Robert Doornbos
Robert Michael Doornbos ( born September 23, 1981 in Rotterdam) is a Dutch racing driver. He started in 2005 and 2006 in Formula 1
- 2.1 Career stations
- 2.2 Statistics in Formula 1 2.2.1 Individual Results
Career
Beginning of his career in sport
Doornbos ' first sports career was in tennis, in which he played in the Netherlands on halbprofessionellem level. His interest in motor sport was piqued when he attended as a guest of Williams Grand Prix of Belgium 1998.
He gave up playing tennis and focused on a racing career. For the JR Racing Team 1999 he drove in Formula Vauxhall Lotus Winter Series equal to a successful season - he was second overall in the championship with four race wins, four pole positions and four fastest laps. In 2000, he competed in various racing series Formula Ford. He was fifth in the Benelux Formula Ford in 1800 and sixth in the Dutch Formula Ford in 1800. 2001 he moved to the British Formula 3 Championship and was fifth in the national class. He also took part in six races in the German Formula 3 Championship. In 2002 he joined the team Ghinzani and concentrated on the German Formula 3 Championship, where he finished finally in eleventh place overall. 2003, the Dutch remained with the team Ghinzani and launched in the newly created Formula 3 Euro Series. With two second places as the best results, he finished the season in ninth place overall. He also participated in 2002 and 2003 to further Formula 3 race part.
F3000
With the help of sponsor Red Bull Doornbos drove in 2004 as team-mate Vitantonio Liuzzi of the reigning champion team Arden International in the International Formula 3000 championship the FIA. While Liuzzi won the championship dominant, the Dutchman finished the season in third place and became best " newcomer of the season ." He was on the podium four times, including once as a winner of the race in Spa -Francorchamps, which he chose for himself before his teammates. After the end of the season he moved to the Formula 1 racing team to Jordan, where he was employed for the last three races as a test driver. He replaced Timo Glock, who had risen to become official driver after Giorgio Pantano had lost his cockpit due to financial problems.
Formula 1
Minardi (2005)
For Jordan Doornbos came in nine of the first eleven races of the 2005 season Friday use. On July 19, he was bound for the Grand Prix of Germany at Hockenheim as a driver of the Minardi team. He again benefited from financial problems of a racing colleagues - the rider concerned was this time the Austrian Patrick Friesacher. Doornbos and his team-mate Albers was the first purely Dutch driver duo since Carel Godin de Beaufort and Ben Pon 1962 Grand Prix at Zandvoort drove together Maarsbergen for the Ecurie team. For Minardi Doornbos completed eight Formula 1 race in which he finished six times. With two places 13th as a best finish, he finished in 25th place in the drivers' standings.
Red Bull Racing ( 2006)
End of 2005, the Minardi team of Red Bull was purchased and became their " B team " Scuderia Toro Rosso. Doornbos was initially able to find a driver for the 2006 season no new employer, but Christian Horner, his former team manager at Arden International, who was also team principal of Red Bull Racing meanwhile, signed him as a test and reserve driver for Red Bull Racing. In the 2006 season, he was first Friday test driver for the team and should step in if one of the regular driver (David Coulthard and Christian Klien ) would have been for the race.
On September 11, Red Bull Racing announced that Doornbos will replace the regular drivers Klien in the remaining three races of the season. Doornbos was again not score points in the remaining three races and two twelfth places were his best results. At the end of the season, he finished 24th overall.
Time according to the formula 1
After he had received no cockpit in Formula 1, changed Doornbos, 2007 in the Champ Car series. He came into the series for the Minardi Team USA, which had emerged from HVM Racing at. Doornbos decided two races for themselves and was named best newcomer behind Sébastien Bourdais and Justin Wilson third in the overall standings. After the Champ Car series had been dissolved, the Dutchman was first again without cockpit. He returned to Europe in 2008 and drove in the new Superleague Formula racing series for assisted by Scuderia Play team team of AC Milan. Doornbos won two races and the team finished the season as third. In the following winter he went for the Dutch team in the A1GP series in four races at the start, scoring a win and a pole position.
2009 signed Doornbos in the IndyCar team Newman / Haas / Lanigan Racing. Since he was not satisfied with his results, he dissolved the contract after twelve races and switched to HVM Racing, for which he had started in 2007 in the Champ Car series under another name. However, no successes came with this team and he finished the season in 16th place in the championship. After he was first brought into connection with IndyCar team, he returned in 2010 in the Superleague Formula back. For supervised by Azerti Motorsport team of Corinthians starting his team finished after the first race weekend of the eleventh overall.