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, 1976

12 races
10 not classified
RdDateGrand PrixConstructorGridPosLapsStatusPts
4MAY 2Spanish Grand PrixMarch18R36Gearbox0
5MAY 16Belgian Grand PrixMarch21R21Engine0
7JUN 13Swedish Grand PrixMarch191470Engine0
8JUL 4French Grand PrixMarch20954Finished0
9JUL 18British Grand PrixMarch9R39Engine0
10AUG 1German Grand PrixWolf21R3Brakes0
11AUG 15Austrian Grand PrixWolf21R17Accident0
12AUG 29Dutch Grand PrixWolf23R5Accident0
13SEP 12Italian Grand PrixWolfPITW0Withdrew0
14OCT 3Canadian Grand PrixWolf24R11Accident0
15OCT 10United States Grand PrixWolf25R9Accident0
16OCT 24Japanese Grand PrixWolf19R23Gearbox0

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: 10 of 12 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 Panini, Public domain. File description