Nick Heidfeld

Race Car Driver

Nick Heidfeld was born in Mönchengladbach, West Germany on May 10th, 1977 and is the Race Car Driver. At the age of 46, Nick Heidfeld biography, profession, age, height, weight, eye color, hair color, build, measurements, education, career, dating/affair, family, news updates, and networth are available.

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Other Names / Nick Names
Nick Lars Heidfeld, Quick Nick
Date of Birth
May 10, 1977
Nationality
Germany
Place of Birth
Mönchengladbach, West Germany
Age
46 years old
Zodiac Sign
Taurus
Profession
Formula One Driver
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Nick Heidfeld Height, Weight, Eye Color and Hair Color

At 46 years old, Nick Heidfeld has this physical status:

Height
165cm
Weight
68kg
Hair Color
Light Brown
Eye Color
Blue
Build
Slim
Measurements
Not Available
Nick Heidfeld Religion, Education, and Hobbies
Religion
Not Available
Hobbies
Not Available
Education
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Nick Heidfeld Spouse(s), Children, Affair, Parents, and Family
Spouse(s)
Patricia Papen (2000-Present)
Children
Not Available
Dating / Affair
Patricia Papen (2000-Present)
Parents
Wolfgang Heidfeld, Angelika Heidfeld
Siblings
Sven Heidfeld (Younger Brother) (Former Racing Driver), Tim Heidfeld (Older Brother)
Nick Heidfeld Career

Early life and career

Heidfeld was born in Mönchengladbach, West Germany, on May 10, 1977, and he started racing karts at the age of 11. He entered the German Formula Ford series in 1994, gaining a lot of attention by winning 8 of the nine races to win the championship that season. He won the German International Formula Ford 1800 Championship in 1995 and finished second in the Zetec Cup. After taking third place in the German Formula Three Championship in 1996, where he came third overall after taking three wins. He won the first heat of the season at Macau Grand Prix, attracting the interest of compatriot Norbert Haug, who later signed him up for the West Competition team.

Junior career

Heidfeld triumphed the German F3 Championship for Bertram Schäfer Racing, with assistance from McLaren/West, as well as a victory in the Monaco Grand Prix Formula Three support race. In 1998, he won three races and finished runner-up in the International Formula 3000 Championship, with the West Competition team. Since his team used non-compliant fuel in the final race of the season, he was demoted to the back of the grid from pole position. He finished ninth and out of the points, losing the championship by seven points to Juan Pablo Montoya. He served as the official test driver for the McLaren-Mercedes Formula One team during the 2009 season. He won the International Formula 3000 Championship in 1999. He also set the fastest time record at the Goodwood Festival of Speed, which lasted for 20 years. He was also a member of the Mercedes team that competed in the 1999 24 Hours of Le Mans, but the team was forced to pull the Mercedes-Benz CLR back-flipped on the Mulsanne Straight after Mark Webber and Peter Dumbreck were driving.

Formula One career

Heidfeld was a racer for the Prost Grand Prix F1 team for the 2000 season, alongside Formula One veteran Jean Alesi. Heidfeld was struggling with his latest car and suffered with a string of retirements, as well as colliding with his coworker on more than one occasion.

He left Prost at the end of the season before committing to Sauber for three years. He was partnered with Kimi Räikkönen, the then rookie driver. Heidfeld took his first podium finish in the Brazilian Grand Prix with a third-place finish. Many people speculated that Heidfeld would replace him in the McLaren-Mercedes team after learning of Mika Häkkinen's retirement, as he had Mercedes support and had defeated the much more inexperienced Räikkönen by three points in the year. However, the McLaren seat went to Räikkönen, and Heidfeld stayed with Sauber for 2002 and 2003, where he earned a number of points finishes. He outperformed another rookie teammate, Felipe Massa, in 2002, but Heinz-Harald Frentzen, his more senior compatriot, was defeated in 2003.

Heidfeld was drafted by Jordan's Giancarlo Fisichella at the end of the 2003 season and seemed to be without a race seat. However, Heidfeld would compete with the financially disadvantaged Jordan team after impressing during a string of preseason workouts, as well as rookie Giorgio Pantano. The EJ14 was an update to the previous season's uncompetitive EJ13, but it was slow. Despite this, Heidfeld consistently outperformed the car, finishing ahead of more competitive cars. He finished seventh at the Monaco Grand Prix and eighth at the Canadian Grand Prix, and he tied for eighth, finishing with three points.

Heidfeld performed with the Williams team in a'shootout' against Antônio Pizzonia for their second race seat alongside Mark Webber in the winter of 2004-2005. Heidfeld will be the race driver for the team in 2005, replacing McLaren-bound Juan Pablo Montoya at the Williams launch on January 31, 2005.

He did well throughout the season, often finishing ahead of teammate Webber. Heidfeld's home Grand Prix took his first and only pole position in the 2005 season's Nürburgring series. He finished second in Monaco, which he equalled at the Nürburgring in the same season.

Heidfeld missed the Italian and Belgian Grand Prix due to injuries suffered in a testing accident. He was expected to return to Brazil when he was struck by a motorcycle while cycling and was forced to miss the remainder of the season.

