F1/Drivers/Marc Surer
Marc Surer, portrait

MARC SURER

Swiss·Born September 18, 1951·1979-1986 · 8 seasons · 5 constructors
83
RACE STARTS
1979-1986 · 8 seasons
0
WINS
0 podiums · 0 poles
17
POINTS IN GRANDS PRIX
Race results only, not the championship total
0
WORLD CHAMPIONSHIPS
Completed seasons only, 1950 to 2025
4th
BEST FINISH
32
DID NOT FINISH
Retired, withdrew or disqualified
5
CONSTRUCTORS DRIVEN FOR
0%
STARTS WON
0 of 83

01/Season by season

9 lines over 8 seasons
One line per constructor
SeasonConstructorStartsBestWinPodPoleRace ptsChampChamp pts
1986Arrows59th00000
1985Brabham124th0005135
1984Arrows156th0001201
1983Arrows155th0004154
1982Arrows125th0003213
1981 · rounds 1-6Ensign64th0004164
1981 · rounds 8-15Theodore78th0000
1980ATS107th00000
1979Ensign100000
Career5 constructors834th000170 titles

One line per season AND per constructor, which is why Surer has 9 lines over 8 seasons: 1 season was 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, 1983

15 races
4 not classified
RdDateGrand PrixConstructorGridPosLapsStatusPts
1MAR 13Brazilian Grand PrixArrows20563Finished1
2MAR 27United States Grand Prix WestArrows16574+1 Lap2
3APR 17French Grand PrixArrows211053+1 Lap0
4MAY 1San Marino Grand PrixArrows12659+1 Lap1
5MAY 15Monaco Grand PrixArrows12R49Collision0
6MAY 22Belgian Grand PrixArrows101139+1 Lap0
7JUN 5Detroit Grand PrixArrows51158+2 Laps0
8JUN 12Canadian Grand PrixArrows14R14Transmission0
9JUL 16British Grand PrixArrows191764+3 Laps0
10AUG 7German Grand PrixArrows20744+1 Lap0
11AUG 14Austrian Grand PrixArrows22R0Collision0
12AUG 28Dutch Grand PrixArrows14870+2 Laps0
13SEP 11Italian Grand PrixArrows201051+1 Lap0
14SEP 25European Grand PrixArrows17R50Engine0
15OCT 15South African Grand PrixArrows22875+2 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: 4 of 15 rows in 1983 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 1983 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 Hans van Dijk for Anefo , NL-HaNA, ANEFO / neg. stroken, 1945-1989, 2.24.01.05, item number 932-2377, CC0. File description