F1/Drivers/Chris Amon
Chris Amon, portrait

CHRIS AMON

New Zealander·Born July 20, 1943·1963-1976 · 14 seasons · 13 constructors
102
RACE STARTS
1963-1976 · 14 seasons
0
WINS
11 podiums · 5 poles
83
POINTS IN GRANDS PRIX
Race results only, not the championship total
0
WORLD CHAMPIONSHIPS
Completed seasons only, 1950 to 2025
2nd
BEST FINISH
51
DID NOT FINISH
Retired, withdrew or disqualified
13
CONSTRUCTORS DRIVEN FOR
0%
STARTS WON
0 of 102

01/Season by season

19 lines over 14 seasons
One line per constructor
SeasonConstructorStartsBestWinPodPoleRace ptsChampChamp pts
1976 · rounds 2-10Ensign85th0002182
1976 · rounds 14-14Wolf10000
1975Ensign212th00000
1974 · rounds 4-6Amon200000
1974 · rounds 14-15BRM29th0000
1973 · rounds 5-10Tecno46th0001211
1973 · rounds 14-15Tyrrell210th0000
1972Matra123rd011121012
1971Matra103rd0119119
1970March132nd03023823
1969Ferrari63rd0104124
1968Ferrari112nd013101010
1967Ferrari103rd04020520
1966Cooper-Maserati18th00000
1965Lotus-BRM200000
1964 · rounds 2-10Lotus-BRM75th0002162
1964 · rounds 7-7Lotus-Climax10000
1963 · rounds 1-7Lola77th00000
1963 · rounds 9-9Lotus-BRM10000
Career13 constructors1022nd0115830 titles

One line per season AND per constructor, which is why Amon has 19 lines over 14 seasons: 5 seasons were split between constructors and the round range of each spell is printed beside the year. Across the archive that is 3,422 season-constructor lines against 3,129 driver-seasons, so folding on the season alone would silently merge 293 of them and credit a driver with a full year at a car driven for a fortnight. Champ and Champ pts belong to the SEASON, not to the spell, and are printed once on a season’s first line; a dash in those two columns on a continuation line means the figure is above it, not that it is missing. Race pts is the sum of Grand Prix points and does not have to equal Champ pts: 139 of 3,129 driver-seasons differ, 68 of them from 1950 to 1990, when only a driver’s best results counted toward the title, and 71 from 2021 on, when sprint points began landing in the standings while this archive holds the Grand Prix result alone. Best is the best CLASSIFIED finish, read from position_text.


02/Race log, 1972

12 races
3 not classified
RdDateGrand PrixConstructorGridPosLapsStatusPts
1JAN 23Argentine Grand PrixMatra12W0Withdrew0
2MAR 4South African Grand PrixMatra131576+3 Laps0
3MAY 1Spanish Grand PrixMatra6R66Gearbox0
4MAY 14Monaco Grand PrixMatra6677+3 Laps1
5JUN 4Belgian Grand PrixMatra13684+1 Lap1
6JUL 2French Grand PrixMatra1338Finished4
7JUL 15British Grand PrixMatra17475+1 Lap3
8JUL 30German Grand PrixMatra81513+1 Lap0
9AUG 13Austrian Grand PrixMatra6554Finished2
10SEP 10Italian Grand PrixMatra2R38Brakes0
11SEP 24Canadian Grand PrixMatra10679+1 Lap1
12OCT 8United States Grand PrixMatra71557+2 Laps0

The log is ordered by round, which is the calendar. Pos prints position_text, the source’s own classification, so R is retired, W is withdrew and D is disqualified rather than a finishing place: 3 of 12 rows in 1972 are one of those. Grid 0 means the car started from the pit lane or took no recorded grid slot and prints as PIT. No fastest-lap column is drawn: the source has no lap timing before 2004, so 1972 has none to show and an empty column would read as missing data. A Grand Prix name links to that race’s full classification. Sprints are not in this archive at all, so no sprint appears in the log and no sprint point is in Pts.

The portrait is the lead image of this driver’s Wikipedia article, shown only where that image was measured to hold a face at portrait scale: 374 of 881 drivers have one, 78 lead with a photograph of a car and 385 have no free image at all. Picture from Wikipedia by Lothar Spurzem, CC BY-SA 2.0 de. File description