Didier Pironi vs Jacques Laffite, 1980
Teammates at Ligier — the same car, so these numbers compare the drivers rather than the machinery. Compare full careers →
In the 1980 season, Didier Pironi and Jacques Laffite competed as teammates at Ligier across 14 races. Pironi outqualified Laffite 8 times and finished ahead of him 5 times, while Laffite finished ahead just once. Both drivers secured 1 race win and achieved 5 podium finishes, with Pironi earning 32 championship points compared to Laffite's 34.
Summarised by gpt-4o-mini from the figures below.8–6Qualifyingof 14 compared
5–1Race finishesof 6 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.
1980 season
1414
3234
11
55
P1P1
6.06.6
3.54.8
64