THE DRIVERS

Ordered by championships, then wins. Each file traces every team the driver raced for, and how those teams have since changed hands.

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Lewis Hamilton2007 — Present

Record holder for wins and pole positions, and the only driver to have won a race in every season he has contested.

7 titles105 wins104 poles370 starts
Michael Schumacher1991 — 2006, 2010 — 2012

Debuted for Jordan at Spa, left with seven titles and a template for how a modern driver builds a team around himself.

7 titles91 wins68 poles308 starts
Juan Manuel Fangio1950 — 1958

Five championships with four different teams — a record of adaptability no one has matched.

5 titles24 wins29 poles51 starts
Max Verstappen2015 — Present

The youngest driver ever to start a Grand Prix, and the architect of Red Bull's second dynasty.

4 titles65 wins44 poles220 starts
Sebastian Vettel2007 — 2022

Four consecutive titles with Red Bull, and a career that traced the same Faenza-to-Silverstone lineages this archive tracks.

4 titles53 wins57 poles300 starts
Alain Prost1980 — 1991, 1993

'The Professor'. Won four titles by managing races, tyres and politics better than anyone on the grid.

4 titles51 wins33 poles199 starts
Ayrton Senna1984 — 1994

The definitive qualifier of his era, whose rivalry with Prost shaped a decade and whose death at Imola reshaped the sport's safety.

3 titles41 wins65 poles161 starts
Sir Jackie Stewart1965 — 1973

Three titles in nine seasons, then a second career forcing Formula One to take safety seriously.

3 titles27 wins17 poles99 starts
Niki Lauda1971 — 1979, 1982 — 1985

Bought his way in with a bank loan, won three titles, survived the Nürburgring, and later rebuilt Mercedes as a chairman.

3 titles25 wins24 poles171 starts
Nelson Piquet1978 — 1991

Three titles across the ground-effect and turbo eras, two of them for Ecclestone's Brabham.

3 titles23 wins24 poles204 starts
Sir Jack Brabham1955 — 1970

Won the 1966 championship in a car bearing his own name — still unique in Formula One.

3 titles14 wins13 poles126 starts
Fernando Alonso2001, 2003 — 2018, 2021 — Present

The grid's longest career, spanning Minardi to Aston Martin, with two titles that ended Ferrari's early-2000s dominance.

2 titles32 wins22 poles410 starts
Jim Clark1960 — 1968

Won a quarter of the races he started, all for Lotus, before being killed in a Formula Two race at Hockenheim.

2 titles25 wins33 poles72 starts
Emerson Fittipaldi1970 — 1980

Youngest champion of his era, twice a title winner, then the man who gambled it all on a family team.

2 titles14 wins6 poles144 starts
Alberto Ascari1950 — 1955

Ferrari's first world champion, and the only driver to win nine consecutive championship races.

2 titles13 wins14 poles32 starts
Nigel Mansell1980 — 1992, 1994 — 1995

Britain's most relentless racer, who won the title at the fifth attempt and then left for IndyCar and won that too.

1 titles31 wins32 poles187 starts
Nico Rosberg2006 — 2016

Beat Hamilton to the 2016 title and retired five days later, the first champion to walk away immediately since Mansell's exit.

1 titles23 wins30 poles206 starts
Damon Hill1992 — 1999

Went from Brabham's last struggling season to the 1996 championship, then gave Jordan its first ever win.

1 titles22 wins20 poles115 starts
Kimi Räikkönen2001 — 2009, 2012 — 2021

Started 349 races across two decades, from Sauber rookie to Sauber veteran, with a Ferrari title in the middle.

1 titles21 wins18 poles349 starts
Jenson Button2000 — 2017

Waited 113 races for a first win, then won the title in a team that had nearly ceased to exist over the winter.

1 titles15 wins8 poles306 starts
Jacques Villeneuve1996 — 2006

Arrived as an Indy 500 winner, took the 1997 title for Williams, then staked his career on the BAR project.

1 titles11 wins13 poles165 starts
Jochen Rindt1964 — 1970

Formula One's only posthumous world champion, killed at Monza while leading the 1970 standings.

1 titles6 wins10 poles60 starts
Felipe Massa2002, 2004 — 2017

Lost the 2008 championship 38 seconds after apparently winning it, in front of his home crowd.

0 titles11 wins16 poles269 starts
Daniel Ricciardo2011 — 2024

Eight wins across three teams and a career that ran the full Red Bull ladder — twice.

0 titles8 wins3 poles257 starts
Sergio Pérez2011 — 2024

Sauber, McLaren, Force India, Racing Point and Red Bull — a career threaded through four of the sport's rebranded lineages.

0 titles6 wins3 poles281 starts
Bruce McLaren1958 — 1970

Youngest Grand Prix winner of his time, and the only driver to win a championship race in a car of his own name and make.

0 titles4 wins0 poles101 starts
Romain Grosjean2009, 2012 — 2020

Ten podiums for Enstone, Haas's first-ever points, and a survival at Bahrain that vindicated three decades of safety work.

0 titles0 wins0 poles179 starts
Kevin Magnussen2014 — 2020, 2022 — 2024

Podium on debut for McLaren, then a decade as Haas's hard-edged constant, including a shock pole at Interlagos.

0 titles0 wins1 poles186 starts