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, 1974

14 races
11 not classified
RdDateGrand PrixConstructorGridPosLapsStatusPts
1JAN 13Argentine Grand PrixIso Marlboro13R19Overheating0
2JAN 27Brazilian Grand PrixIso Marlboro9R20Throttle0
3MAR 30South African Grand PrixIso Marlboro3678Finished1
4APR 28Spanish Grand PrixIso Marlboro7R37Accident0
5MAY 12Belgian Grand PrixIso Marlboro6R29Transmission0
6MAY 26Monaco Grand PrixIso Marlboro14R0Collision0
8JUN 23Dutch Grand PrixIso Marlboro21R54Gearbox0
9JUL 7French Grand PrixIso Marlboro15979+1 Lap0
10JUL 20British Grand PrixIso Marlboro15R25Engine0
11AUG 4German Grand PrixIso Marlboro16R5Throttle0
12AUG 18Austrian Grand PrixIso Marlboro9R24Fuel system0
13SEP 8Italian Grand PrixIso Marlboro15452Finished3
14SEP 22Canadian Grand PrixIso Marlboro19R40Handling0
15OCT 6United States Grand PrixIso Marlboro15R43Electrical0

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: 11 of 14 rows in 1974 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 1974 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