F1/Drivers/René Arnoux
René Arnoux, portrait

RENÉ ARNOUX

French·Born July 4, 1948·1978-1989 · 12 seasons · 5 constructors
151
RACE STARTS
1978-1989 · 12 seasons
7
WINS
22 podiums · 18 poles
181
POINTS IN GRANDS PRIX
Race results only, not the championship total
0
WORLD CHAMPIONSHIPS
Completed seasons only, 1950 to 2025
1st
BEST FINISH
69
DID NOT FINISH
Retired, withdrew or disqualified
5
CONSTRUCTORS DRIVEN FOR
4.6%
STARTS WON
7 of 151

01/Season by season

13 lines over 12 seasons
One line per constructor
SeasonConstructorStartsBestWinPodPoleRace ptsChampChamp pts
1989Ligier95th0002242
1988Ligier1410th00000
1987Ligier156th0001201
1986Ligier164th000141014
1985Ferrari14th0003193
1984Ferrari162nd04027627
1983Ferrari151st37449349
1982Renault161st24528628
1981Renault142nd01411911
1980Renault141st23329629
1979Renault152nd03217817
1978 · rounds 6-15Martini59th00000
1978 · rounds 16-16Surtees10000
Career5 constructors1511st722181810 titles

One line per season AND per constructor, which is why Arnoux has 13 lines over 12 seasons: 1 season was 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, 1978

6 races
2 not classified
RdDateGrand PrixConstructorGridPosLapsStatusPts
6MAY 21Belgian Grand PrixMartini19968+2 Laps0
9JUL 2French Grand PrixMartini181453+1 Lap0
12AUG 13Austrian Grand PrixMartini26952+2 Laps0
13AUG 27Dutch Grand PrixMartini23R40Chassis0
15OCT 1United States Grand PrixMartini21958+1 Lap0
16OCT 8Canadian Grand PrixSurtees16R37Engine0

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: 2 of 6 rows in 1978 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 1978 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 Peter Moricz, CC BY-SA 3.0. File description