Pedro de la Rosa

Pedro de la Rosa

Nation:	Spain
Formula 1 world championship
First start:	1999 Australian Grand Prix
Last start:	2012 Brazilian Grand Prix
Constructors
1999–2000  Arrows  • 2001–2002  Jaguar  • 2005–2006  McLaren  • 2010–2011  Sauber  • 2012  HRT
statistics
World Cup balance:	World Cup eleventh ( 2006 )
Starts Victories Poles SR 105 - - 1
World Cup points :	35
Podiums :	1
Leadership laps :	-

Pedro Martínez de la Rosa (born February 24, 1971 in Barcelona ) is a Spanish automobile racing driver . Between 1999 and 2012 he started 105 Grand Prix races in Formula 1 . From 2003 to 2011 he was under contract with McLaren as a test driver with interruptions . He has been a test driver for Scuderia Ferrari since 2013 .

Before de la Rosa drove in Formula 1, he won several Japanese championships: in 1995 he was Japanese Formula 3 champion, in 1997 he won the championship titles in Formula Nippon and the Japanese GT championship .

Career

Beginnings in motorsport

De la Rosa began his motorsport career in karting in 1988. He then made his formula racing debut in the Spanish Formula Fiat Uno in 1989 and was instant champion of the series. A year later he switched to the Spanish Formula Ford and won the championship title with eight wins from ten races. He also contested some races in the British Formula Ford. In 1991, the Spaniard competed in the Spanish Formula Renault and achieved fourth place in the drivers' championship. In 1992 he won the championship titles of the European and British Formula Renault.

In 1993 de la Rosa rose to the British Formula 3 championship and was sixth in the overall standings straight away. In the following year he could not build on the results from the previous year and only finished 19th overall.

In 1995 the Spaniard left Europe and moved to Japan for the Japanese Formula 3 championship . De la Rosa dominated the season, winning eight out of nine races. He also finished third in the prestigious Macau Grand Prix . In the following two years he competed in both Formula Nippon and the Japanese GT Championship . After finishing eighth in Formula Nippon and 13th in the Japanese GT Championship in his first season, he won the championship title in both series in 1997. In Formula Nippon, he finished every race on the podium.

formula 1

In 1998 he signed a contract as a test driver for the British - Irish Formula 1 team Jordan Grand Prix . In 1999 de la Rosa rose to become a regular driver at Arrows . In his debut season, he scored his first point in the first race, which was to remain the only one of the season. At the end of the season he finished 18th overall, ahead of his teammate Toranosuke Takagi . In 2000 he stayed with Arrows and got a new teammate in Jos Verstappen , who was mostly faster than de la Rosa. He got two points in the season and finished 16th overall behind Verstappen, who was twelfth.

De la Rosa in the Jaguar R2, Canadian GP 2001

Because he had been replaced in 2001 by the Brazilian Enrique Bernoldi , supported by sponsor Red Bull , de la Rosa decided to work again as a test driver in order to stay in business. He initially signed with Prost Grand Prix , but decided at short notice due to lack of prospects and got a contract as a reserve driver from Jaguar , where he replaced the regular driver Luciano Burti, who had switched to Prost, from the fifth race . The Spaniard won three World Championship points and finished 16th overall behind his team-mate Eddie Irvine at the end of the season . In 2002 de la Rosa stayed at Jaguar with Irvine. While de la Rosa could not cope with the Jaguar R3 and finished 21st overall with no points, Irvine managed a podium and was ninth in the drivers' world championship. Since Jaguar was under enormous pressure to perform due to continued unsuccessfulness, both drivers were exchanged and de la Rosa was again without a cockpit.

De la Rosa, now 32 years old, accepted an offer from McLaren to work for the team as the second test driver alongside Alexander Wurz from 2003 . Almost two years later, regular driver Juan Pablo Montoya was injured and dropped out for two races. De la Rosa started for the Colombian at the 2005 Bahrain GP and finished fifth. It was remembered that he drove the fastest lap of the race.

De la Rosa in the McLaren MP4-21, Brazilian GP 2006

After Wurz had left McLaren in 2006 , de la Rosa was named the team's new substitute driver. Surprisingly, there was again the opportunity to take over the cockpit from Montoya after McLaren had terminated the contract with the South American during the current season and released his driver. De la Rosa took the place next to the Finn Kimi Räikkönen until the end of the season and thus had a regular cockpit in Formula 1 for the first time in almost four years. At the Hungarian Grand Prix , the Spaniard secured his greatest success so far with second place behind Jenson Button his Formula 1 career and at the same time his only podium to date.

At the end of the 2006 season, de la Rosa had serious hopes to be hired as a regular driver at the side of his compatriot Fernando Alonso for the following season. However, McLaren ultimately gave preference to the young driver Lewis Hamilton . Even at the end of 2007 , when McLaren surprisingly ended the collaboration with Alonso, de la Rosa was one of the candidates for the orphaned cockpit. Once again, the Spaniard was preferred to a youngster in the Finn Heikki Kovalainen . He remained a test driver at McLaren until the end of 2009.

