Giedo van der Garde

Giedo van der Garde

Van der Garde driving for Caterham
Born	(1985-04-25) April 25, 1985 Rhenen, Netherlands
Formula One World Championship career
Nationality	Dutch
2013 team	Caterham-Renault
2013 car #	21
Races	6 (5 starts)
Championships	0
Wins	0
Podiums	0
Career points	0
Pole positions	0
Fastest laps	0
First race	2013 Australian Grand Prix
Last race	2013 Spanish Grand Prix

Giedo van der Garde
Previous series
2009–12 2008–09–2011 2007–08 2004–06 2003 2003	GP2 Series GP2 Asia Series Formula Renault 3.5 Series Formula Three Euroseries Formula Renault 2000 Masters Formula Renault 2000 Netherlands
Championship titles
2008	Formula Renault 3.5 Series

This is a Dutch name; the family name is Van der Garde, not Garde.

Giedo van der Garde (born April 25, 1985 in Rhenen, Netherlands) is a Dutch racing driver.

Career

Karting

Van der Garde has a successful karting career, winning the Dutch championship in 1998. In Super A he was best rookie in 2001 and world champion in 2002.

Formula Renault

The following year he joined the Formula Renault 2000 Championship and finished sixth, driving for Dutch team Van Amersfoort Racing. On the strength of his performance he became part of the Renault F1 Driver Development programme.

Formula Three

He joined the Formula 3 Euro Series in 2004 with Signature-Plus but after finishing the year ninth he was dropped by Renault Driver Development. A move to Team Rosberg for 2005 yielded another ninth in the series.

For 2006 he joined the ASM team, which had dominated the season in 2005 with Lewis Hamilton and Adrian Sutil. The team claimed the top two places in the championship once more in 2006 – but it was van der Garde's team mates Paul di Resta and Sebastian Vettel who topped the leader board. The Dutchman ended the year sixth with a single victory. During the year he was easily in the top four fastest drivers, but bad luck and mechanical problems, like not even starting the Bugatti Circuit race from pole because he broke down on the warm-up lap for the race, prevented him from making the mark in figures rather than 'what if's'.

Formula Renault 3.5 Series

Van der Garde driving for Victory Engineering at the Donington Park round of the 2007 Formula Renault 3.5 Series season.

Van der Garde driving for P1 Motorsport at the Silverstone round of the 2008 Formula Renault 3.5 Series season.

Van der Garde driving for iSport International at the Nürburgring round of the 2009 GP2 Series season.

Van der Garde driving for Barwa Addax at the Silverstone round of the 2011 GP2 Series season.

On December 17, 2006 van der Garde also announced that he would drive in the Formula Renault 3.5 Series for Victory Engineering, a team that works together with Carlin Motorsport, causing him to say he will work together again with Sebastian Vettel, his ASM teammate.

Giedo had podium positions in mind for the season, but even though he was the most consistent driver, always around 6th or 5th, he didn't win nor reach the podium. He finished the season 6th, 3rd in the Rookie of the year standings. He received several offers for tests in GP2, from teams like DAMS and Arden International. During his first tests, he impressed.

He eventually signed with P1 Motorsport to compete in the 2008 season.

In the first race of the 2008 FR3.5 season in Monza, Giedo managed to qualify on pole for the feature race. Due to regulations, he started 8th in the sprint race because of the reverse grid order in the sprint race. He came through the field to clinch victory in the sprint race, and easily converted his pole position into a victory in the feature race to show his fine form in the start of the season.

In the second race at Spa, he narrowly missed out on pole by 0.033 seconds after previously topping the tables at all practice sessions. In the sprint race, Julien Jousse collided into him forcing Giedo into retiring from the race. Having qualified second for the feature race, he lost a position at the start. He immediately overtook Mikhail Aleshin on the first lap to regain his position, and later overtook Marco Bonanomi for the lead which he held to the checkered flag.

After this strong start to the season, van der Garde was never headed in the championship and duly won it with two races remaining.

