Pedro Lamy

José Pedro Mourão Nunes Lamy Viçoso OIH (born 20 March 1972), known as Pedro Lamy, is a Portuguese racing driver who became Portugal's first Formula One driver, participating in 32 Grands Prix from 1993 to 1996 and scoring one championship point at the 1995 Australian Grand Prix for Minardi—the first point ever scored by a Portuguese driver. Lamy won the Portuguese Formula Ford Championship in 1989 at age 17, then dominated German Formula Three in 1992, also winning the Marlboro Masters and finishing second at Macau. He made his Formula One debut for Lotus in the final four races of 1993, replacing injured Alessandro Zanardi. However, in August 1994 during testing at Silverstone, Lamy's rear wing failed catastrophically, sending his car through a debris fence into a pedestrian tunnel.

He suffered severe injuries requiring extensive surgery and rehabilitation. After nearly a year recovering, Minardi offered him a return for the second half of 1995. At the season-ending Australian Grand Prix in Adelaide, Lamy finished sixth in a race of attrition, scoring Minardi's only point of the season and becoming Portugal's first World Championship point-scorer. He remained with Minardi for 1996 but the underfunded team's lack of development meant no further points.

After leaving Formula One at age 24, Lamy found far greater success in sports car racing: he won the 1998 FIA GT Championship in a Dodge Viper, won Le Mans Series titles in both GT and LMP1 classes with Peugeot, and captured the 2017 FIA World Endurance Championship drivers' title at age 45 with teammates Mathias Lauda and Paul Dalla Lana. As of 2025, Lamy serves as an FIA commissioner, using his racing experience in motorsport governance. His career illustrates that Formula One statistics don't define ultimate achievement—his single Formula One point contrasts sharply with his multiple sports car championships, proving his talent found better expression in endurance racing than single-seaters.