Formula One Career
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! Nationality
| British
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! Active years
| 1981-1993
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! Team(s)
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! Grands Prix
| 147
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! Championships
| 0
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! Wins
| 0
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! Podium finishes
| 4
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! Pole positions
| 0
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! Fastest laps
| 2
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! First Grand Prix
| 1981Las Vegas Grand Prix
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! First win
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! Last win
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! Last Grand Prix
| 1993Australian Grand Prix
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Derek Stanley Arthur Warwick (born Alresford, Hampshire, England, 27 August1954) was an Englishracing driver. He raced for many years in Formula One, but never won a Grand Prix. He is considered to be among the best F1 drivers never to have done so. During the early 1980's he was thought more likely to achieve World Championship success than his contemporary Nigel Mansell. In 2006 he will race in the inagural season of the Grand Prix Masters formula for retired Formula One drivers.
When he joined Renault in 1984 after success with Toleman, he expected to have a race-winning car and led the Brazilian Grand Prix, his first drive for them, only to retire owing to a suspension failure. He went on to finish in second place in both the Belgian and British Grands Prix in 1984 and finished 7th in the championship. The turning point in Warwick's career was his decision to stay at Renault for 1985 and reject an offer to drive for Williams, the seat was instead offered to Nigel Mansell who, accepting the position, went on to win 2 races at the end of the season. 1985 was a poor year for Renault and the team withdrew from Formula 1 at the end of the year. Renault's withdrawal, and Ayton Senna's refusal to let Warwick join him as team mate at Lotus, left Derek without a team for start of the 1986 season. Following the death of Elio de Angelis in a testing accident in May, Derek was invited to take his place at Brabham. Derek subsequently drove mainly uncompetitive cars for, Arrows (1987-1989), Team Lotus (1990) and Footwork (1993) with little success.
