Driver · Japan
Satoru Nakajima
Japan's first full-time Formula One driver.
- Seasons
- 1987–19915 with an entry
- Entries
- 80
- Starts
- 746 did not start
- Wins
- 0
- Podiums
- 0
- Poles
- 0
- Fastest laps
- 1
- Best finish
- P4
Where each championship finished
Final championship position by season, ringed for a title. No dot: not in the final standings, or excluded. The dots are not in team colours: no season on this record has one.
Season by season
The same on all 5 rows: Wins — 0; Podiums — 0; Poles — 0.
| Season | Constructor | Entries | FL | Best | Championship | Points scored |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1991 | Tyrrell | 16 | 0 | P5 | 15 | 2 |
| 1990 | Tyrrell | 16 | 0 | P6 | 15 | 3 |
| 1989 | Team Lotus | 16 | 1 | P4 | 21 | 3 |
| 1988 | Team Lotus | 16 | 0 | P6 | 16 | 1 |
| 1987 | Team Lotus | 16 | 0 | P4 | 12 | 7 |
Team-mates
| Season | Team-mate | Constructor | Races | Qualifying | Race | Points |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1991 | Stefano Modena | Tyrrell | 16 | 1–15 | 0–6 | 2–10 |
| 1990 | Jean Alesi | Tyrrell | 16 | 0–16 | 0–2 | 3–13 |
| 1989 | Nelson Piquet | Team Lotus | 16 | 3–13 | 0–1 | 3–12 |
| 1988 | Nelson Piquet | Team Lotus | 16 | 1–15 | 1–5 | 1–22 |
| 1987 | Ayrton Senna | Team Lotus | 16 | 0–16 | 0–8 | 7–57 |
Every entry 80 entries
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Where this comes from
- Born
- —
- Died
- —
- Nationality
- Japan
- Status
- —
- Provenance
- Added to the register from the pole position and fastest lap harvest. Never won a World Championship Grand Prix. Pole and fastest-lap counts are derived from the race records; other career figures are not held.
- Wins
- 0 derived · 0 published
- Poles
- 0 derived
- Fastest laps
- 1 derived
- External source
- F1DB career totals, v2026.18.0
- Confidence
- medium
- Source
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Formula_One_polesitters
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.