F1/Drivers/Derek Daly
Derek Daly, portrait

DEREK DALY

Irish·Born March 11, 1953·1978-1982 · 5 seasons · 5 constructors
49
RACE STARTS
1978-1982 · 5 seasons
0
WINS
0 podiums · 0 poles
15
POINTS IN GRANDS PRIX
Race results only, not the championship total
0
WORLD CHAMPIONSHIPS
Completed seasons only, 1950 to 2025
4th
BEST FINISH
23
DID NOT FINISH
Retired, withdrew or disqualified
5
CONSTRUCTORS DRIVEN FOR
0%
STARTS WON
0 of 49

01/Season by season

7 lines over 5 seasons
One line per constructor
SeasonConstructorStartsBestWinPodPoleRace ptsChampChamp pts
1982 · rounds 1-3Theodore314th0000138
1982 · rounds 5-16Williams125th0008
1981March87th00000
1980Tyrrell144th0006126
1979 · rounds 1-4Ensign311th00000
1979 · rounds 11-15Tyrrell38th0000
1978Ensign66th0001201
Career5 constructors494th000150 titles

One line per season AND per constructor, which is why Daly has 7 lines over 5 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, 1978

6 races
3 not classified
RdDateGrand PrixConstructorGridPosLapsStatusPts
10JUL 16British Grand PrixEnsign15R30Wheel0
12AUG 13Austrian Grand PrixEnsign19D41Disqualified0
13AUG 27Dutch Grand PrixEnsign16R10Transmission0
14SEP 10Italian Grand PrixEnsign181040Finished0
15OCT 1United States Grand PrixEnsign19858+1 Lap0
16OCT 8Canadian Grand PrixEnsign15670Finished1

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: 3 of 6 rows in 1978 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 1978 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 Hans van Dijk for Anefo NL-HaNA, ANEFO / neg. stroken, 1945-1989, 2.24.01.05, item number 932-2374, CC0. File description