Charles Pic is a French Formula One driver, previously with the Caterham team. His brother, Arthur, is also a racing driver, spending 2013 racing for the DAMS team in Formula Renault 3.5 in the World Series by Renault. Charles entered Formula Renault back in 2006 at the age of 16, finishing third in the…
Daniel Ricciardo, from Perth in Western Australia, started off in Formula Ford with a thirteen year old leased car, which was not competitive, and saw a best finish of sixteenth place. However, the following year, 2006, saw Daniel winning a scholarship into Formula BMW Asian championship, during which he managed a pole position, two wins,…
I am always surprised at just how popular pictures of Jean-Eric Vergne are on Flickr. Many of the pictures that I post online of Jean-Eric are more popular than those of drivers that might be considered to be more famous, or to have more of a following. Jean-Eric started driving at an early age. …
Valtteri Bottas was already a big name in Formula One before he managed to get a drive there, from the popular Twitter hashtag #BOTTAS that followed the F1 circus through 2012. It started life as a joke by Autosport’s Formula One editor Jon Noble, who posted a picture showing the word Bottas in capitals, and…
Over the last few weeks, I have been putting together a series of galleries of my photos of various Formula One drivers. It was quite easy to find those for particular drivers and navigate between them when there was only a handful of such pages, but as these have grown, they are harder to navigate…
Pastor Maldonado was a driver for the Williams Formula One team. He raced in Formula Renault in Italy back in 2003, and in 2004 won the Formula Renault 2000 Eurocup, which earned him a test for the Minardi Formula One team, in November of that year. He moved to Italian F3000 in 2005, as well…
Adrian Sutil is the son of professional musicians, making it no surprise that as well as a talented driver, he is also an accomplished pianist. He started his driving career in karting as a teenager, before moving into Swiss Formula Ford in 2002, where he achieved pole position and victory in all ten rounds of…
Paul Di Resta was born into a sporting family. His cousin is the former CART driver, and IndyCar 2007 champion, Dario Franchitti, who has also won the Indy 500. Dario’s brother, Marino, is also a racing driver, who has raced in various endurance racers. Paul’s late step-father, Dougie McCracken, was a professional footballer who played…
Esteban Gutierrez, or Esteban Gutiérrez to include the appropriate accent, enjoyed 2013 as a rookie in Formula One, driving for the Sauber team. His full name is Esteban Manuel Gutiérrez Gutiérrez, and just in case you were wondering about the double Gutiérrez in there, this just means that both his father and mother had the same surname. …
Nico Hülkenberg moved his way through the ranks of motor racing on his journey to Formula One at some speed, rising through Formula BMW, A1 Grand Prix and Formula Three before winning the GP2 series at his first attempt in 2009, a feat equalled by Lewis Hamilton and Nico Rosberg. This impressive and quick progression…
Lewis Hamilton entered Formula One in 2007, which huge expectations, famously having approached the then McLaren team principle Ron Dennis at the age of ten at the Autosport Awards ceremony and told him, “I want to race for you one day … I want to race for McLaren.” By the time he arrived in Formula…
Nico Rosberg is one of a growing number of motor racers who has a close family connection with the sport, as his father, Keke, was World Drivers’ Champion in 1982. Nico was born in Wiesbaden in Germany, although his father was Finnish. Growing up with the lifestyle of a Formula One world champion and in…