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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, 1975

11 races
8 not classified
RdDateGrand PrixConstructorGridPosLapsStatusPts
1JAN 12Argentine Grand PrixWilliams17R15Gearbox0
2JAN 26Brazilian Grand PrixWilliams111139+1 Lap0
3MAR 1South African Grand PrixWilliams23R69Not classified0
6MAY 25Belgian Grand PrixWilliams23R18Gearbox0
8JUN 22Dutch Grand PrixWilliams15R64Engine0
9JUL 6French Grand PrixWilliams161154Finished0
10JUL 19British Grand PrixWilliams19R5Gearbox0
11AUG 3German Grand PrixWilliams15214Finished6
12AUG 17Austrian Grand PrixWilliams12R21Handling0
13SEP 7Italian Grand PrixWilliams18R7Gearbox0
14OCT 5United States Grand PrixWilliams21W0Physical0

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 11 rows in 1975 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 1975 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