F1/Drivers/Ayrton Senna
Ayrton Senna, portrait

AYRTON SENNA

Brazilian·Born March 21, 1960·1984-1994 · 11 seasons · 4 constructors
161
RACE STARTS
1984-1994 · 11 seasons
41
WINS
80 podiums · 65 poles
614
POINTS IN GRANDS PRIX
Race results only, not the championship total
3
WORLD CHAMPIONSHIPS
Completed seasons only, 1950 to 2025
1st
BEST FINISH
53
DID NOT FINISH
Retired, withdrew or disqualified
4
CONSTRUCTORS DRIVEN FOR
25.5%
STARTS WON
41 of 161

01/Season by season

11 lines over 11 seasons
One line per constructor
SeasonConstructorStartsBestWinPodPoleRace ptsChampChamp pts
1994Williams300300
1993McLaren161st57173273
1992McLaren161st37150450
1991McLaren161st712896196
1990McLaren161st6111078178
1989McLaren161st671360260
1988McLaren161st8111394190
1987Team Lotus161st28157357
1986Team Lotus161st28855455
1985Team Lotus161st26738438
1984Toleman142nd03013913
Career4 constructors1611st4180656143 titles

One line per season AND per constructor, which is why Senna 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, 1984

14 races
8 not classified
RdDateGrand PrixConstructorGridPosLapsStatusPts
1MAR 25Brazilian Grand PrixToleman16R8Turbo0
2APR 7South African Grand PrixToleman13672+3 Laps1
3APR 29Belgian Grand PrixToleman19668+2 Laps1
5MAY 20French Grand PrixToleman13R35Turbo0
6JUN 3Monaco Grand PrixToleman13231Finished3
7JUN 17Canadian Grand PrixToleman9768+2 Laps0
8JUN 24Detroit Grand PrixToleman7R21Accident0
9JUL 8Dallas Grand PrixToleman6R47Clutch0
10JUL 22British Grand PrixToleman7371Finished4
11AUG 5German Grand PrixToleman9R4Accident0
12AUG 19Austrian Grand PrixToleman10R35Oil pressure0
13AUG 26Dutch Grand PrixToleman13R19Engine0
15OCT 7European Grand PrixToleman12R0Accident0
16OCT 21Portuguese Grand PrixToleman3370Finished4

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: 8 of 14 rows in 1984 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 1984 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 File:Ayrton Senna 2.jpg: Instituto Ayrton Senna derivative work: F1fans, CC BY 2.0. File description