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Gilles Villeneuve

🇨🇦 Canadian1977–1982

Won 6 of 66 starts across 6 seasons, and was outscored by Jody Scheckter over 28 races together.

Titles
0
Best: 2nd
Wins
6
9.1% of starts
Podiums
13
19.7% of starts
Career points
107
101 counted
Starts
66
6 seasons, 2 teams

Championship finish by season

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Against Villeneuve's teammates

Points in races together
Jody Scheckter 57 – 62 1979–80 · 28 races · ahead on the results sheet 16–12
Carlos Reutemann 13 – 54 1977–78 · 17 races · ahead on the results sheet 8–9
Didier Pironi 31 – 19 1981–82 · 17 races · ahead on the results sheet 7–10
James Hunt 0 – 9 1977 · 1 races · ahead on the results sheet 0–1
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Jochen Mass 0 – 3 1977 · 1 races · ahead on the results sheet 0–1
Brett Lunger 0 – 0 1977 · 1 races · ahead on the results sheet 1–0

Best circuits

By wins
1 Circuit Gilles Villeneuve 4 starts · avg finish 2.8 Won 1978 1 Jarama 3 starts · avg finish 6 Won 1981 1 Circuit de Monaco 4 starts · avg finish 7 Won 1981 1 Watkins Glen 3 starts · avg finish 12.3 Won 1979 1 Long Beach 4 starts · avg finish 13 Won 1979

Milestones

Debut
1977 British GP McLaren
First points
1978 Belgian GP 4th
First podium
1978 Austrian GP 3rd
First win
1978 Canadian GP 19th career start
Best run
2 wins in a row 1979
Best season
3 wins 1979
Last win
1981 Spanish GP Ferrari
Final start
1982 Belgian GP Ferrari

Under today's points system

25-18-15-12-10-8-6-4-2-1, scored by the calculator
107 374 +267

Career points re-scored with today's table. 1979: 53 → 145. Replay 1979 in the calculator →

All seasons

Points as counted for the championship
Year Team Pos Pts Wins Podiums Teammate
1982 Ferrari 15 6 0 1 Didier Pironi
1981 Ferrari 7 25 2 3 Didier Pironi
1980 Ferrari 14 6 0 0 Jody Scheckter
1979 Ferrari 2 47 (53 scored) 3 7 Jody Scheckter
1978 Ferrari 9 17 1 2 Carlos Reutemann
1977 Ferrari / McLaren 37 0 0 0 Carlos Reutemann, James Hunt

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