F1/Drivers/John Surtees
John Surtees, portrait

JOHN SURTEES

British·Born February 11, 1934·1960-1972 · 13 seasons · 9 constructors
112
RACE STARTS
1960-1972 · 13 seasons
6
WINS
24 podiums · 8 poles
180
POINTS IN GRANDS PRIX
Race results only, not the championship total
1
WORLD CHAMPIONSHIPS
Completed seasons only, 1950 to 2025
1st
BEST FINISH
58
DID NOT FINISH
Retired, withdrew or disqualified
9
CONSTRUCTORS DRIVEN FOR
5.4%
STARTS WON
6 of 112

01/Season by season

15 lines over 13 seasons
One line per constructor
SeasonConstructorStartsBestWinPodPoleRace ptsChampChamp pts
1972Surtees100000
1971Surtees115th0003193
1970 · rounds 1-5McLaren-Ford46th0001183
1970 · rounds 7-13Surtees75th0002
1969BRM103rd0106116
1968Honda122nd02112812
1967Honda91st12020420
1966 · rounds 1-2Ferrari21st1119228
1966 · rounds 3-9Cooper-Maserati71st13119
1965Ferrari82nd03017517
1964Ferrari101st26240140
1963Ferrari101st13122422
1962Lola92nd02119419
1961Cooper-Climax85th0004124
1960Team Lotus42nd0116126
Career9 constructors1121st62481801 titles

One line per season AND per constructor, which is why Surtees has 15 lines over 13 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, 1972

1 race
1 not classified
RdDateGrand PrixConstructorGridPosLapsStatusPts
10SEP 10Italian Grand PrixSurtees22R20Fuel 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: 1 of 1 row in 1972 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 1972 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, Public domain. File description