Driver · Germany
Nick Heidfeld
Holds the record for most podium finishes without a win.
Black and goldGold · RedThe colour Renault raced in 2011, as its sources describe it - the last team on this record.
- Seasons
- 2000–201112 with an entry
- Entries
- 185
- Starts
- 1832 did not start
- Wins
- 0
- Podiums
- 13
- Poles
- 1
- Fastest laps
- 2
- Best finish
- P2
Where each championship finished
Final championship position by season, ringed for a title. No dot: not in the final standings, or excluded. Dots are coloured for each season’s final team: the team’s own livery. A hollow dot has no colour on record.
The numbers behind this chart, Where each championship finished
Season by season
The same on all 12 rows: Wins — 0.
| Season | Constructor | Entries | Podiums | Poles | FL | Best | Championship | Points scored |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2011 | Renault | 11 | 1 | 0 | 0 | P3 | 11 | 34 |
| 2010 | Sauber | 5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | P8 | 18 | 6 |
| 2009 | BMW Sauber | 17 | 1 | 0 | 0 | P2 | 13 | 19 |
| 2008 | BMW Sauber | 18 | 4 | 0 | 2 | P2 | 6 | 60 |
| 2007 | BMW Sauber | 17 | 2 | 0 | 0 | P2 | 5 | 61 |
| 2006 | BMW Sauber | 18 | 1 | 0 | 0 | P3 | 9 | 23 |
| 2005 | Williams | 14 | 3 | 1 | 0 | P2 | 11 | 28 |
| 2004 | Jordan | 18 | 0 | 0 | 0 | P7 | 18 | 3 |
| 2003 | Sauber | 16 | 0 | 0 | 0 | P5 | 14 | 6 |
| 2002 | Sauber | 17 | 0 | 0 | 0 | P4 | 10 | 7 |
| 2001 | Sauber | 17 | 1 | 0 | 0 | P3 | 8 | 12 |
| 2000 | Prost Grand Prix | 17 | 0 | 0 | 0 | P8 | 20 | 0 |
Team-mates
| Season | Team-mate | Constructor | Races | Qualifying | Race | Points |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2011 | Vitaly Petrov | Renault | 11 | 3–7 | 5–2 | 34–32 |
| 2010 | Kamui Kobayashi | Sauber | 5 | 1–4 | 1–3 | 6–11 |
| 2009 | Robert Kubica | BMW Sauber | 17 | 7–10 | 7–5 | 19–17 |
| 2008 | Robert Kubica | BMW Sauber | 18 | 5–13 | 5–11 | 60–75 |
| 2007 | Robert Kubica | BMW Sauber | 16 | 11–5 | 7–5 | 61–39 |
| 2007 | Sebastian Vettel | BMW Sauber | 1 | 1–0 | none | 0–1 |
| 2006 | Jacques Villeneuve | BMW Sauber | 12 | 5–7 | 5–2 | 13–7 |
| 2006 | Robert Kubica | BMW Sauber | 6 | 5–1 | 2–3 | 10–6 |
| 2005 | Mark Webber | Williams | 14 | 5–9 | 3–3 | 28–24 |
| 2004 | Giorgio Pantano | Jordan | 14 | 11–3 | 3–0 | 2–0 |
| 2004 | Timo Glock | Jordan | 4 | 4–0 | 2–1 | 1–2 |
| 2003 | Heinz-Harald Frentzen | Sauber | 16 | 9–7 | 4–3 | 6–13 |
| 2002 | Felipe Massa | Sauber | 16 | 11–5 | 4–4 | 7–4 |
| 2002 | Heinz-Harald Frentzen | Sauber | 1 | 1–0 | 1–0 | 0–0 |
| 2001 | Kimi Raikkonen | Sauber | 17 | 10–7 | 4–3 | 12–9 |
| 2000 | Jean Alesi | Prost Grand Prix | 17 | 7–9 | 1–0 | 0–0 |
Every entry 185 entries
Show all 185 entriesShow the first 10, Every entry
Where this comes from
- Born
- —
- Died
- —
- Nationality
- Germany
- Status
- —
- Provenance
- Added to the register from the pole position and fastest lap harvest. Never won a World Championship Grand Prix. Pole and fastest-lap counts are derived from the race records; other career figures are not held.
- Wins
- 0 derived · 0 published
- Poles
- 1 derived
- Fastest laps
- 2 derived
- External source
- F1DB career totals, v2026.18.0
- Confidence
- medium
- Source
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Formula_One_polesitters
Entries is counted here from the race records, one for every race a driver was entered for, and wins, podiums and poles are counted the same way and checked against the published totals on every build. Starts is counted from those records too: an entry is a start unless the result the source printed says it never was - did not qualify, pre-qualify, start or practise, or excluded before the start - so a pit-lane start counts and so does a retirement on the first lap. The published entry and start figures are a separate count kept for the few drivers who have one, reached by rules this database does not hold. Where a published figure and the counted one disagree, both are shown and neither is corrected.