WATSON

American · 1950-1960 · 9 seasons · 15 drivers
0
CONSTRUCTORS’ CHAMPIONSHIPS
Awarded from 1958, completed seasons only
3
RACE WINS
5 podiums · 2 poles
22
CAR ENTRIES
over 9 seasons, two cars a race counts twice
36
POINTS IN GRANDS PRIX
Race results only, not the championship total

01/Season by season

9 seasons
With that season’s drivers
SeasonChampChamp ptsEntriesWinPodPoleRace ptsDrivers
1960812014Chuck Stevenson, Dick Rathmann, Jim Rathmann, Len Sutton, Lloyd Ruby, Rodger Ward, Tony Bettenhausen, Troy Ruttman
1959412014Dick Rathmann, Jim Rathmann, Pat Flaherty, Rodger Ward
195840010Dick Rathmann, Ed Elisian, Jimmy Reece, Jud Larson
1957none10000Troy Ruttman
1956none11118Pat Flaherty
1953none10000Don Freeland
1952none10000Jim Rigsby
1951none10000Joe James
1950none10000Dick Rathmann
Career0 titles223523615 drivers

6 of Watson’s 9 seasons ran before 1958 and read none in the Champ column. There was no constructors’ championship to be placed in until then, so that is history rather than a gap in the import: f1_constructor_standings covers 69 seasons against the drivers’ 77, and the eight missing ones are the eight that were never contested. 3 seasons inside the championship era carry no position at all: the source recorded none, and the row is kept rather than zeroed. Champ pts is the championship total from the standings; Race pts is the sum of the points scored in Grands Prix, and the two do not have to agree. 145 of 924 constructor-seasons differ, because the championship dropped a team’s weaker results for much of the period before 1991, and because sprint points have counted toward it since 2021 while this archive holds the Grand Prix result alone. Entries counts CAR entries: a two-car team scores two on every start. Wins read position_text, so a shared car credits the constructor once per winning driver. Titles count completed seasons only, which excludes 2026: it is loaded only as far as the rounds that have been run.


02/Drivers

15 drivers
All time, most wins first
DriverSeasonsEntriesWinRace pts
Jim Rathmann1959-19602114
Rodger Ward1959-19602114
Pat Flaherty1956-1959218
Tony Bettenhausen1960100
Ed Elisian1958100
Don Freeland1953100
Joe James1951100
Jud Larson1958100
Dick Rathmann1950-1960400
Jimmy Reece1958100
Jim Rigsby1952100
Lloyd Ruby1960100
Troy Ruttman1957-1960200
Chuck Stevenson1960100
Len Sutton1960100

Every driver with at least one race result for Watson, from 1950 to 2026. The Seasons column is that driver’s span AT THIS CONSTRUCTOR, not the span of their career; a driver who left and came back shows the outer years, and their own page carries the break. Entries and points are this constructor’s alone, so a driver who split a season between two teams is counted here for the part they drove for this one.