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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.
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 ...
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).
English: A chart illustrating the progression of the record for most F1 Grand Prix wins, and each successive record holder's accumulation of Grand Prix victories. Date 6 October 2018
The World Championship rule can be declared invalid if the FIA grants F1 an waiver for its "long‐established use of the word 'World'." [8] Each season throughout F1 history has consisted of between 7 and 22 Grands Prix, [a] [10] and the regulations are regularly amended to enable an increase of the maximum number of permitted races each year ...
There have been 776 drivers in the 74-year history of the Formula One World Championship, but the sport had never seen a Chinese racer until the arrival of Zhou Guanyu.
1966 saw a 'Return to Power' as Formula One changed the engine rules once again, allowing engines of 3.0-litre normally aspirated, or 1.5-litre supercharged or forced induction. 1966 was a transitional year for most teams, however, the year did see the first use of composite materials, a technology which would later revolutionise the sport.
F1 has for a while been a step ahead of other sports in the intuitiveness and creativity of its product, to the stage now where it is in the midst of a period of unprecedented worldwide popularity.