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, 1984

15 races
8 not classified
RdDateGrand PrixConstructorGridPosLapsStatusPts
1MAR 25Brazilian Grand PrixArrows20659+2 Laps1
2APR 7South African Grand PrixArrows261270+5 Laps0
3APR 29Belgian Grand PrixArrows17R15Engine0
4MAY 6San Marino Grand PrixArrows20559+1 Lap2
5MAY 20French Grand PrixArrows141177+2 Laps0
7JUN 17Canadian Grand PrixArrows18R38Engine0
8JUN 24Detroit Grand PrixArrows13R27Engine0
9JUL 8Dallas Grand PrixArrows20R55Spun off0
10JUL 22British Grand PrixArrows12R24Electrical0
11AUG 5German Grand PrixArrows15R8Engine0
12AUG 19Austrian Grand PrixArrows17550+1 Lap2
13AUG 26Dutch Grand PrixArrows11R59Accident0
14SEP 9Italian Grand PrixArrows191045+6 Laps0
15OCT 7European Grand PrixArrows11964Ignition0
16OCT 21Portuguese Grand PrixArrows18R24Transmission0

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: 8 of 15 rows in 1984 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 1984 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