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Fangio is the oldest winner of the World Drivers' Championship; he was 46 years and 41 days old when he won the 1957 title. [15] As of the 2024 season, out of the 777 drivers who have started a Formula One Grand Prix, [16] the 75 titles awarded have been won by a total of 34 different drivers.
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).
[4] [a] Fangio is also the oldest driver to win a Formula One World Championship to date, aged 46 years and 41 days. [6] [7] As of 2024, he remains the only Argentinian driver to win the world championship. Fangio achieved his first victory at the 1950 Monaco Grand Prix on 21 May, followed by two further victories at the same year in Belgium ...
The World Championship for Drivers has been contended since 1950, [2] after the Formula One standard was agreed upon in 1946. [5] The Constructors' Championship was added for the 1958 season and has been awarded ever since. [2] Lewis Hamilton has won 105 Grands Prix during his career. He won 21 races with McLaren and has won 84 with Mercedes.
Formula One World Championship career; Nationality: Argentine: Active years: ... Oldest World Champion: 46 years, 41 days [167] World Champion with most teams: 4 [168]
Until 2015, Stewart was the only British driver to win three championships; this record was broken by future seven-time World Champion Lewis Hamilton. [12] [13] [14] When John Surtees died in March 2017, Stewart became the last surviving F1 World Champion from the 1960s. [15]
Formula One, abbreviated to F1, is the highest class of open-wheeled auto racing defined by the Fédération Internationale de l'Automobile (FIA), motorsport's world governing body. [1] The "formula" in the name refers to a set of rules to which all participants and cars must conform. [2] Each year, the F1 World Championship season is held.
Among the greatest drivers between the two World Wars, his career embraced over thirty years, starting in 1923, [1] and ending at the end of the 1950s. He is still the oldest driver ever to have started a race in the Formula One World Championship, having taken 6th place in the 1955 Monaco Grand Prix when he was 55. [2]