Early career
Heidfeld was innate around Mönchengladbach, Germany, and began racing inside 1988. Inside 1994, he moved into a German Formula Ford series, & gained far flung attention by winning Octet of a Ix races to require out the title. Within 1995, he won the German International Formula Ford 1800 Championship, & come 2nd in the Zetec Ventral suction cup. This led to the cause in the German International Formula Three championship for 1996, where he finished third fallowing ingesting Terzetto wins. a resulting season, Heidfeld won a German F3 Championship, including a win at the prestigious Monaco event. Around 1998, he won three races & was runner-second best in a European Formula 3000 Championship by having a West Junior Team, failing to win the title because he misplaced his pole position at the final race due to the team error. When you took that year, he was besides a official end line text driver for the McLaren-Mercedes Formula One team. Within 1999, he won the International Formula 3000 Championship.

Formula One career
by owning impressed with his final year of Formula 3000, Heidfeld was signed as a automobile driver for the Prost Grand Prix F1 team for the 2000 season, alongside Jean Alesi. Heidfeld struggled by using his freshly car, using a string of retirements throughout a month forcing him away from the team. He signed the trinity-season locate Sauber for 2001, partnered with greenhorn driver Kimi Räikkönen. When a announcement of Mika Häkkinen's retirement, many thought that Heidfeld would replenish him in the McLaren team, when he experienced outperformed Räikkönen on top the season, including a rostrum position in the Brazilian Grand Prix. Nevertheless, a seat attend Räikkönen, & Heidfeld stayed by owning Sauber for 2002 and 2003. At the prevent of 2003, Heidfeld was dumped from either a team & browsed to become forswearing a race seat for the 2004 season. But, when a total of successful tests, it was announced that Heidfeld would race by using the Jordan Grand Prix team, alongside rookie Giorgio Pantano. Heidfeld was telling inside the mediocre car, however was non signed for an additional team around 2005. In a period of the winter, Heidfeld has tested with WilliamsF1, in the 'gunfight' using Antonio Pizzonia for the second race seat. At a Williams launch in January 31, it was announced that Heidfeld would be the racer for the team inside 2005.

At a seventh race of a year at the Nurburgring circuit, his page grand prix, Heidfeld took his number one ever pole position.He has besides achieved his better position to-date (2d) using Williams within Monaco this year, which he equalled at a Nurburgring. Heidfeld missed Italian and Belgian due to injuries suffered in researching accident. He was supposed to came back for Brazil , he was injured once again when riding a minibike, & may probably miss the rest of the year.

Nick Heidfeld may cause for BMW's new works team next seasin (2006), a German manufacturer officially announced on 16 September. Contrary to former reports, a treat is for 2006, 2007, 2008 and 2009.

Complete Formula One results
Notes: Grands Prix inside bold denote points scoring races Grands Prix around italics denote races where this driver did non participate

Career history
Season inside bold denote Champion.

1986: Karting 1988: Club Championship, Kerpen-Mannheim 1990: Nordrhein-Westfalen DMV Kart Championship 1991: Member ADAC junior kart squad (Experienced enough to participate around Globe & European Championships) 1992: Fifth around German Junior Kart Championship 1993: Enters FormulThe A Globe Championship around Laval 1994: Formula Ford 1600 class winner in German Formula Ford series (eight wins away from nine starts) 1995: International German Formula Ford 1800 series Champion 1995: German Formula Ford: Vice-Champion 199Vi: FTercet Germany: Opel Team BSR, Third, 138 points (3 wins, Sextet pulpit, Unity pole position, 6 fastest laps) 1997: F3 Germany: Opel Team BSR, Champion, 224 points (Quint wins, Eleven soapbox, Two pole positions, Septenary fastest laps) 1998: Formula 3000: 2nd, 58 points (Threesome wins, Seven stump, Deuce pole positions, Iii fastest laps) 1999: Formula One Tests: Prost-Peugeot, and McLaren-Mercedes 1999: Formula 3000: West Competition Team, Champion, 59 points (Quartet wins, Seven ambo, 4 pole positions, Half a dozen fastest laps) 2000: Formula 1: Prost-Peugeot, 20th, Zero points 200One: Formula 1: Sauber-Petronas, 8th, Xii points (One rostrum) 2002: Formula One: Sauber-Petronas, 10th, 7 points 2003: Formula One: Sauber-Petronas, 14th, Hexad points 2004: Formula One: Jordan-Ford, 18th, Tierce points 2005: Formula Ace: Williams-BMW

Reference
[http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/motorsport/formula_one/4083915.stm Williams give Heidfeld his chance]. BBC Sport (31. January, 2005).