F1/Drivers/François Cevert
François Cevert, portrait

FRANÇOIS CEVERT

French·Born February 25, 1944·1970-1973 · 4 seasons · 2 constructors
47
RACE STARTS
1970-1973 · 4 seasons
1
WINS
13 podiums · 0 poles
89
POINTS IN GRANDS PRIX
Race results only, not the championship total
0
WORLD CHAMPIONSHIPS
Completed seasons only, 1950 to 2025
1st
BEST FINISH
18
DID NOT FINISH
Retired, withdrew or disqualified
2
CONSTRUCTORS DRIVEN FOR
2.1%
STARTS WON
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01/Season by season

4 lines over 4 seasons
One line per constructor
SeasonConstructorStartsBestWinPodPoleRace ptsChampChamp pts
1973Tyrrell152nd07047447
1972Tyrrell122nd02015615
1971Tyrrell111st14026326
1970March96th0001221
Career2 constructors471st1130890 titles

One line per season AND per constructor, which is why Cevert has 4 lines over 4 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, 1972

12 races
6 not classified
RdDateGrand PrixConstructorGridPosLapsStatusPts
1JAN 23Argentine Grand PrixTyrrell17R59Gearbox0
2MAR 4South African Grand PrixTyrrell8978+1 Lap0
3MAY 1Spanish Grand PrixTyrrell12R65Ignition0
4MAY 14Monaco Grand PrixTyrrell12R70Not classified0
5JUN 4Belgian Grand PrixTyrrell5285Finished6
6JUL 2French Grand PrixTyrrell7438Finished3
7JUL 15British Grand PrixTyrrell12R60Spun off0
8JUL 30German Grand PrixTyrrell51014Finished0
9AUG 13Austrian Grand PrixTyrrell20953+1 Lap0
10SEP 10Italian Grand PrixTyrrell14R14Engine0
11SEP 24Canadian Grand PrixTyrrell6R51Gearbox0
12OCT 8United States Grand PrixTyrrell4259Finished6

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: 6 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 Raimund Kommer, CC BY-SA 3.0. File description