Richard Robarts

Richard Robarts was a British driver born in 1944 who made three World Championship starts, all of them during the 1974 season with Brabham. Arriving in Formula 1 at twenty-nine, he had the fortune of a seat with an established constructor but the misfortune of a very brief tenure in it.

None of his three outings yielded points or a classified championship position, and his stint with the team ended before the season did. He never reappeared on a World Championship grid, making 1974 both the beginning and the end of his Formula 1 career — a single-season record that hints at how quickly opportunities could evaporate for newcomers in that era.