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List of Formula One driver records
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The World Championship of Drivers has been held since 1950. Driver records listed here include all rounds which formed part of the World Championship since 1950: this includes the Indianapolis 500 from 1950–1960 (although it was not run to Formula One rules), and the 1952 and 1953 World Championship Grands Prix (which were run to Formula Two rules). Formula One races that were not qualification rounds for the World Championship are not included, and sprints are only included when specified.
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Races entered and started
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Drivers are considered to be entered into a race if they attempt to compete in at least one official practice session with the intent of participating in the race. These drivers are noted on the entry list for that race. A driver is considered to have started a race if they line up on the grid or at the pit lane exit for the start of the race. If a race is stopped and restarted, participation in any portion of the race is counted only if that portion was in any way counted towards the final classification (e.g. races stopped before the end of the leader's second lap were declared null and void prior to 2005).
Total entries
Total starts
Youngest drivers to start a race
Oldest drivers to enter a race
Oldest drivers to start a race
Most consecutive race entries
Most consecutive race starts
Most races with a single constructor
Most races with a single engine manufacturer
- Notes
- ‡ Not counting Petronas engines that were rebadged Ferrari power units of earlier seasons.
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Wins
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Total wins
Percentage wins (at least 15 starts)
Most wins with a single constructor
Most wins in a season
Highest percentage of wins in a season
Most consecutive wins
Most consecutive wins from first race of season
Most wins in first championship season
- Notes
- Bruce McLaren won the 1959 United States Grand Prix in the first season (1959) in which he drove a Formula One car, but he had entered in two championship races in the 1958 season, driving a Formula Two car on both occasions.
Youngest winners
(Only the first win for each driver is listed)
Oldest winners
(Only the last win for each driver is listed)
- Notes
- Luigi Fagioli (born 9 June 1898) is also the only World Championship race winner born in the 19th century.[18]
Fewest races before first win
Most races before first win
Most races without a win
Wins from farthest back on the starting grid
Most wins at the same Grand Prix
Most consecutive wins at the same Grand Prix
Most wins without a World Championship
Most consecutive seasons with a win
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Pole positions
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Total pole positions
Percentage pole positions (at least 15 entries)
Most consecutive pole positions
Most consecutive pole positions from first race of season
Most pole positions at the same Grand Prix
Most consecutive pole positions at the same Grand Prix
Most pole positions in a season
Highest percentage of pole positions in a season
Percentage pole positions converted to wins (at least 5 poles)
Youngest polesitters
(Only the first pole position for each driver is listed)
Oldest polesitters
(Only the last pole position for each driver is listed)
- Notes
- Michael Schumacher was aged 43 years, 144 days when he set the fastest time in qualifying for the 2012 Monaco Grand Prix; this would have placed him 4th on the list, but he did not start the race from pole position due to a 5-place grid penalty incurred from the previous race—the 2012 Spanish Grand Prix.
Most races before first pole position
Most races without a pole position
Most consecutive seasons with a pole position
Most front rows
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Fastest laps
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Total fastest laps
Percentage fastest laps (at least 15 starts)
Most consecutive fastest laps
- Notes
- This table deliberately only goes down to 4th place and 4 consecutive fastest laps because more than 20 drivers have set 3 consecutive fastest laps.
Most fastest laps in a season
Highest percentage of fastest laps in a season
Youngest drivers to set a fastest lap
(Only the first fastest lap for each driver is listed)
Oldest drivers to set a fastest lap
Most races before first fastest lap
Most races without a fastest lap
Most fastest laps at the same Grand Prix
Most consecutive fastest laps at the same Grand Prix
Most consecutive seasons with a fastest lap
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Podium finishes
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Total podium finishes
Percentage podium finishes (at least 15 starts)
Most podium finishes in a season
Highest percentage of podium finishes in a season
Most consecutive podium finishes
Most consecutive podium finishes from first race of season
Youngest drivers to score a podium finish
(Only the first podium finish for each driver is listed)
Oldest drivers to score a podium finish
(Only the last podium finish for each driver is listed)
Most races before scoring a podium finish
Most races without scoring a podium finish
Most podium finishes before first win
Most podium finishes without a win
Most podium finishes without a World Championship
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Points
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Throughout the history of the World Championship, the points-scoring positions and the number of points awarded to each position have varied, along with the number of events per season in which points could be scored.
Total career points
Highest average points per race started (at least 15 starts)
Total points-scoring races
Highest percentage of points-scoring races (at least 15 starts)
Most championship points in a season
Highest average points per championship
- Notes
- † Double points awarded in last race.
