Robert Wickens

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Robert Wickens
Robert Wickens 2018
Nation: CanadaCanada Canada
DTM
First race: Hockenheim I 2012
Last race: Hockenheim II 2017
Teams (manufacturers)
2012 Mücke • 2013–2017 HWA ( Mercedes )
statistics
Starts Victories Poles SR
84 6th 5 -
Podiums: 15th
Overall wins: -
Points: 429
Template: Infobox DTM driver / maintenance / old parameters

Robert Tyler Wickens (born March 13, 1989 in Toronto ) is a Canadian racing driver . In 2011 he was the overall winner of the Formula Renault 3.5 . He competed in the DTM from 2012 to 2017 , with fourth place overall in 2016 being his best result. In 2018 he started in the IndyCar series , but had to end the season due to a spinal cord injury after an accident in August.

Career

Wickens began his career in karting in 1999 , which he practiced until 2005. In addition, Wickens made his formula racing debut in the US Formula BMW in 2005 . Wickens immediately came third in the overall standings. The following season, Wickens won the US Formula BMW championship. Wickens also contested two races each in the Formula Renault 2.0 Eurocup and the German Formula BMW. In 2007, Wickens started for Forsythe Racing in the Atlantic Championship and finished third in the championship. In addition, Wickens competed for Carlin Motorsport in some Formula Renault 3.5 races .

In the following 2007/2008 A1GP season , Wickens started for the Canadian A1GP team in seven out of ten races. Wickens achieved a total of five podium finishes and won the sprint race in Durban . In the overall standings, the Canadian team finished ninth overall. In 2008, Wickens was active both for Carlin Motorsport in Formula Renault 3.5 and for Signature Plus in the Formula 3 Euro Series . Although he won a race in both series, he was not placed in the top ten drivers in either series.

In 2009 , Wickens competed in the revived Formula 2 . With a double victory at the first round in Valencia he made a good debut in Formula 2. Without another win, he secured the runner-up title behind Andy Souček at the end of the season . He also competed on two racing weekends in the Formula 3 Euro Series and on one racing weekend each in the British Formula 3 Championship and the Atlantic Championship. With the end of the 2009 season, the support of Red Bull , which had supported him since 2006, ended. In 2010 , Wickens switched to the newly founded GP3 series for the Irish racing team Status Grand Prix . With a second place at the season opener, Wickens started the season well. At the end of the season he was runner-up behind Esteban Gutiérrez with three wins .

Robert Wickens for Carlin in the Formula Renault 3.5 at Le Castellet

In 2011 , Wickens returned to Carlin in Formula Renault 3.5. He won one race each at Spa-Francorchamps , the Nürburgring and Barcelona, and won both races at Silverstone . Wickens went into the last race as overall leader in the duel with his teammate Jean-Éric Vergne . The two pilots touched in the start phase in the second corner, with Wickens' suspension breaking. In the further course of the race Vergne also retired, whereby Wickens won the championship title with 241 to 232 points ahead of Vergne. In addition, at the beginning of June he was signed by the Formula 1 team Virgin as a test driver. In this role he was used in free practice at the Abu Dhabi Grand Prix . In addition, as a reward for winning the title in Formula Renault 3.5, he received a Formula 1 test at Renault .

In 2012 , Wickens decided to switch to the DTM . He received a cockpit at Mücke Motorsport . In the race at the Norisring , he scored points for the first time with a ninth place. One race later at the Nürburgring, he improved his best DTM result with seventh place. At the end of the season he was in 16th place overall. In 2013 , Wickens moved to HWA within the Mercedes DTM teams . In the second race at Brands Hatch , he achieved his first DTM podium with a third place. He started from pole position for the first time at the Norisring. He finished second in the race. Since Mattias Ekström , who had crossed the finish line before him, had been disqualified, Wickens was the best-placed driver in the race. The first place was not reassigned. Two races later, Wickens won his first DTM race at the Nürburgring. He finished the season as the second best Mercedes driver in fifth place overall. In 2014 , Wickens stayed with HWA in the DTM. After three races without points, he won the fourth race at the Norisring starting from pole position. In Spielberg , Wickens started the race again from pole position. In the race, he received a drive-through penalty for an unsafe clearance after the pit stop. Since his team did not inform him of the penalty and he accordingly did not complete it, he was disqualified. Wickens was twelfth overall at the end of the season. In 2015 , Wickens contested his fourth DTM season for HWA. He chose 6 as his starting number. After finishing second in the first race at the Norisring, he won the second race. He finished the season in 13th place overall.

In the DTM season in 2016 Wickens was again at HWA. He won the first race in Zandvoort and Wolokolamsk . As the best Mercedes driver, he finished the drivers' standings in fourth place.

In 2017 he completed his last DTM season and his best result was a victory at the Nürburgring . In the overall standings, he finished ninth, making him the second best Mercedes driver after Lucas Auer .

In 2018, Wickens returned to formula racing and competed for Schmidt Peterson Motorsports in the North American IndyCar series . At the first race in St. Petersburg he started from first place and led most of the laps. Two laps before the end of the race, however, he was in the lead after a failed attempt by Alexander Rossi to overtake .

