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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. [8] [9] The first Formula One World Drivers' Champion was Giuseppe Farina in the 1950 championship and the current title holder is Max Verstappen in the 2024 season.
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).
As of the 2024 Abu Dhabi Grand Prix, out of the 778 drivers who started a Grand Prix, [14] there have been 115 Formula One Grand Prix winners. [15] The first Grand Prix winner was Giuseppe Farina at the 1950 British Grand Prix , and the most recent driver to score their first Grand Prix win is Oscar Piastri who took his first win at the 2024 ...
He went on to win the World Drivers' Championship five times—a record that stood for 46 years—and became the only driver in F1 history to win titles with four different teams: Alfa Romeo , Maserati (1954 and 1957), Mercedes-Benz (1954 and 1955), and Ferrari .
This was the first victory for a car with the engine mounted behind the driver in Formula One. [note 2] It was also the first World Championship GP win for a private entrant (excepting the Indianapolis 500 where all the entries were technically private entrants using bought-in chassis) as well as the first win for a car powered by an engine ...
Likely to be guiding his team to a first constructors’ title in 26 years, he claimed his first F1 win and three victories in total. A handful of wins, however, did slip through his fingers.
James Clark OBE (4 March 1936 – 7 April 1968) was a British racing driver from Scotland, who competed in Formula One from 1960 to 1968.Clark won two Formula One World Drivers' Championship titles with Lotus, and—at the time of his death—held the records for most wins (25), pole positions (33), and fastest laps (28), among others.
[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 ...