But his hit rate is what’s most impressive: he won 27 of the 99 grands prix he contested. And that guy won 91 of them, some of them in a class of one.”. So began one of the greatest comebacks in all of sport. The son of a Borders sheep farmer whose route to F1 was facilitated by Lotus and its founder Colin Chapman, he won two world championships, in 1963 and 1965, but was equally dazzling in sports cars, touring cars, and also managed to win the 1965 Indianapolis 500, driving the first mid-engined car to do so, and leading 190 of the 200 laps. Starting out. Hamilton is definitely the best British driver of all time and holds the record for All-Time most career points (2,755), the most wins at different circuits (26) and all-time most pole positions (75). But, here's how we currently rank all of the F1 drivers competing in 2020, from worst to best. By all accounts a humble and warm-hearted gentleman, Fangio nevertheless made sure he was always in the right car at the right time. Was this chopped up Renault Trafic a lifestyle concept too far? Need we say more? A double world champion and winner of 32 GPs, who could have won, oh, maybe five titles, if only the dice had fallen more favourably – and Alonso had chosen for whom he raced and when a little more astutely. It did… nothing. Other than the Mercedes group. In nine seasons, he won 10 of his 123 races, finishing runner-up in the championship twice. Why does my head hurt? We know the story, but its impact never diminishes in the telling. Perhaps Cooper may be said to have had a lean year, but the fact remains that the New Zealander is a top-grade F1 driver, capable of being up in front with the leaders. He was also a fascinating and complex character, more complex than you might think. … Watch all of 2021 Formula 1 pre-season testing LIVE on F1 TV, Everything you need to know about 2021 pre-season testing, ‘Huge opportunity’ at Williams stopped me retiring, reveals team's new CEO Jost Capito, Haas boss Guenther Steiner expecting ‘a good step’ from all-new Ferrari power unit, WATCH: Incredible visor-cam footage of Yuki Tsunoda lapping Imola in the 2021 AlphaTauri. In other words, if you prefer your racing drivers to do everything with an 18,000rpm sense of abandon, Prost probably wasn’t for you. McLaren's value went up $0.8m over the season; the biggest gain for any constructor. Of the other current F1 drivers in the list, Lewis Hamilton is ranked 12th, with Daniel Ricciardo in 32nd and Nico Rosberg in 49th. Hopefully in 2021, Ferrari regain their legendary form. We learned things you couldn’t possibly have known before, like where the best international undertaker was in any country we raced in. “I think he’s more complete than Michael,” Mark Webber recently observed. “Jim Clark was everything I aspired to be, as a racing driver and as a man,” his great friend Sir Jackie Stewart said. We also have the all time F1 teams ranking and the current F1 Records page. BBC Studios is a commercial company that is owned by the BBC (and just the BBC). Highest scoring driver on track, highest scoring driver in the game. Max Verstappen. He gave us some of the most emotional moments in F1 history, such as his win on home soil in 1991, or when he overtook four cars on one lap at Donington in 1993. 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The profits we make from it go back to BBC programme-makers to help fund great new BBC programmes. “The make-up of a champion is one of such inner self-belief that occasionally it shows up as flaws,” Martin Brundle recently told Top Gear. In F1 2020‘s Driver Career mode, you can decide to jump straight to a … I feel as young as ever, I feel fit, fitter than ever,” Lewis told me a few months ago. Clark set 33 pole positions and won 25 of the 72 GP starts he made, and can claim numerous records to this day – in 1963, for example, he led 71 per cent of all laps raced that season. Third best constructors McLaren (516 points) also finished third in the F1 Fantasy standings – and fourth-placed constructors' Racing Point (492 points) scored the fourth-most points. Skoda Octavia vRS review: does it work as a diesel 4x4? Lewis Hamilton is one of the best drivers Formula One has ever seen, according to Red Bull star Max Verstappen. On the other hand… he’s still winning races and breaking records. Lewis Hamilton “Death was something we all learned to live with. That in itself would secure his place in this list, but Stewart is another winner who used his success as a launch-pad for so much more. Bottas is a lot better than Perez too. Racing Point's Lance Stroll gained a whopping $2.1m over the season as players realised his and the team's potential. Over the course of Hamilton's F1 career, the British driver has had the best car (i.e. When I finally had my accident, I was not surprised. In Formula One, he won the drivers’ championship three times, and was twice runner-up. F1 2020: Recruiting your second