Who is f1 world champion

Mario Andretti. Race 14 of Jody Scheckter. Alan Jones. Nelson Piquet. Brabham - Ford Cosworth. Keke Rosberg. Williams - Ford Cosworth. Brabham - BMW. Alain Prost. McLaren - TAG. Ayrton Senna. Nigel Mansell. Michael Schumacher. Benetton - Ford Cosworth. Damon Hill. Jacques Villeneuve. Race 17 of McLaren - Mercedes. Fernando Alonso. Race 18 of Lewis Hamilton. Jenson Button. Consistently out-performing his celebrated team mate Fernando Alonso who had won the first of his two driving titles, with Renault, when he was just 24 , Lewis Hamilton barged onto the podium a dozen times, won four races, led the championship for five months and lost it by merely a single point in the final race to Ferrari's Kimi Raikkonen.

Their new recruit's dazzling debut was the only bright spot in a turbulent year for McLaren, whose two drivers became bitter adversaries. Their feud, exacerbated by Alonso's resentment of the British-based team's apparent focus an English upstart he had presumed would be his understudy, culminated in the slighted Spaniard's angry departure from a team already troubled by a notorious 'spy scandal. On assuming the role of team leader in when Alonso returned to Renault the boy wonder became even more of a marked man.

En route to carving out five victories and scything his way to the podium on six other occasions, he incurred the wrath of several overtaken rivals who accused him of arrogance and dangerous driving.

Hamilton insisted his hard-earned self-belief was wrongly interpreted and that his driving was firm but fair. But it wasn't without flaw and a combination of miscues and mishaps meant the championship was far from a foregone conclusion prior to the final Grand Prix, in Brazil. There, if Hamilton failed to finish at least fifth, Ferrari's Felipe Massa could take the title by winning his home race. The grand finale, on a serpentine Interlagos circuit made more treacherous by rain, produced arguably the most thrilling climax in the annals of any sport.

Local hero Massa mastered the chaotic conditions perfectly, crossing the finish line first and scoring the points necessary to become champion - which he was for the With this final flourish, having overtaken another car with about meters to go, Lewis Hamilton, aged 23 years and days, became the youngest World Champion.

His McLaren was not always a world-beater but in Hamilton blamed distractions in his private life mainly a breakup with his girlfriend for a loss of focus that he vowed to regain. In , with his private life running smoothly, he drove hard and well and finished fourth in the standings with four wins. Before that campaign was over he announced he was leaving McLaren, the team that had been so much a part of his racing life for so long, and would in replace the retiring Michael Schumacher at Mercedes.

In his new environment he was a regular frontrunner, securing several poles and podiums including a race win and finished a respectable fourth in the championship. Adding extra human interest to the drama was the fact that Hamilton champion in and Rosberg whose father Keke was champion in had been friends and rivals since their karting days as teenagers. Now, as year-old protagonists competing for honours at the pinnacle of motorsport, the intensity of their rivalry strained their friendship and tested their strength of character.

Clinching his second driving title as well as becoming the most successful British Formula One driver, with 33 victories was an emotional occasion for Lewis Hamilton, whose family and girlfriend shared his tearful triumph at Abu Dhabi. Days of greatness were far from over for a driver yet to reach the peak of his powers. Off the track he relished his celebrity status, embraced pop culture, dabbled in music, became a style icon, hob-nobbed with the rich and famous. His fame transcended his sport but the high-flying, tattooed hero with diamond ear studs never lost his driving ambition, his hunger to win.

He worked hard at self-improvement, added a thinking dimension to his hard-charging instincts, made fewer mistakes and became an unstoppable force in He dominated the season, making full use of his Mercedes F1 Team's car advantage and capping it off with a triple crown triumph secured via a storming victory in the 16th of the 19 races - an action-packed, drama-filled United States Grand Prix at Austin, Texas.

On a wet to drying track wheel-to-wheel battles raged throughout the field, beginning with Hamilton pushing aside his polesitting Mercedes team mate Nico Rosberg on the opening lap. Official Ticket Packages for the Formula 1 season are now available with exclusive trackside activities only available through F1 Experiences.

Accueil Blog 10 F1 World Champions who won it only once. In 71 years of competition, only 33 drivers have won it. Nico Rosberg — Likely the most famous of all single-championship-winners is Nico Rosberg, the most recent winner on this list having triumphed in Mario Andretti — Mario Andretti is currently the last American F1 driver to win a world championship.

He finished the season as champion with 64 points, 13 clear of title rival Ronnie Peterson After an impressive year career in F1, Andretti returned stateside in Nigel Mansell — British motorsport legend Nigel Mansell might be misremembered for having won multiple world titles but, in fact, he only managed to win one.

Jenson Button — Jenson Button and his infamous Brawn BGP stole all the headlines in , from the start of the season to the very end. Damon Hill — Being the son of a star F1 driver and double world champion, Damon Hill was almost expected to take the wheel at some point, and indeed, he joined Williams as a test driver in Jochen Rindt — Austrian driver Jochen Rindt is a very unique world champion; he is, to this day, the only F1 driver to win a world title posthumously.