When Heidfeld purchased the Sauber team (BMW and Sauber merger) and entered Formula One as BMW Sauber for the 2006 season, he ended up in Ferrari for the job.

Heidfeld scored multiple times for his new team during 2006. He ran at second place in Melbourne until the security car came out. He ended up fourth overall. He was involved in a thrilling first lap crash that culminated in fellow drivers Scott Speed, Jenson Button, Kimi Räirköynen, and Juan Pablo Montoya all lost. Heidfeld's car was started in a quadruple barrel roll, but he and the other drivers walked away unharmed. Heidfeld finished third in the Hungarian Grand Prix, bringing their first podium finish and best result of the year despite the fact that he had only qualified tenth on the grid.

Heidfeld had been quoted in a newspaper attack on his colleague Robert Kubica, who had scored fewer points than him, at the end of 2006. This has occurred twice in the German's career: in 2001, when he was teammates with Kimi Räikkönen (who beat twelve points to nine), and in 2002, when he was teammates with Felipe Massa (whom he defeated by seven points to four). The 2007 Ferrari driver line-up was developed by Räikkönen and Massa.

Heidfeld's 2007 season was off to a promising start. He sprinted down and overtook reigning world champion Fernando Alonso around the corner in Bahrain, finishing half a minute ahead of his BMW teammate Kubica. He took third positions in the first three races, including a sixth in Monaco, and second in the Canadian Grand Prix, where he also out-qualified both Ferraris, earning his best-ever Grand Prix finish. He was outscored by colleague Kubica at both Magny-Cours and Silverstone after retiring from fifth position at Indianapolis. Despite making six pitstops during the race, Heidfeld's home circuit, where he collided with Kubica on the first lap, improved and overtook Kubica to finish sixth. Heidfeld returned to form in Hungary, qualifying second and placing third, earning his second podium appearance of the season. He came in third at the Turkish and Italian Grand Prix and fifth in the Belgian Grand Prix. He eventually finished fifth in the championship with 61 points, defeating Kubica by 22 points.

Heidfeld led three protest laps around Nürburg's legendary 14 mile Nordschleife track on Saturday, making him the first driver to pilot a new F1 car there in 31 years. The festival, which was held after a four-hour VLN endurance run, attracted nearly 45,000 spectators.

Heidfeld will continue with the team in 2008 after many months of talks.

Heidfeld began the 2008 season well, finishing second in Australia after qualifying fifth. He started fifth in Malaysia, but fell to tenth at the first corner after being pushed wide by Jarno Trulli. He went back to sixth place in the process while also completing his fastest lap in the world. He started from sixth place in Bahrain but didn't get a job straight away, but he did manage to rank fourth over Trulli and Heikki Kovalainen. He finished fourth in the championship, and his fourth placing finished second.

Kubica and Heidfeld made BMW Sauber history by winning the third and first one-two finishes respectively in Canada after a few disappointing qualifying sessions and races in the coming weeks (after which the German press began to call him "Leidfeld" meaning "misery" in German). Heidfeld had been ranked eighth on the grid and after losing a place at the start and then recovering it, Heidfeld was seated comfortably in eighth place again before a safety car accident revealed Heidfeld and Kubica fighting for the top-two positions. Heidfeld's shift to a one-stop fuel policy came out of his stop before Kubica, but it was still heavy on fuel. Heidfeld began to wander off the track, allowing Kubica to make a quick pass, giving Heidfeld a huge advantage over Heidfeld, who was still in a lighter car, from chasing Kubica. After a last pitstop with no obstacles behind him, Kubica's gap enabled him to return to the lead. Heidfeld came in second place in the race, solidifying his fifth-place finish in the driver's rankings, although his post-race body language suggested he was dissatisfied with the team's win. Heidfeld had a rough run in France, failing to score any points. He came back to second place in the wet weather at the British Grand Prix, starting fifth and finishing second. For the time being, he had reversed the results to his colleague, despite another good showing. With just three races remaining, second-place finishes at the Belgian Grand Prix, followed by 5th and 6th-place finishes in Italy and Singapore respectively, leaving him just one point behind current World Champion Kimi Räikkönen.

Both Heidfeld and teammate Kubica will continue with the BMW Sauber team in 2009 after it was announced on October 6th.

After being defeated by Fernando Alonso in the last round of the season, Heidfeld earned four points in the last three races, putting him in sixth place in the standings. However, Heidfeld became Jordan's second driver to finish 18 races in a single season, after Tiago Monteiro achieved the same feat with Jordan in 2005. Heidfeld was also the first driver to win every single race in a season since Michael Schumacher in 2002.

Heidfeld began in 2009 in Australia by qualifying in 11th place and finishing in 10th place in the competition. Heidfeld qualified in 11th at the Malaysian Grand Prix, but he started tenth, but Sebastian Vettel was suspended in 10th for an incident in Australia involving Heidfeld's teammate Kubica). On the 33rd lap, when Heidfeld was third, the race was called off due to torrential rain, but the end was determined at the end of the penultimate complete lap, when Heidfeld had been running second. Because less than 75% of the race distance had been covered, the drivers only received half points. He scored two points at the Spanish Grand Prix and finished 5th at Spa, earning another four points. Monza's seventh-place finish added to his 2009 record by two points. Despite this, four points-scoring finishes in the final six races earned him his thirteenth position in the Drivers' Championship, two points ahead of Kubica.

