Lap Ledger1950–2027 · every championship race

Driver · Belgium · born

Olivier Gendebien

Entered 15 championship Grands Prix across 1956–1961 for Ferrari, Cooper and 2 other constructors; 2 podiums, best finish 2nd.

British racing greenUnited Kingdom's international racing colour, under the convention that painted a car for the country that entered it, as it stood when Team Lotus raced in 1961. Not the team's own livery.

Seasons
—5 with an entry
Entries
15
Starts
141 did not start
Wins
0
Podiums
2
Poles
0
Fastest laps
0
Best finish
P2

Where each championship finished

P1P3P6P9P12P15P18P19195619571958195919601961

Final championship position by season, ringed for a title. No dot: not in the final standings, or excluded. Dots are coloured for each season’s final team: the entrant’s national racing colour, not the team’s.

The numbers behind this chart, Where each championship finished
Where each championship finished
SeasonConstructorPositionPoints
1956Ferrari192
1959Ferrari153
1960Cooper610
1961Team Lotus133

Season by season

The same on all 5 rows: Wins — 0; Poles — 0; FL — 0.

Season by season
SeasonConstructorEntriesPodiumsBestChampionshipPoints scored
1961Emeryson,Ferrari,Team Lotus30P4133
1960Cooper52P2610
1959Ferrari20P4153
1958Ferrari30P6—0
1956Ferrari20P5192
“Points scored” adds up every point from the races. The championship column is where the season actually finished, which before 1991 could be lower once dropped scores were applied. Open a season for its full table.

Team-mates

Team-mates
SeasonTeam-mateConstructorRacesQualifyingRacePoints
1961Lucien BianchiEmeryson10–1none0–0
1961Phil HillFerrari10–10–13–9
1961Richie GintherFerrari11–00–13–4
1961Wolfgang von TripsFerrari10–10–13–6
1961Innes IrelandTeam Lotus10–10–10–9
1961Jim ClarkTeam Lotus10–10–10–0
1961Jim HallTeam Lotus11–0none0–0
1961Lloyd RubyTeam Lotus11–0none0–0
1961Masten GregoryTeam Lotus10–10–00–0
1961Peter RyanTeam Lotus10–10–10–0
1961Sir Stirling MossTeam Lotus10–1none0–0
1960Bruce McLarenCooper52–31–410–23
1960Sir Jack BrabhamCooper50–50–510–35
1960Henry TaylorCooper43–02–16–3
1960Tony BrooksCooper41–30–24–4
1960Ian BurgessCooper33–01–06–0
1960Lucien BianchiCooper33–01–010–1
1960Masten GregoryCooper32–12–06–0
1960Gino MunaronCooper22–01–06–0
1960Maurice TrintignantCooper22–01–06–0
1960Bruce HalfordCooper11–01–06–0
1960Chris BristowCooper11–0none4–0
1960Chuck DaighCooper11–0none0–0
1960Jack FairmanCooper11–0none0–0
1960Keith GreeneCooper11–0none0–0
1960Lance ReventlowCooper11–0none0–0
1960Mário de Araújo CabralCooper11–0none0–0
1960Pete LovelyCooper11–00–10–0
1960Phil HillCooper11–00–10–1
1960Ron FlockhartCooper11–0none0–0
1960Roy SalvadoriCooper11–00–10–0
1960Wolfgang von TripsCooper11–00–10–0
1959Dan GurneyFerrari21–10–13–3
1959Phil HillFerrari20–20–23–13
1959Tony BrooksFerrari20–20–13–8
1959Cliff AllisonFerrari11–00–10–2
1959Jean BehraFerrari10–1none3–0
1958Mike HawthornFerrari30–30–10–19
1958Phil HillFerrari21–1none0–9
1958Luigi MussoFerrari10–1none0–0
1958Peter CollinsFerrari10–1none0–0
1958Wolfgang von TripsFerrari11–0none0–0
1956Eugenio CastellottiFerrari20–2none2–6
1956Juan Manuel FangioFerrari20–20–12–9
1956Peter CollinsFerrari20–2none2–8
1956Alfonso de PortagoFerrari10–1none0–0
1956Luigi MussoFerrari10–10–12–4
Show all 47 team-mate seasonsShow the first 10, Team-mates
A team-mate is anyone entered for the same constructor in the same Grand Prix, and each pair of figures is Olivier Gendebien’s first. Races counts every Grand Prix both were entered for, started or not. Qualifying counts the races both have a qualifying position in; Race only those both were classified in, so a retirement on either side counts for neither, and reads none where there was no such race; Points are each driver’s own from those Grands Prix, before any dropped scores and without Sprint points. Before the 1980s a constructor’s cars were often entered by private teams as well as its own, so a pairing then can be two drivers who never shared a garage. The figures say who was ahead, not who was better.

Compare Olivier Gendebien with any other driver

Every entry 15 entries

Every entry
SeasonGrand PrixConstructorChassisGridResultOutLapsPoints
1961United States Grand PrixTeam Lotus—1511Finished920
1961Belgian Grand PrixFerrari15634Finished303
1961Monaco Grand PrixEmeryson61—DNQDNQ—0
1960United States Grand PrixCooperT51812Finished690
1960Portuguese Grand PrixCooperT51147Finished460
1960British Grand PrixCooperT51129Finished740
1960French Grand PrixCooperT51112Finished506
1960Belgian Grand PrixCooperT5143Finished354
1959Italian Grand PrixFerrari—66Finished700
1959French Grand PrixFerrari—114Finished503
1958Moroccan Grand PrixFerrari—6DNFAccident290
1958Italian Grand PrixFerrari—5DNFSuspension40
1958Belgian Grand PrixFerrari—66Finished230
1956French Grand PrixFerrari55511DNFClutch380
1956Argentine Grand PrixFerrari555105Finished912

Where this comes from

Born
Died
—
Nationality
Belgium
Status
—
Provenance
Added to the register from the podium harvest: reached a podium without ever winning a race, taking pole or setting a fastest lap.
Wins
0 derived · 0 published
Poles
0 derived
Fastest laps
0 derived
External source
F1DB career totals, v2026.18.0
Confidence
reference
Source
https://github.com/f1db/f1db

Entries is counted here from the race records, one for every race a driver was entered for, and wins, podiums and poles are counted the same way and checked against the published totals on every build. Starts is counted from those records too: an entry is a start unless the result the source printed says it never was - did not qualify, pre-qualify, start or practise, or excluded before the start - so a pit-lane start counts and so does a retirement on the first lap. The published entry and start figures are a separate count kept for the few drivers who have one, reached by rules this database does not hold. Where a published figure and the counted one disagree, both are shown and neither is corrected.