Robert Wickens

Robert Wickens
Driver Details
Nationality	Canadian
P.o.B.	Guelph, Ontario, Canada
D.o.B.	13 March 1989
D.o.D.	Unknown
Début	2012 Hockenheim Opening Race
Final Race	2017 Hockenheim Finale Race 2
Best	4th (2016)
Previous Teams	Mücke Motorsport; HWA Team
DTM Career
Total Entries	84 (84 Starts)
No.	6
Wins	Points	Poles
6	429	5
Fastest Laps	5
Podiums	15
First Win	2013 Nürburgring Race
Last Win	2017 Nürburgring Race 2

Robert Wickens (born 13 March 1989 in Guelph, Ontario, Canada) is a Canadian racing driver, who competed in the DMSB Deutsche Tourenwagen Masters Championship between 2012 and 2017. A former junior and factory driver for Mercedes, Wickens achieved a best Championship finish of fourth, before leaving to take a seat in the IndyCar Series in 2018.

Signed up to the Mücke Motorsport squad for his rookie season in 2012, Wickens have a mixed debut season, claiming fourteen points to claim sixteenth in the Championship. As a result the Canadian racer would gain a seat in the factory HWA Team for 2013, with the promotion seeing the Canadian racer claim his first race victory at the Nürburgring.

Retained by HWA for 2014, Wickens would secure his second DTM victory, although an otherwise quiet campaign saw him slip to twelfth in the Championship. A very similar 2015 season would follow for the Canadian racer, with a solitary race win the highlight as he claimed thirteenth in the Championship.

Partnering Daniel Juncadella in the main HWA Team for 2016, Wickens would briefly flirt with the Championship title, although a less spectacular end to the season saw the Canadian racer slip to fourth. A more difficult season would follow for Wickens in 2017, with the Canadian racer securing one victory en-route to ninth in the Championship.

Wickens left the DTM at the end of 2017, instead taking a seat in the IndyCar Series for the full 2018 season. However, a promising rookie season would be cut short by a huge accident at the ABC Supply 500 at Pocono Raceway, with Wickens sustaining a spinal fracture, broken legs, fractures in both arms and hands and a pulmonary contusion. However, Wickens would survive both the accident and several major surgeries, and vowed to return to racing within two years.

Background

After a stint in karting as a child, Wickens entered his first motorcar race at the age of 16, entering Formula BMW USA with a BMW scholarship. After finishing the season in third, and becoming top rookie, He returned for the 2006 season and won the championship, while also making a series of entries into several European competitions, and the Formula BMW World Final at the end of the season. 2007 saw the Canadian enter the Champ Car Atlantic Championship, as well as the Formula Renault 3.5 Series, although his split attention prevented him taking the title in either.

On to the Summit

A switch to compete full time in the Formula Renault 3.5 Series followed in 2008, with Wickens taking 12th, as well as competing in the Formula 3 Euro Series at select races. He continued to enter a limited number of F3 races in 2009, after moving into the reborn FIA Formula Two Championship for the season, taking two victories. His runner-up spot in Formula Two prompted several Formula One teams to take an interest in him, with Wickens returning to Europe to compete in 2010.

A 2010 campaign in the GP3 Series ended with Wickens as runner-up in the championship, before he signed to be a test and reserve driver with the Marussia F1 outfit for 2011. After one appearance in a practice session, and a successful campaign in Formula Renault 3.5 Series that ended in championship glory, Wickens was expected to become a full F1 driver for 2012, being the only North American racing driver to hold a valid Super Licence (the document required to compete in F1). Yet, surprisingly, this move did not happen, and Wickens was adopted by Mercedes for their Junior Team in 2012.

DTM History

Wickens was signed to be a full DTM driver before the start of the 2012 season, partnering David Coulthard at Mücke Motorsport. A mixed season saw Wickens score three points finishes over the mid-season, although the end of the year was severely hampered by retirements, seeing him finish 16th overall. Moving to the HWA Team for 2013, Wickens enjoyed a more successful season, highlighted by his first career win at the Nürburgring near the end of the season.

His fifth place overall that season earned Wickens a renewal to his contract, although a slow start to the season, hampered by the Mercedes C-Coupé's struggle for pace in general meant he failed to score any points in the opening three races. However, Wickens caused a stir by dominating the Norisring event, taking pole and victory in the wet. It was to be a brief moment in the sun, however, with Wickens only scoring three more points paying places before the end of the season, leaving him down in 12th in the final standings.

2015 started more positively for the Canadian challenger, with a seventh place in the second race of the weekend meaning he achieved his best result of his career in the season opening race.

Full DTM Record

Wickens' full results from his 84 starts in the DTM are outlined in a series of tables below.