GP2 Series

Van der Garde signed to drive for the iSport International team in the 2008–09 GP2 Asia Series season, and in the 2009 GP2 Series season. At the Hungaroring, he took his first victory, in the sprint race. He added two more wins before the end of the season en route to seventh in the championship standings.

He had not been due to compete in the 2009–10 GP2 Asia season, but competed in the second round for Barwa Addax. He drove for the same team in the 2010 GP2 Series season, equalling his seventh place in the drivers' championship, whilst team-mate Sergio Pérez was runner-up.

Van der Garde remained with Barwa Addax for the 2011 GP2 Asia Series season, with Charles Pic replacing the Formula One-bound Pérez as his team-mate. He finished third in the championship, behind Romain Grosjean and Jules Bianchi, and led the main series after two rounds despite not winning a race. He did, however, take his first series pole position and fastest lap at Catalunya. He originally took pole position for the Monaco round as well, but was then penalised for an incident in qualifying. He took no points from the weekend and lost his championship lead to Grosjean, who eventually secured the title with one round of the series remaining. He held second place in the championship until the last round of the season at Monza, where he had a disastrous weekend and slipped back to fifth in the standings, behind Luca Filippi, Bianchi and Pic.

As part of his deal to become the Caterham Formula One team's reserve driver, van der Garde joined the marque's GP2 team for the 2012 season, alongside Rodolfo González. He returned to the winner's circle with race victories at Catalunya and Singapore, but again was not consistent enough to mount a championship challenge, finishing sixth in the points standings.

Formula One

2006 saw van der Garde being brought into the McLaren Young Drivers Programme.

On December 15, 2006 van der Garde was confirmed as the Super Aguri Formula One team's test and reserve driver for the 2007 season.

Van der Garde drove for Caterham in free practice for the 2012 Japanese Grand Prix.

On February 1, 2007 van der Garde was unexpectedly announced by Spyker F1 as the team's test and reserve driver. On February 2, 2007 Super Aguri confirmed their belief their existing contract with van der Garde was still in force, stating "Super Aguri F1 Team has a valid contract with Giedo van der Garde to drive for the team in the position of Friday and Test Driver for the 2007 FIA Formula One World Championship. The contract was submitted by the SAF1 Team to the Contracts Recognition Board on 23rd January 2007." However, on June 20, 2007 van der Garde tested at Silverstone with Spyker, indicating the contract dispute has been resolved. Spyker originally intended van der Garde to be the team's Friday driver at the Australian Grand Prix, but he failed to obtain the necessary superlicence from the FIA in time.

Van der Garde was a candidate to race in Formula One for Virgin in 2011, but that seat eventually went to Belgian Jérôme d'Ambrosio.

Caterham (2013)

On February 4, 2012, it was announced that van der Garde would be Reserve Driver for Caterham F1 for the 2012 Formula One season.

On February 1, 2013, Van der Garde's management announced that Giedo will join Caterham as their second driver, next to Charles Pic.

Racing record

Career summary

Season	Series	Team Name	Races	Wins	Poles	F/Laps	Podiums	Points	Final Placing
2003	Formula Renault 2000 Masters	Van Amersfoort Racing	6	0	2	0	3	72	6th
	Dutch Formula Renault Championship		?	?	?	?	?	69	4th
	Zandvoort Masters Championship		?	?	?	?	?	?	2nd
2004	Formula 3 Euro Series	Opel Team Signature-Plus	20	0	0	0	2	37	9th
	Masters of Formula 3		1	0	0	0	0	N/A	13th
	Macau Grand Prix		1	0	0	0	0	N/A	15th
	Bahrain Superprix		1	0	0	0	0	N/A	15th
2005	Formula 3 Euro Series	Team Rosberg	20	0	1	1	2	34	9th
	Masters of Formula 3		1	0	0	0	0	N/A	6th
2006	Formula 3 Euro Series	ASM Formule 3	20	1	2	0	4	37	6th
	Masters of Formula 3		1	0	1	1	1	N/A	2nd
2007	Formula Renault 3.5 Series	Victory Engineering	17	0	0	0	0	67	6th
	Formula One	Spyker F1	Test driver
2008	Formula One	Force India	Test driver
	Formula Renault 3.5 Series	P1 Motorsport	15	5	2	3	8	137	1st
2008–09	GP2 Asia Series	GFH Team iSport	10	1	0	0	0	11	12th
2009	GP2 Series	iSport International	20	3	0	0	3	34	7th
2009–10	GP2 Asia Series	Barwa Addax Team	2	0	0	0	0	0	34th
2010	GP2 Series	Barwa Addax Team	20	0	0	0	4	39	7th
2011	GP2 Asia Series	Barwa Addax Team	4	0	0	0	2	16	3rd
	GP2 Series	Barwa Addax Team	18	0	1	1	5	49	5th
2012	Formula One	Caterham F1 Team	Test driver
	GP2 Series	Caterham Racing	24	2	2	2	6	160	6th
2013	Formula One	Caterham F1 Team	5	0	0	0	0	0	21st*