driver in MyTeam. Having crashed during the 1976 German GP, Lauda suffered terrible third degree burns to his head and face, and damaged his lungs so severely that a priest read him the last rites by his hospital bed. No money from the licence fee was used to create this website. Still, if you had that 1955 Mille Miglia win – arguably the greatest competitive drive of all time, 1000 miles in 10 hours 7 mins and 48 seconds – on your CV, maybe it just didn’t matter so much. Which means that he may not yet have even reached his peak…. Lewis Hamilton is currently the best driver in Formula One and has seemingly gotten even better in his many years being part of the sport. Nor was he particularly adept at managing F1’s notorious politics; daring to publicly criticise Ferrari in 1991, he was fired when he said of that season’s beautiful but slow 643 that “a truck would be easier to drive than this car”. Jim was a farmer from the Borders and I was a glorified mechanic from Dumbuck. This British driver at present races for the Mercedes-AMG PETRONAS Motorsport at the Formula One. This is why … It displays 3 drivers of the 50,'s and even shows 2 drivers of the current formula 1. Here you can find all F1 drivers … Another driver for whom merely listing the stats is only scratching the surface, but still: winning 212 of the 529 races he entered is a seriously good hit rate. We weren’t fancy folk. He was also the most Turbo Driver'd racer. He retired from six out of 17 races this season, scoring just one World Championship point. More ruthless and cunning than you might think, you still sense that he would have been happier without all the drama. Every year, someone was killed,” he told me in 2012. Prost is the thinking racing fan’s greatest ever driver. Hamilton's final value was $31.4m, Verstappen's $26.3m, and Bottas's $29.5m, which means that Hamilton scored 22.26 points per $1m, and was the best value driver out of the top three scorers as well! It’s so hard to get to F1, to stay in it, to score podiums, and win races. [Pause] Other than to give me the necessary chemistry to dilute the grief and continue to race, I suppose. Logos © 1996. However, there are some drivers who, in our opinion, consistently displayed higher ability than others. A star driver, then, but also a genuine hero. 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. Red Bull Racing. It was a serious life, we were doing an intense amount of racing. Given how surprising this constructor's lack of performance was after pre-season testing, perhaps this statistic isn't so surprising: Ferrari lost $1.8m over the season. Had he lived, Senna would have celebrated his 60th birthday. But not just yet, and not so soon that he may well end up being the greatest, bar none. He became arguably only the third driver – after Niki Lauda and Michael Schumacher – to exert sufficient force of personality over Scuderia Ferrari to build the team convincingly around himself when he joined them in 2010. There was never any doubt which one was which.”. Curiously, Daniil Kvyat was the least popular F1 Fantasy driver with just 1,069,417 picks over the season. Formula One News -AUSTIN (AFP) - Already a great in his sport, Lewis Hamilton endorsed his claim to be the outright best of all time on Sunday (Nov 3) when he secured his sixth drivers' world The ranking is sorted by default on total points. Red Bull Racing. The chart below shows how Hamilton's 2015 compares to his other seasons in Formula One in terms of his performance as a driver as well as that of the various cars he has driven. Talk about bang for buck: Sergio Perez hovered around $10m and hoovered in 318 points over the season, having missed two races. The list displays the all time F1 driver rankings for the most amount of races, victories, podiums, pole positions, fastest laps and the total amount of points for each F1 driver. Each year, the F1 World Championship season is held. But he wasn’t ready to check out just yet. As well as his versatility, Clark was revered for his incredible silkiness behind the wheel, and his extraordinary mechanical sympathy. Besides, Moss remains the quintessential English gentleman, a storyteller, adventurer and driver without compare, as anyone lucky enough to have spent time with him will attest. We do the adding, subtracting, and other necessary arithmetic to find out the best and worst drivers from the 2020 F1 Fantasy season. Famously the best driver never to win the F1 world championship, he could have done so in 1958 when his rival, Mike Hawthorn, was accused of reversing back onto the circuit during the Portuguese GP. Sergio Perez. This should come as no surprise to racing fans — Senna is regarded by many other champions as F1’s greatest driver. READ MORE: McLaren have found their way again – and more good times may be just around the corner. If there is a w*nker driver in there the whole thing collapses.”, Get Top Gear news and reviews