{"id":23309,"date":"2024-10-05T23:14:56","date_gmt":"2024-10-05T23:14:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/derek-warwick-reflects-on-formula-one-career-filled-with-tragedy-and-fun\/"},"modified":"2024-10-05T23:14:57","modified_gmt":"2024-10-05T23:14:57","slug":"derek-warwick-reflects-on-formula-one-career-filled-with-tragedy-and-fun","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/derek-warwick-reflects-on-formula-one-career-filled-with-tragedy-and-fun\/","title":{"rendered":"Derek Warwick reflects on Formula One career filled with &#8216;tragedy and fun&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Warwick began his career racing cars and trucks in a field next to the family trailer company, egged on by his uncle Stan, who Warwick describes as &#8216;an utter nutter&#8217;. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">But Warwick found he had a talent behind the wheel, winning the 1971 English Superstox Championship aged 16 before progressing through Formula 3000 and Formula Three, before getting his break with Toleman in 1981.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">He raced in some of the glory days of Formula One &#8211; the likes of Ayrton Senna, Alain Prost, Nigel Mansell, Nelson Piquet and a young Michael Schumacher are among those Warwick has shared a grid with. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">His best season was 1984 when he finished seventh in the World Championship with Renault, making the podium four times including second-placed finishes on home soil at Brands Hatch and at the Belgian Grand Prix at Zolder.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;When you&#8217;re a racing driver you only want to win, and as you go up the levels winning is less and less because every time you make a step up, there&#8217;s people who are as good if not better than you,&#8221; says Warwick, who is recalling his career in his autobiography &#8216;Never Look Back&#8217;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;So you&#8217;ve got to try and find that edge and find a way of winning. I didn&#8217;t win in Formula One, as my critics would often say, but you know what I can look back very proud and say I had a great career, an amazing career.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;It was full of tragedy, but it was also full of fun. We enjoyed our motor racing, we had fun, I&#8217;m not so sure today&#8217;s racing drivers are having the same fun as we did back then.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/sport\/formula1\/articles\/cr4xlr1ydlwo\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Warwick began his career racing cars and trucks in a field next to the family trailer company, egged on by his uncle Stan, who Warwick describes as &#8216;an utter nutter&#8217;. But Warwick found he had a talent behind the wheel, winning the 1971 English Superstox Championship aged 16 before progressing through Formula 3000 and Formula [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":23310,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23309"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23309"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23309\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23311,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23309\/revisions\/23311"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/23310"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23309"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23309"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23309"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}