F1/Drivers/Eddie Cheever
Eddie Cheever, portrait

EDDIE CHEEVER

American·Born January 10, 1958·1978-1989 · 11 seasons · 8 constructors
132
RACE STARTS
1978-1989 · 11 seasons
0
WINS
9 podiums · 0 poles
70
POINTS IN GRANDS PRIX
Race results only, not the championship total
0
WORLD CHAMPIONSHIPS
Completed seasons only, 1950 to 2025
2nd
BEST FINISH
77
DID NOT FINISH
Retired, withdrew or disqualified
8
CONSTRUCTORS DRIVEN FOR
0%
STARTS WON
0 of 132

01/Season by season

11 lines over 11 seasons
One line per constructor
SeasonConstructorStartsBestWinPodPoleRace ptsChampChamp pts
1989Arrows143rd0106116
1988Arrows163rd0106126
1987Arrows164th0008108
1986Lola100000
1985Alfa Romeo169th00000
1984Alfa Romeo154th0003163
1983Renault152nd04022722
1982Ligier142nd030151215
1981Tyrrell144th000101210
1980Osella1012th00000
1978Hesketh100000
Career8 constructors1322nd090700 titles

One line per season AND per constructor, which is why Cheever 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

15 races
7 not classified
RdDateGrand PrixConstructorGridPosLapsStatusPts
1MAR 13Brazilian Grand PrixRenault8R41Brakes0
2MAR 27United States Grand Prix WestRenault151367Gearbox0
3APR 17French Grand PrixRenault2354Finished4
4MAY 1San Marino Grand PrixRenault6R1Turbo0
5MAY 15Monaco Grand PrixRenault3R30Engine0
6MAY 22Belgian Grand PrixRenault8340Finished4
7JUN 5Detroit Grand PrixRenault7R4Distributor0
8JUN 12Canadian Grand PrixRenault6270Finished6
9JUL 16British Grand PrixRenault7R3Engine0
10AUG 7German Grand PrixRenault6R38Fuel system0
11AUG 14Austrian Grand PrixRenault8453Finished3
12AUG 28Dutch Grand PrixRenault11R39Electrical0
13SEP 11Italian Grand PrixRenault7352Finished4
14SEP 25European Grand PrixRenault71075+1 Lap0
15OCT 15South African Grand PrixRenault14676+1 Lap1

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: 7 of 15 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 Manningmbd, CC BY-SA 3.0. File description