F1/Drivers/James Hunt
James Hunt, portrait

JAMES HUNT

British·Born August 29, 1947·1973-1979 · 7 seasons · 4 constructors
93
RACE STARTS
1973-1979 · 7 seasons
10
WINS
23 podiums · 14 poles
179
POINTS IN GRANDS PRIX
Race results only, not the championship total
1
WORLD CHAMPIONSHIPS
Completed seasons only, 1950 to 2025
1st
BEST FINISH
47
DID NOT FINISH
Retired, withdrew or disqualified
4
CONSTRUCTORS DRIVEN FOR
10.8%
STARTS WON
10 of 93

01/Season by season

8 lines over 7 seasons
One line per constructor
SeasonConstructorStartsBestWinPodPoleRace ptsChampChamp pts
1979Wolf78th00000
1978McLaren163rd0108138
1977McLaren171st35640540
1976McLaren161st68869169
1975Hesketh141st14033433
1974 · rounds 1-2March29th0000815
1974 · rounds 3-15Hesketh133rd03015
1973March82nd02014814
Career4 constructors931st1023141791 titles

One line per season AND per constructor, which is why Hunt has 8 lines over 7 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, 1977

17 races
8 not classified
RdDateGrand PrixConstructorGridPosLapsStatusPts
1JAN 9Argentine Grand PrixMcLaren1R31Suspension0
2JAN 23Brazilian Grand PrixMcLaren1240Finished6
3MAR 5South African Grand PrixMcLaren1478Finished3
4APR 3United States Grand Prix WestMcLaren8779+1 Lap0
5MAY 8Spanish Grand PrixMcLaren7R10Engine0
6MAY 22Monaco Grand PrixMcLaren7R25Engine0
7JUN 5Belgian Grand PrixMcLaren9769+1 Lap0
8JUN 19Swedish Grand PrixMcLaren31271+1 Lap0
9JUL 3French Grand PrixMcLaren2380Finished4
10JUL 16British Grand PrixMcLaren1168Finished9
11JUL 31German Grand PrixMcLaren4R32Fuel pump0
12AUG 14Austrian Grand PrixMcLaren2R43Engine0
13AUG 28Dutch Grand PrixMcLaren3R5Accident0
14SEP 11Italian Grand PrixMcLaren1R26Spun off0
15OCT 2United States Grand PrixMcLaren1159Finished9
16OCT 9Canadian Grand PrixMcLaren2R61Accident0
17OCT 23Japanese Grand PrixMcLaren2173Finished9

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: 8 of 17 rows in 1977 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 1977 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 Uploader's father, digitized and altered by Mr.choppers, CC BY-SA 3.0. File description