F1/Drivers/Jean-Pierre Jabouille
Jean-Pierre Jabouille, portrait

JEAN-PIERRE JABOUILLE

French·Born October 1, 1942·1975-1981 · 6 seasons · 3 constructors
50
RACE STARTS
1975-1981 · 6 seasons
2
WINS
2 podiums · 6 poles
21
POINTS IN GRANDS PRIX
Race results only, not the championship total
0
WORLD CHAMPIONSHIPS
Completed seasons only, 1950 to 2025
1st
BEST FINISH
40
DID NOT FINISH
Retired, withdrew or disqualified
3
CONSTRUCTORS DRIVEN FOR
4%
STARTS WON
2 of 50

01/Season by season

6 lines over 6 seasons
One line per constructor
SeasonConstructorStartsBestWinPodPoleRace ptsChampChamp pts
1981Ligier300000
1980Renault131st112989
1979Renault151st1149139
1978Renault144th0003173
1977Renault400000
1975Tyrrell112th00000
Career3 constructors501st226210 titles

One line per season AND per constructor, which is why Jabouille has 6 lines over 6 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, 1978

14 races
10 not classified
RdDateGrand PrixConstructorGridPosLapsStatusPts
3MAR 4South African Grand PrixRenault6R38Engine0
4APR 2United States Grand Prix WestRenault13R43Turbo0
5MAY 7Monaco Grand PrixRenault121071+4 Laps0
6MAY 21Belgian Grand PrixRenault20R56Not classified0
7JUN 4Spanish Grand PrixRenault111371+4 Laps0
8JUN 17Swedish Grand PrixRenault10R28Engine0
9JUL 2French Grand PrixRenault11R1Engine0
10JUL 16British Grand PrixRenault12R46Turbo0
11JUL 30German Grand PrixRenault9R5Engine0
12AUG 13Austrian Grand PrixRenault3R31Gearbox0
13AUG 27Dutch Grand PrixRenault9R35Engine0
14SEP 10Italian Grand PrixRenault3R6Engine0
15OCT 1United States Grand PrixRenault9459Finished3
16OCT 8Canadian Grand PrixRenault221265+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: 10 of 14 rows in 1978 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 1978 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 Eddi Laumanns aka RX-Guru, CC BY-SA 3.0. File description