Jean-Pierre Jabouille vs René Arnoux, 1979
Teammates at Renault — the same car, so these numbers compare the drivers rather than the machinery. Compare full careers →
In the 1979 season, Jean-Pierre Jabouille and René Arnoux were teammates at Renault, competing in 15 races together. Jabouille outqualified Arnoux 10 times and finished ahead of him once, while Arnoux finished ahead of Jabouille 0 times. Jabouille scored 9 championship points and won 1 Grand Prix, whereas Arnoux earned 17 points and achieved 3 podium finishes, with their grids compared in 14 races.
Summarised by gpt-4o-mini from the figures below.10–4Qualifyingof 14 compared
1–0Race finishesof 1 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.
1979 season
1515
917
10
13
P1P2
6.69.3
8.34.4
1210