuderia Ferrari Marlboro Ferrari F2004M Ferrari 053 AUS 3 MAL 16 1st 100 Ferrari F2005 Ferrari 055 BHR 13 SME 1 ESP 10 MON 1 EUR 1 CAN 1 USA 1 FRA 6 GBR 1 GER PO HUN INJ TUR EX ITA 8 BEL 1 BRA 2 JPN 2 CHN 5 2006 BMW Sauber F1 Team BMW Sauber F1.06 BMW P86 BHR 1 MAL 3 AUS 1 SME 1 EUR 2 ESP 1 MON 1 GBR 1 CAN 1 USA 1 FRA 1 GER 3 HUN 2 TUR 1 ITA 2 CHN 2 JPN 1 BRA 1 1st 164 2007 BMW Sauber F1 Team BMW Sauber F1.07 BMW P86/7 AUS 1 MAL 1 BHR Ret ESP 1 MON 1 CAN 1 USA 1 FRA 1 GBR 1 EUR 1 HUN 1 TUR 4 ITA 1 BEL 2 JPN 4 CHN 7 BRA 1 1st 140 2008 BMW Sauber F1 Team BMW Sauber F1.08 BMW P86/8 AUS 3 MAL 4 BHR 10 ESP 20 TUR 4 MON 1 CAN 1 FRA 1 GBR 1 GER 6 HUN 6 EUR 17 BEL 3 ITA Ret SIN 4 JPN 9 CHN Ret BRA 12 5th 73 2009 BMW Sauber F1 Team BMW Sauber F1.09 BMW P86/9 AUS 1 MAL 1 CHN 1 BHR 1 ESP 1 MON 1 TUR 1 GBR 1 GER 1 HUN 1 EUR 3 BEL 1 ITA 1 SIN 1 JPN 1 BRA 1 ABU 1 1st 166 2010 Mercedes GP Petronas Mercedes MGP W01 Mercedes FO 108X BHR 6 AUS 3 MAL 6 CHN 7 ESP 5 MON 1 TUR 1 CAN 1 EUR 7 GBR 1 GER 5 HUN 1 BEL 3 ITA 1 SIN 3 JPN 1 KOR 8 BRA 1 ABU 2 1st 315

   * Season in Progress.
   ‡ Half points awarded as less than 75% of race distance was completed.
   † Driver did not finish the Grand Prix, but was classified as they completed over 90% of the race distance. 

[edit] 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 2010 JLD Motorsport JLD 01 Porsche 366 GER 11 LUX 13 SAX 12 CHN 9 TAS 16 BHR 6 BEL INJ GBR AUS 17th 7 2011 Qantas JLD Motorsport JLD M2 BMW P84/5 BAV 5 GER 14 SAX 16 LUX 6† BEL 1 GBR 2 ENG 1 KEN DSQ NED 4 TAS 8 2nd 66 JLD M2B AUS DNPQ NSW 10 SUR 7† CHN 3 USA 10 2012 Qantas Melrose Racing Team MRT M3 BMW P86/12 BAV DNPQ SAX DNPQ GER 3 LUX Ret BEL 14† NED 3 GBR 4 KEN 2 ENG 7 TAS 9 7th 43 MRT M3B SUR Ret NSW 3 AUS Ret CHN 15 USA Ret 500 INJ 2013 ArrowTech ART ArrowTech AT-03 Ford HB IV TAS 5 AUS 4 MEX 2 USA Ret MON Ret FRA 6 GBR 8 GER 10 NED Ret BEL 3 POR 9 MED Ret MAC 5 CHN 11 =8th 18 Castrol Jones Racing Jones CJR-102 Ford HBD VI JPN 8 BRA Ret 2014 Castrol Jones Racing Jones CJR-103 Ford HBD VI TAS 3 AUS 3 BRA 9 MEX Ret USA 4 MON Ret FRA 3 GBR Ret GER 11 BEL 3 ITA 5 MED 5 NED 10 MAC Ret CHN 7 JPN 5 6th 25 2015 Gulf Simpson Motorsports GSM-010 BMW P89/NA TAS DNQ AUS DNPQ MED DNPQ MON MEX USA CAN GBR GER BEL AUT ITA NED CHN JPN BRA =13th* 0*

   * Season in Progress
   † Driver did not finish race, but was classified as they had completed 75% race distance (2010-12) or 90% race distance (2013). 

