The World Championship for Drivers has been contested since 1950, after the Formula One technical standard was agreed upon in 1946. The Constructors' Championship was added for the 1958 season and has been awarded continuously since.
The first Grand Prix winner was Giuseppe Farina at the 1950 British Grand Prix. As of the 2026 Barcelona-Catalunya Grand Prix, 116 drivers have taken at least one victory from the 782 who have started a Grand Prix. Three Grands Prix — the 1951 French, the 1956 Argentine, and the 1957 British — were won by two drivers sharing a single car, with both drivers credited for the victory. Gold medals have been awarded to all race victors from the 2022 Abu Dhabi Grand Prix onwards, in addition to the existing event-specific trophies.
The Indianapolis 500 races contested between 1950 and 1960 are included in the official list because they counted toward the World Championship during those years, even though they were not run under Formula One technical regulations and are not referred to as Grands Prix.
Lewis Hamilton holds the record for the most race wins in Formula One history with 106 victories. Michael Schumacher, the previous record holder, stands second with 91 wins, and Max Verstappen is third with 71 victories.
Hamilton also holds the distinction of the longest span between a first and a most recent win. He took his first victory at the 2007 Canadian Grand Prix and his most recent at the 2026 Barcelona-Catalunya Grand Prix, a period of 19 years and 4 days.
Riccardo Patrese holds the record for the longest gap between two wins: more than six-and-a-half years between the 1983 South African Grand Prix and the 1990 San Marino Grand Prix. Mario Andretti waited the longest time between his first victory — the 1971 South African Grand Prix — and his second win, which came five years, seven months, and 18 days later at the 1976 Japanese Grand Prix.
Max Verstappen holds the record for the most consecutive wins, having taken ten successive victories from the 2023 Miami Grand Prix through to the 2023 Italian Grand Prix. He is also the youngest driver to have won a Grand Prix, being 18 years and 228 days old when he won the 2016 Spanish Grand Prix.
Luigi Fagioli is the oldest Formula One Grand Prix winner: he was 53 years and 22 days old when he shared the victory at the 1951 French Grand Prix.
The most recent driver to score a first Grand Prix win is Kimi Antonelli, who took his maiden victory at the 2026 Chinese Grand Prix.
Three races in the early championship were credited to two drivers who shared a single car. At the 1951 French Grand Prix, both drivers who took turns at the wheel were recorded as winners — a practice that was common in endurance events and occasionally applied in Grands Prix during the sport's formative years. The 1956 Argentine and 1957 British Grands Prix were similarly credited to co-drivers. This practice was subsequently discontinued, and no shared-drive victories have been recorded since that era.
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