* Season in progress

Complete Formula 3 Euro Series results

(key) (Races in bold indicate pole position) (Races in italics indicate fastest lap)

Year	Entrant	Chassis	Engine	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12	13	14	15	16	17	18	19	20	DC	Points
2004	Opel Team Signature-Plus	Dallara F302/018	Spiess-Opel	HOC1 1 9	HOC1 2 4	EST 1 16	EST 2 6	ADR 1 3	ADR 1 6	PAU 1 12	PAU 2 Ret	NOR 1 Ret	NOR 1 12	MAG 1 18	MAG 2 7	NÜR 1 7	NÜR 2 12	ZAN 1 4	ZAN 2 8	BRN 1 5	BRN 2 3	HOC2 1 12	HOC2 2 22	9th	37
2005	Team Rosberg	Dallara F305/039	Spiess-Opel	HOC 1 Ret	HOC 2 4	PAU 1 6	PAU 2 15	SPA 1 Ret	SPA 2 17	MON 1 11	MON 2 Ret	OSC 1 17	OSC 2 6	NOR 1 Ret	NOR 2 Ret	NÜR 1 8	NÜR 2 5	ZAN 1 Ret	ZAN 2 3	LAU 1 2	LAU 2 6	HOC 1 Ret	HOC 2 13	9th	34
2006	ASM Formule 3	Dallara F306/012	Mercedes	HOC 1 Ret	HOC 2 7	LAU 1 12	LAU 2 9	OSC 1 Ret	OSC 2 11	BRH 1 4	BRH 2 19	NOR 1 6	NOR 2 1	NÜR 1 3	NÜR 2 11	ZAN 1 2	ZAN 2 5	CAT 1 16	CAT 2 8	LMS 1 DNS	LMS 2 12	HOC 1 9	HOC 2 2	6th	37

Complete Formula Renault 3.5 Series results

(key) (Races in bold indicate pole position) (Races in italics indicate fastest lap)

Year	Team	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12	13	14	15	16	17	Pos	Points
2007	Victory Engineering	MNZ 1 19	MNZ 2 12	NÜR 1 7	NÜR 2 19	MON 1 5	HUN 1 6	HUN 2 6	SPA 1 6	SPA 2 5	DON 1 21	DON 2 12	MAG 1 5	MAG 2 6	EST 1 4	EST 2 4	CAT 1 6	CAT 2 Ret	6th	67
2008	P1 Motorsport	MNZ 1 1	MNZ 2 1	SPA 1 Ret	SPA 2 1	MON 1 2	SIL 1 5	SIL 2 2	HUN 1 1	HUN 2 21	NÜR 1 2	NÜR 2 7	LMS 1 DNS	LMS 2 1	EST 1 8	EST 2 8	CAT 1 DNS	CAT 2 Ret	1st	137

Complete GP2 Series results

(key) (Races in bold indicate pole position) (Races in italics indicate fastest lap)

