F1/Drivers/Arturo Merzario
Arturo Merzario, portrait

ARTURO MERZARIO

Italian·Born March 11, 1943·1972-1979 · 8 seasons · 8 constructors
58
RACE STARTS
1972-1979 · 8 seasons
0
WINS
0 podiums · 0 poles
11
POINTS IN GRANDS PRIX
Race results only, not the championship total
0
WORLD CHAMPIONSHIPS
Completed seasons only, 1950 to 2025
4th
BEST FINISH
42
DID NOT FINISH
Retired, withdrew or disqualified
8
CONSTRUCTORS DRIVEN FOR
0%
STARTS WON
0 of 58

01/Season by season

11 lines over 8 seasons
One line per constructor
SeasonConstructorStartsBestWinPodPoleRace ptsChampChamp pts
1979Merzario200000
1978Merzario800000
1977 · rounds 5-10March414th00000
1977 · rounds 12-12Shadow10000
1976 · rounds 4-9March59th00000
1976 · rounds 10-16Wolf70000
1975 · rounds 1-6Williams500000
1975 · rounds 13-13Fittipaldi111th0000
1974Iso Marlboro144th0004174
1973Ferrari94th0006126
1972Ferrari26th0001201
Career8 constructors584th000110 titles

One line per season AND per constructor, which is why Merzario has 11 lines over 8 seasons: 3 seasons were 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, 1973

9 races
2 not classified
RdDateGrand PrixConstructorGridPosLapsStatusPts
1JAN 28Argentine Grand PrixFerrari14992+4 Laps0
2FEB 11Brazilian Grand PrixFerrari17439+1 Lap3
3MAR 3South African Grand PrixFerrari15478+1 Lap3
6JUN 3Monaco Grand PrixFerrari16R58Oil pressure0
8JUL 1French Grand PrixFerrari10754Finished0
12AUG 19Austrian Grand PrixFerrari6753+1 Lap0
13SEP 9Italian Grand PrixFerrari7R2Suspension0
14SEP 23Canadian Grand PrixFerrari201575+5 Laps0
15OCT 7United States Grand PrixFerrari111655+4 Laps0

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: 2 of 9 rows in 1973 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 1973 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 Panini, Public domain. File description