F1/Drivers/Thierry Boutsen
Thierry Boutsen, portrait

THIERRY BOUTSEN

Belgian·Born July 13, 1957·1983-1993 · 11 seasons · 5 constructors
163
RACE STARTS
1983-1993 · 11 seasons
3
WINS
15 podiums · 1 poles
132
POINTS IN GRANDS PRIX
Race results only, not the championship total
0
WORLD CHAMPIONSHIPS
Completed seasons only, 1950 to 2025
1st
BEST FINISH
66
DID NOT FINISH
Retired, withdrew or disqualified
5
CONSTRUCTORS DRIVEN FOR
1.8%
STARTS WON
3 of 163

01/Season by season

11 lines over 11 seasons
One line per constructor
SeasonConstructorStartsBestWinPodPoleRace ptsChampChamp pts
1993Jordan109th00000
1992Ligier165th0002142
1991Ligier167th00000
1990Williams161st13134634
1989Williams161st25037537
1988Benetton163rd05027427
1987Benetton163rd01016816
1986Arrows167th00000
1985Arrows162nd010111111
1984Arrows155th0005155
1983Arrows107th00000
Career5 constructors1631st31511320 titles

One line per season AND per constructor, which is why Boutsen has 11 lines over 11 seasons. 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, 1983

10 races
2 not classified
RdDateGrand PrixConstructorGridPosLapsStatusPts
6MAY 22Belgian Grand PrixArrows18R4Suspension0
7JUN 5Detroit Grand PrixArrows10759+1 Lap0
8JUN 12Canadian Grand PrixArrows15769+1 Lap0
9JUL 16British Grand PrixArrows171565+2 Laps0
10AUG 7German Grand PrixArrows14944+1 Lap0
11AUG 14Austrian Grand PrixArrows191348+5 Laps0
12AUG 28Dutch Grand PrixArrows211465Engine0
13SEP 11Italian Grand PrixArrows18R41Engine0
14SEP 25European Grand PrixArrows181175+1 Lap0
15OCT 15South African Grand PrixArrows20974+3 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: 2 of 10 rows in 1983 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 1983 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 Yu Chu Chin, CC BY-SA 4.0. File description