F1/Drivers/Takuma Sato
Takuma Sato, portrait

TAKUMA SATO

SATJapanese·Born January 28, 1977·2002-2008 · 7 seasons · 3 constructors
91
RACE STARTS
2002-2008 · 7 seasons
0
WINS
1 podiums · 0 poles
44
POINTS IN GRANDS PRIX
Race results only, not the championship total
0
WORLD CHAMPIONSHIPS
Completed seasons only, 1950 to 2025
3rd
BEST FINISH
32
DID NOT FINISH
Retired, withdrew or disqualified
3
CONSTRUCTORS DRIVEN FOR
0%
STARTS WON
0 of 91

01/Season by season

7 lines over 7 seasons
One line per constructor
SeasonConstructorStartsBestWinPodPoleRace ptsChampChamp pts
2008Super Aguri413th0000210
2007Super Aguri176th0004174
2006Super Aguri1810th0000230
2005BAR168th0001231
2004BAR183rd01034834
2003BAR16th0003183
2002Jordan175th0002152
Career3 constructors913rd010440 titles

One line per season AND per constructor, which is why Sato has 7 lines over 7 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, 2002

17 races
7 not classified
RdDateGrand PrixConstructorGridPosLapsStatusPts
1MAR 3Australian Grand PrixJordan22R12Electrical0
2MAR 17Malaysian Grand PrixJordan15954+2 Laps0
3MAR 31Brazilian Grand PrixJordan19969+2 Laps0
4APR 14San Marino Grand PrixJordan14R5Gearbox0
5APR 28Spanish Grand PrixJordan18R10Spun off0
6MAY 12Austrian Grand PrixJordan18R26Collision0
7MAY 26Monaco Grand PrixJordan16R22Spun off0
8JUN 9Canadian Grand PrixJordan151069+1 Lap0
9JUN 23European Grand PrixJordan141658+2 Laps0
10JUL 7British Grand PrixJordan14R50Engine0
11JUL 21French Grand PrixJordan14R23Spun off0
12JUL 28German Grand PrixJordan12866+1 Lap0
13AUG 18Hungarian Grand PrixJordan141076+1 Lap0
14SEP 1Belgian Grand PrixJordan161143+1 Lap0
15SEP 15Italian Grand PrixJordan181252+1 Lap0
16SEP 29United States Grand PrixJordan151172+1 Lap0
17OCT 13Japanese Grand PrixJordan7553Finished2

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: 7 of 17 rows in 2002 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 2002 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 Wolkenjaeger, CC BY-SA 4.0. File description