Didier Pironi vs Gilles Villeneuve, 1981
Teammates at Ferrari — the same car, so these numbers compare the drivers rather than the machinery. Compare full careers →
In the 1981 season, Didier Pironi and Gilles Villeneuve were teammates at Ferrari, competing in 15 races together. Villeneuve outqualified Pironi 10 times and finished ahead of him in 3 races, while Pironi finished ahead only once. Villeneuve scored 25 championship points and won 2 Grands Prix, while Pironi did not secure any wins or podium finishes, earning 9 points overall.
Summarised by gpt-4o-mini from the figures below.5–10Qualifyingof 15 compared
1–3Race finishesof 4 compared
Qualifying is compared on the grid they actually started from. A race counts only where both were classified — one of them retiring leaves nothing to compare, so it is not scored to the other.
1981 season
1515
925
02
03
P4P1
10.77.0
7.54.3
79