Eddie Cheever vs Jacques Laffite, 1982
Teammates at Ligier — the same car, so these numbers compare the drivers rather than the machinery. Compare full careers →
In the 1982 season, Eddie Cheever and Jacques Laffite competed as teammates at Ligier over 14 races. Cheever outqualified Laffite 8 times and finished ahead of him in 2 races, while Laffite finished ahead once. Cheever earned 15 championship points, compared to Laffite's 5, with both drivers achieving no race wins but Cheever securing 3 podium finishes to Laffite's 1.
Summarised by gpt-4o-mini from the figures below.8–6Qualifyingof 14 compared
2–1Race finishesof 3 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.
1982 season
1414
155
00
31
P2P3
15.616.5
6.78.0
811