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, 1991

16 races
5 not classified
RdDateGrand PrixConstructorGridPosLapsStatusPts
1MAR 10United States Grand PrixWilliams3R49Gearbox0
2MAR 24Brazilian Grand PrixWilliams2271Finished6
3APR 28San Marino Grand PrixWilliams2R17Electrical0
4MAY 12Monaco Grand PrixWilliams3R42Spun off0
5JUN 2Canadian Grand PrixWilliams1369Finished4
6JUN 16Mexican Grand PrixWilliams1167Finished10
7JUL 7French Grand PrixWilliams1571+1 Lap2
8JUL 14British Grand PrixWilliams3R1Collision0
9JUL 28German Grand PrixWilliams4245Finished6
10AUG 11Hungarian Grand PrixWilliams2377Finished4
11AUG 25Belgian Grand PrixWilliams17544Finished2
12SEP 8Italian Grand PrixWilliams4R27Gearbox0
13SEP 22Portuguese Grand PrixWilliams1171Finished10
14SEP 29Spanish Grand PrixWilliams4365Finished4
15OCT 20Japanese Grand PrixWilliams5353Finished4
16NOV 3Australian Grand PrixWilliams4514Finished1

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: 5 of 16 rows in 1991 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 1991 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