F1/Drivers/Jacques Villeneuve
Jacques Villeneuve, portrait

JACQUES VILLENEUVE

VILCanadian·Born April 9, 1971·1996-2006 · 11 seasons · 5 constructors
165
RACE STARTS
1996-2006 · 11 seasons
11
WINS
23 podiums · 13 poles
235
POINTS IN GRANDS PRIX
Race results only, not the championship total
1
WORLD CHAMPIONSHIPS
Completed seasons only, 1950 to 2025
1st
BEST FINISH
57
DID NOT FINISH
Retired, withdrew or disqualified
5
CONSTRUCTORS DRIVEN FOR
6.7%
STARTS WON
11 of 165

01/Season by season

11 lines over 11 seasons
One line per constructor
SeasonConstructorStartsBestWinPodPoleRace ptsChampChamp pts
2006BMW Sauber126th0007157
2005Sauber194th0009149
2004Renault310th0000210
2003BAR156th0006166
2002BAR174th0004124
2001BAR173rd02012712
2000BAR174th00017717
1999BAR168th00000
1998Williams163rd02021521
1997Williams171st781081181
1996Williams161st411378278
Career5 constructors1651st1123132351 titles

One line per season AND per constructor, which is why Villeneuve 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, 1999

16 races
12 not classified
RdDateGrand PrixConstructorGridPosLapsStatusPts
1MAR 7Australian Grand PrixBAR11R13Rear wing0
2APR 11Brazilian Grand PrixBAR21R49Hydraulics0
3MAY 2San Marino Grand PrixBAR14R0Gearbox0
4MAY 16Monaco Grand PrixBAR8R32Oil leak0
5MAY 30Spanish Grand PrixBAR6R40Gearbox0
6JUN 13Canadian Grand PrixBAR16R34Spun off0
7JUN 27French Grand PrixBAR12R25Spun off0
8JUL 11British Grand PrixBAR9R29Halfshaft0
9JUL 25Austrian Grand PrixBAR9R34Halfshaft0
10AUG 1German Grand PrixBAR12R0Collision0
11AUG 15Hungarian Grand PrixBAR9R60Clutch0
12AUG 29Belgian Grand PrixBAR111543+1 Lap0
13SEP 12Italian Grand PrixBAR11853Finished0
14SEP 26European Grand PrixBAR81061Clutch0
15OCT 17Malaysian Grand PrixBAR10R48Hydraulics0
16OCT 31Japanese Grand PrixBAR11952+1 Lap0

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: 12 of 16 rows in 1999 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 1999 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 Smudge 9000, CC BY-SA 2.0. File description