in your inbox, Enter your email address to receive regular Top Gear newsletters. And then some. Daniel Ricciardo – the 32nd best of all time! Lewis Hamilton. Daniel Ricciardo says picking the best driver of the 2020 Formula 1 season is not “obvious” as Lewis Hamilton and Max Verstappen have such similar characteristics and “seven drivers” could make a case for being number one. Top Gear's definitive list of F1's greatest ever racers. WATCH: Daniil Kvyat's most memorable moments in F1. READ MORE: Ranking Sergio Perez's podiums from 10-1 ahead of his 2021 Red Bull move. Christian Horner believes that Max Verstappen is the best driver in Formula 1, claiming that George Russell’s performance in the Mercedes at the Sakhir Grand Prix “confirmed” it for him. But then you talk to him about what he saw, and what he lived through, as I’ve been privileged to do a number of times. Their drivers Sebastian Vettel and Charles Leclerc lost the most value out of the field – -$1.5m and -$1.0m respectively. Lewis Hamilton scored 699 F1 Fantasy points in 2020, to Max Verstappen's 457 and Valtteri Bottas's 435 points. The second-most popular F1 Fantasy driver was Lando Norris, and the third most popular? Little wonder Red Bull boss Christian Horner thinks he's the best driver in F1 right now, although the man at No.2 on this list might have something to say about that... 2. This upset Enzo Ferrari, who prized total fealty to his team above all, but established a motor racing truism that still holds today. Max Verstappen The latest entrant to the Formula One Wet Weather Specialist list, but in mere three wet race performances, Verstappen has shown us all that he is amongst the greats in F1 when it comes to wet … © 2003-2021 Formula One World Championship Limited. Finally, here's the dubious award for the drivers and team that faced the biggest drop in value over the season. Famously the best driver never to win the F1 world championship, he could have done so in 1958 when his rival, Mike Hawthorn, was accused of reversing back onto the circuit during the Portuguese GP. The "formula" in the name refers to a set of rules to which all participants and cars must conform. “In that sense, I respect him even more than Schumacher,” Lauda himself once told me. The lowest scoring constructors were Williams, with 177 points. All great sporting achievements can be distilled into straightforward statistics, and Jackie Stewart’s are no different. Dec 16 : Our verdict on the top 10 F1 drivers of 2020. Mathematics is the language of the universe, and given the exponential growth of computing power and advanced modeling techniques, it is beginning to make sense of even the most complex of problems. F1 2020: Driver Career – The best Formula One team for you. In the same year, he won his first World Drivers' Championships in the Italian Grand Prix. Prost won 51 GPs and four world championships – it could easily have been seven – and like Fangio, he was a genius at conserving his car in favour of a late-race assault. Lewis Hamilton scored 699 F1 Fantasy points in 2020, to Max Verstappen's 457 and Valtteri Bottas's 435 points. He was 46 when he won his last title, in 1957, a testament to his immense physical strength. And one whose legend has only grown since his passing during the San Marino GP in 1994. The second least popular driver was Williams' Nicholas Latifi, and the third least was Alfa Romeo's Antonio Giovinazzi. Not all of the world’s great sporting stars are as extrovert as they might appear – or as we might want them to be. BBC is a trademark of the British Broadcasting Corporation. googletag.cmd.push(function() { googletag.display('div-gpt-ad-1526810873155-0');}); Sakhir Grand Prix on his sole Mercedes appearance. To be the total person at that time was a very big challenge.” Small in stature he may be, but JYS is a veritable giant of a man. The 10 best F1 drivers of 2019 At the Abu Dhabi Grand Prix this weekend Lewis Hamilton won a lights-to-flag victory, the 19 th in his career, equalling the record of his hero Ayrton Senna, Pierre Gasly lost sixth place in the drivers’ championship to Carlos Sainz Jr., Nico Hulkenberg’s F1 career came to an end and Valtteri Bottas pulled himself from the back of the grid to fourth. The Italians need that kind of figure. A dominant force in F1 during the 1990s and 2000s, Schumacher arrived in the sport at the tail end of Ayrton Senna’s career, and established himself as one of the best young drivers. Then again, perhaps Fangio was the one driver who was actually bigger than Ferrari. Haas to modify fuel hatch and headrest as FIA release report into Grosjean's Bahrain GP crash, Alpine's Budkowski explains leadership split with new Racing Director Brivio, A hacker, a livery overhaul and a long-term plan – 5 takeaways from Williams’ 2021 launch, WATCH: The unmissable trailer for Season 3 of Netflix's Drive To Survive. Hamilton's final value was $31.4m, Verstappen's $26.3m, and Bottas's $29.5m, which means that Hamilton scored 22.26 points per $1m, and was the best value driver out of the top three scorers … As I got going again, the fitness came back, I went running while listening to some good music, and I thought: do I retire for good, or do I fight fear, fight the accident and go for it?”