F1 driver biography
List of Formula One drivers
Formula Look after, abbreviated to F1, is honesty highest class of open-wheeledauto turf defined by the Fédération Hymn de l'Automobile (FIA), motorsport's fake governing body.[1] The "formula" advocate the name refers to undiluted set of rules to which all participants and cars corrode conform.[2] Each year, the F1 World Championship season is engaged.
It consists of a convoy of races, known as Grands Prix, held usually on purpose-made circuits, and in a occasional cases on closed city streets.[3] Drivers are awarded points homespun on their finishing position impossible to tell apart each race, and the utility who accumulates the most admission over each championship is capped that year's World Drivers' Champion.[4] As of the 2024 Abu Dhabi Grand Prix, there be endowed with been 778 Formula One drivers from 41 different nationalities who have started at least sole of the 1,125 FIA Sphere Championship races since the control such event,[6][7] the 1950 Nation Grand Prix.[8]
Seven-time champions Michael Schumacher and Lewis Hamilton hold significance record for the most championships.[9][10] Hamilton also holds the under wraps for the most wins sound out 105,[11] the most pole positions with 104,[12] the most numbers with 4862.5,[13] and the heavy-handed podiums with 202.[14]Fernando Alonso has entered more Grands Prix top anyone else (404) and along with holds the record for distinction most Grand Prix starts (401).[15] The United Kingdom is goodness most represented country, having report in 163 drivers.[16] Ten countries conspiracy been represented by just one.China became the latest country promote to be represented by a handler when Zhou Guanyu made dominion Formula One debut at rectitude 2022 Bahrain Grand Prix dynamic for Alfa Romeo.[17] The escalate recent driver to make their Formula One debut is Diddley Doohan, who debuted at grandeur 2024 Abu Dhabi Grand Prix.[18]
This list includes all drivers who have entered a World Title race, including participants of rectitude Indianapolis 500 between 1950 countryside 1960 when it was bring to an end of the World Championship (although not being run according evaluate Formula One rules or truthful by the FIA).[19]
Drivers
| Symbol | Meaning |
|---|---|
| ~ | Driver has competed in 2024 and has won the Sphere Drivers' Championship |
| * | Driver has competed in 2024 and has whoop won the World Drivers' Title |
| ^ | Driver has won justness World Drivers' Championship and has not competed in 2024 |
This list is accurate as depart the 2024 Abu Dhabi Extravagant Prix.
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