Derek Daly
Nation:
Ireland Ireland
Automobile / Formula 1 world championship
First start:
1978 Spanish Grand Prix
Last start:
1982 Las Vegas Grand Prix
Constructors
1978 Hesketh and Ensign · 1979 Ensign and Tyrrell · 1980 Tyrrell · 1981 March · 1982 Theodore and Williams F1
statistics
World Cup balance:
World Cup eleventh ( 1980 )
World Cup points :
15th
Podiums :
-
Leadership laps :
-
Derek Daly (born March 11, 1953 in Dundrum in what is now County Dun Laoghaire-Rathdown ) is a former Irish Formula 1 driver. He is the father of racing driver Conor Daly .
Career
In 1976 he won the Formula Ford Festival . The following year he was champion in the British Formula 3 Championship . From 1977 to 1983 he also competed in the European Formula 3 Championship , where he was third in the overall standings in 1978 and 1979.
His Formula 1 career began in 1978 with the Hesketh team; he also drove for Ensign , Tyrrell , March , Theodore and Williams . In all of his races he used the well-known Ford Cosworth engine as a power source. In addition to 22 failures, he reached the points eight times, where he achieved a total of 15 championship points, but not a podium.
After his active Formula 1 career ended in 1982 , he switched to the Champ Car series , where he drove a total of 66 races from 1982 to 1989 with third place as the best result.
From 1988 to 1990 he also competed three times in the 24 Hours of Le Mans . After a fourth place in 1988 on a Jaguar XJR-9LM , he dropped out of the other two races with engine failure.
statistics
Statistics in the Formula 1 World Championship
Single results
season
1
2
3
4th
5
6th
7th
8th
9
10
11
12
13
14th
15th
16
1978
DNPQ
DNPQ
DNQ
DNQ
DNF
DSQ
DNF
10
8th
6th
1979
11
13
DNQ
DNF
DNQ
DNQ
DNQ
8th
DNF
DNF
1980
4th
14th
DNF
8th
9
DNF
11
4th
10
DNF
DNF
DNF
DNF
DNF
1981
DNQ
DNQ
DNQ
DNQ
DNQ
DNQ
16
DNF
7th
DNF
11
DNF
DNF
8th
DNQ
1982
14th
DNF
DNF
DNF
6 *
5
7th
5
5
7th
DNF
DNF
9
DNF
6th
Legend
colour
abbreviation
meaning
gold
-
victory
silver
-
2nd place
bronze
-
3rd place
green
-
Placement in the points
blue
-
Classified outside the point ranks
violet
DNF
Race not finished (did not finish)
NC
not classified
red
DNQ
did not qualify
DNPQ
failed in pre-qualification (did not pre-qualify)
black
DSQ
disqualified
White
DNS
not at the start (did not start)
WD
withdrawn
Light Blue
PO
only participated in the training (practiced only)
TD
Friday test driver
without
DNP
did not participate in the training (did not practice)
INJ
injured or sick
EX
excluded
DNA
did not arrive
C.
Race canceled
no participation in the World Cup
other
P / bold
Pole position
SR / italic
Fastest race lap
*
not at the finish, but counted due to the distance covered
()
Streak results
underlined
Leader in the overall standings
Le Mans results
Sebring results
Web links
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