Year	Entrant	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12	13	14	15	16	17	18	19	20	21	22	23	24	DC	Points
2009	iSport International	ESP FEA 7	ESP SPR 4	MON FEA NC	MON SPR 11	TUR FEA 15	TUR SPR 13	GBR FEA Ret	GBR SPR 13	GER FEA 12	GER SPR Ret	HUN FEA 7	HUN SPR 1	VAL FEA 14	VAL SPR Ret	BEL FEA 6	BEL SPR 1	ITA FEA 1	ITA SPR 6	POR FEA Ret	POR SPR 6					7th	34
2010	Barwa Addax Team	ESP FEA 20	ESP SPR 9	MON FEA 6	MON SPR 2	TUR FEA 4	TUR SPR 3	VAL FEA 4	VAL SPR 2	GBR FEA 9	GBR SPR 7	GER FEA 12	GER SPR 9	HUN FEA 5	HUN SPR 4	BEL FEA 9	BEL SPR 2	ITA FEA Ret	ITA SPR Ret	ABU FEA Ret	ABU SPR 19					7th	39
2011	Barwa Addax Team	TUR FEA 4	TUR SPR 2	ESP FEA 2	ESP SPR Ret	MON FEA Ret	MON SPR 9	VAL FEA 2	VAL SPR 3	GBR FEA 8	GBR SPR 3	GER FEA 6	GER SPR Ret	HUN FEA 4	HUN SPR 4	BEL FEA Ret	BEL SPR 20	ITA FEA 21	ITA SPR 13							5th	49
2012	Caterham Racing	MYS FEA 9	MYS SPR 4	BHR1 FEA Ret	BHR1 SPR 9	BHR2 FEA 3	BHR2 SPR 19	ESP FEA 1	ESP SPR 6	MON FEA 3	MON SPR 3	VAL FEA 11	VAL SPR 6	GBR FEA 8	GBR SPR 21	GER FEA 5	GER SPR 2	HUN FEA 5	HUN SPR 10	BEL FEA 5	BEL SPR 21	ITA FEA Ret	ITA SPR 10	SGP FEA 8	SGP SPR 1	6th	160

Complete GP2 Asia Series results

(key) (Races in bold indicate pole position) (Races in italics indicate fastest lap)

Year	Entrant	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12	DC	Points
2008–09	GFH Team iSport	CHN FEA 10	CHN SPR DNS	DUB FEA 4	DUB SPR C	BHR1 FEA 7	BHR1 SPR 14	QAT FEA 12	QAT SPR 8	MYS FEA 14	MYS SPR 10	BHR2 FEA 5	BHR2 SPR 7	12th	11
2009–10	Barwa Addax Team	ABU1 FEA	ABU1 SPR	ABU2 FEA Ret	ABU2 SPR 19	BHR1 FEA	BHR1 SPR	BHR2 FEA	BHR2 SPR					34th	0
2011	Barwa Addax Team	ABU FEA 5	ABU SPR 23	ITA FEA 2	ITA SPR 3									3rd	16

Complete Formula One results

(key) (Races in bold indicate pole position) (Races in italics indicates fastest lap)

Year	Entrant	Chassis	Engine	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12	13	14	15	16	17	18	19	20	WDC	Points
2012	Caterham F1 Team	Caterham CT01	Renault RS27-2012 V8	AUS	MAL	CHN TD	BHR	ESP	MON	CAN	EUR	GBR	GER	HUN	BEL	ITA	SIN	JPN TD	KOR TD	IND TD	ABU TD	USA	BRA TD	-	-
2013	Caterham F1 Team	Caterham CT03	Renault RS27-2013 V8	AUS 18	MAL 15	CHN 18	BHR 21	ESP Ret	MON	CAN	GBR	GER	HUN	BEL	ITA	SIN	JPN	KOR	IND	ABU	USA	BRA		21st*	0*

* Season in progress

References

• Career details from driverdb.com, retrieved December 16, 2006.

External links

• Official Website
• Giedo van der Garde on Twitter
• Facebook

Sporting positions
Preceded by Álvaro Parente	Formula Renault 3.5 Series Champion 2008	Succeeded by Bertrand Baguette