Gary Paffett

Quick Facts

Full Name	Gary Paffett
Occupation	Race Car Driver
Date Of Birth	Mar 24, 1981(1981-03-24)
Age	43
Birthplace	Bromley
Country	United Kingdom
Birth City	England
Horoscope	Pisces

Gary Paffett Biography

Gary Paffett is one of the most popular and richest Race Car Driver who was born on March 24, 1981 in Bromley, England, United Kingdom. British racing car driver from the UK who has been awarded German as well as British Formula Three titles. He was awarded the McLaren Autosport BRDC Award in 1999.

He as well as He and Michael Schumacher are both winners of the German Formula Three Championship. are both winners of the German Formula Three Championship.

In 1993, Paffett joined the British Cadet Championships and earned himself a respectable third place. A year later he moved to British Junior TKM Championship and finished second overall. In 1995, he won the British Junior TKM Championship and also second place in the Junior ICA European Championship. Successes continued into 1996, winning the McLaren Mercedes Karting Champion of the Future award and also second in the British Junior ICA Championship. The next year he moved into single-seaters, winning the Formula Vauxhall Junior Winter Series, picking up the best newcomer’s award in that series in the process. In 1998, he was Formula Vauxhall Junior Class B Champion with thirteen poles and thirteen wins, dominating every race of the season. He also set a track record which had never before been set by any “B” class car. He got promoted to the Formula Vauxhall Junior and won the championship with two track records, four wins, five fastest laps, three pole positions. At the season’s end he was awarded the prestigious McLaren Autosport BRDC Young Driver of the Year award.

Moving up to Formula Three, he competed in the Scholarship class of the British F3 championship, becoming champion with twelve wins, thirteen fastest laps and thirteen pole positions. In 2001, moved overseas to the German F3 Championship racing with Keke Rosberg’s race team, finishing sixth overall. Remaining in the series for 2002, he dominated the field winning the championship without ever losing the lead.

He was motivated to race after watching his father Jim race in auto club races.

Gary Paffett Net Worth

Gary Paffett is one of the richest Race Car Driver from United Kingdom. According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, Gary Paffett 's net worth $5 Million. (Last Update: December 11, 2023)

His racing career began by joining the British Cadet Championships in 1993 before moving onto the British Junior TKM Championship the following year.

He was awarded the McLaren Autosport Young Driver of the Year award following his making two record times in the Formula Vauxhall Junior Winter Series.

Gary Paffett (born 24 March 1981 in Bromley) is a British racing driver in the Formula E. Having become a household name in the DTM, following fifteen years in the series and two championship wins, Paffett moved onto Formula E for the 2018/19 championship, after it was announced in 2017 that Mercedes would no longer be taking part in DTM. Paffett was also a test driver for the Williams Formula One team, having previously worked in a similar role at McLaren for a number of years, during the team’s successful title winning years. Paffett progressed through the ranks of karting and junior formulae in the United Kingdom, winning the McLaren Autosport BRDC Award in 1999. He now lives in Ousden, Suffolk, England.

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He publicly stated that he was looking for a Formula One race seat for 2008, and was linked with the abortive Prodrive F1 project for that season. However, Prodrive failed to make it to the grid so Paffett stayed with McLaren as a test driver. Paffett was signed as Force India’s reserve driver for the 2012 Australian Grand Prix as regular reserve driver Jules Bianchi was unavailable due to Formula Renault 3.5 Series testing commitments. On 17 November 2014, it was announced that Paffett would leave McLaren at the end of the 2014 season. This coincided with McLaren’s switch to Honda engines for 2015.

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Gary Ranked on the list of most popular Race Car Driver. Also ranked in the elit list of famous people born in United Kingdom. Gary Paffett celebrates birthday on March 24 of every year.

In 2017, Mercedes announced it would leave DTM after the 2018 season. Since 2018 did also feature a rule change resulting in the cars having less downforce meaning that small contact would less likely result in race ending damage, Mercedes could come back from a dip in form over the last couple of years. In the first race at Hockenheim the Mercedes proved a serious contender and allowed Gary Paffett to take his first win since the Lausitz ring in 2013 in the first race at Hockenheim. The second Hockenheim race featured a momentous battle between Gary Paffett and Timo Glock which was won by the BMW driver. From here on, the Mercedes proved a very good car all through the season and with taking 3 wins and further 7 podiums, Paffett was at or very near the top of the table all season. In the mid-season, his main competitor was fellow Mercedes driver Paul Di Resta with the lead of the championship changing a couple of times between the two notably in Brands Hatch and Misano World Circuit. With Paffett having an unlucky raceweekend in the latter. In the last 3 race weekends, René Rast and his Audi team gave Paffett a very real challenge taking a win in all 6 races. This didn’t prove to be enough however with Paffett taking the crown in Hockenheim at the last race of the season and thus closing the book on DTM for Mercedes with the drivers title, team title and the manufacturers title, providing Paffett and the Mercedes-AMG team with the perfect fairytale ending to their DTM careers.