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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, 1976

16 races
4 not classified
RdDateGrand PrixConstructorGridPosLapsStatusPts
1JAN 25Brazilian Grand PrixTyrrell13540Finished2
2MAR 6South African Grand PrixTyrrell12478Finished3
3MAR 28United States Grand Prix WestTyrrell11R34Suspension0
4MAY 2Spanish Grand PrixTyrrell14R53Engine0
5MAY 16Belgian Grand PrixTyrrell7470Finished3
6MAY 30Monaco Grand PrixTyrrell5278Finished6
7JUN 13Swedish Grand PrixTyrrell1172Finished9
8JUL 4French Grand PrixTyrrell9654Finished1
9JUL 18British Grand PrixTyrrell8276Finished6
10AUG 1German Grand PrixTyrrell8214Finished6
11AUG 15Austrian Grand PrixTyrrell10R14Suspension0
12AUG 29Dutch Grand PrixTyrrell8575Finished2
13SEP 12Italian Grand PrixTyrrell2552Finished2
14OCT 3Canadian Grand PrixTyrrell7480Finished3
15OCT 10United States Grand PrixTyrrell2259Finished6
16OCT 24Japanese Grand PrixTyrrell5R58Overheating0

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 16 rows in 1976 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 1976 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