F1/Drivers/Rolf Stommelen
Rolf Stommelen, portrait

ROLF STOMMELEN

German·Born July 11, 1943·1970-1978 · 8 seasons · 8 constructors
54
RACE STARTS
1970-1978 · 8 seasons
0
WINS
1 podiums · 0 poles
14
POINTS IN GRANDS PRIX
Race results only, not the championship total
0
WORLD CHAMPIONSHIPS
Completed seasons only, 1950 to 2025
3rd
BEST FINISH
20
DID NOT FINISH
Retired, withdrew or disqualified
8
CONSTRUCTORS DRIVEN FOR
0%
STARTS WON
0 of 54

01/Season by season

10 lines over 8 seasons
One line per constructor
SeasonConstructorStartsBestWinPodPoleRace ptsChampChamp pts
1978Arrows99th00000
1976 · rounds 10-13Brabham-Alfa Romeo26th0001201
1976 · rounds 12-12Hesketh112th0000
1975 · rounds 1-4Lola313th00000
1975 · rounds 3-13Embassy Hill37th0000
1974Lola411th00000
1973Brabham411th00000
1972March810th00000
1971Surtees105th0003203
1970Brabham103rd010101110
Career8 constructors543rd010140 titles

One line per season AND per constructor, which is why Stommelen has 10 lines over 8 seasons: 2 seasons were 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, 1978

9 races
3 not classified
RdDateGrand PrixConstructorGridPosLapsStatusPts
3MAR 4South African Grand PrixArrows22977+1 Lap0
4APR 2United States Grand Prix WestArrows18979+1 Lap0
5MAY 7Monaco Grand PrixArrows19R38Driver unwell0
6MAY 21Belgian Grand PrixArrows17R26Spun off0
7JUN 4Spanish Grand PrixArrows191471+4 Laps0
8JUN 17Swedish Grand PrixArrows241467+3 Laps0
9JUL 2French Grand PrixArrows211553+1 Lap0
11JUL 30German Grand PrixArrows23D42Disqualified0
15OCT 1United States Grand PrixArrows221654+5 Laps0

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: 3 of 9 rows in 1978 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 1978 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 Lothar Spurzem, CC BY-SA 2.0 de. File description