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Didier Pironi

🇫🇷 French1978–1982

Won 3 of 70 starts across 5 seasons, and was outscored by Gilles Villeneuve over 17 races together.

Titles
0
Best: 2nd
Wins
3
4.3% of starts
Podiums
13
18.6% of starts
Career points
101
as scored at the time
Starts
70
5 seasons, 3 teams

Championship finish by season

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Against Pironi's teammates

Points in races together
Gilles Villeneuve 19 – 31 1981–82 · 17 races · ahead on the results sheet 10–7
Patrick Depailler 7 – 34 1978 · 16 races · ahead on the results sheet 6–10
Jacques Laffite 32 – 34 1980 · 14 races · ahead on the results sheet 8–6
Jean-Pierre Jarier 14 – 13 1979 · 12 races · ahead on the results sheet 5–7
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Patrick Tambay 19 – 16 1982 · 4 races · ahead on the results sheet 3–1
Derek Daly 6 – 0 1979 · 3 races · ahead on the results sheet 3–0
Geoff Lees 0 – 0 1979 · 1 races · ahead on the results sheet 0–1

Best circuits

By wins
1 Zolder 4 starts · avg finish 4.5 Won 1980 1 Autodromo Enzo e Dino Ferrari 3 starts · avg finish 4 Won 1982 1 Circuit Park Zandvoort 5 starts · avg finish 15.8 Won 1982 0 Circuit Paul Ricard Best 2nd · 3 starts · avg finish 5 0 Watkins Glen Best 3rd · 3 starts · avg finish 5.3

Milestones

Debut
1978 Argentine GP Tyrrell
First points
1978 Brazilian GP 6th
First podium
1979 Belgian GP 3rd · also first win
Best season
2 wins 1982
Last win
1982 Dutch GP Ferrari
Final start
1982 German GP Ferrari

Under today's points system

25-18-15-12-10-8-6-4-2-1, scored by the calculator
101 415 +314

Career points re-scored with today's table. 1982: 39 → 126 (2nd → 3rd). Replay 1982 in the calculator →

All seasons

Points as counted for the championship
Year Team Pos Pts Wins Podiums Teammate
1982 Ferrari 2 39 2 6 Patrick Tambay, Gilles Villeneuve
1981 Ferrari 13 9 0 0 Gilles Villeneuve
1980 Ligier 5 32 1 5 Jacques Laffite
1979 Tyrrell 10 14 0 2 Jean-Pierre Jarier, Derek Daly
1978 Tyrrell 15 7 0 0 Patrick Depailler

Starts count Grands Prix with a classified result, sprints excluded. Figures cover the World Championship from 1958.