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, 1984

15 races
9 not classified
RdDateGrand PrixConstructorGridPosLapsStatusPts
1MAR 25Brazilian Grand PrixAlfa Romeo12460+1 Lap3
2APR 7South African Grand PrixAlfa Romeo16R4Radiator0
3APR 29Belgian Grand PrixAlfa Romeo11R28Engine0
4MAY 6San Marino Grand PrixAlfa Romeo8758Out of fuel0
5MAY 20French Grand PrixAlfa Romeo16R51Engine0
7JUN 17Canadian Grand PrixAlfa Romeo111163Out of fuel0
8JUN 24Detroit Grand PrixAlfa Romeo8R21Engine0
9JUL 8Dallas Grand PrixAlfa Romeo14R8Spun off0
10JUL 22British Grand PrixAlfa Romeo18R0Accident0
11AUG 5German Grand PrixAlfa Romeo18R29Engine0
12AUG 19Austrian Grand PrixAlfa Romeo16R18Engine0
13AUG 26Dutch Grand PrixAlfa Romeo171365Out of fuel0
14SEP 9Italian Grand PrixAlfa Romeo10945Out of fuel0
15OCT 7European Grand PrixAlfa Romeo13R37Fuel system0
16OCT 21Portuguese Grand PrixAlfa Romeo141764+6 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: 9 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 Manningmbd, CC BY-SA 3.0. File description