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F1/Drivers/Gunnar Nilsson
Gunnar Nilsson, portrait

GUNNAR NILSSON

Swedish·Born November 20, 1948·1976-1977 · 2 seasons · 1 constructor
32
RACE STARTS
1976-1977 · 2 seasons
1
WINS
4 podiums · 0 poles
31
POINTS IN GRANDS PRIX
Race results only, not the championship total
0
WORLD CHAMPIONSHIPS
Completed seasons only, 1950 to 2025
1st
BEST FINISH
18
DID NOT FINISH
Retired, withdrew or disqualified
1
CONSTRUCTORS DRIVEN FOR
3.1%
STARTS WON
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01/Season by season

2 lines over 2 seasons
One line per constructor
SeasonConstructorStartsBestWinPodPoleRace ptsChampChamp pts
1977Team Lotus171st12020820
1976Team Lotus153rd020111011
Career1 constructors321st140310 titles

One line per season AND per constructor, which is why Nilsson has 2 lines over 2 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, 1976

15 races
9 not classified
Season
RdDateGrand PrixConstructorGridPosLapsStatusPts
2MAR 6South African Grand PrixTeam Lotus25R18Clutch0
3MAR 28United States Grand Prix WestTeam Lotus8R0Suspension0
4MAY 2Spanish Grand PrixTeam Lotus7375Finished4
5MAY 16Belgian Grand PrixTeam Lotus22R7Accident0
6MAY 30Monaco Grand PrixTeam Lotus16R39Engine0
7JUN 13Swedish Grand PrixTeam Lotus6R2Accident0
8JUL 4French Grand PrixTeam Lotus12R8Gearbox0
9JUL 18British Grand PrixTeam Lotus14R67Engine0
10AUG 1German Grand PrixTeam Lotus16514Finished2
11AUG 15Austrian Grand PrixTeam Lotus4354Finished4
12AUG 29Dutch Grand PrixTeam Lotus13R10Accident0
13SEP 12Italian Grand PrixTeam Lotus121351+1 Lap0
14OCT 3Canadian Grand PrixTeam Lotus151279+1 Lap0
15OCT 10United States Grand PrixTeam Lotus20R13Engine0
16OCT 24Japanese Grand PrixTeam Lotus16672+1 Lap1

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: 9 of 15 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 Lothar Spurzem, CC BY-SA 2.0 de. File description