Caffi in numbers
6 official points · best championship finish: 16th in 1990
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Alex Caffi spent six years in Formula 1 with small teams, and his best circuit was the hardest on the calendar. An Italian born in 1964, he made his debut with Osella in 1986, in one of the slowest cars on the grid, and in two seasons barely saw the finish.
With Dallara, the Scuderia Italia, the results came. In 1989 he was fourth at Monaco and sixth in Canada, 4 points. The following year, now at Arrows, he scored at Monaco again: he started twenty-second and finished fifth.
In 1991 the Footwork, with an engine that did not work, kept him out of almost every race: he only managed to start twice. He never raced in Formula 1 again. He stopped at 56 Grands Prix and 6 points, five of them in the streets of Monte Carlo.
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Rating by season
- First season
- 70 1988
- Peak
- 71 1989
- 1991
- 69 Footwork
4 seasons in the database, from 1988 to 1991. Our own rating, from 50 to 99.
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Best year
1990
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His team-mates
5 team-mates across 5 seasons. When both finished the race, Caffi was ahead in 5 of 7; on the grid he started ahead in 18 of 28.
| Year | Team-mate | In the race | On the grid |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1986 | Piercarlo GhinzaniOsella · 1 race | · | 0-1 |
| 1987 | Franco ForiniOsella · 2 races | · | 2-0 |
| 1987 | Gabriele TarquiniOsella · 1 race | · | 1-0 |
| 1989 | Andrea de CesarisDallara · 13 races | 3-1 | 9-4 |
| 1990 | Michele AlboretoArrows · 10 races | 2-0 | 6-4 |
| 1991 | Michele AlboretoFootwork · 1 race | 0-1 | 0-1 |
The first number is always Caffi's. A team-mate is whoever started the same race for the same team. "In the race" only counts races both finished, because a retirement says nothing about who was quicker. "On the grid" is the starting position, with penalties already applied.
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