On August 19, 2018, he had a serious accident in the ABC Supply 500 Indycar race at Pocono Raceway in the state of Pennsylvania . He suffered a spinal cord injury that initially confines him to a wheelchair, but is not paraplegic. Although Wickens was unable to take part in the last three races of the season due to his injuries, he won the title of Rookie of the Year . His convalescence is still ongoing.

statistics

Career stations

Individual results in the GP3 series

year team 1 2 3 4th 5 6th 7th 8th 9 10 11 12 13 14th 15th 16 Points rank
2010 Status Grand Prix SpainSpain ESP TurkeyTurkey DOOR SpainSpain ESP United KingdomUnited Kingdom GBR GermanyGermany GER HungaryHungary HUN BelgiumBelgium BEL ItalyItaly ITA 71 2.
2 4th 11 21st 2 16 9 5 1 5 4th 2 1 11 2 1

Individual results in the DTM

season team Manufacturer 1 2 3 4th 5 6th 7th 8th 9 10 11 12 13 14th 15th 16 17th 18th Points rank
2012 Mücke Motorsport Mercedes Mercedes GermanyGermany HO1 GermanyGermany LAU United KingdomUnited Kingdom BRH AustriaAustria SPI GermanyGermany NOR GermanyGermany ONLY NetherlandsNetherlands ZAN GermanyGermany OSC SpainSpain VAL GermanyGermany HO2                 14th 16.
14th 22 * 14th 13 9 7th DNF 7th DNF DNF                
2013 HWA Mercedes Mercedes GermanyGermany HO1 United KingdomUnited Kingdom BRH AustriaAustria SPI GermanyGermany LAU GermanyGermany NOR RussiaRussia MOS GermanyGermany ONLY GermanyGermany OSC NetherlandsNetherlands ZAN GermanyGermany HO2                 70 5.
DNF 3 12 4th 2 12 1 DNF 15th 18th                
2014 HWA Mercedes Mercedes GermanyGermany HO1 GermanyGermany OSC HungaryHungary HUN GermanyGermany NOR RussiaRussia MOS AustriaAustria SPI GermanyGermany ONLY GermanyGermany LAU NetherlandsNetherlands ZAN GermanyGermany HO2                 41 12.
18th DNF 11 1 14th DSQ 9 5 8th 17th                
2015 HWA Mercedes Mercedes GermanyGermany HO1 GermanyGermany LAU GermanyGermany NOR NetherlandsNetherlands ZAN AustriaAustria SPI RussiaRussia MOS GermanyGermany OSC GermanyGermany ONLY GermanyGermany HO2 61 13.
DNF 7th 6th 18th 2 1 DNF 19th DNF 20 * 12 22nd DNF 16 8th DNF DNF 19th
2016 HWA Mercedes Mercedes GermanyGermany HO1 AustriaAustria SPI GermanyGermany LAU GermanyGermany NOR NetherlandsNetherlands ZAN RussiaRussia MOS GermanyGermany ONLY HungaryHungary HUN GermanyGermany HO2 124 4th
2 5 11 20th 3 3 DNF 11 1 16 1 5 9 13 10 10 23 * 9
2017 HWA Mercedes Mercedes GermanyGermany HO1 GermanyGermany LAU HungaryHungary HUN GermanyGermany NOR RussiaRussia MOS NetherlandsNetherlands ZAN GermanyGermany ONLY AustriaAustria SPI GermanyGermany HO2 119 9.
15th DNF 2 3 DNF 8th DNF 11 4th 9 11 15 * 3 1 4th 10 7th 17 *
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

Individual results in the IndyCar Series

year team 1 2 3 4th 5 6th 7th 8th 9 10 11 12 13 14th 15th 16 17th Points rank
2018 Schmidt Peterson Motorsports STP PHO LBH ALA IMS INDY DET TXS ROA IOW GOAL MDO POC STL POR SNM 391 11.
18 * 2 ° 22nd 4th 3 ° 9 ° 8th 6 ° 19 ° 5 5 3 2 ° 19th INJ INJ INJ

( Legend )

Web links

Commons : Robert Wickens  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Status GP confirm Robert Wickens. In: gp3series.com. March 30, 2010, archived from the original on July 11, 2011 ; Retrieved March 30, 2010 .
  2. ↑ Wickens completes carlin's FR3.5 line-up. In: carlin.co.uk. March 3, 2011, archived from the original on November 28, 2012 ; accessed on October 27, 2018 (English).
  3. ↑ Robert Seiwert: New colleague for Glock - Virgin signs Robert Wickens. In: Motorsport-Magazin.com. June 3, 2011, accessed October 27, 2018 .
  4. ↑ Renault: Wickens stunned by 2012 tires. In: Motorsport-Total.com. November 15, 2011, accessed October 27, 2018 .
  5. ↑ Great role models - Mercedes Junior Team: Merhi, Vietoris and Wickens. In: Motorsport-Magazin.com. April 2, 2012, accessed October 27, 2018 .
  6. ^ René Fagnan: DTM: Mercedes confirms Merhi et Wickens for 2013. In: auto123.com. October 3, 2012, accessed January 25, 2013 .
  7. ↑ Wickens not mad at Mercedes after disqualification. In: sueddeutsche.de. August 12, 2014, accessed August 27, 2020 .
  8. ↑ Dominik Sharaf: Mercedes announces DTM driver squad: Vitali Petrow flies! In: Motorsport-Total.com. January 30, 2015, accessed January 30, 2015 .
  9. ↑ Goodbye, DTM! Robert Wickens switches to the IndyCar series. In: Motorsport-Total.com. Retrieved October 18, 2017 .
  10. ↑ IndyCar St. Petersburg 2018: Bourdais dusts off victory. In: Motorsport-Total.com. Retrieved April 28, 2020 .
  11. ↑ Official: Robert Wickens is IndyCar Rookie of the Year. In: Motorsport-Total.com. Retrieved April 28, 2020 .
  12. ↑ Sport1 - website: Wickens fights his way back to life. On: www.sport1.de , January 18, 2019, accessed on March 25, 2019 .
personal data
SURNAME Wickens, Robert
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Wickens, Robert Tyler (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Canadian racing car driver
DATE OF BIRTH March 13, 1989
PLACE OF BIRTH Toronto , Canada