As teammates — same car
Race finishesahead
Qualifyingahead
Pat O'Connor · Rodger Ward
Qualifying compares starting grid position, which covers every era — it includes any grid penalties.
Race H2H
3
—
2
5 shared
Qualifying H2H
5
—
0
5 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
1956
Career totals
Pat O'Connor
Rodger Ward
Championships
0
0
Wins
0
1
Poles
1
0
Podiums
0
2
Fastest laps
0
0
Career points
0
14
Starts
5
12
Rate-adjusted · per start
Pat O'Connor
Rodger Ward
Win rate
0%
8.3%
Podium rate
0%
16.7%
Pole rate
20%
0%
Points / start
0.0
1.2
Avg grid
P8.0
P16.5
Avg finish
P16.8
P16.8
Finish rate
60%
33.3%
Rates reward peak form; totals reward longevity. Avg grid/finish: lower is better.
Why they retired
Pat O'Connor
Rodger Ward
Mechanical retirements
0
6
Crash retirements
2
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
1954
Debut season
1951
—
First win
1959 · aged 38
1957
First pole
—
—
First title
—
P8
Best finish
P1
-8.8
Avg places gained
-0.3
Season points trajectory
Pat O'Connor
Rodger Ward
Final points each season — scoring systems changed over the eras.
Track by track
| Circuit | Pat O'Connor | Rodger Ward |
|---|---|---|
| W · Pod · Best | W · Pod · Best | |
| W · Pod · Best W · Pod · Best | ||
| Indianapolis Motor Speedway | 0 · 0 · P8 | 1 · 2 · P1 |
| Pat O'Connor 0 · 0 · P8 1 · 2 · P1 Rodger Ward | ||
Team history
Pat O'Connor
Kurtis Kraft 1954–1958
Rodger Ward
Bromme 1951Kurtis Kraft 1952–1953Pawl 1954Kuzma 1955Kurtis Kraft 1956Lesovsky 1957–1958Kurtis Kraft 1959Watson 1959–1960Lotus-BRM 1963
19511963
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).