Nick Heidfeld

Nick Lars Heidfeld (born 10th May 1977 in Mönchengladbach) is a former Formula One driver who drove for several teams including Prost, BMW Sauber and Williams between 2000 and 2011. He currently competes in the FIA World Endurance Championship and Formula E.

During his F1 career, Heidfeld amassed 13 podium finishes from 183 starts, but failed to win a race, a statistic which leaves the German as the second-most-experienced driver never to win a race. Heidfeld achieved a career-best 5th in the 2005 Drivers' World Championship.

Heidfeld also currently holds the record (at 41), of the most consecutive classified race finishes, having been classified in all races between the 2007 French Grand Prix and 2009 Italian Grand Prix inclusive.

Formula One HistoryEdit

ProstEdit

2000Edit

SauberEdit

2001Edit

2002Edit

2003Edit

JordanEdit

2004Edit

WilliamsEdit

2005Edit

After battle for the cockpit beside Mark Webber, Heidfeld had a testing battle against Antônio Pizzonia, which he won. Throughout the season, he scored 3 podiums, including a 3rd place at Malaysia and two second places at Monaco and Europe, which he achieved his first and only pole position to date.

Heidfeld had to miss the Italian and Belgian Grands Prix due to a testing accident which left him injured. He would be replaced by Antônio Pizzonia. As Heidfeld was scheduled to return for the Brazilian Grand Prix, another injury hit him again when he was hit by a motorbike when out cycling, leaving him sitting out for the remainder of the season.

BMW SauberEdit

As their driver at Williams, BMW took Nick Heidfeld their own new-founded team as the first driver.

2006Edit

2007Edit

2008Edit

2009Edit

2010 - several thingsEdit

After the withdrawal of his former team, Heidfeld had a good opportunity to be the replacement for Heikki Kovalainen at McLaren, also to be the second driver at Mercedes, the successor of the current world champions. But the comeback of the seven-times world champion Michael Schumacher and the move of the current champion Jenson Button to McLaren destroyed his hopes. 

MercedesEdit

His only chance to continue was being the third driver at Mercedes.

PirelliEdit

Nick Heidfeld came with Mercedes to every race until he was released from his contract in August to continue as the test driver for the new tyre supplier Pirelli.

BMW SauberEdit

The time at Pirelli remains short: After the Italian GP he got the chance to return to his former team BMW Sauber to replace Pedro de la Rosa for the last races for the season.

Lotus RenaultEdit

2011Edit

At the beginning of the 2011 season, he found himself in the same situation as the year before. He was expected to sign another contract as a Mercedes reserve driver. After the first tests for 2011, Heidfelds former teammate Robert Kubica was injured in a serious rally crash. Renault needed a replacement for their number one driver and Heidfeld signed a contract to replace Kubica until he will be able to race again.

Heidfeld achieved his final podium finish at the Malaysian Grand Prix, finishing in 3rd place.

But after the race in Hungary, he was replaced by Bruno Senna for the rest of the season.

Formula One Statistical OverviewEdit

F1 Career RecordEdit

Year	Entrant	Team	Pts	WDC Pos.	Report
1998	West McLaren Mercedes	McLaren-Mercedes	Test Driver
1999	West McLaren Mercedes	McLaren-Mercedes	Test Driver
2000	Gauloises Prost Peugeot	Prost-Peugeot	0	20th	Report
2001	Red Bull Sauber Petronas	Sauber-Petronas	12	8th	Report
2002	Red Bull Sauber Petronas	Sauber-Petronas	7	10th	Report
2003	Red Bull Sauber Petronas	Sauber-Petronas	6	14th	Report
2004	Jordan Ford	Jordan-Ford	3	18th	Report
2005	BMW Williams F1 Team	Williams-BMW	28	11th	Report
2006	BMW Sauber F1 Team	BMW Sauber	23	9th	Report
2007	BMW Sauber F1 Team	BMW Sauber	61	5th	Report
2008	BMW Sauber F1 Team	BMW Sauber	60	6th	Report
2009	BMW Sauber F1 Team	BMW Sauber	19	13th	Report
2010	Mercedes GP Petronas F1 Team	Mercedes	Test Driver
	Pirelli Tyres Test Team	Pirelli
	BMW Sauber F1 Team	BMW Sauber-Ferrari	6	18th	Report
2011	Lotus Renault GP	Renault	34	11th	Report

Career ResultsEdit

Complete Formula One results
Year	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12	13	14	15	16	17	18	19	Pts	Pos
2000																				0	20th
	9th	Ret	Ret	Ret	16th	EXC [1]	8th	Ret	12th	Ret	12th	Ret	Ret	Ret	9th	Ret	Ret
2001																				12	8th
	4th	Ret	3rd	7th	6th	9th	Ret	Ret	Ret	6th	6th	Ret	6th	Ret	11th	6th	9th
2002																				7	10th
	Ret	5th	Ret	10th	4th	Ret	8th	12th	7th	6th	7th	6th	9th	10th	10th	9th	7th
2003																				6	14th
	Ret	8th	Ret	10th	10th	Ret	11th	Ret	8th	13th	17th	10th	9th	9th	5th	9th
2004																				3	18th
	Ret	Ret	15th	Ret	Ret	7th	10th	8th	Ret	16th	15th	Ret	12th	11th	14th	13th	13th	Ret
2005																				28	11th
	Ret	3rd	Ret	6th	10th	2nd	2nd	Ret	DNS	14th	12th	11th	6th	Ret	INJ	INJ	INJ	INJ	INJ
2006																				23	9th
	12th	Ret	4th	13th	10th	8th	7th	7th	7th	Ret	8th	Ret	3rd	14th	8th	7th	8th	17th
2007																				61	5th
	4th	4th	4th	Ret	6th	2nd	Ret	5th	6th	6th	3rd	4th	4th	5th	14th	7th	6th
2008																				60	6th
	2nd	6th	4th	9th	5th	14th	2nd	13th	2nd	4th	10th	9th	2nd	5th	6th	9th	5th	10th
2009																				19	13th
	10th	2nd [2]	12th	19th	7th	11th	11th	15th	10th	11th	11th	5th	7th	Ret	6th	Ret	5th
2010																				6	18th
															Ret	8th	9th	17th	11th
2011																				34	11th
	12th	3rd	12th	7th	8th	8th	Ret	10th	8th	Ret	Ret

NotesEdit

1. ↑ Qualified in 12th, but was not allowed to race as his car was found to be underweight.
2. ↑ Race stopped after 31/56 Laps. Half points awarded