
F1 World Champions List by Year

The F1 world champions list by year shows every driver who has won the Formula 1 World Championship since 1950. This complete overview includes all Formula 1 world champions, the team they drove for, the engine they used and the season in which they won the title.
If you are looking for a full F1 world champions list, past F1 champions by year, or the most successful Formula 1 championship winners in history, you will find them all here. You can also explore the constructors’ champions, the countries with the most titles and the drivers with the highest number of world championships.
- The first F1 world champion was Giuseppe Farina in 1950.
- The most successful Formula 1 driver by championships are Michael Schumacher & Lewis Hamilton with 7 titles.
- The latest completed season champion is Lando Norris.
You can sort the F1 Champions list by clicking on the little arrows above the columns.
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F1 Drivers' Champions List by year
Who Has Won the Most F1 Championships?
Driving Formula 1 is in the end, all about to become world champion. In total there are only 35 F1 champions that won a F1 drivers championship title. Of those 35 drivers 49% won two or more championships, in fact a crazy amount of 17 drivers has won more than one title. On top of those 17 drivers are Michael Schumacher and Lewis Hamilton who both won an amazing seven titles. In 2021 Hamilton was very close at scoring the record breaking eight Formula 1 drivers' title. Unfortunately for Hamilton, the champ lost it in the very last lap of the very last GP that 2021 season. Michael Schumacher is by the way, still the only F1 driver who scored 5 consecutive F1 drivers' titles.
The second most F1 drivers' titles are still won by the legendary Juan Manuel Fangio. He won five F1 titles. This great driver from Argentina drove F1 in the 50's. In that time F1 was very dangerous and many drivers got killed in action those days. Fangio also won 4 titles with 4 different constructors, which still one of the all time F1 Records.
Third on this shortlist of champions are Sebastian Vettel, Alain Prost and Max Verstappen. They all won 4 F1 drivers' titles.
F1 Constructors' Champions by Year
The Formula 1 World Constructors' Championship was first awarded in 1958, so the 1950-1957 seasons had no Constructors' title and are not listed here.
Which F1 Team Has Won the Most Titles?
The constructors title isn't as popular as the driver title. Nevertheless it's the most important championship. This is because the price money that the F1 teams receive, is depending on it. In total there are only fifteen F1 constructors that ever won the F1 Championship. You have to keep in mind that the F1 constructors championship did not exists until 1958.
Just as there are drivers that won more than one championship, there are nine constructors that won more than one constructors title. Out of these nine F1 champions, Ferrari won the most titles and has a total of 16 F1 constructors' titles. Second is McLaren with 10, Williams is third with nine and fourth is Mercedes who won 8 titles.
With eight consecutive won constructors titles the Mercedes F1 team is on top of the list. They won it from 2014 till 2021 and now the Mercedes team holds that F1 record for winning the most consecutive constructors' titles. Ferrari is second with seven (1999-2004) and McLaren once won four titles in a row (1988-1991).
Which country won the most F1 Drivers' Championships?
The Formula 1 championship is a world championship, but out of the current 195 countries only 15 different nationalities are represented in the all time Formula 1 drivers champions list.
Below you can see the list of F1 champions by nationality.
F1 World Champions by Country
Drivers from 15 countries have won the Formula 1 world title: 76 championships shared by 35 drivers.
- 1
United Kingdom21titles11driversLewis Hamilton7×Jackie Stewart3×Graham Hill2×Jim Clark2×Damon HillJames HuntJenson ButtonJohn SurteesLando NorrisMike HawthornNigel Mansell
- 2
Germany12titles3driversMichael Schumacher7×Sebastian Vettel4×Nico Rosberg
- 3
Brazil8titles3driversAyrton Senna3×Nelson Piquet3×Emerson Fittipaldi2×
- 4
Argentina5titles1driversJuan-Manuel Fangio5×
- 5
Australia4titles2driversJack Brabham3×Alan Jones
- 6
Austria4titles2driversNiki Lauda3×Jochen Rindt
- 7
Finland4titles3driversMika Häkkinen2×Keke RosbergKimi Räikkönen
- 8
France4titles1driversAlain Prost4×
- 9
Netherlands4titles1driversMax Verstappen4×
- 10
Italy3titles2driversAlberto Ascari2×Nino Farina
- 11
Spain2titles1driversFernando Alonso2×
- 12
United States2titles2driversMario AndrettiPhil Hill
- 13
Canada1titles1driversJacques Villeneuve
- 14
New Zealand1titles1driversDenny Hulme
- 15
South Africa1titles1driversJody Scheckter
Titles are counted by the nationality of the driver. Nations level on titles are listed alphabetically. Built from the season results, so it updates itself when a new title is decided.
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On your F1 Champions list you have listed the 2008 winner as Lewis Hamilton and Ferrari. Except he was driving for McLaren. Now we know that Massa was close to winning that year, but it never happened that way
Thanks for your feedback Michael. The list behind the drivers is the team that won the constructors title.
I'm thinking about splitting them in two lists, so you can see which team the driver was driving for when he won the drivers' title.
The constructors' title list can then also be expanded with both driver names and maybe the car name.
Please let me know if you have any other suggestions or ideas.
I've already done some changes today. You can now see a separate drivers 'championship list with team and engine the driver used and constructors' championship list with the engine.