Ultimate Formula One Championship

[michael_churchill]

This championship table has been compiled by awarding points to the top ten finishers in each season’s world championship, based on the current points system for Formula One Grand Prix. That is 25 points to each year’s world champion, 18 points to the runner-up, 15 points for third, 12 points for fourth, 10 points for fifth, 8 points for sixth, 6 points for seventh, 4 points for eighth, 2 points for ninth and 1 point for tenth. Drivers who tied for a position in a season’s ranking will share the points allocated to all the shared positions – for instance, two drivers tied for sixth and seventh will each get 7 points, half of the 14 point total for sixth and seventh. To break ties, I look for most first place finishes, then most second place finishes, and so on.

The new top 20:

1. 322 pts – Lewis Hamilton (2nd in 2007, 1st in 2008, 5th in 2009, 4th in 2010, 5th in 2011, 4th in 2012, 4th in 2013, 1st in 2014, 1st in 2015, 2nd in 2016, 1st in 2017, 1st in 2018, 1st in 2019, 1st in 2020, 2nd in 2021, 6th in 2022, 3rd in 2023, 7th in 2024, 6th in 2025)
2. 284 pts – Michael Schumacher (3rd in 1992, 4th in 1993, 1st in 1994, 1st in 1995, 3rd in 1996, 2nd in 1998, 5th in 1999, 1st in 2000, 1st in 2001, 1st in 2002, 1st in 2003, 1st in 2004, 3rd in 2005, 2nd in 2006, 9th in 2010, 8th in 2011)
3. 216 pts – Alain Prost (5th in 1981, 4th in 1982, 2nd in 1983, 2nd in 1984, 1st in 1985, 1st in 1986, 4th in 1987, 2nd in 1988, 1st in 1989, 2nd in 1990, 5th in 1991, 1st in 1993)
4. 205 pts – Sebastian Vettel (8th in 2008, 2nd in 2009, 1st in 2010, 1st in 2011, 1st in 2012, 1st in 2013, 5th in 2014, 3rd in 2015, 4th in 2016, 2nd in 2017, 2nd in 2018, 5th in 2019)
5. 190 pts – Fernando Alonso (6th in 2003, 4th in 2004, 1st in 2005, 1st in 2006, 3rd in 2007, 5th in 2008, 9th in 2009, 2nd in 2010, 4th in 2011, 2nd in 2012, 2nd in 2013, 6th in 2014, 10th in 2016, 10th in 2021, 9th in 2022, 4th in 2023, 9th in 2024, 10th in 2025)
6. 181 pts – Kimi Raikkonen (10th in 2001, 6th in 2002, 2nd in 2003, 7th in 2004, 2nd in 2005, 5th in 2006, 1st in 2007, 3rd in 2008, 6th in 2009, 3rd in 2011, 5th in 2013, 4th in 2015, 6th in 2016, 4th in 2017, 3rd in 2018)
7. 178 pts – Max Verstappen (5th in 2016, 6th in 2017, 4th in 2018, 3rd in 2019, 3rd in 2020, 1st in 2021, 1st in 2022, 1st in 2023, 1st in 2024, 2nd in 2025)
8. 163.5 pts – Ayrton Senna (=9th (one of 2) in 1984, 4th in 1985, 4th in 1986, 3rd in 1987, 1st in 1988, 2nd in 1989, 1st in 1990, 1st in 1991, 4th in 1992, 2nd in 1993)
9. 161 pts – Juan Manuel Fangio (2nd in 1950, 1st in 1951, 2nd in 1953, 1st in 1954, 1st in 1955, 1st in 1956, 1st in 1957)
10. 157 pts – Nelson Piquet (2nd in 1980, 1st in 1981, 1st in 1983, 5th in 1984, 8th in 1985, 3rd in 1986, 1st in 1987, 6th in 1988, 8th in 1989, 3rd in 1990, 6th in 1991)
11. 144 pts – Jackie Stewart (3rd in 1965, 7th in 1966, 9th in 1967, 2nd in 1968, 1st in 1969, 5th in 1970, 1st in 1971, 2nd in 1972, 1st in 1973)
12. 129 pts – Niki Lauda (4th in 1974, 1st in 1975, 2nd in 1976, 1st in 1977, 4th in 1978, 5th in 1982, 10th in 1983, 1st in 1984, 10th in 1985)
13. 126 pts – Graham Hill (1st in 1962, 2nd in 1963, 2nd in 1964, 2nd in 1965, 5th in 1966, 7th in 1967, 1st in 1968, 7th in 1969)
14. 119 pts – Rubens Barrichello (6th in 1994, 8th in 1996, 7th in 1999, 4th in 2000, 3rd in 2001, 2nd in 2002, 4th in 2003, 2nd in 2004, 8th in 2005, 7th in 2006, 3rd in 2009, 10th in 2010)
15. 118 pts – Mika Hakkinen (8th in 1992, 4th in 1994, 7th in 1995, 5th in 1996, 6th in 1997, 1st in 1998, 1st in 1999, 2nd in 2000, 5th in 2001)
16. 118 pts – David Coulthard (8th in 1994, 3rd in 1995, 7th in 1996, 3rd in 1997, 3rd in 1998, 4th in 1999, 3rd in 2000, 2nd in 2001, 5th in 2002, 7th in 2003, 10th in 2004, 10th in 2007)
17. 117 pts – Stirling Moss (2nd in 1955, 2nd in 1956, 2nd in 1957, 2nd in 1958, 3rd in 1959, 3rd in 1960, 3rd in 1961)
18. 116 pts – Gerhard Berger (7th in 1986, 5th in 1987, 3rd in 1988, 7th in 1989, 4th in 1990, 4th in 1991, 5th in 1992, 8th in 1993, 3rd in 1994, 6th in 1995, 6th in 1996, 5th in 1997)
19. 114 pts – Jack Brabham (1st in 1959, 1st in 1960, 9th in 1962, 7th in 1963, =8th (one of 2) in 1964, 10th in 1965, 1st in 1966, 2nd in 1967, 10th in 1969, 6th in 1970)
20. 114 pts – Nigel Mansell (10th in 1984, 6th in 1985, 2nd in 1986, 2nd in 1987, 9th in 1988, 4th in 1989, 5th in 1990, 2nd in 1991, 1st in 1992, 9th in 1994)

