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F1/Drivers/Jody Scheckter
Jody Scheckter, portrait

JODY SCHECKTER

South African·Born January 29, 1950·1972-1980 · 9 seasons · 4 constructors
112
RACE STARTS
1972-1980 · 9 seasons
10
WINS
33 podiums · 3 poles
255
POINTS IN GRANDS PRIX
Race results only, not the championship total
1
WORLD CHAMPIONSHIPS
Completed seasons only, 1950 to 2025
1st
BEST FINISH
35
DID NOT FINISH
Retired, withdrew or disqualified
4
CONSTRUCTORS DRIVEN FOR
8.9%
STARTS WON
10 of 112

01/Season by season

9 lines over 9 seasons
One line per constructor
SeasonConstructorStartsBestWinPodPoleRace ptsChampChamp pts
1980Ferrari135th0002192
1979Ferrari151st36160151
1978Wolf162nd04024724
1977Wolf171st39155255
1976Tyrrell161st15149349
1975Tyrrell141st13020720
1974Tyrrell151st26045345
1973McLaren59th00000
1972McLaren19th00000
Career4 constructors1121st103332551 titles

One line per season AND per constructor, which is why Scheckter has 9 lines over 9 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, 1974

15 races
4 not classified
RdDateGrand PrixConstructorGridPosLapsStatusPts
1JAN 13Argentine Grand PrixTyrrell12R25Engine0
2JAN 27Brazilian Grand PrixTyrrell141331+1 Lap0
3MAR 30South African Grand PrixTyrrell8878Finished0
4APR 28Spanish Grand PrixTyrrell9582+2 Laps2
5MAY 12Belgian Grand PrixTyrrell2385Finished4
6MAY 26Monaco Grand PrixTyrrell5278Finished6
7JUN 9Swedish Grand PrixTyrrell2180Finished9
8JUN 23Dutch Grand PrixTyrrell5575Finished2
9JUL 7French Grand PrixTyrrell7480Finished3
10JUL 20British Grand PrixTyrrell3175Finished9
11AUG 4German Grand PrixTyrrell4214Finished6
12AUG 18Austrian Grand PrixTyrrell5R8Engine0
13SEP 8Italian Grand PrixTyrrell12352Finished4
14SEP 22Canadian Grand PrixTyrrell3R48Brakes0
15OCT 6United States Grand PrixTyrrell6R44Fuel system0

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: 4 of 15 rows in 1974 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 1974 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 PH1 John Lucas, U.S. Navy, Public domain. File description