Patrick Friesacher

Patrick Friesacher

Nation:	Austria
Formula 1 world championship
First start:	2005 Australian Grand Prix
Last start:	Great Britain Grand Prix 2005
Constructors
2005  Minardi
statistics
World Cup balance:	WM-21. ( 2005 )
Starts Victories Poles SR 11 - - -
World Cup points :	3
Podiums :	-
Leadership laps :	-

Patrick Friesacher (born September 26, 1980 in Wolfsberg , Carinthia ) is an Austrian automobile racing driver . In 2005 he drove eleven Grand Prix races in Formula 1 .

Career

A promising racing career seemed to be over when Friesacher suffered a serious karting accident in 1997 . Two broken legs required six weeks of hospitalization and an additional seven weeks in a wheelchair. After rehabilitation with Willi Dungl  - he first had to learn to walk again - he was able to continue his career and switched to formula racing . After taking third place in the French Formula Campus in 1998 , he was third in Class B of the French Formula 3 Championship in 1999 . In 2000 Friesacher moved to the German Formula 3 championship and finished sixth overall.

In 2001 Friesacher switched to Formula 3000 . Starting for the Red Bull Junior Team supervised by RSM Marko , he finished 13th in the overall standings. In his second season , Friesacher stayed with his team and improved to tenth place overall. In 2003 Friesacher contested his third season in Formula 3000 and started again for the Red Bull Junior Team , which was now supported by Coloni Motorsport . After Friesacher had to skip two races after breaking his left ell , he won his first race in Budapest . With another three podium finishes, he finished fifth overall behind his teammate Vitantonio Liuzzi . In 2004 Friesacher stayed in Formula 3000. After driving the first four races for Super Nova Racing , he switched to Coloni Motorsport and won the race in Budapest again. As in the previous year, Friesacher finished fifth in the overall ranking.

Patrick Friesacher contested his last Formula 1 race at the British Grand Prix .

After four years in Formula 3000, he made the leap into the premier class of Formula 1. He received a contract for the 2005 Formula 1 World Championship with the financially weak Minardi team as a teammate of Christijan Albers . At the 2005 USA Grand Prix in Indianapolis, Friesacher picked up his first World Championship points on June 19, 2005 as the sixth of six pilots started. In July 2005, his racing season ended prematurely after eleven races due to outstanding sponsorship payments to Minardi. From the German Grand Prix he had to vacate his place for Dutchman Robert Doornbos , previously a Jordan test driver.

After his Formula 1 involvement was over, he took part in two races in the 2005/2006 A1GP season . In 2007, Friesacher did not race. According to a report on the television station Premiere , he drove the Minardi Formula 1 two-seater with guests on board in the opening program for the Champ Car races.

For 2008 there was again a racing cockpit. From the race in Saint Petersburg, Friesacher drove a Ferrari 430 GT in the American Le Mans Series for the Risi Competizione team . His teammate was the American Harrison Brix . Another ex-Formula 1 driver, Mika Salo, also drove in the sister car . After this commitment ended, Friesacher did not start in any racing series.

In 2008 he was still working as a test driver for the new A1GP car . He had an accident in Magny-Cours after a strut of the rear right wheel suspension broke in the fast Estoril Passage and broke three thoracic vertebrae.

In January 2010 it became known that his sponsorship money from the Carinthian provincial government under Jörg Haider may have come from bribes from Russian industrialists who were given Austrian citizenship in return.

After the end of his career as an active racing driver, Friesacher became an instructor at the Red Bull Ring in Spielberg. He also chauffeurs guests in a Formula 1 two-seater.

statistics

Career stations

• 1990-1997: karting
• 1998: French Formula Campus (3rd place)
• 1999: French Formula 3 Championship , class B (3rd place)
• 2000: German Formula 3 Championship (6th place)
• 2001 : Formula 3000 (13th place)
• 2002 : Formula 3000 (10th place)
• 2003 : Formula 3000 (5th place)
• 2004 : Formula 3000 (5th place)
• 2005 : Formula 1 (21st place)
• 2006: A1GP season 2005/2006
• 2008: American Le Mans Series (19th place)

Statistics in the Formula 1 World Championship

general overview

season	team	chassis	engine	run	Victories	Second	Third	Poles	nice Round	Points	WM-Pos.
2005	Minardi F1 team	Minardi PS04B	Cosworth 3.0 V10	3	-	-	-	-	-	-	21st
		Minardi PS05		8th	-	-	-	-	-	3
total				11	-	-	-	-	-	3

Single results

season	1	2	3	4th	5	6th	7th	8th	9	10	11	12	13	14th	15th	16	17th	18th	19th
2005
	17th	DNF	12	DNF	DNF	DNF	18th	DNF	6th	DNF	19th

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

Web links

Commons : Patrick Friesacher  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Patrick Friesacher: As a stubborn head up to the premier class. motorsport-magazin.com, accessed on January 4, 2012 . 
2. ^ Formula 3000: Friesacher suffers a break in an accident. news.at, May 4, 2003, accessed January 4, 2012 . 
3. ↑ A1GP: More downforce means closer races. motorsport-total.com, August 6, 2008, accessed January 4, 2012 . 
4. ↑ Broken vertebra only discovered at home. kleinezeitung.at, September 10, 2008, accessed on January 4, 2012 . 
5. ↑ Broken strut: Test canceled after a serious accident. motorsport-total.com, August 15, 2008, accessed January 4, 2012 . 
6. ↑ "Also Haider under suspicion of corruption: swap citizenship for money?" (News.at on January 25, 2010)
7. ↑ Total motorsport. Retrieved September 1, 2017.
8. ↑ Speedweek . Retrieved September 1, 2017.