F1/Drivers/Niki Lauda
Niki Lauda, portrait

NIKI LAUDA

Austrian·Born February 22, 1949·1971-1985 · 13 seasons · 8 constructors
173
RACE STARTS
1971-1985 · 13 seasons
25
WINS
54 podiums · 24 poles
420.5
POINTS IN GRANDS PRIX
Race results only, not the championship total
3
WORLD CHAMPIONSHIPS
Completed seasons only, 1950 to 2025
1st
BEST FINISH
82
DID NOT FINISH
Retired, withdrew or disqualified
8
CONSTRUCTORS DRIVEN FOR
14.5%
STARTS WON
25 of 173

01/Season by season

14 lines over 13 seasons
One line per constructor
SeasonConstructorStartsBestWinPodPoleRace ptsChampChamp pts
1985McLaren141st110141014
1984McLaren161st59072172
1983McLaren142nd020121012
1982McLaren141st23030530
1979 · rounds 1-13Brabham-Alfa Romeo134th0004144
1979 · rounds 14-14Brabham-Ford10000
1978Brabham161st27144444
1977Ferrari151st310272170
1976Ferrari141st59368268
1975Ferrari141st58964.5164.5
1974Ferrari151st25938438
1973BRM145th0002172
1972March127th00000
1971March-Ford100000
Career8 constructors1731st255424420.53 titles

One line per season AND per constructor, which is why Lauda has 14 lines over 13 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, 1976

14 races
3 not classified
RdDateGrand PrixConstructorGridPosLapsStatusPts
1JAN 25Brazilian Grand PrixFerrari2140Finished9
2MAR 6South African Grand PrixFerrari2178Finished9
3MAR 28United States Grand Prix WestFerrari4280Finished6
4MAY 2Spanish Grand PrixFerrari2275Finished6
5MAY 16Belgian Grand PrixFerrari1170Finished9
6MAY 30Monaco Grand PrixFerrari1178Finished9
7JUN 13Swedish Grand PrixFerrari5372Finished4
8JUL 4French Grand PrixFerrari2R8Engine0
9JUL 18British Grand PrixFerrari1176Finished9
10AUG 1German Grand PrixFerrari2R0Accident0
13SEP 12Italian Grand PrixFerrari5452Finished3
14OCT 3Canadian Grand PrixFerrari6880Finished0
15OCT 10United States Grand PrixFerrari5359Finished4
16OCT 24Japanese Grand PrixFerrari3W2Withdrew0

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 14 rows in 1976 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 1976 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 / neg. stroken, 1945-1989, 2.24.01.05, item number 932-2315, CC0. File description