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Jacques Laffite All drivers

Jacques Laffite

🇫🇷 French1974–1986

Won 6 of 177 starts across 13 seasons, and was outscored by Keke Rosberg over 28 races together.

Titles
0
Best: 4th
Wins
6
3.4% of starts
Podiums
33
18.6% of starts
Career points
228
as scored at the time
Starts
177
13 seasons, 3 teams

Championship finish by season

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Iso MarlboroWilliamsLigier

Against Laffite's teammates

Points in races together
Keke Rosberg 13 – 47.5 1983–84 · 28 races · ahead on the results sheet 9–19
Didier Pironi 34 – 32 1980 · 14 races · ahead on the results sheet 6–8
Eddie Cheever 5 – 15 1982 · 14 races · ahead on the results sheet 5–9
Andrea de Cesaris 10 – 3 1985 · 11 races · ahead on the results sheet 6–5
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Arturo Merzario 0 – 3 1974–75 · 9 races · ahead on the results sheet 5–4
René Arnoux 14 – 11 1986 · 9 races · ahead on the results sheet 4–5
Jacky Ickx 12 – 3 1979 · 8 races · ahead on the results sheet 6–2
Patrick Tambay 27 – 0 1981 · 8 races · ahead on the results sheet 7–1
Patrick Depailler 24 – 22 1979 · 7 races · ahead on the results sheet 4–3
Philippe Streiff 6 – 4 1985 · 4 races · ahead on the results sheet 1–3
Jean-Pierre Jarier 3 – 0 1977–81 · 3 races · ahead on the results sheet 2–1
Jean-Pierre Jabouille 12 – 0 1981 · 3 races · ahead on the results sheet 2–1
Ian Scheckter 0 – 0 1975 · 1 races · ahead on the results sheet 0–1
Ian Ashley 6 – 0 1975 · 1 races · ahead on the results sheet 1–0
Jo Vonlanthen 0 – 0 1975 · 1 races · ahead on the results sheet 1–0
Renzo Zorzi 0 – 0 1975 · 1 races · ahead on the results sheet 0–1
Lella Lombardi 0 – 0 1975 · 1 races · ahead on the results sheet 1–0

Best circuits

By wins
1 Hockenheimring 8 starts · avg finish 8.4 Won 1980 1 Red Bull Ring 12 starts · avg finish 11.1 Won 1981 1 Scandinavian Raceway 3 starts · avg finish 4 Won 1977 1 Autódromo José Carlos Pace 5 starts · avg finish 12.4 Won 1979 1 Circuit Gilles Villeneuve 9 starts · avg finish 13.4 Won 1981

Milestones

Debut
1974 German GP Iso Marlboro · 2nd · also first points and podium
First win
1977 Swedish GP 40th career start
Best run
2 wins in a row 1979
Best season
2 wins 1979
Last win
1981 Canadian GP Ligier
Final start
1986 British GP Ligier

Under today's points system

25-18-15-12-10-8-6-4-2-1, scored by the calculator
228 912 +684

Career points re-scored with today's table. 1981: 44 → 147. Replay 1981 in the calculator →

All seasons

Points as counted for the championship
Year Team Pos Pts Wins Podiums Teammate
1986 Ligier 8 14 0 2 René Arnoux
1985 Ligier 9 16 0 3 Andrea de Cesaris, Philippe Streiff
1984 Williams 14 5 0 0 Keke Rosberg
1983 Williams 11 11 0 1 Keke Rosberg
1982 Ligier 18 5 0 1 Eddie Cheever
1981 Ligier 4 44 2 7 Patrick Tambay, Jean-Pierre Jabouille
1980 Ligier 4 34 1 5 Didier Pironi
1979 Ligier 4 36 2 6 Jacky Ickx, Patrick Depailler
1978 Ligier 8 19 0 2
1977 Ligier 10 18 1 2 Jean-Pierre Jarier
1976 Ligier 8 20 0 3
1975 Williams 12 6 0 1 Arturo Merzario, Ian Scheckter
1974 Iso Marlboro 45 0 0 0 Arturo Merzario

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