Bertrand Gachot

Bertrand Gachot, a Belgian driver born in 1962, made forty-seven Formula 1 starts across five seasons spread between 1989 and 1995, a career that took in four different teams and two notable interruptions.

He debuted with Onyx in 1989 without scoring, and his championship record shows no starts at all in 1990. The 1991 season with Jordan proved the high point: four points and thirteenth in the drivers' standings, comfortably his best campaign.

A move to Larrousse for 1992 brought one further point and nineteenth in the championship. After another year absent from the records in 1993, Gachot returned with the new Pacific team for 1994 and 1995, though the struggling outfit gave him no chance of adding to his tally.

His career closed with five points from forty-seven starts, all of them scored in the 1991 and 1992 seasons. The arc of his record — points-scoring midfielder with Jordan, then two final years with an uncompetitive newcomer — traces the precarious nature of Formula 1 careers in the early 1990s.