The only movement in the top 20 this year is that Max Verstappen has passed Ayrton Senna and Juan Manuel Fangio to move from 9th to 7th.

The rest of this year's top 10 are now in the following positions:

37. 75 pts – Charles Leclerc (4th in 2019, 8th in 2020, 7th in 2021, 2nd in 2022, 5th in 2023, 3rd in 2024, 5th in 2025)
43. 67 pts – Lando Norris (9th in 2020, 6th in 2021, 7th in 2022, 6th in 2023, 2nd in 2024, 1st in 2025)
52. 57 pts – Carlos Sainz Jr. (9th in 2017, 10th in 2018, 6th in 2019, 6th in 2020, 5th in 2021, 5th in 2022, 7th in 2023, 5th in 2024, 9th in 2025)
69. 36 pts - George Russell (4th in 2022, 8th in 2023, 6th in 2024, 4th in 2025)
76. 29 pts – Oscar Piastri (9th in 2023, 4th in 2024, 3rd in 2025)
101. 14 pts – Alexander Albon (8th in 2019, 7th in 2020, 8th in 2025)
131. 6 pts – Kimi Antonelli (7th in 2025)

Kimi Antonelli is the only new driver in the list, bringing the total to 175 drivers.

Other current drivers who are in the list, but didn't finish in the top 10 this year:

103. 13 pts – Nico Hulkenberg (10th in 2013, 9th in 2014, 10th in 2015, 9th in 2016, 10th in 2017, 7th in 2018)
115. 10 pts – Pierre Gasly (7th in 2019, 10th in 2020, 9th in 2021, 10th in 2024)
120. 8 pts – Esteban Ocon (8th in 2017, 8th in 2022)
161. 1 pt – Lance Stroll (10th in 2023)

[Golf]

I think lewis unless he has a stellar year next year along with alonso will be gone in 2026

[RJSRdg]

Interesting. Not sure about splitting the points of people who finished level though as that could mean someone who finished lower in the Championship than they did would score more points! (e.g. if the Championship was tied, the two drivers would get 12.5 points, but the person who came third would score 15!).

It would also be interesting to see what would happen if the scores were averaged by the number of seasons in which they competed.

[Oggm]

Interesting. Not sure about splitting the points of people who finished level though as that could mean someone who finished lower in the Championship than they did would score more points! (e.g. if the Championship was tied, the two drivers would get 12.5 points, but the person who came third would score 15!).

The splitting of points for drawed positions take the sum of all the points for all the positions tied not just the points for that position- this means that if the championship was tied both winners would get 21.5 points ((18+25)/2) and third place would get 15 points - I presume

On another note, if all the individual yearly championships were run to a 2025 points system then some yearly championship standings would likely be slightly different - I wonder if this change would effect the positions scored in the ultimate formula one championship.

[tubeguru]

It may well change some of the positions in the final tab;e of most seasons up to 1990, because in all of those seasons only a certain number of results counted towards your final total. For example, the very first championship only counted the best four results from seven rounds!

As late as 1980 the system was the frankly ridiculous "best five results from rounds one to seven, and the best five results from rounds eight to 14".