F1/Drivers/Mika Salo

MIKA SALO

Finnish·Born November 30, 1966·1994-2002 · 8 seasons · 7 constructors

111

RACE STARTS

1994-2002 · 8 seasons

WINS

2 podiums · 0 poles

POINTS IN GRANDS PRIX

Race results only, not the championship total

WORLD CHAMPIONSHIPS

Completed seasons only, 1950 to 2025

2nd

BEST FINISH

DID NOT FINISH

Retired, withdrew or disqualified

CONSTRUCTORS DRIVEN FOR

STARTS WON

0 of 111

01/Season by season

9 lines over 8 seasons
One line per constructor

Season	Constructor	Starts	Best	Pod	Race pts	Champ	Champ pts
2002	Toyota	17	6th	0	2	17	2
2000	Sauber	17	5th	0	6	11	6
1999 · rounds 3-5	BAR	3	7th	0	0	10	10
1999 · rounds 9-14	Ferrari	6	2nd	2	10	—	—
1998	Arrows	16	4th	0	3	13	3
1997	Tyrrell	17	5th	0	2	17	2
1996	Tyrrell	16	5th	0	5	13	5
1995	Tyrrell	17	5th	0	5	15	5
1994	Team Lotus	2	10th	0	0	—	0
Career	7 constructors	111	2nd	2	33	0 titles	—

One line per season AND per constructor, which is why Salo has 9 lines over 8 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, 1995

17 races
5 not classified

Season

2002 2000 1999 1998 1997 1996 1995 1994

Rd	Date	Grand Prix	Constructor	Grid	Pos	Laps	Status	Pts
1	MAR 26	Brazilian Grand Prix	Tyrrell	12	7	69	+2 Laps	0
2	APR 9	Argentine Grand Prix	Tyrrell	7	R	48	Collision	0
3	APR 30	San Marino Grand Prix	Tyrrell	13	R	19	Engine	0
4	MAY 14	Spanish Grand Prix	Tyrrell	13	10	64	+1 Lap	0
5	MAY 28	Monaco Grand Prix	Tyrrell	17	R	63	Gearbox	0
6	JUN 11	Canadian Grand Prix	Tyrrell	15	7	67	+1 Lap	0
7	JUL 2	French Grand Prix	Tyrrell	14	15	69	+3 Laps	0
8	JUL 16	British Grand Prix	Tyrrell	23	8	60	+1 Lap	0
9	JUL 30	German Grand Prix	Tyrrell	13	R	0	Clutch	0
10	AUG 13	Hungarian Grand Prix	Tyrrell	16	R	58	Throttle	0
11	AUG 27	Belgian Grand Prix	Tyrrell	11	8	44	Finished	0
12	SEP 10	Italian Grand Prix	Tyrrell	16	5	52	+1 Lap	2
13	SEP 24	Portuguese Grand Prix	Tyrrell	15	13	69	+2 Laps	0
14	OCT 1	European Grand Prix	Tyrrell	15	10	64	+3 Laps	0
15	OCT 22	Pacific Grand Prix	Tyrrell	18	12	80	+3 Laps	0
16	OCT 29	Japanese Grand Prix	Tyrrell	12	6	52	+1 Lap	1
17	NOV 12	Australian Grand Prix	Tyrrell	14	5	78	+3 Laps	2

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 17 rows in 1995 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 1995 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 Emil Kirschner from Le Mans, CC BY 2.0. File description