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, 1988

16 races
8 not classified
RdDateGrand PrixConstructorGridPosLapsStatusPts
1APR 3Brazilian Grand PrixArrows15859+1 Lap0
2MAY 1San Marino Grand PrixArrows7759+1 Lap0
3MAY 15Monaco Grand PrixArrows9R8Engine0
4MAY 29Mexican Grand PrixArrows7666+1 Lap1
5JUN 12Canadian Grand PrixArrows8R31Throttle0
6JUN 19Detroit Grand PrixArrows15R14Electrical0
7JUL 3French Grand PrixArrows131178+2 Laps0
8JUL 10British Grand PrixArrows13764+1 Lap0
9JUL 24German Grand PrixArrows151043+1 Lap0
10AUG 7Hungarian Grand PrixArrows14R55Brakes0
11AUG 28Belgian Grand PrixArrows11642+1 Lap1
12SEP 11Italian Grand PrixArrows5351Finished4
13SEP 25Portuguese Grand PrixArrows18R10Turbo0
14OCT 2Spanish Grand PrixArrows25R60Chassis0
15OCT 30Japanese Grand PrixArrows15R35Ignition0
16NOV 13Australian Grand PrixArrows18R51Engine0

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 16 rows in 1988 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 1988 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