De la Rosa in the Sauber C29, GP Malaysia 2010

For 2010 de la Rosa was again traded as a regular driver for a Formula 1 cockpit, despite his age of 39 years. This time, however, he got it and secured the second cockpit at Sauber next to the Japanese Kamui Kobayashi . In the second race he reached the finish for the first time. The Spaniard was on course for points for a long time, but finally finished twelfth after some drivers had overtaken him. For the Malaysian Grand Prix he could not start because his race car remained are already on the way to the starting grid. At the Hungarian Grand Prix he picked up his first points for Sauber in seventh place. Most of the time he couldn't keep up with his teammate Kobayashi. After the Italian Grand Prix de la Rosa was replaced by Nick Heidfeld . At the end of the season he finished 17th overall.

He then took over the position of test driver at the tire manufacturer Pirelli . He stayed there until the beginning of March 2011, before McLaren finally announced that de la Rosa would again take over the position of test and substitute driver for the British team in the 2011 season . After Sauber driver Sergio Pérez complained after the first free practice session of the Canadian Grand Prix that he was unwell, probably as a result of a serious accident in qualifying for the Monaco Grand Prix , de la Rosa stepped in for him at short notice from the second free practice session. He finished the race in twelfth place and was 20th overall at the end of the season.

De la Rosa in the HRT F112

At the end of 2011 it was announced that de la Rosa had signed a two-year contract with HRT as a regular driver starting with the 2012 season . At the season opener, the Australian Grand Prix , de la Rosa failed, like his teammate Narain Karthikeyan, in qualifying and was subsequently not allowed to race. In the second race, both HRT qualified. At the end of the season, De la Rosa took 25th place in the drivers' championship. For the 2013 season , HRT got out of Formula 1, so de la Rosa's contract became obsolete. De la Rosa then moved to Scuderia Ferrari , where he is one of several test drivers.

From 2008 to March 2010 he was president of the GPDA drivers' association for the first time . At the beginning of 2012 he took over this position again.

The following parts of this article seem out of date at least in 2014 : de la Rosa has not been GPDA President for years, and Ferrari test driver probably never either.
Please help to research and insert the missing information .

Personal

De la Rosa is married to Maria and moved from Barcelona to Zurich in 2007. He is also the father of three daughters.

statistics

Career stations

1983–1988: karting 1989: Spanish Formula Fiat (champion) 1990: Spanish Formula Ford (champion) 1991: Spanish Formula Renault (4th place) 1992: British Formula Renault (champions) 1992: Rencontres Internationales de Formule Renault (Master) 1993: British Formula 3 (6th place) 1994: British Formula 3 (19th place) 1995: Japanese Formula 3 (champions) 1996: Formula Nippon (8th place)

1996: Japanese GT Championship (8th place) 1997: Formula Nippon (champion) 1997: Japanese GT Championship (champions) 1998 : Formula 1 (test driver) 1999 : Formula 1 (18th place) 2000 : Formula 1 (16th place) 2001 : Formula 1 (16th place) 2002 : Formula 1 (21st place) 2003 : Formula 1 (test driver) 2004 : Formula 1 (test driver)

2005 : Formula 1 (20th place) 2006 : Formula 1 (11th place) 2007 : Formula 1 (test driver) 2008 : Formula 1 (test driver) 2009 : Formula 1 (test driver) 2010 : Formula 1 (17th place) 2011 : Formula 1 (20th place) 2012 : Formula 1 (25th place) 2013 : Formula 1 (test driver) 2014 : Formula 1 (test driver)

Statistics in the Formula 1 World Championship

general overview

season	team	chassis	engine	run	Victories	Second	Third	Poles	nice Race laps	Points	WM-Pos.
1999	Arrows	Arrows A20	Arrows 3.0 V10	16	-	-	-	-	-	1	18th
2000	Arrows F1 team	Arrows A21	Supertec 3.0 V10	17th	-	-	-	-	-	2	16.
2001	Jaguar Racing	Jaguar R2	Cosworth 3.0 V10	13	-	-	-	-	-	3	16.
2002	Jaguar Racing	Jaguar R3	Cosworth 3.0 V10	17th	-	-	-	-	-	-	21st
2005	West McLaren Mercedes	McLaren MP4-20	Mercedes 3.0 V10	1	-	-	-	-	1	4th	20th
2006	Team McLaren Mercedes	McLaren MP4-21	Mercedes 2.4 V8	8th	-	1	-	-	-	19th	11.
2010	BMW Sauber F1 Team	Clean C29	Ferrari 2.4 V8	13	-	-	-	-	-	6th	17th
2011	Sauber F1 Team	Clean C30	Ferrari 2.4 V8	1	-	-	-	-	-	-	20th
2012	HRT F1 team	HRT F112	Cosworth 2.4 V8	19th	-	-	-	-	-	-	25th
total				105	-	1	-	-	1	35

