F1/Drivers/Richie Ginther
Richie Ginther, portrait

RICHIE GINTHER

American·Born August 5, 1930·1960-1966 · 7 seasons · 5 constructors
53
RACE STARTS
1960-1966 · 7 seasons
1
WINS
14 podiums · 0 poles
107
POINTS IN GRANDS PRIX
Race results only, not the championship total
0
WORLD CHAMPIONSHIPS
Completed seasons only, 1950 to 2025
1st
BEST FINISH
14
DID NOT FINISH
Retired, withdrew or disqualified
5
CONSTRUCTORS DRIVEN FOR
1.9%
STARTS WON
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01/Season by season

9 lines over 7 seasons
One line per constructor
SeasonConstructorStartsBestWinPodPoleRace ptsChampChamp pts
1966 · rounds 1-2Cooper-Maserati25th0002115
1966 · rounds 7-9Honda34th0003
1965Honda81st11011711
1964BRM102nd02023523
1963BRM102nd05034329
1962BRM92nd02010810
1961Ferrari72nd03016516
1960 · rounds 2-9Ferrari32nd010898
1960 · rounds 6-6Scarab10000
Career5 constructors531st11401070 titles

One line per season AND per constructor, which is why Ginther has 9 lines over 7 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, 1962

9 races
4 not classified
RdDateGrand PrixConstructorGridPosLapsStatusPts
1MAY 20Dutch Grand PrixBRM7R71Accident0
2JUN 3Monaco Grand PrixBRM14R0Accident0
3JUN 17Belgian Grand PrixBRM9R22Gearbox0
4JUL 8French Grand PrixBRM10352+2 Laps4
5JUL 21British Grand PrixBRM81370+5 Laps0
6AUG 5German Grand PrixBRM7815Finished0
7SEP 16Italian Grand PrixBRM3286Finished6
8OCT 7United States Grand PrixBRM2R35Engine0
9DEC 29South African Grand PrixBRM7778+4 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: 4 of 9 rows in 1962 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 1962 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 Los Angeles Times, CC BY 4.0. File description