F1/Drivers/Riccardo Patrese
Riccardo Patrese, portrait

RICCARDO PATRESE

Italian·Born April 17, 1954·1977-1993 · 17 seasons · 6 constructors
257
RACE STARTS
1977-1993 · 17 seasons
6
WINS
37 podiums · 8 poles
281
POINTS IN GRANDS PRIX
Race results only, not the championship total
0
WORLD CHAMPIONSHIPS
Completed seasons only, 1950 to 2025
1st
BEST FINISH
131
DID NOT FINISH
Retired, withdrew or disqualified
6
CONSTRUCTORS DRIVEN FOR
2.3%
STARTS WON
6 of 257

01/Season by season

18 lines over 17 seasons
One line per constructor
SeasonConstructorStartsBestWinPodPoleRace ptsChampChamp pts
1993Benetton162nd02020520
1992Williams161st19156256
1991Williams161st28453353
1990Williams161st11023723
1989Williams162nd06140340
1988Williams164th0008118
1987 · rounds 1-15Brabham153rd0106136
1987 · rounds 16-16Williams19th0000
1986Brabham166th0002172
1985Alfa Romeo169th00000
1984Alfa Romeo163rd0108138
1983Brabham151st12113913
1982Brabham151st130211021
1981Arrows152nd021101110
1980Arrows142nd010797
1979Arrows155th0002202
1978Arrows142nd010111211
1977Shadow96th0001201
Career6 constructors2571st63782810 titles

One line per season AND per constructor, which is why Patrese has 18 lines over 17 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, 1979

15 races
9 not classified
RdDateGrand PrixConstructorGridPosLapsStatusPts
1JAN 21Argentine Grand PrixArrows13W0Accident0
2FEB 4Brazilian Grand PrixArrows16939+1 Lap0
3MAR 3South African Grand PrixArrows161175+3 Laps0
4APR 8United States Grand Prix WestArrows9R40Brakes0
5APR 29Spanish Grand PrixArrows161074+1 Lap0
6MAY 13Belgian Grand PrixArrows16570Finished2
7MAY 27Monaco Grand PrixArrows15R4Suspension0
8JUL 1French Grand PrixArrows191477+3 Laps0
9JUL 14British Grand PrixArrows19R45Gearbox0
10JUL 29German Grand PrixArrows19R34Tyre0
11AUG 12Austrian Grand PrixArrows13R34Suspension0
12AUG 26Dutch Grand PrixArrows19R7Brakes0
13SEP 9Italian Grand PrixArrows171347+3 Laps0
14SEP 30Canadian Grand PrixArrows14R20Spun off0
15OCT 7United States Grand PrixArrows19R44Suspension0

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 1979 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 1979 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 Martin Lee from London, UK, CC BY-SA 2.0. File description