F1/Drivers/Piero Taruffi
Piero Taruffi, portrait

PIERO TARUFFI

Italian·Born October 12, 1906·1950-1956 · 6 seasons · 4 constructors
18
RACE STARTS
1950-1956 · 6 seasons
1
WINS
5 podiums · 0 poles
41
POINTS IN GRANDS PRIX
Race results only, not the championship total
0
WORLD CHAMPIONSHIPS
Completed seasons only, 1950 to 2025
1st
BEST FINISH
6
DID NOT FINISH
Retired, withdrew or disqualified
4
CONSTRUCTORS DRIVEN FOR
5.6%
STARTS WON
1 of 18

01/Season by season

7 lines over 6 seasons
One line per constructor
SeasonConstructorStartsBestWinPodPoleRace ptsChampChamp pts
1956Vanwall100000
1955 · rounds 2-4Ferrari28th000069
1955 · rounds 6-7Mercedes22nd0109
1954Ferrari16th00000
1952Ferrari61st13022322
1951Ferrari52nd01010610
1950Alfa Romeo100000
Career4 constructors181st150410 titles

One line per season AND per constructor, which is why Taruffi has 7 lines over 6 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, 1952

6 races
1 not classified
RdDateGrand PrixConstructorGridPosLapsStatusPts
1MAY 18Swiss Grand PrixFerrari2162Finished9
3JUN 22Belgian Grand PrixFerrari3R13Accident0
4JUL 6French Grand PrixFerrari3375+2 Laps4
5JUL 19British Grand PrixFerrari3284+1 Lap6
6AUG 3German Grand PrixFerrari5417+1 Lap3
8SEP 7Italian Grand PrixFerrari6777+3 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: 1 of 6 rows in 1952 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 1952 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 Indeciso42 at the Italian Wikipedia project., Public domain. File description