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F1/Drivers/Patrick Depailler
Patrick Depailler, portrait

PATRICK DEPAILLER

French·Born August 9, 1944·1972-1980 · 8 seasons · 3 constructors
95
RACE STARTS
1972-1980 · 8 seasons
2
WINS
19 podiums · 1 poles
141
POINTS IN GRANDS PRIX
Race results only, not the championship total
0
WORLD CHAMPIONSHIPS
Completed seasons only, 1950 to 2025
1st
BEST FINISH
41
DID NOT FINISH
Retired, withdrew or disqualified
3
CONSTRUCTORS DRIVEN FOR
2.1%
STARTS WON
2 of 95

01/Season by season

8 lines over 8 seasons
One line per constructor
SeasonConstructorStartsBestWinPodPoleRace ptsChampChamp pts
1980Alfa Romeo800000
1979Ligier71st12022620
1978Tyrrell161st15034534
1977Tyrrell172nd03020920
1976Tyrrell162nd07039439
1975Tyrrell143rd01012912
1974Tyrrell152nd01114914
1972Tyrrell27th00000
Career3 constructors951st21911410 titles

One line per season AND per constructor, which is why Depailler has 8 lines over 8 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, 1975

14 races
3 not classified
RdDateGrand PrixConstructorGridPosLapsStatusPts
1JAN 12Argentine Grand PrixTyrrell8553Finished2
2JAN 26Brazilian Grand PrixTyrrell9R31Suspension0
3MAR 1South African Grand PrixTyrrell5378Finished4
4APR 27Spanish Grand PrixTyrrell7R1Accident0
5MAY 11Monaco Grand PrixTyrrell12575Finished2
6MAY 25Belgian Grand PrixTyrrell12470Finished3
7JUN 8Swedish Grand PrixTyrrell21278+2 Laps0
8JUN 22Dutch Grand PrixTyrrell13973+2 Laps0
9JUL 6French Grand PrixTyrrell13654Finished1
10JUL 19British Grand PrixTyrrell17954Accident0
11AUG 3German Grand PrixTyrrell4913+1 Lap0
12AUG 17Austrian Grand PrixTyrrell71128+1 Lap0
13SEP 7Italian Grand PrixTyrrell12751+1 Lap0
14OCT 5United States Grand PrixTyrrell8R2Accident0

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 14 rows in 1975 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 1975 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 Harald Bischoff, CC BY-SA 3.0. File description