F1/Drivers/Keke Rosberg
Keke Rosberg, portrait

KEKE ROSBERG

Finnish·Born December 6, 1948·1978-1986 · 9 seasons · 6 constructors
114
RACE STARTS
1978-1986 · 9 seasons
5
WINS
17 podiums · 5 poles
159.5
POINTS IN GRANDS PRIX
Race results only, not the championship total
1
WORLD CHAMPIONSHIPS
Completed seasons only, 1950 to 2025
1st
BEST FINISH
55
DID NOT FINISH
Retired, withdrew or disqualified
6
CONSTRUCTORS DRIVEN FOR
4.4%
STARTS WON
5 of 114

01/Season by season

11 lines over 9 seasons
One line per constructor
SeasonConstructorStartsBestWinPodPoleRace ptsChampChamp pts
1986McLaren162nd01122622
1985Williams161st25240340
1984Williams161st12020.5820.5
1983Williams151st12127527
1982Williams151st16144144
1981Fittipaldi99th00000
1980Fittipaldi113rd0106106
1979Wolf79th00000
1978 · rounds 3-3Theodore100000
1978 · rounds 8-16ATS515th0000
1978 · rounds 11-13Wolf310th0000
Career6 constructors1141st5175159.51 titles

One line per season AND per constructor, which is why Rosberg has 11 lines over 9 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, 1979

7 races
6 not classified
RdDateGrand PrixConstructorGridPosLapsStatusPts
8JUL 1French Grand PrixWolf16979+1 Lap0
9JUL 14British Grand PrixWolf14R44Fuel system0
10JUL 29German Grand PrixWolf17R29Engine0
11AUG 12Austrian Grand PrixWolf19R15Electrical0
12AUG 26Dutch Grand PrixWolf8R33Engine0
13SEP 9Italian Grand PrixWolf23R41Engine0
15OCT 7United States Grand PrixWolf12R20Accident0

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: 6 of 7 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 Hans van Dijk for Anefo Minor restoration by Adam Cuerden: No need to credit me., CC0. File description