As teammates — same car
Race finishesahead
Qualifyingahead
Gene Hartley · Rodger Ward
Qualifying compares starting grid position, which covers every era — it includes any grid penalties.
Race H2H
1
—
6
7 shared
Qualifying H2H
2
—
5
7 shared
Championship record
0
World titles
0
0
Runner-up
0
0
Top-3 finishes
0
—
Best championship
P10
Teammate battle by season
0
1
1952
0
1
1953
1
0
1957
Career totals
Gene Hartley
Rodger Ward
Championships
0
0
Wins
0
1
Poles
0
0
Podiums
0
2
Fastest laps
0
0
Career points
0
14
Starts
8
12
Rate-adjusted · per start
Gene Hartley
Rodger Ward
Win rate
0%
8.3%
Podium rate
0%
16.7%
Pole rate
0%
0%
Points / start
0.0
1.2
Avg grid
P18.5
P16.5
Avg finish
P17.6
P16.8
Finish rate
75%
33.3%
Rates reward peak form; totals reward longevity. Avg grid/finish: lower is better.
Why they retired
Gene Hartley
Rodger Ward
Mechanical retirements
1
6
Crash retirements
1
1
Classified from the finishing status. Mechanical covers car failures, crash covers accidents, collisions and damage — fewer is better on both.
Retirements with an unclear cause: 0 · 1
Milestones & racecraft
1950
Debut season
1951
—
First win
1959 · aged 38
—
First pole
—
—
First title
—
P10
Best finish
P1
+0.9
Avg places gained
-0.3
Season points trajectory
Gene Hartley
Rodger Ward
Final points each season — scoring systems changed over the eras.
Track by track
| Circuit | Gene Hartley | Rodger Ward |
|---|---|---|
| W · Pod · Best | W · Pod · Best | |
| W · Pod · Best W · Pod · Best | ||
| Indianapolis Motor Speedway | 0 · 0 · P10 | 1 · 2 · P1 |
| Gene Hartley 0 · 0 · P10 1 · 2 · P1 Rodger Ward | ||
Team history
Gene Hartley
Rodger Ward
Bromme 1951Kurtis Kraft 1952–1953Pawl 1954Kuzma 1955Kurtis Kraft 1956Lesovsky 1957–1958Kurtis Kraft 1959Watson 1959–1960Lotus-BRM 1963
19501963
Basis
Head-to-head counts races where both drivers were classified, compared by final position (post-penalty). Teammate section counts only seasons in the same car. Career totals mirror the source data. Data: Jolpica-F1 (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0).