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F1/Drivers/Clay Regazzoni
Clay Regazzoni, portrait

CLAY REGAZZONI

Swiss·Born September 5, 1939·1970-1980 · 11 seasons · 5 constructors
131
RACE STARTS
1970-1980 · 11 seasons
5
WINS
28 podiums · 5 poles
212
POINTS IN GRANDS PRIX
Race results only, not the championship total
0
WORLD CHAMPIONSHIPS
Completed seasons only, 1950 to 2025
1st
BEST FINISH
48
DID NOT FINISH
Retired, withdrew or disqualified
5
CONSTRUCTORS DRIVEN FOR
3.8%
STARTS WON
5 of 131

01/Season by season

11 lines over 11 seasons
One line per constructor
SeasonConstructorStartsBestWinPodPoleRace ptsChampChamp pts
1980Ensign49th00000
1979Williams151st15032529
1978Shadow115th0004164
1977Ensign145th0005175
1976Ferrari151st14131531
1975Ferrari141st13025525
1974Ferrari151st17152252
1973BRM146th0012182
1972Ferrari102nd02015715
1971Ferrari113rd03113713
1970Ferrari81st14133333
Career5 constructors1311st52852120 titles

One line per season AND per constructor, which is why Regazzoni has 11 lines over 11 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, 1979

15 races
5 not classified
RdDateGrand PrixConstructorGridPosLapsStatusPts
1JAN 21Argentine Grand PrixWilliams171051+2 Laps0
2FEB 4Brazilian Grand PrixWilliams171538+2 Laps0
3MAR 3South African Grand PrixWilliams22976+2 Laps0
4APR 8United States Grand Prix WestWilliams15R48Engine0
5APR 29Spanish Grand PrixWilliams14R32Engine0
6MAY 13Belgian Grand PrixWilliams8R1Accident0
7MAY 27Monaco Grand PrixWilliams16276Finished6
8JUL 1French Grand PrixWilliams9680Finished1
9JUL 14British Grand PrixWilliams4168Finished9
10JUL 29German Grand PrixWilliams6245Finished6
11AUG 12Austrian Grand PrixWilliams6554Finished2
12AUG 26Dutch Grand PrixWilliams3R0Accident0
13SEP 9Italian Grand PrixWilliams6350Finished4
14SEP 30Canadian Grand PrixWilliams3372Finished4
15OCT 7United States Grand PrixWilliams5R29Accident0

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 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 Nationaal Archief, Den Haag, Rijksfotoarchief: Fotocollectie Algemeen Nederlands Fotopersbureau (ANEFO), 1945-1989 - negatiefstroken zwart/wit, nummer toegang 2.24.01.05, bestanddeelnummer 924-6609, CC BY-SA 3.0. File description