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, 1979

15 races
12 not classified
RdDateGrand PrixConstructorGridPosLapsStatusPts
1JAN 21Argentine Grand PrixRenault12R15Engine0
2FEB 4Brazilian Grand PrixRenault71039+1 Lap0
3MAR 3South African Grand PrixRenault1R47Engine0
4APR 8United States Grand Prix WestRenaultPITW0Withdrew0
5APR 29Spanish Grand PrixRenault9R21Turbo0
6MAY 13Belgian Grand PrixRenault17R13Turbo0
7MAY 27Monaco Grand PrixRenault20R68+8 Laps0
8JUL 1French Grand PrixRenault1180Finished9
9JUL 14British Grand PrixRenault2R21Turbo0
10JUL 29German Grand PrixRenault1R7Spun off0
11AUG 12Austrian Grand PrixRenault3R16Gearbox0
12AUG 26Dutch Grand PrixRenault4R26Clutch0
13SEP 9Italian Grand PrixRenault11445Engine0
14SEP 30Canadian Grand PrixRenault7R24Brakes0
15OCT 7United States Grand PrixRenault8R24Engine0

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: 12 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 Eddi Laumanns aka RX-Guru, CC BY-SA 3.0. File description