. And a magnificent racer. Not only did Lauda defy the odds to survive, he was back in the cockpit of his Ferrari just six weeks later for the Italian Grand Prix. He finished a remarkable fourth place, although his wounds were still so raw that he had to peel his blood-soaked balaclava off in one agonising movement. Being professorial clearly isn’t as sexy as Senna-style, hot-blooded Latin devilry, but he made it work for him. Vauxhall Insignia GSI review: a big, fast-ish hatch. Your information will be used in accordance with our privacy policy. Of course, 2020 may change all of this, and we hope it does! This website is made by BBC Studios Distribution. You can sort the rankings by pushing the small arrows in the upper column to see the most f1 wins or any other F1 statistic.. By clicking below you agree to receive news, promotions and offers by email from Top Gear and BBC Studios. Need we say more? The AlphaTauri driver scored a solid 158 points over the season, however – more than Esteban Ocon and Sebastian Vettel. But was BMW the bigger fool for not putting it into production? It’s not the same today. Mercedes, unsurprisingly, scored the most points with 1,014 over the season, while the next best constructors in F1 Fantasy were Red Bull, with 699 points. Williams' George Russell was the third-worst performing F1 Fantasy driver with 74 points, though his season might have looked very different had he won the Sakhir Grand Prix on his sole Mercedes appearance... READ MORE: Our writers share their best moments, biggest shocks and top stories of 2020. Or that he possessed the Senna-like ability to drive his car right on the limit, while being physically fit and intelligent enough to keep a good chunk of his mental firepower in reserve to manage tricky pit-wall calls. Alpine A110 Légende GT review: can a gold-flecked Alpine be worth £60k? While Bottas is performing very closely the arguably the best driver in F1 for decades. “Do you enjoy driving these cars so much that you’re prepared to take that risk? “The secret of applying energy is to economise on effort – to win going as slowly as possible,” the late, great Clive James, a huge F1 fan, once wrote. But look at what Michael achieved, the speed at which he achieved it, and what he accomplished at two different teams. It wasn’t the perfect season, with costly mistakes in Monaco, Baku and Germany showing his inexperience, but it was good enough to arguably make him … “Everything just works better now, with the experience I have… I don’t even think it’s harder to stay physically in shape, although I’m sure that will inevitably tail off at some point.” At some point. Life after Ferrari: How have superstar drivers fared after leaving the Scuderia? “I don’t feel old at all. Many of the details regarding F1 2020‘s MyTeam mode, including those related to your teammate, have … A lot of airlines wouldn’t carry coffins on commercial flights. Most assuredly, Lewis Hamilton merits the third spot in our rundown of the best F1 drivers ever. To ease that disappointment, here’s our take at Formula One’s best Wet weather drivers who epitomise the saying “Driving in the rain is what separates the men from the boys”. In his case, in tackling motor racing’s woeful safety standards, which didn’t endear him to some fans and even fellow drivers at the time. He presently has 84 race triumphs alongside 151 platforms completes under his name. Follow your favourite F1 drivers on and off the track. What’s coming next from the VW empire’s Spanish (soon-to-be-electrified) upstart? He’s still winning races and breaking records, so it may seem a little premature to be venerating Lewis. “The majority of the sporting greats I’ve met drive themselves forwards because they are always dissatisfied. “He’s very clever. Nor is it a shock to see … But Michael Schumacher remains an all-time great and not just because he won seven world championships, 91 races and smashed every record there was to smash. And more human, too. EXCLUSIVE: The Top 10 F1 drivers of 2020 - as chosen by the drivers. He did it for four different teams – Alfa Romeo, Ferrari, Mercedes-Benz and Maserati – driving some of the most genuinely iconic racing cars in the history of the sport, and finished second twice. This list shows the Top 10 F1 drivers list with a few surprises. So I never moaned or bitched with myself. A racing driver, then, but so, so much more. Seventeen races done, points tallied up, bragging rights had – but which drivers and teams scored best (or worst) in the 2020 F1 Fantasy season? With Mercedes once again looking like the team to beat, we fully