F1/Drivers/Jim Clark
Jim Clark, portrait

JIM CLARK

British·Born March 4, 1936·1960-1968 · 9 seasons · 4 constructors
72
RACE STARTS
1960-1968 · 9 seasons
25
WINS
32 podiums · 33 poles
274
POINTS IN GRANDS PRIX
Race results only, not the championship total
2
WORLD CHAMPIONSHIPS
Completed seasons only, 1950 to 2025
1st
BEST FINISH
22
DID NOT FINISH
Retired, withdrew or disqualified
4
CONSTRUCTORS DRIVEN FOR
34.7%
STARTS WON
25 of 72

01/Season by season

12 lines over 9 seasons
One line per constructor
SeasonConstructorStartsBestWinPodPoleRace ptsChampChamp pts
1968Lotus-Ford11st1119119
1967 · rounds 1-1Lotus-BRM10000341
1967 · rounds 2-2Lotus-Climax10000
1967 · rounds 3-11Lotus-Ford91st45641
1966 · rounds 1-6Lotus-Climax53rd0127616
1966 · rounds 7-9Lotus-BRM31st1109
1965Lotus-Climax91st66654154
1964Lotus-Climax101st33532332
1963Lotus-Climax101st79773154
1962Lotus-Climax91st33630230
1961Lotus-Climax83rd02011711
1960Team Lotus63rd0108108
Career4 constructors721st2532332742 titles

One line per season AND per constructor, which is why Clark has 12 lines over 9 seasons: 2 seasons were split between constructors and the round range of each spell is printed beside the year. 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, 1965

9 races
2 not classified
RdDateGrand PrixConstructorGridPosLapsStatusPts
1JAN 1South African Grand PrixLotus-Climax1185Finished9
3JUN 13Belgian Grand PrixLotus-Climax2132Finished9
4JUN 27French Grand PrixLotus-Climax1140Finished9
5JUL 10British Grand PrixLotus-Climax1180Finished9
6JUL 18Dutch Grand PrixLotus-Climax2180Finished9
7AUG 1German Grand PrixLotus-Climax1115Finished9
8SEP 12Italian Grand PrixLotus-Climax11063Fuel pump0
9OCT 3United States Grand PrixLotus-Climax9R11Engine0
10OCT 24Mexican Grand PrixLotus-Climax1R8Engine0

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: 2 of 9 rows in 1965 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 1965 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 Joop van Bilsen / Anefo, CC0. File description