Single results

season	1	2	3	4th	5	6th	7th	8th	9	10	11	12	13	14th	15th	16	17th	18th	19th	20th
1999
	6th	DNF	DNF	DNF	11	DNF	11	DNF	DNF	DNF	15th	DNF	DNF	DNF	DNF	13
2000
	DNF	8th	DNF	DNF	DNF	6th	DNF	DNF	DNF	DNF	6th	16	16	DNF	DNF	12	DNF
2001
					DNF	DNF	DNF	6th	8th	14th	12	DNF	11	DNF	5	12	DNF
2002
	8th	10	8th	DNF	DNF	DNF	10	DNF	10	11	9	DNF	13	DNF	DNF	DNF	DNF
2005
	TD	TD	5	TD	TD			TD	TD	TD	TD			TD	TD			TD	TD
2006
											7th	DNF	2	5	DNF	5	11	8th
2010
	DNF	12	DNS	DNF	DNF	DNF	11	DNF	12	DNF	14th	7th	11	14th
2011
							12
2012
	DNQ	21st	21st	20th	19th	DNF	DNF	17th	20th	21st	22nd	18th	18th	17th	18th	DNF	DNF	17th	21st	17th

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 : Pedro de la Rosa  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

 Wikinews: Pedro de la Rosa  - on the news

• Official website of Pedro de la Rosa (English / Spanish)

Individual evidence

1. ^ "Jordan confirms Repsol" (Grandprix.com on February 16, 1998, English)
2. ^ "Arrows confirms de la Rosa ..." (Grandprix.com on February 22, 1999, English)
3. ^ "Arrows confirm driver line-up" (Grandprix.com on January 31, 2001, English)
4. ^ "De la Rosa could take test drive role for 2001" (Grandprix.com on February 2, 2001, English)
5. ^ "Prost sign De la Rosa as test driver" (Grandprix.com on February 6, 2001, English)
6. ^ "Jaguar confirm De la Rosa signing" (Grandprix.com on February 20, 2001, English)
7. ^ "Why Pedro de la Rosa switched teams" (Grandprix.com on February 21, 2001)
8. ^ "De la Rosa in at Jaguar as Burti moves to Prost" (Grandprix.com on April 19, 2001, English)
9. ^ "Official: Webber and Pizzonia drive for Jaguar in 2003" (Motorsport-Total.com on November 1, 2002)
10. ^ "Pedro de la Rosa becomes fourth driver at McLaren" (Motorsport-Total.com on April 3, 2003)
11. ^ "Official: De la Rosa replaces Montoya injured in Bahrain" (Motorsport-Total.com on March 30, 2005)
12. ↑ "Pedro de la Rosa: 'The best race of my career'" (Motorsport-Total.com on April 4, 2005)
13. ↑ "Official: Montoya no longer in the cockpit with immediate effect" (Motorsport-Total.com on July 11, 2006)
14. ^ "De la Rosa: 'I'm happy about my first podium'" (Motorsport-Total.com on August 6, 2006)
15. ↑ "Hamilton and de la Rosa hope" (Motorsport-Total.com on November 5, 2006)
16. ↑ "De la Rosa: 'It's hard to digest'" (Motorsport-Total.com on November 29, 2006)
17. ↑ "Alonso successor: Pedro de la Rosa is ready" (Motorsport-Total.com on November 7, 2007)
18. ^ "Pedro de la Rosa second Sauber driver" (Motorsport-Total.com on January 19, 2010)
19. ↑ "Clean with a frustrating double failure" (Motorsport-Total.com on April 4, 2010)
20. ^ "Officially: Heidfeld from now on instead of de la Rosa!" (Motorsport-Total.com on September 14, 2010)
21. ↑ "De la Rosa:" I've always loved testing tires "" (Motorsport-Total.com on September 27, 2010)
22. ^ "Formula 1 - De la Rosa returns to McLaren" (Motorsport-Magazin.com on March 9, 2011)
23. ↑ "Perez is not feeling well: De la Rosa steps in" (Motorsport-Total.com on June 10, 2011)
24. ↑ "Surprising comeback: De la Rosa drives for HRT!" (Motorsport-Total.com on November 21, 2011)
25. ↑ Markus Lüttgens: “De la Rosa becomes a development driver at Ferrari”. Motorsport-Total.com, January 16, 2013, accessed January 16, 2013 . 
26. ^ "Heidfeld new head of the drivers' union" (Motorsport-Total.com on March 26, 2010)
27. ^ "De la Rosa new head of the drivers' union" (Motorsport-Total.com on March 5, 2012)
28. ^ "De la Rosa: Zurich instead of Spain" (Motorsport-Total.com on January 24, 2010)