expect 2020 – whenever it actually starts – to be the season in which Lewis equals and most likely eclipses Michael Schumacher’s record of 91 GP wins. That driver was Haas's now ex-driver Kevin Magnussen ($7.5m), who ended 2020 F1 Fantasy with just 35 points. McLaren's Lando Norris was the second-biggest gainer, with a $1.3m swing in his favour over the season, and Mercedes' Valtteri Bottas gained $1.1m over the season. While there will always be a debate as to who is F1's GOAT, what cannot be dispelled is that statistically, Hamilton is the greatest after equalling Michael Schumacher's record of seven titles, surpassing the legendary German driver's wins landmark along the way which now stands at 95 and counting. Valtteri Bottas. Then there was a simple question: is the pleasure of driving still strong, or do I want to retire? In 1965, he participated in the South African Grand Prix for the first time and achieved the 6th position. Mercedes. Moss actually defended him, and ended up losing that year’s title by a single point. The Big Interview: Cupra boss maps out the future, Chris Harris Drives: the new BMW M3 saloon. This year was both his best performance to date and saw him at the wheel of the most dominant car he has driven relative to … 20 Nicolas Latifi Moss was another one of those post-war heroes who could drive the wheels off anything, anywhere, and who actively loved staring danger in the face and telling it to sod off. “I always knew about the risks I was taking. “I think he went about those results in a technically cleaner executed way, just by the way of wheel-to-wheel combat and no real trickery in his contact with the other drivers.” There are too many great drives to choose from, but the prodigious talent that produced such spectacular performances in the early part of his F1 career is now tempered by huge experience. And while those were different times and far fewer races were run, Fangio’s hit rate is still extraordinary: 29 pole positions, 48 front row starts, 24 victories, from 51 championship Grands Prix starts. Hennessey will give your 765LT 1,000bhp for £18,000, Vauxhall Combo Cargo 4x4 driven: special delivery. Highest scoring driver on track, highest scoring driver in the game. You ask me what it did to me as a man? The ten greatest F1 drivers of all-time - according to SunSport's motorsport correspondent Ben Hunt SunSport's Ben Hunt puts the Mercedes man, at … He still polarises opinion, and there’s no question that he over-stepped the mark more often than was necessary. Mark Alan Webber is a former professional racing driver who made his debut in F1 in the year 2002 with Minardi and spent a … “We weren’t jet set, like people thought. 25,3%. The highest-profile driver of the time, a national hero in Brazil and the favourite for the title despite trailing Schumacher, Senna’s death rocked not just F1 and not just sport, but the world. And the Racing Point man – now bound for Red Bull – was the most picked driver with 8,026,516 picks over 17 races in total. You can’t say Verstappen is outright the best driver in Formula 1 right now, but you can certainly make a strong case for him being equal best. Until then, subscribe to the F1 Fantasy end-of-season email by logging in to fantasy.formula1.com and ticking the box to opt in! And that’s saying a lot because Hamilton is one of the very greatest grand prix drivers of all time. Mark Webber -Red Carpet Arrivals - GQ Men Of The Year Award 2016. Ferrari needs a lead driver they can look up to, someone they respect. The next-worst scorer was Magnussen's Haas team mate Romain Grosjean ($5.9m), who managed 68 points over the season, including replacement Pietro Fittipaldi's eight points. Being on the podium with Jimmy and sharing an apartment with him… people called us Batman and Robin. To put it mildly. Jim Clark was one of the most unassuming men ever to sit in an F1 cockpit, but also arguably the most singularly gifted driver of all time. Date published: November 14 2019 Two-time World Champion Fernando Alonso believes the “exciting” Max Verstappen is the best driver in Formula 1. Nicknamed the Superswede, Peterson is Sweden’s most successful Formula One driver. He won five world championships in the 1950s, not an era renowned for safety. That was Red Bull's Max Verstappen. Perez got destroyed by Stroll for the first half of the 2020 season. There’s not much to say about the Brazilian superstar that hasn’t been said many times, other than to note that he was the driver who was prepared to go further in pursuit of victory than anyone before him, who elevated the art of driving a Formula One car to a level that was almost spiritual, and who did so not just with a sublime skill but also weapons-grade charisma. Lewis Hamilton and Sebastian Vettel and all legendary names like Juan Manuel Fangio, Jim Clark, Ayrton Senna, Alain Prost and Michael Schumacher.

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