Heinz-Harald Frentzen vs Jacques Villeneuve, 1997
Teammates at Williams — the same car, so these numbers compare the drivers rather than the machinery. Compare full careers →
In the 1997 season, Heinz-Harald Frentzen and Jacques Villeneuve were teammates at Williams, competing in 17 races together. Villeneuve outqualified Frentzen 13 times and finished ahead 5 times, while Frentzen outqualified Villeneuve 4 times and finished ahead 3 times. Villeneuve secured 81 championship points and 7 race wins, compared to Frentzen's 42 points and 1 win, with both drivers achieving a best finish of 1.
Summarised by gpt-4o-mini from the figures below.4–13Qualifyingof 17 compared
3–5Race finishesof 8 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.
1997 season
1717
4281
17
78
P1P1
3.62.1
4.32.2
56