F1/Drivers/George Follmer
George Follmer, portrait

GEORGE FOLLMER

American·Born January 27, 1934·1973 · 1 season · 1 constructor
12
RACE STARTS
1973 · 1 season
0
WINS
1 podiums · 0 poles
5
POINTS IN GRANDS PRIX
Race results only, not the championship total
0
WORLD CHAMPIONSHIPS
Completed seasons only, 1950 to 2025
3rd
BEST FINISH
5
DID NOT FINISH
Retired, withdrew or disqualified
1
CONSTRUCTORS DRIVEN FOR
0%
STARTS WON
0 of 12

01/Season by season

1 lines over 1 season
One line per constructor
SeasonConstructorStartsBestWinPodPoleRace ptsChampChamp pts
1973Shadow123rd0105135
Career1 constructors123rd01050 titles

One line per season AND per constructor, which is why Follmer has 1 line over 1 season. 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, 1973

12 races
5 not classified
RdDateGrand PrixConstructorGridPosLapsStatusPts
3MAR 3South African Grand PrixShadow21677+2 Laps1
4APR 29Spanish Grand PrixShadow14375Finished4
5MAY 20Belgian Grand PrixShadow11R13Throttle0
7JUN 17Swedish Grand PrixShadow191474+6 Laps0
8JUL 1French Grand PrixShadow20R16Fuel system0
9JUL 14British Grand PrixShadow25R0Collision0
10JUL 29Dutch Grand PrixShadow221067+5 Laps0
11AUG 5German Grand PrixShadow21R5Accident0
12AUG 19Austrian Grand PrixShadow20R23Differential0
13SEP 9Italian Grand PrixShadow211054+1 Lap0
14SEP 23Canadian Grand PrixShadow131773+7 Laps0
15OCT 7United States Grand PrixShadow201457+2 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: 5 of 12 rows in 1973 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 1973 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 Raimund Kommer, CC BY-SA 3.0. File description