DTM Entries

The list below includes all of the teams and cars, as well as overall finishing positions for Wickens during his DTM career:

Robert Wickens's Overall DTM Record
Year	Entrant	No.	Car	Pos.	Pts.	Livery
2012	stern Mercedes-AMG	20	Mercedes AMG C-Coupé 12	16th	14	File:WIC 12 Livery.png
2013	STIHL / AMG Mercedes	10	Mercedes AMG C-Coupé 12	5th	70	File:WIC 13 Livery.png
2014	Thomas Sabo/Free Man's Mercedes AMG	12	Mercedes AMG C-Coupé 14	12th	41	File:WIC 14 Livery.png
2015	Silberpfeil Mercedes-AMG	6	Mercedes-AMG C63 DTM	13th	61
2016	Mercedes DTM Team HWA I	6	Mercedes-AMG C63 DTM	4th	124	File:WIC 16 Livery.png
2017	Mercedes-AMG Motorsport Me	6	Mercedes-AMG C63 DTM	9th	119	File:WIC 17 Livery.png

Career Results

Below is a table showing Robert Wickens's full DTM record.

Robert Wickens's DTM Championship Record
Year	Rounds																		Pos.	Pts.
	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12	13	14	15	16	17	18
2012																			16th	14
	1	2	3	4	5	NC†	6	7	8	9	10
	14th	22nd	14th	13th	9th	9th	7th	Ret	7th	Ret	Ret
2013																			5th	70
	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10
	Ret	3rd	12th	4th	2nd	12th	1st	22nd	16th	18th
2014																			12th	41
	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10
	18th	Ret	11th	1st	14th	DSQ	9th	5th	8th	17th
2015																			13th	61
	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12	13	14	15	16	17	18
	Ret	7th	6th	18th	2nd	1st	Ret	19th	Ret	20th	12th	22nd	Ret	16th	8th	Ret	Ret	18th
2016																			4th	124
	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12	13	14	15	16	17	18
	2nd	5th	11th	20th	3rd	3rd	Ret	11th	1st	16th	1st	5th	9th	13th	10th	10th	23rd	9th
2017																			9th	119
	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12	13	14	15	16	17	18
	15th	Ret	2nd	3rd	Ret	8th	Ret	11th	4th	9th	11th	15th	3rd	1st	4th	10th	7th	17th

Results Key
Symbol	Meaning		Symbol	Meaning
1st	Winner		Ret	Retired
2nd	Second		DSQ	Disqualified
3rd	Third		DNS	Did Not Start
7th	Points Scorer		NC	Not Classified
Italics	Fastest Lap		CAN	Race Cancelled
16th	Non-points finish		†	Non-Championship Race
Bold	Pole Position		3	Points for Qualifying

References

Videos and Images:

• Henry Mineur, 'Robert Wickens at the 2011 Nürburgring World series by Renault round', wikipedia.org, (Wikipedia, 19/06/2011), http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Wickens#/media/File:Robert_Wickens_2011.JPG, (Accessed 17/05/2015)
• Liveries: byggxx, 'Rennwagen (2002)', dtm.fandom.com/de, (DTM Wiki/de, 2015), https://dtm.fandom.com/de/wiki/Kategorie:Rennwagen_(2002), (Accessed 29/05/2020)

References:

2012 Deutsche Tourenwagen Masters Championship
Manufacturers
Audi • AMG-Mercedes • BMW
Car/engine
Audi A5 DTM 2012 • Audi 4.0l V8 • Mercedes-AMG C-Coupé DTM 2012 • AMG 4.0l V8 • BMW M3 DTM 2012 • P66 4.0l V8
Teams
AMG-Mercedes • Audi Sport Team Abt • Audi Sport Team Abt Sportsline • Audi Sport Team Phoenix • Audi Sport Team Rosberg • BMW Team RBM • BMW Team RMG • BMW Team Schnitzer • DHL Paket/Stern AMG-Mercedes • Junge Sterne/TV-Spielfilm Mercedes AMG-Mercedes • Thomas Sabo/Mercedes-Benz Bank AMG-Mercedes
Drivers
1 Martin Tomczyk • 2 Joey Hand • 3 Mattias Ekström • 4 Timo Scheider • 5 Jamie Green • 6 Ralf Schumacher • 7 Bruno Spengler • 8 Dirk Werner • 9 Mike Rockenfeller • 10 Miguel Molina • 11 Gary Paffett • 12 Christian Vietoris • 15 Andy Priaulx • 16 Augusto Farfus • 17 Rahel Frey • 18 Adrien Tambay • 19 David Coulthard • 20 Robert Wickens • 21 Edoardo Mortara • 22 Filipe Albuquerque • 23 Roberto Merhi • 24 Susie Stoddart
Races
Hockenheim Opening • Lausitzring • Brands Hatch • Speilberg • Norisring • Nürburgring • Zandvoort • Oschersleben • Valencia • Hockenheim Finale
Non-Championship Races
2012 Showevent Relay Race • 2012 Showevent Knockout Race
Related Content
2011 DTM Season • 2013 DTM Season • Formula 3 Euro Series

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