Pick any two of the 789 drivers who have started a World Championship race since 1950 and see them side by side: who finished ahead in the races they ran together, titles, wins, poles and podiums, their championship position season by season, how their level changed with age when we have it, and what happened when they shared a team. The figures come from our database of 1,166 races.
Head to head
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As team-mates
| Year | Team | Races | In the race | On the grid |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2007 | McLaren | 17 | 9-6 | 7-10 |
The first number is Fernando Alonso's. Here "in the race" only counts races both finished; "on the grid" is the starting position, penalties included.
Their whole career
Titles
Grands Prix
Seasons
Wins
Win rate
Poles
Pole rate
Podiums
Podium rate
Retirements
Best championship
Points
Fernando Alonso: 2005, 2006. Lewis Hamilton: 2008, 2014, 2015, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020.
Points are deliberately not highlighted: the scoring system has changed many times and a win is worth 25 today where it was once worth 8.
All time
Titles
2
12th all time
7
1st all time
Wins
32
7th all time
106
1st all time
Poles
22
15th all time
104
1st all time
Podiums
106
5th all time
208
1st all time
Races
443
1st all time
397
2nd all time
Each bar is the distance to the record for that figure, and the ranking is among the 789 drivers who have started a World Championship race. Ties share a place.
Rating by age
━ Fernando Alonso┅ Lewis Hamilton
Our own rating, from 50 to 99, one value per season. The axis is the age each driver turned that year, so two eras can share a chart. The database starts in 1988.
And in the same car?
The figures above depend on the car each of them had. The simulator puts both in the same one: Fernando Alonso at the level of 2005 and Lewis Hamilton at the level of 2020, in the best car of 2020, over a full season.
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To see all 789 at once, sorted by any figure and filtered by years, team or country, use the driver statistics table.
How each figure is counted
Grands Prix are starts, not entries. A driver who qualified and could not take the start does not get the race. Where a start was cancelled and repeated, the race does not count for whoever missed the second one, which is why Michael Schumacher has 306 and not 307: at Silverstone in 1999 he crashed on a start that was then run again without him.
Pole belongs to whoever starts first once penalties are applied, not to the fastest lap of qualifying. In the fifties a driver could take over a team-mate's car mid-race; the pole stays with the one who set it.
A retirement is any race started and not finished, whatever the reason. A driver classified without seeing the flag, because they had covered enough distance, counts as retired.
Titles and best championship leave out the season in progress, whose table is today's and not the final one. Points are the official ones from each final table.
The rating is ours: one value per driver and season, calibrated against the real results, and it only exists from 1988 and for drivers with a profile. It is the one thing here you will not find in a results archive, and it is explained in how the simulator works.