F1/Drivers/Emerson Fittipaldi
Emerson Fittipaldi, portrait

EMERSON FITTIPALDI

Brazilian·Born December 12, 1946·1970-1980 · 11 seasons · 5 constructors
146
RACE STARTS
1970-1980 · 11 seasons
14
WINS
35 podiums · 6 poles
281
POINTS IN GRANDS PRIX
Race results only, not the championship total
2
WORLD CHAMPIONSHIPS
Completed seasons only, 1950 to 2025
1st
BEST FINISH
52
DID NOT FINISH
Retired, withdrew or disqualified
5
CONSTRUCTORS DRIVEN FOR
9.6%
STARTS WON
14 of 146

01/Season by season

12 lines over 11 seasons
One line per constructor
SeasonConstructorStartsBestWinPodPoleRace ptsChampChamp pts
1980Fittipaldi143rd0105155
1979Fittipaldi156th0001211
1978Fittipaldi162nd010171017
1977Fittipaldi144th000111211
1976Fittipaldi156th0003173
1975McLaren141st26045245
1974McLaren151st37255155
1973Team Lotus151st38155255
1972Team Lotus121st58361161
1971 · rounds 1-11Lotus-Ford92nd03016616
1971 · rounds 9-9Lotus-Pratt & Whitney18th0000
1970Team Lotus61st110121012
Career5 constructors1461st143562812 titles

One line per season AND per constructor, which is why Fittipaldi has 12 lines over 11 seasons: 1 season was 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, 1979

15 races
7 not classified
RdDateGrand PrixConstructorGridPosLapsStatusPts
1JAN 21Argentine Grand PrixFittipaldi11652+1 Lap1
2FEB 4Brazilian Grand PrixFittipaldi91139+1 Lap0
3MAR 3South African Grand PrixFittipaldi181374+4 Laps0
4APR 8United States Grand Prix WestFittipaldi16R19Transmission0
5APR 29Spanish Grand PrixFittipaldi191174+1 Lap0
6MAY 13Belgian Grand PrixFittipaldi23968+2 Laps0
7MAY 27Monaco Grand PrixFittipaldi17R17Engine0
8JUL 1French Grand PrixFittipaldi18R53Engine0
9JUL 14British Grand PrixFittipaldi22R25Engine0
10JUL 29German Grand PrixFittipaldi22R4Electrical0
11AUG 12Austrian Grand PrixFittipaldi12R15Brakes0
12AUG 26Dutch Grand PrixFittipaldi21R2Electrical0
13SEP 9Italian Grand PrixFittipaldi20849+1 Lap0
14SEP 30Canadian Grand PrixFittipaldi15867+5 Laps0
15OCT 7United States Grand PrixFittipaldi23754+5 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: 7 of 15 rows in 1979 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 1979 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 Palácio do Planalto, CC BY 2.0. File description