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René Arnoux All drivers

René Arnoux

🇫🇷 French1978–1989

Won 7 of 150 starts across 12 seasons, and was outscored by Alain Prost over 30 races together.

Titles
0
Best: 3rd
Wins
7
4.7% of starts
Podiums
22
14.7% of starts
Career points
181
as scored at the time
Starts
150
12 seasons, 5 teams

Championship finish by season

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Against Arnoux's teammates

Points in races together
Alain Prost 39 – 77 1981–82 · 30 races · ahead on the results sheet 10–20
Jean-Pierre Jabouille 46 – 18 1979–80 · 27 races · ahead on the results sheet 17–10
Michele Alboreto 30 – 36.5 1984–85 · 17 races · ahead on the results sheet 8–9
Patrick Tambay 49 – 40 1983 · 15 races · ahead on the results sheet 8–7
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Piercarlo Ghinzani 1 – 0 1987 · 14 races · ahead on the results sheet 7–7
Stefan Johansson 0 – 0 1988 · 10 races · ahead on the results sheet 5–5
Jacques Laffite 11 – 14 1986 · 9 races · ahead on the results sheet 5–4
Philippe Alliot 3 – 1 1986 · 7 races · ahead on the results sheet 5–2
Olivier Grouillard 0 – 1 1989 · 7 races · ahead on the results sheet 3–4

Best circuits

By wins
1 Hockenheimring 10 starts · avg finish 11.8 Won 1983 1 Kyalami 5 starts · avg finish 12.2 Won 1980 1 Circuit Park Zandvoort 7 starts · avg finish 12.6 Won 1983 1 Autodromo Nazionale di Monza 9 starts · avg finish 12.7 Won 1982 1 Autódromo José Carlos Pace 2 starts · avg finish 9.5 Won 1980

Milestones

Debut
1978 Belgian GP Martini
First points
1979 French GP 3rd · also first podium
First win
1980 Brazilian GP 22nd career start
Best run
2 wins in a row 1980
Best season
3 wins 1983
Last win
1983 Dutch GP Ferrari
Final start
1989 Australian GP Ligier

Under today's points system

25-18-15-12-10-8-6-4-2-1, scored by the calculator
181 696.5 +515.5

Career points re-scored with today's table. 1983: 49 → 161. Replay 1983 in the calculator →

All seasons

Points as counted for the championship
Year Team Pos Pts Wins Podiums Teammate
1989 Ligier 24 2 0 0 Olivier Grouillard
1988 Ligier 28 0 0 0 Stefan Johansson
1987 Ligier 20 1 0 0 Piercarlo Ghinzani
1986 Ligier 10 14 0 0 Jacques Laffite, Philippe Alliot
1985 Ferrari 19 3 0 0 Michele Alboreto
1984 Ferrari 6 27 0 4 Michele Alboreto
1983 Ferrari 3 49 3 7 Patrick Tambay
1982 Renault 6 28 2 4 Alain Prost
1981 Renault 9 11 0 1 Alain Prost
1980 Renault 6 29 2 3 Jean-Pierre Jabouille
1979 Renault 8 17 0 3 Jean-Pierre Jabouille
1978 Martini / Surtees 26 0 0 0

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