Merchandise - Clothing - Teamwear - Gifts - Models - Presents - Videos
During his long career, Gerhard Berger was renowned as the paddock's resident joker. Some of his japes have passed down in F1 folklore - such as when he filled team-mate Ayrton Senna's hotel room with frogs and snakes.
But underlying the jokey exterior, there was a committed competitor who defied doctor's orders to test an F1 car soon after breaking his neck and recovered from a fiery accident at Imola in 1989 to race again within a month.
After hanging up his helmet at the end of 1997, he became BMW's motorsport boss, before quitting to spend more time with his family.
1959 Born in Worgl, Austria
1979 Started racing with a Group 5 Ford Escort.
1980 Raced in European Alfasud series.
1983 Contested German and European Formula 3 series.
1984 Third behind Ivan Capelli and Johnny Dumfries in the European Formula Three series. Made Formula 1 debut with ATS, finishing sixth in his second race.
1985 Broke neck in road accident but moved to Arrows and picked up points for fifth and sixth in the last two races. Won Spa 24 Hours touring car race for BMW.
1986 Joined Benetton and went on to win the Mexican GP to be seventh overall.
1987 Moved on to Ferrari and improved to be fifth overall after winning the final two Grands Prix in Japan and Australia.
1988 Only one win, but did this fittingly for Ferrari at the Italian GP and raised his stock by finishing third overall.
1989 Another one-win season for Ferrari, but was less consistent and thus fell to seventh overall.
1990 Joined McLaren to partner Ayrton Senna and rose to fourth overall despite taking no wins and having trouble fitting the car.
1991 Won just once for McLaren when Senna let him by on the last lap in the Japanese GP and was ranked fourth overall.
1992 Won the Canadian and Australian GPs to be fifth overall.
1993 Returned to Ferrari and was eighth overall with third in Hungary his best.
1994 Broke Ferrari's longest ever winless streak to win German GP and backed this up with three second places to be third overall.
1995 Finished third six times for Ferrari en route to sixth overall.
1996 Moved back to Benetton and won nothing, although he came within three laps of doing so in the German GP until his engine blew and ended up sixth overall.
1997 Won the German GP, but missed three races because of a sinus problem and was classified fifth overall. Announced retirement from Formula 1.
1998 Was named as director of BMW's motorsport programme.
1999 Oversaw development of BMW's new Formula One engine to be used by Williams in 2000 and beyond.
2003 Quits BMW job to spend more time with his family.
Drivers: Rubens Barrichello | Gerhard Berger | David Coultard | Giancarlo Fisichella | Heinz-Harald Frentzen | Mika Hakkinen | Eddie Irvine | Olivier Panis | Michael Schumacher | Ralf Schumacher | Jacques Villeneuve
Teams: Ferrari | Jordan | McLaren | Renault | Williams
