F1/Drivers/Didier Pironi
Didier Pironi, portrait

DIDIER PIRONI

French·Born March 26, 1952·1978-1982 · 5 seasons · 3 constructors
72
RACE STARTS
1978-1982 · 5 seasons
3
WINS
13 podiums · 4 poles
101
POINTS IN GRANDS PRIX
Race results only, not the championship total
0
WORLD CHAMPIONSHIPS
Completed seasons only, 1950 to 2025
1st
BEST FINISH
28
DID NOT FINISH
Retired, withdrew or disqualified
3
CONSTRUCTORS DRIVEN FOR
4.2%
STARTS WON
3 of 72

01/Season by season

5 lines over 5 seasons
One line per constructor
SeasonConstructorStartsBestWinPodPoleRace ptsChampChamp pts
1982Ferrari121st26239239
1981Ferrari154th0009139
1980Ligier141st15232532
1979Tyrrell153rd020141014
1978Tyrrell165th0007157
Career3 constructors721st31341010 titles

One line per season AND per constructor, which is why Pironi has 5 lines over 5 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, 1982

12 races
3 not classified
RdDateGrand PrixConstructorGridPosLapsStatusPts
1JAN 23South African Grand PrixFerrari61871+6 Laps0
2MAR 21Brazilian Grand PrixFerrari8662+1 Lap1
3APR 4United States Grand Prix WestFerrari9R6Spun off0
4APR 25San Marino Grand PrixFerrari4160Finished9
5MAY 9Belgian Grand PrixFerrariPITW0Withdrew0
6MAY 23Monaco Grand PrixFerrari5275Out of fuel6
7JUN 6Detroit Grand PrixFerrari4362Finished4
8JUN 13Canadian Grand PrixFerrari1967+3 Laps0
9JUL 3Dutch Grand PrixFerrari4172Finished9
10JUL 18British Grand PrixFerrari4276Finished6
11JUL 25French Grand PrixFerrari3354Finished4
12AUG 8German Grand PrixFerrari1W0Accident0

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: 3 of 12 rows in 1982 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 1982 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 Hans van Dijk for Anefo / neg. stroken, 1945-1989, 2.24.01.05, item number 932-2343, CC BY-SA 4.0. File description