[edit] Career Summary Year Series Team Position 1994 NSW Midget Karting Independent 1st 1995 Australian Midget Karting Independent 2nd 1996 Australian Rookie Karting Independent 4th 1997 Formula C Championship Precision Motorsports 2nd 1998 Formula C Championship Precision Motorsports 1st 1999 Australian Formula Ford Championship Fastlane Racing 4th 2000 Australian Formula Ford Championship Fastlane Racing 1st 2001 Australian Formula Three Championship Piccola Scuderia 1st Macau Grand Prix 4th 2002 British Formula Three Championship Fortec Motorsport 1st Macau Grand Prix 1st 2003 International F3000 Championship Super Nova Racing 1st 2004 Formula One Minardi Cosworth 2nd 2005 Formula One Scuderia Ferrari Marlboro 1st 2006 Formula One BMW Sauber 1st 2007 Formula One BMW Sauber 1st 2008 Formula One BMW Sauber 5th 2009 Formula One BMW Sauber 1st 2010 Formula One Mercedes GP 1st F1RWRS JLD Motorsport 17th F1 Rejects World Championship Qantas Melrose Racing Team 1st 2011 F1RWRS Qantas JLD Motorsport 2nd 2012 F1RWRS Qantas Melrose Racing Team 7th 2013 F1RWRS ArrowTech ART =8th Castrol Jones Racing 2014 F1RWRS Castrol Jones Racing 6th 2015 F1RWRS Simpson Motorsports  ??? [edit] F1 Records Held

   Youngest Driver to score a point: 18 years, 255 days (2004 Australian Grand Prix)
   Youngest Driver to score a podium: 18 years, 269 days (2004 Malaysian Grand Prix)
   Youngest Driver to start on the front row: 18 years, 330 days (2004 Monaco Grand Prix)
   Youngest Driver to lead a lap: 18 years, 338 days (2004 European Grand Prix)
   Youngest Driver to score a fastest lap: 18 years, 338 days (2004 European Grand Prix)
   Youngest Driver to win a Grand Prix: 18 years, 352 days (2004 Canadian Grand Prix)
   Youngest Driver to score a pole position: 19 years, 15 days (2004 British Grand Prix)
   Youngest Driver to win a Grand Prix from pole position: 19 years, 302 days (2005 San Marino Grand Prix)
   Youngest Driver to score a Hat Trick: 19 years, 330 days (2005 Monaco Grand Prix)
   Youngest Driver to score a Grand Chelem: 19 years 330 days (2005 Monaco Grand Prix)
   Youngest Driver to lead the World Championship: 19 years, 337 days (2005 European Grand Prix)
   Youngest Driver to win the World Championship: 20 years, 101 days (2005 Japanese Grand Prix)
   Youngest Driver to win 2 World Championships: 21 years, 41 days (2006 Hungarian Grand Prix)
   Most podium finishes in a season: 18 (2006)
   Most consecutive podium finishes from the first race in a season: 18 (2006 Bahrain Grand Prix - Brazilian Grand Prix)
   Most consecutive podium finishes: 20 (2006 Bahrain Grand Prix - 2007 Malaysian Grand Prix)
   Race winner with largest margin to 2nd: 3 laps (Mark Webber - 2007 Monaco Grand Prix)
   Race winner from furthest back on the grid: 22nd (2007 United States Grand Prix)*
   Youngest Driver to win 3 World Championships: 22 years, 75 days (2007 Italian Grand Prix)
   Most consecutive races leading the World Championship: 48 (2005 European Grand Prix - 2007 Brazilian Grand Prix)
   Most consecutive races won: 10 (2009 Australian Grand Prix - 2009 Hungarian Grand Prix)
   Most consecutive wins from the first race of the season: 10 (2009 Australian Grand Prix - 2009 Hungarian Grand Prix)
   Most consecutive pole positions: 17 (2009 Australian Grand Prix - Abu Dhabi Grand Prix)
   Most wins in a season: 16 (2009)
   Most pole positions in a season: 17 (2009)
   Most fastest laps in a season: 14 (2009)
   Most wins from pole position in a season: 16 (2009)
   Most Hat Tricks in a season: 14 (2009)
   Most consecutive points finishes: 36 (2009 Australian Grand Prix - 2010 Abu Dhabi Grand Prix)
   Most Grand Chelems: 20
   Most wins from pole position: 48
   Most Hat Tricks: 36
   Most finishes in a season: 19 (2010) 

• Joint record holder