James Hunt — James Hunt certainly had a few unsavoury reputations during his time in F1, and his behaviour away from the track polarised opinion somewhat, despite his success on it. Jody Scheckter — South African world champion Jody Sheckter had a very illustrious F1 career, with his world title being the peak of his success.

Get closer to Formula 1 in Official Ticket Packages for the Formula 1 season are now available with exclusive trackside activities only available through F1 Experiences. Calendar of Events. But with no constructors' crowns awarded in that period, Mercedes would wait 60 years to notch up its first constructors' championship.

Mercedes returned to grand prix racing in having agreed to buy the Brawn outfit that sensationally won both F1 world titles in the previous season.

It tempted Michael Schumacher out of his four-year retirement, fielding an all-German driver line-up with Nico Rosberg signed from Williams. Schumacher was replaced by Lewis Hamilton in , and the team's unprecedented run began a year later as new rules ushered in the V6 turbo hybrid era.

As of the start of , Mercedes' seven consecutive constructors' and drivers' titles is a record, surpassing the six constructors' and five drivers' crowns that Ferrari won uninterrupted between and In that time Hamilton has become world champion six times, losing out only once to team-mate Rosberg.

The German driver dramatically quit F1 just days after winning the title: he was replaced by Valtteri Bottas, who has contributed to Mercedes' four constructors' victories since.

Constructors' wins: , , , , , , Drivers' wins: , , , , , Lotus is a name synonymous with F1, as is the innovative engineering of founder Colin Chapman. Lotus's first entry came at the Monaco Grand Prix in , and its first constructors' title came along five years later. That year it won all but three of the 10 championship races with Jim Clark, propelling the Scot to the first of his two drivers' crowns with the outfit.

Lotus triumphed again with Clark in and then largely thanks to the exploits of Graham Hill in , who recorded three victories and three further podium finishes on his way to the drivers' title. Success for Lotus continued into , although its victory was marred by the tragic death of Jochen Rindt who died at the Italian Grand Prix having won five races for the team that season.

Rindt's lead in the drivers' championship wasn't overhauled in the four grands prix after his death, making him the only driver to date to be crowned champion posthumously.

Constructors' wins in and led by Emerson Fittipaldi gave Lotus four wins in six years, but perhaps its most famous title victory came in Part-way through the season the team introduced the Lotus 79, which drastically improved the ground effect aerodynamics of the chassis that preceded it.

Side skirts formed an aerodynamic seal around the base of the car, and Lotus proved almost unbeatable thereafter. Mario Andretti and Ronnie Peterson finished in the championship, although the Swede was killed before the end of the season. Constructors' wins: , , , Drivers' wins: , , , Red Bull entered F1 for the first time in , having taken over the Milton Keynes operation left behind by Jaguar.

Crucially it secured the services of star designer Adrian Newey - who'd played a key role in Williams' success in the s and that of McLaren in - in , and the team hasn't looked back since. Having narrowly fallen short in , Red Bull got its first constructors' win in with a driver pairing of Sebastian Vettel and Mark Webber. The duo ensured that Red Bull prevailed over McLaren in a closely fought contest, while the drivers' championship went down to the wire.

Ferrari's Fernando Alonso entered the last race as the championship leader, and although Vettel trailed Webber in the standings it was the German who claimed his first title after an intense strategy battle in Abu Dhabi.

Red Bull set the pace for the next three seasons, and while its advantage over the field was clear their drivers endured a tense relationship both on and off track. Things boiled over at the Malaysian Grand Prix in , where Vettel ignored the now infamous 'Multi 21' radio message instructing him and Webber to hold position.

Vettel duly overtook his team-mate, and Webber never enjoyed the top step of the podium again, exiting F1 at the end of that season. Red Bull initially adapted as 'best of the rest' behind Mercedes in the first year of the V6 hybrid era but somewhat slipped back as relationships with engine supplier Renault became strained.

A new partnership with Honda yielded success through Max Verstappen's exploits, finishing as runners-up in the constructors' for the first time since , but the team remains a step behind Mercedes. Constructors' wins: , Drivers' wins: , The Cooper works team was the first to win consecutive constructors' titles, winning its only two crowns in and On both occasions it was Australian driver Jack Brabham who claimed the drivers' championship, winning two grands prix in and five races in a row in Team-mate Bruce McLaren also collected a couple of victories in this period, as well as a handful of podium finishes.

The Cooper 51, which was powered by a Climax engine, was also raced by a handful of privateer teams in this period. Among those driving for the non-works outfits was Stirling Moss, who won two races in in the same machinery that took Brabham to the title. Cooper was also the first team to win the world championship with a rear-engined car, having pioneered the layout in the late s. Every world championship since then has been won by a car using the same configuration.