F1/Drivers/Jacques Laffite
Jacques Laffite, portrait

JACQUES LAFFITE

French·Born November 21, 1943·1974-1986 · 13 seasons · 3 constructors
177
RACE STARTS
1974-1986 · 13 seasons
6
WINS
33 podiums · 7 poles
228
POINTS IN GRANDS PRIX
Race results only, not the championship total
0
WORLD CHAMPIONSHIPS
Completed seasons only, 1950 to 2025
1st
BEST FINISH
83
DID NOT FINISH
Retired, withdrew or disqualified
3
CONSTRUCTORS DRIVEN FOR
3.4%
STARTS WON
6 of 177

01/Season by season

13 lines over 13 seasons
One line per constructor
SeasonConstructorStartsBestWinPodPoleRace ptsChampChamp pts
1986Ligier92nd02014814
1985Ligier152nd03016916
1984Williams164th0005145
1983Williams133rd010111111
1982Ligier153rd0105185
1981Ligier151st27144444
1980Ligier141st15134434
1979Ligier151st26436436
1978Ligier163rd02019819
1977Ligier171st120181018
1976Ligier162nd03120820
1975Williams112nd0106126
1974Iso Marlboro515th00000
Career3 constructors1771st63372280 titles

One line per season AND per constructor, which is why Laffite has 13 lines over 13 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, 1986

9 races
3 not classified
RdDateGrand PrixConstructorGridPosLapsStatusPts
1MAR 23Brazilian Grand PrixLigier5361Finished4
2APR 13Spanish Grand PrixLigier8R40Halfshaft0
3APR 27San Marino Grand PrixLigier14R14Transmission0
4MAY 11Monaco Grand PrixLigier7677+1 Lap1
5MAY 25Belgian Grand PrixLigier17543Finished2
6JUN 15Canadian Grand PrixLigier8768+1 Lap0
7JUN 22Detroit Grand PrixLigier6263Finished6
8JUL 6French Grand PrixLigier11679+1 Lap1
9JUL 13British Grand PrixLigier19R0Collision0

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: 3 of 9 rows in 1986 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 1986 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 Thesupermat, CC BY-SA 4.0. File description