Lap Ledger1950–2027 · every championship race

Driver · Switzerland · born

Michael May

Entered 3 championship Grands Prix in 1961 for Team Lotus; best finish 11th.

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
19611 with an entry
Entries
3
Starts
21 did not start
Best finish
P11
Best grid
P13
Laps
90
Retirements
1DNF
Constructors
1

Season by season

Season by season
SeasonConstructorEntriesWinsPodiumsPolesFLBestChampionshipPoints scored
1961Team Lotus30000P11—0
“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
1961Innes IrelandTeam Lotus30–30–10–3
1961Jim ClarkTeam Lotus30–30–10–7
1961Sir Stirling MossTeam Lotus30–3none0–18
1961Henry TaylorTeam Lotus22–00–10–0
1961Wolfgang SeidelTeam Lotus20–1none0–0
1961Cliff AllisonTeam Lotus11–0none0–0
1961Gerry AshmoreTeam Lotus10–1none0–0
1961Ian BurgessTeam Lotus11–01–00–0
1961Juan Manuel BordeuTeam Lotus1—none0–0
1961Lucien BianchiTeam Lotus10–1none0–0
1961Tony MaggsTeam Lotus10–1none0–0
1961Tony MarshTeam Lotus10–1none0–0
1961Willy MairesseTeam Lotus10–1none0–0
A team-mate is anyone entered for the same constructor in the same Grand Prix, and each pair of figures is Michael May’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 Michael May with any other driver

Every entry 3 entries

Every entry
SeasonGrand PrixConstructorChassisGridResultOutLapsPoints
1961German Grand PrixTeam Lotus18—DNSAccident in practice—0
1961French Grand PrixTeam Lotus182211Finished480
1961Monaco Grand PrixTeam Lotus1813DNFOil pipe420

Where this comes from

Born
Nationality
Switzerland
Status
retired
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.