Lewis Hamilton’s sixth championship has moved him to outright second on the all-time champions list.
It means 2020 could be a record-setting year for the British driver. Here are the key statistics of Hamilton’s career so far, a look at how close he is to claiming some of the most prestigious records in Formula One and how he compares to some of the sport’s all-time greats.
World championship titles
1. Michael Schumacher – 7
2. Lewis Hamilton – 6
3. Juan Manuel Fangio – 5
4. Sebastian Vettel, Alain Prost – 4
5. Jack Brabham, Jackie Strwart, Niki Lauda, Nelson Piquet, Ayrton Senna – 3
Total wins
1. Michael Schumacher – 91
2. Lewis Hamilton – 83
3. Sebastian Vettel – 53
4. Alain Prost – 51
5. Ayrton Senna – 41
Percentages of F1 career races won
1. Juan Manuel Fangio – 52 entries, 24 wins (46.51 percent)
2. Alberto Ascari – 33 entries, 13 wins (39.39 percent)
3. Jim Clark – 73 entries, 25 wins (34.25 percent)
4. Lewis Hamilton – 248 entries, 83 wins (33.47 percent)
5. Michael Schumacher – 308 entries, 91 wins (29.55 percent)
Total races finished in the points
1. Michael Schumacher – 221
2. Kimi Raikkonen – 212
3. Lewis Hamilton – 211
4. Fernando Alonso – 202
5. Sebastian Vettel – 194
Total podium finishes
1. Michael Schumacher – 155
2. Lewis Hamilton – 149
3. Sebastian Vettel – 119
4. Alain Prost – 106
5. Kimi Raikkonen – 103
Hamilton holds one F1 record which looks like it will take some beating…
Pole positions
1. Lewis Hamilton – 87
2. Michael Schumacher – 68
3. Ayrton Senna – 65
4. Sebastian Vettel – 57
5. Jim Clark, Alain Prost – 57
To put that tally into perspective, behind Vettel there is a big gap to the other active drivers on the grid to have claimed a pole position in qualifying.
The current list behind Vettel is: Kimi Raikkonen (18), Valtteri Bottas (11), Charles Leclerc (6), Daniel Ricciardo (3), Robert Kubica, Nico Hulkenberg and Max Verstappen (1). Leclerc has claimed all six of his this season — while that’s impressive, at that rate it would take 13 more seasons to match Hamilton’s current mark.