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Michael Schumacher won seven world titles, five of them with Ferrari, and two with Benetton. Lewis Hamilton has won seven world titles, one with McLaren and six with Mercedes. Juan Manuel Fangio won five titles in the 1950s, and won 24 of the 51 races he started.
The Formula One World Championship season consists of a series of races, known as Grands Prix, held usually on purpose-built circuits, and in a few cases on closed city streets. [3] The World Drivers' Championship is presented by the FIA to the most successful Formula One driver over the course of the season through a points system based on ...
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).
France. Seven-time World Drivers' Champion Michael Schumacher held the record for the most Grand Prix victories with 91, before being surpassed by Lewis Hamilton in 2020. Sebastian Vettel has four consecutive titles to his name, winning them all with Red Bull Racing. Ayrton Senna won the Canadian Grand Prix in 1988.
There have been 58 Formula One drivers from the United States including two World Drivers' Championship winners, Mario Andretti and Phil Hill. Andretti is the most successful American Formula One driver having won 12 races, and only Eddie Cheever has started more Grands Prix. Logan Sargeant is the most recent American, having competed in 2023 ...
In Formula One, each car is numbered.Since the inaugural Formula One World Championship in 1950, several numbering systems have been used.This list covers the numbers used by drivers since the start of the 2014 Formula One season, when drivers have been allowed to choose a number that they would carry throughout their career.
Jim Clark is the most dominant Drivers' Champion in terms of points scored, with a maximum of 54 points (7 and 6 wins, respectively) in both 1963 and 1965. More recently, Michael Schumacher finished on the podium in every race in the 2002 season, earning 144 of a possible 170 points. [ 15 ] The most dominant Constructors' Champion in recent ...
Contents. List of female Formula One drivers. This is a list of female motor racing drivers who have taken part in the Formula One World Championship since the inception of the World Championship for Drivers in 1950. Maria Teresa de Filippis was the first woman to enter a Formula One race. As of 2024, four other female drivers have entered at ...