Esteban Tuero vs Shinji Nakano, 1998
Teammates at Minardi — the same car, so these numbers compare the drivers rather than the machinery. Compare full careers →
In the 1998 season, Esteban Tuero and Shinji Nakano were teammates at Minardi, competing in 16 races together. Tuero outqualified Nakano 5 times, while Nakano outqualified Tuero 11 times. In terms of race finishes, Tuero finished ahead of Nakano once, with Nakano achieving one finish ahead of Tuero. Both drivers scored 0 championship points and had no podium finishes, with Tuero's best finish being 8th and Nakano's 7th.
Summarised by gpt-4o-mini from the figures below.5–11Qualifyingof 16 compared
0–1Race finishesof 1 compared
Qualifying is compared on the grid they actually started from. A race counts only where both were classified — one of them retiring leaves nothing to compare, so it is not scored to the other.
1998 season
1616
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P8P7
20.219.9
12.511.7
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