The driver files

The people
inside the stats.

Ordered by championships, then wins. Each file traces the teams a driver raced for — and how those teams changed hands around them.

All driversWorld championsMultiple championsRace winnersNever champion

Championship files

28 careers on file

01

Lewis Hamilton

2007 — present

Record holder for wins and pole positions; the only driver to win in every season he has contested.

02

Michael Schumacher

1991 — 2012

Debuted for Jordan at Spa, leaving with seven titles and a template for building a team around himself.

03

Juan Manuel Fangio

1950 — 1958

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

04

Max Verstappen

2015 — present

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

05

Alain Prost

1980 — 1993

The Professor managed races, tyres, and politics better than anyone on the grid.

06

Ayrton Senna

1984 — 1994

The definitive qualifier of his era, whose rivalry with Prost shaped a decade.

07

Jackie Stewart

1965 — 1973

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

08

Fernando Alonso

2001 — present

The grid’s longest career, spanning Minardi to Aston Martin across four decades.

Read the record differently

A driver history is also a team history.

Hamilton and Schumacher’s shared summit.

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Teams Fangio drove to a title.

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Alonso starts across the longest career.