F1/Drivers/Ronnie Peterson
Ronnie Peterson, portrait

RONNIE PETERSON

Swedish·Born February 14, 1944·1970-1978 · 9 seasons · 5 constructors
123
RACE STARTS
1970-1978 · 9 seasons
10
WINS
26 podiums · 14 poles
206
POINTS IN GRANDS PRIX
Race results only, not the championship total
0
WORLD CHAMPIONSHIPS
Completed seasons only, 1950 to 2025
1st
BEST FINISH
52
DID NOT FINISH
Retired, withdrew or disqualified
5
CONSTRUCTORS DRIVEN FOR
8.1%
STARTS WON
10 of 123

01/Season by season

11 lines over 9 seasons
One line per constructor
SeasonConstructorStartsBestWinPodPoleRace ptsChampChamp pts
1978Team Lotus141st27351251
1977Tyrrell173rd0107147
1976 · rounds 1-1Team Lotus100001110
1976 · rounds 2-16March151st11110
1975Team Lotus144th0006136
1974Team Lotus151st34135535
1973Team Lotus151st47952352
1972March123rd01012912
1971 · rounds 1-11March-Ford102nd05033233
1971 · rounds 5-5March-Alfa Romeo10000
1970March97th00000
Career5 constructors1231st1026142060 titles

One line per season AND per constructor, which is why Peterson has 11 lines over 9 seasons: 2 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

16 races
10 not classified
RdDateGrand PrixConstructorGridPosLapsStatusPts
1JAN 25Brazilian Grand PrixTeam Lotus18R10Accident0
2MAR 6South African Grand PrixMarch13R15Accident0
3MAR 28United States Grand Prix WestMarch61077+3 Laps0
4MAY 2Spanish Grand PrixMarch16R11Transmission0
5MAY 16Belgian Grand PrixMarch10R16Accident0
6MAY 30Monaco Grand PrixMarch3R26Accident0
7JUN 13Swedish Grand PrixMarch9772Finished0
8JUL 4French Grand PrixMarch61951Fuel system0
9JUL 18British Grand PrixMarch7R60Fuel system0
10AUG 1German Grand PrixMarch11R0Accident0
11AUG 15Austrian Grand PrixMarch3654Finished1
12AUG 29Dutch Grand PrixMarch1R52Oil pressure0
13SEP 12Italian Grand PrixMarch8152Finished9
14OCT 3Canadian Grand PrixMarch2979+1 Lap0
15OCT 10United States Grand PrixMarch3R12Suspension0
16OCT 24Japanese Grand PrixMarch9R0Engine0

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 16 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 Suyk, Koen / Anefo / neg. stroken, 1945-1989, 2.24.01.05, item number 929-8748, CC0. File description