F1/Drivers/Jean Behra
Jean Behra, portrait

JEAN BEHRA

French·Born February 16, 1921·1952-1959 · 8 seasons · 4 constructors
52
RACE STARTS
1952-1959 · 8 seasons
0
WINS
9 podiums · 0 poles
48.14
POINTS IN GRANDS PRIX
Race results only, not the championship total
0
WORLD CHAMPIONSHIPS
Completed seasons only, 1950 to 2025
2nd
BEST FINISH
27
DID NOT FINISH
Retired, withdrew or disqualified
4
CONSTRUCTORS DRIVEN FOR
0%
STARTS WON
0 of 52

01/Season by season

9 lines over 8 seasons
One line per constructor
SeasonConstructorStartsBestWinPodPoleRace ptsChampChamp pts
1959Ferrari35th0002182
1958 · rounds 1-1Maserati15th0002129
1958 · rounds 2-11BRM93rd0107
1957Maserati62nd0106116
1956Maserati72nd05022422
1955Maserati63rd010396
1954Gordini86th0000.14260.14
1953Gordini66th00000
1952Gordini63rd0106116
Career4 constructors522nd09048.140 titles

One line per season AND per constructor, which is why Behra has 9 lines over 8 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, 1952

6 races
3 not classified
RdDateGrand PrixConstructorGridPosLapsStatusPts
1MAY 18Swiss Grand PrixGordini7361+1 Lap4
3JUN 22Belgian Grand PrixGordini5R13Accident0
4JUL 6French Grand PrixGordini4770+7 Laps0
6AUG 3German Grand PrixGordini11517+1 Lap2
7AUG 17Dutch Grand PrixGordini6R10Electrical0
8SEP 7Italian Grand PrixGordini11R42Engine0

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 6 rows in 1952 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 1952 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 El Gráfico, Public domain. File description