Highest percentage of maximum points in a season
- Notes
- † Double points awarded in last race.
Most consecutive points finishes
Note: For inclusion in this table, the driver has to have scored points in the Grand Prix, not just the sprint
Most consecutive points scored
Note: For inclusion in this table, the driver has to have scored points in the Grand Prix, not just the sprint. However, sprint points are included in the total.
Youngest drivers to score points
(Only the first points finish for each driver is listed)
Oldest drivers to score points
(Only the last points finish for each driver is listed)
Most points without a win
Most career points without being World Champion
World Champions with fewest career points
Most races before scoring points
Most races without scoring points
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Races finished
Total career race finishes
Most consecutive race finishes
Total career race retirements
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Race leaders
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Led every lap, total races
Led for at least one lap, total races
Led for at least one lap, percentage of races (at least 15 starts)
Led for at least one lap, youngest leaders
(Only the first race led for each driver is listed)
Led for at least one lap, oldest leaders
(Only the last race led for each driver is listed)
Most laps led, total laps
Longest distance led, total
Most consecutive races led for at least one lap
Most consecutive laps in the lead
Most consecutive distance led
Most laps led in a season
Highest percentage of laps led in a season
Most races without leading a lap
Most laps led without a win
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Multiple achievements at the same race
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Wins from pole position
This is sometimes referred to as a "double".
- Notes
- The most consecutive doubles by a driver is 6, achieved by Michael Schumacher (2000 Italian–2001 Malaysian).
- The most wins from consecutive poles is 18, achieved by Max Verstappen (2022 Dutch–2024 Saudi Arabian).
- The most consecutive seasons with a double is 10, achieved by Lewis Hamilton (2012–2021)
Most wins from pole position in a season
Pole, win, and fastest lap in same race
This is sometimes referred to as a "hat-trick" or "hat trick".[89][90]
- Notes
- The most hat-tricks by a driver in a single season is 6, achieved by Max Verstappen in 2023 (Spain, Austria, Britain, Japan, Qatar and Abu Dhabi).
- The most hat-tricks in consecutive races is 4, achieved by Alberto Ascari (1952 German–1953 Argentine). All other drivers have achieved not more than 2 consecutive hat-tricks.
- The most times a driver achieved a hat-trick in consecutive races is 3, achieved by Max Verstappen (2023 Austrian–2023 British; 2023 Japanese–2023 Qatar; and 2023 Abu Dhabi–2024 Bahrain).
- The most consecutive seasons a driver has achieved at least one hat-trick is 5, achieved by Alain Prost (1982–1986).
Pole, win, fastest lap, and led every lap
This is sometimes referred to as a "grand slam" or "grand chelem".[92][93]
- Notes
- The most grand slams in consecutive races is 2, achieved by Alberto Ascari (1952 German–1952 Dutch), Jim Clark (1963 Dutch–1963 French), and Sebastian Vettel (2013 Singapore–2013 Korean).
- The most grand slams by a driver in a single season is 3, achieved by Alberto Ascari (France, Germany, Netherlands 1952), Jim Clark (Netherlands, France, Mexico 1963); and South Africa, France, Germany 1965), Nigel Mansell (South Africa, Spain, Britain 1992) and Lewis Hamilton (China, Canada, Britain 2017).
- The most seasons a driver has achieved at least one grand slam is 4, achieved by Jim Clark (1962, 1963, 1964, 1965), Lewis Hamilton (2014, 2015, 2017, 2019) and Max Verstappen (2021, 2022, 2023, 2024).
- The most consecutive seasons a driver has achieved at least one grand slam is 4, achieved by Jim Clark (1962–1965) and Max Verstappen (2021–2024) (ongoing).
Youngest pole and win
(Only the first occurrence for each driver is listed)
Youngest pole, win, and fastest lap
(Only the first occurrence for each driver is listed)
Youngest pole, win, fastest lap, and led every lap
(Only the first occurrence for each driver is listed)
Oldest pole and win
(Only the last occurrence for each driver is listed)
Oldest pole, win and fastest lap
(Only the last occurrence for each driver is listed)
Oldest pole, win, fastest lap and led every lap
(Only the last occurrence for each driver is listed)
Drivers' Championships
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Total championships
Multiple championships with a single constructor
Most consecutive championships
Fewest World Championship seasons before first title
(Excluding drivers who competed from the very first championship season of 1950; including winning season)
Most World Championship seasons before first title
Largest gap between titles
Youngest World Drivers' Championship - first-time winners
(At the moment they clinched their first/only title)
Youngest World Drivers' Championship winners
(At the moment they clinched the title)
Oldest World Drivers' Championship - last time winners
(At the moment they clinched their last/only title)
Sprints
Most sprint wins
Most sprint pole positions
Most sprint fastest laps
Most sprint podium finishes
Most points scored in sprints
Other driver records
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See also
Notes
- The Indianapolis 500 was a round of the World Drivers' Championship 11 times (from 1950 to 1960). Drivers competing in the Indianapolis 500 during these years were credited with participation in a World Championship race and the top five finishers were credited with World Championship points.
