Lap Ledger1950–2027 · every championship race

Driver · United Kingdom · born

Ken Wharton

Entered 16 championship Grands Prix across 1952–1955 for Cooper, Maserati and 2 other constructors; best finish 4th.

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 Vanwall raced in 1955. Not the team's own livery.

Seasons
1952–19554 with an entry
Entries
16
Starts
151 did not start
Best finish
P4
Best grid
P7
Laps
772
Retirements
6DNF
Constructors
4

Season by season

Season by season
SeasonConstructorEntriesWinsPodiumsPolesFLBestChampionshipPoints scored
1955Vanwall20000P9—0
1954Maserati50000P6—0
1953Cooper50000P7—0
1952Frazer-Nash,Cooper40000P4133
“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
1955Harry SchellVanwall20–20–00–0
1954Harry SchellMaserati53–21–00–0
1954Roberto MieresMaserati52–30–30–6
1954Birabongse BhanudejMaserati42–21–00–3
1954Sergio MantovaniMaserati41–20–10–4
1954Sir Stirling MossMaserati40–4none0–0.14
1954Luigi VilloresiMaserati31–2none0–2
1954Onofre MarimonMaserati31–20–10–4.14
1954Alberto AscariMaserati21–1none0–0.14
1954Roy SalvadoriMaserati20–2none0–0
1954Emmanuel de GraffenriedMaserati11–0none0–0
1954Louis RosierMaserati11–00–10–0
1954Luigi MussoMaserati10–10–10–6
1954Ottorino VolonterioMaserati1—none0–0
1954Paco GodiaMaserati10–10–10–0
1954Ron FlockhartMaserati1—none0–0
1953Alan BrownCooper22–0none0–0
1953Bob GerardCooper21–1none0–0
1953Sir Stirling MossCooper20–2none0–0
1953Jimmy StewartCooper11–0none0–0
1953Peter WhiteheadCooper11–01–00–0
1953Tony CrookCooper11–0none0–0
1952Alan BrownCooper11–01–00–0
1952Eric BrandonCooper11–01–00–0
1952Mike HawthornCooper10–1none0–0
A team-mate is anyone entered for the same constructor in the same Grand Prix, and each pair of figures is Ken Wharton’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 Ken Wharton with any other driver

Every entry 16 entries

Every entry
SeasonGrand PrixConstructorChassisGridResultOutLapsPoints
1955Italian Grand PrixVanwallVW 5517DNFInjection00
1955British Grand PrixVanwallVW 55159Finished720
1954Spanish Grand PrixMaserati250F148Finished740
1954Swiss Grand PrixMaserati250F86Finished640
1954German Grand PrixMaserati250F22DNSWithdrew—0
1954British Grand PrixMaserati250F98Finished860
1954French Grand PrixMaserati250F16DNFTransmission190
1953Italian Grand PrixCooperT2319NCNC570
1953Swiss Grand PrixCooperT2397Finished620
1953British Grand PrixCooperT23118Finished800
1953French Grand PrixCooperT2314DNFWheel bearing170
1953Dutch Grand PrixCooperT2318DNFPhysical190
1952Italian Grand PrixCooperT20159Finished760
1952Dutch Grand PrixFrazer-NashFN487DNFWheel bearing760
1952Belgian Grand PrixFrazer-NashFN487DNFSpun off100
1952Swiss Grand PrixFrazer-NashFN48134Finished603

Where this comes from

Born
Died
Nationality
United Kingdom
Status
deceased
Wins
0 derived
Poles
0 derived
Fastest laps
0 derived
External source
—
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.