Race Retirements

[PeterJB]

Has their ever been a driver who has started every race in a season, but failed to finish all of them?

 

[Roo]

Go to http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1950_Formula_One_season, check the race position chart, and then go down to the first driver with a - as his championship position. Repeat for 1951, '52 etc. If anyone's retired from all the races, that's where they'll be.

In more recent times, I know that in 1999 Jacques Villeneuve managed an eleven race retiring streak; by the end of the season he'd racked up 12 retirements, 4 finishes and 0 points.

As an aside, Tiago Monterio holds the record for most finishes in a season - 18 out of 19 in 2005 - and Michael Schumacher holds the record for most finishes in a season by percentage; 17 out of 17, and all on the podium, in 2002.

 

[Only_in_f1]

Drivers have gone down as not finishing every race due to disqualifications. Otherwise, no I dont think so.

 

[ROAD_DOGG33J]

Has their ever been a driver who has started every race in a season, but failed to finish all of them?

No, I don't think there even was a driver who only finished one race.

 

[tigermoth737]

Patrick Depailler did not finish a single race in the 1980 season. He competed in 8 Grand Prix's up until his death whilst testing at Hockenheim. He had 7 DNF's and a Non Classification at the South African Gp.

May not have been a full season, but still unfortunate.

 

[PeterJB]

I've looked on Wikipedia and found out that their hasn't been a single driver that has started every race in one season, and retired from all of them. several drivers in the 1980's have started every race and finished only one of them. And quite a few have failed to pre-qualify for every race in the season.

 

[Pupik]

Patrick Depailler did not finish a single race in the 1980 season. He competed in 8 Grand Prix's up until his death whilst testing at Hockenheim. He had 7 DNF's and a Non Classification at the South African Gp.

He had the car in the points on a few occasions that year, but the car was an understeering dog and was as reliable as wet cardboard. His death was perhaps caused by catch-fencing that wasn't installed at a dangerous Ostkurve section of Hockenheim.

...several drivers in the 1980's have started every race and finished only one of them. And quite a few have failed to pre-qualify for every race in the season.

How bad were those Motori-Moderni engines? Let's see...Minardis failed to finish all but one race in 1986; both Andrea de Cesaris and Alessandro Nannini only finished one race, the Mexican GP...I wonder if the high-altitude had anything to do with it? The next year, Adrian Campos and Nannini struggled again; Alessandro had three finishes, and Campos finished one race...his home race in Spain.

Ah, those turbo engines; they could be mobile hand grenades at times. Definately the least-reliable F1 engine that managed to actually qualify for races, although I think the Life W12 failed to complete more than a few laps in any of the pre-qualifying sessions.