- Including BWT Mercedes.
- Fangio entered 52 separate races and started 51 of them, but in 7 Grands Prix (1950 Italian, 1951 French, 1953 Belgian, 1953 Swiss, 1956 Argentine, 1956 Monaco and 1956 Italian) shared 5 cars (all mentioned but 1950 Italian and 1953 Belgian) with other drivers which would reduce his percentages to 41.38%.
- Ascari entered 33 separate races and started 32 of them, but in 3 Grands Prix (1950 Italian, 1951 French and 1953 German) shared 3 drives with 1 additional car (in latter with Luigi Villoresi) which would reduce his percentages to 37.14%.
- Some sources extend Ascari's sequence to 9 wins, including the subsequent 1953 Dutch and Belgian Grands Prix and discounting the intervening 1953 Indianapolis 500, on the basis that very few of the European drivers competed in the Indianapolis 500 when it was part of the Drivers' Championship.
- Fangio began racing in Grands Prix in 1948 – before the first World Championship.
- Farina began racing in Grands Prix in the 1930s – before the first World Championship.
- Shared drive with Stirling Moss
- A year after the victory, Renault were charged with race fixing, which led to the team's suspended disqualification; however, the original results were left in place.
- Farina's total of 20 podiums includes both 2nd and 3rd places at the 1955 Argentine Grand Prix.
- Brundle's first podium would have been his 7th start in 8th entries at the 1984 Detroit Grand Prix had not Tyrell been disqualified and the team's results for the season cancelled.
- Including sprint points.
- Including sprint points.
- Including sprint points.
- Including sprint points.
- Some sources give him 50 starts, others give him 51 starts.
- Some sources attribute the record at 148 due to some conjecture over whether it is 147 or 148 retirements for De Cesaris because he ran out of fuel and pushed his car over the line at the 1987 Belgian Grand Prix to finish third.
- This includes partial seasons.
- Alonso did not compete in the 2002 World Championship as he spent the season as Renault's test driver, so he won the World Championship in the fourth season he contested.
- Andretti did not compete in the 1973 World Championship, so he won the World Championship in the tenth season he contested.
- Verstappen won the 2023 World Championship at the Qatar sprint race, before racing at the Grand Prix. Sprint races do not count to the tally of this record.
- In 2003–2009 scoring format: 104 (210 vs. 106); in 1991–2002 scoring format: 129 (204 vs. 75)
- Excluding the 1950 World Championship.
- All of Hulme's eight career wins were not from pole position. The only other driver to have at least five race wins not from pole position is John Watson.
- Hulme won the 1967 World Championship without ever having scored a pole, although six years later, in 1973, Hulme racked up the solitary pole of his 112-race career.
- The gap to third place in this qualifying was also 0.000s and was set by Heinz-Harald Frentzen.
- The other longest gaps are Luca Badoer (9 years, 297 days), Gene Force (9 years, 0 days), Pete Lovely (8 years, 304 days), and Robert Kubica (8 years, 125 days).
- Some sources listed De Cesaris's sequence to 22 retirements, starting from the 1986 Australian Grand Prix to the 1988 Canadian Grand Prix and including the 1987 Belgian, 1987 Australian, and 1988 Canadian Grands Prix on the basis that he did not complete the races.
- Button was given a drive-through penalty for speeding behind the safety car.
- Rathmann started 32nd and finished 2nd at the 1957 Indianapolis 500.
- Button received a total of 70 places (three ten- and eight five-place) of grid penalties for exceeding the allowed allocation of five of his power unit components, unscheduled engine and gearbox changes.
- Vettel recorded speeding in pit lane nine seconds into his career as a Formula One driver.
- Loof started one World Championship race at the 1953 German Grand Prix but only made it two metres off the starting grid. The 1952 and 1953 World Championships were run to Formula Two regulations; however, World Championship and Formula One are commonly referred to synonymously and are treated as such for these records. Marco Apicella, who raced a mere 800 metres (2,600 ft) at the 1993 Italian Grand Prix, is frequently referred to as having the shortest Formula One career but that is a technicality.
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