Heidfeld's streak of 41 consecutive classification finishes came to an end in Singapore due to a collision with Force India's Adrian Sutil.

Heidfeld's future in Formula One was uncertain after BMW's decision to withdraw from the sport at the end of the 2009 season. He was supposed to drive for Mercedes GP alongside fellow German Nico Rosberg, but the team later signed Michael Schumacher instead. McLaren was also a planned destination, but these talks came to a halt, as well. Heidfeld had been preparing for a seat in Sauber alongside Kamui Kobayashi, but the pair opted for Pedro de la Rosa. Heidfeld had been in contention for a Renault seat alongside fellow BMW Sauber refugee Robert Kubica, but Heidfeld was appointed as the test and reserve driver for Mercedes on February 4th.

Heidfeld was chosen to replace Pedro de la Rosa as Chairman of the Grand Prix Drivers' Union at the Australian Grand Prix. Rubens Barrichello took over the role as Pirelli's test driver ahead of the Belgian Grand Prix, leaving him in a difficult situation.

Heidfeld did not have to drive the Mercedes MGP W01 vehicle in August 2010, and the team decided that he would be able to become the Pirelli test driver. On several occasions in 2010, Heidfeld tried a Toyota TF109 car with Pirelli tyres before the firm's replacement of Bridgestone as the sport's sole tyre manufacturer in 2011. Heidfeld undertook three experiments for Pirelli in Mugello, Paul Ricard, and Jerez before being dismissed from his duties to join Sauber, with Romain Grosjean taking his place.

Heidfeld returned to Formula One in September 2010, swapping Pedro de la Rosa with Pedro de la Rosa at the Sauber team for the remainder of the 2010 season. This was his third time with them. Sauber revealed their driver line-up for 2011 as Kamui Kobayashi and Sergio Pérez, essentially leaving Heidfeld without a drive for 2011, before replacing Robert Kubica at Renault, who was injured in a rally crash on September 6th.

Lotus Renault GP announced on February that Heidfeld would be sharing testing with Bruno Senna on Saturday and Sunday to assess the participants in anticipation of replacing them with injured and former BMW Sauber teammate Robert Kubica, who sustained long-term injuries to his arm and hand in a crash while rallying in Italy for the 2011 season. Heidfeld set the fastest time of the day on Saturday, claiming that he loved his day's running – 86 laps – with the team and had a blast driving the car. On February 16, 2011, Heidfeld was announced as Kubica's replacement. Heidfeld qualified 18th and ended 12th in Australia's first race of the season after being struck by another competitor before he was run out of the event. Heidfeld finished third in the Malaysian Grand Prix at Sepang on April 10, 2011, beating Stefan Johansson's record of 12 podiums without a win. After a close match with teammate Petrov, he gained another 12th position in China before finishing seventh-place in Turkey. Two eighth places in Spain and Monaco were followed by a retirement at the Canadian Grand Prix after running into Kamui Kobayashi's back and damaging his front wing, which collapsed under acceleration and crashed under the vehicle. In the Hungarian Grand Prix, he was forced to pull his car out of the pit lane after exiting the pit lane on lap 25. Bruno Senna replaced Heidfeld in the Belgian Grand Prix. On September 2, 2011, Heidfeld officially left the company with the team.

Heidfeld was ranked the 23rd best Formula One driver of all time in a academic paper that reported a mathematical modeling study that measured the relative influence of driver and machine.

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Hideaways Club hasn't attracted any new backers since 2019

www.dailymail.co.uk, January 20, 2024
Hideaways has been facing fresh resistance from insurgent investors after documents revealed that its property funds have not been able to attract any new people for almost five years. Investors have the opportunity to purchase a stake in a property portfolio made up of villas, chalets, and high-end apartments. They can then book the vacations for the holidays if they pay an additional membership fee each year to cover maintenance expenses. However, it is embroiled in a dispute with the Hideaways Members Action Group, a group of rebel shareholders. They are planning to file a lawsuit against the company and have claimed that since the company hasn't been able to bring in any new investors since 2019, the firm's existing backers are stranded, due to the company's 'two-in-one-out' policy.

In the Hideaways fees dispute, the investor loses in the courtroom

www.dailymail.co.uk, January 6, 2024
The decision concerned Peter Kabel, a German entrepreneur, and 13 other Hideaways investors. They are being sued by the corporation for refusing to pay membership fees. The group gives investors the opportunity to purchase a part of a property portfolio made up of villas, chalets, and high-end apartments that they can book for holidays if they pay an additional membership fee each year to cover maintenance expenses.

In Gibraltar, a 'trapped' investor fight against luxury holiday home company Hideaways Club has erupted

www.dailymail.co.uk, December 16, 2023
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