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Driver of the Year
2012

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Driver blogs

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Q&A

What's your ultimate goal as a racing driver?

	Fahad Hizam:
– ALMS

	Shahaan Engineer:
– Success

	Max Cornelius:
– F1

	James Peace:
– Formula One World Champion

	Ronan McKenzie:
– Formula 1 of course!

Click on the driver's name to see their complete Q&A. Q&A is a feature of the Premier Profiles.

Most buzz

1.			Danica Patrick
2.			Johann Ledermair
3.			António Félix da Costa
4.			Prince Carl Philip Bernadotte
5.			Alex Hamilton
6.			Nathan Blok
7.			Lewis Hamilton
8.			James Nash
9.			Brendon Cook
10.			Katherine Legge
11.			Michael Schumacher
12.			Mitchell Evans
13.			Sebastian Vettel
14.			Ezequiel Abbadie
15.			Joey Foster
16.			Mika Vähämäki
17.			Kevin Magnussen
18.			Raed Raffii
19.			Jenson Button
20.			Niclas Olsson
Most buzz shows the twenty drivers who had the most number of visits to their profile page yesterday. What's with the drivers in bold? They've got a Premier Profile!

USAC National Championship 1978

		Teams \| Stats \| Cars \| Birthdates
1.	Tom Sneva	Penske Racing	4153
2.	Al Unser	Chaparral Racing	4031
3.	Gordon Johncock	Patrick Racing Team	3548
4.	Johnny Rutherford	Team McLaren	3067
5.	A.J. Foyt	Gilmore Racing	3024
6.	Wally Dallenbach	Jerry O’Connell	2966
7.	Steve Krisiloff	Patrick Racing Team	2874
8.	Danny Ongais	Interscope Racing	2662
9.	Rick Mears	Galles Racing	2171
10.	Pancho Carter	Fletcher Racing	1206
11.	Tom Bagley	Leader Cards	1188
12.	Bobby Unser	All American Racers	1122
13.	Larry Dickson	Polak Construction	1121
14.	Johnny Parsons Jr.	Hopkins Racing	978
15.	George Snider	Gilmore/Citicorp, Longhorn Rac...	766
16.	Tom Bigelow	Armstrong Moulding, Leader Car...	764
17.	Mario Andretti	Penske Racing	681
18.	Dick Simon	Vollstedt Racing	670
19.	Jim McElreath	McElreath Racing	573
20.	Salt Walther	Dayton-Walther	562
21.	Cliff Hucul	Hucul Racing, Longhorn Racing	519
22.	Lee Kunzman	Sugai	513
23.	Sheldon Kinser	Leader Cards	495
24.	Mike Mosley	Alex Morales	483
25.	Roger Mears	Galles Racing	400
26.	Bobby Olivero	Alex Morales	360
27.	Al Loquasto	McCord Auto, Machinists Union ...	321
28.	Joe Saldana	Team 69	314
29.	Gary Bettenhausen	Oberdorfer	294
30.	Spike Gehlhausen	Carl Gehlhausen	188
31.	Larry Cannon	Fiore Racing	184
32.	Larry Rice	Precision Engine	180
33.	Jerry Karl	Machinists Union, Vollstedt Ra...	104
34.	Jerry Sneva	Thunder Racing	62
35.	Roger McCluskey	National Engineering, North Am...	61
36.	Phil Threshie	Machinists Union	45
37.	Todd Gibson	Gibson Racing	34
38.	Vern Schuppan	Fletcher Racing	26
39.	Bob Harkey	Joe Hunt Magneto	26
40.	Billy (William John) Vukovich Jr		20
41.	Roger Rager		15
	Eldon Rasmussen	Rent-A-Racer	15
43.	Bubby Jones		10
	John Mahler	Carl Gehlhausen	10
45.	Chuck Gurney	Crower Cam	6

	Janet Guthrie	Texaco Star

Age statistics:

Average age of drivers:	36 years old
Youngest driver:	Spike Gehlhausen, 23 years old (born: 1954-11-19)
Oldest driver:	Jim McElreath, 50 years old (born: 1928-02-18)

The average age is calculated in the middle of the year (1978-07-01).

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Fan poll

Who is your favourite 2013 GP3 Series driver?


	The current top five:
1.		Jimmy Eriksson	414
2.		Kevin Korjus	76
3.		Eftihios Ellinas	34
4.		Daniil Kvyat	27
5.		Jack Harvey	24

Top 2013 race winners

1.	Pierre Tonetti	19
2.	Andy Duffin	14
3.	Ian Hayr	13
4.	Dwayn Taylor	11
	Jonathan Allard	11
6.	Ryan Hellier	10
	James Munro	10
8.	Clemens Schmid	9
	Craig Baird	9
	Daniel Cammish	9
	Steve Ross	9
12.	Tony Graham	8
	Glenn Smith	8
	Kyle Busch	8
	Jason Bargwanna	8
	Donny Schatz	8
	Emil Bernstorff	8
	Kyle Larson	8
	Rowan Shepherd	8
20.	Taylor Cockerton	7

This list also includes series that span over the new year (i.e. 2012-13 championships).

Driverdb.com updates

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