Top 50: All-time F1 World Championship Grand Prix race leaders

By:

Charles Bradley

Dec 23, 2019, 9:27 PM

Lewis Hamilton broke Michael Schumacher’s record for the most races led in Formula 1 World Championship history at the 2019 Russian Grand Prix at Sochi. Here are the top 50 grand prix-leading drivers of all-time, in order with their number of races led*.

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1: Lewis Hamilton, 148

1/50

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2: Michael Schumacher, 142

2/50

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3: Sebastian Vettel, 105

3/50

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4: Ayrton Senna, 86

4/50

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=5: Alain Prost, 84

5/50

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=5: Fernando Alonso, 84

6/50

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7: Kimi Raikkonen, 83

7/50

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8: David Coulthard, 62

8/50

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9: Nelson Piquet, 58

9/50

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=10: Nigel Mansell, 55

10/50

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=10: Nico Rosberg, 55

11/50

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=12: Jackie Stewart, 51

12/50

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=12: Rubens Barrichello, 51

13/50

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14: Mika Hakkinen, 48

14/50

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15: Damon Hill, 45

15/50

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16: Jim Clark, 43

16/50

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=17: Jenson Button, 42

17/50

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=17: Felipe Massa, 42

18/50

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19: Niki Lauda, 41

19/50

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20: Juan Manuel Fangio, 38

20/50

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=21: Graham Hill, 32

21/50

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=21: Gerhard Berger, 32

22/50

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=21: Juan Pablo Montoya, 32

23/50

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24: Stirling Moss, 31

24/50

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=25: Riccardo Patrese, 29

25/50

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=25: Mark Webber, 29

26/50

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=27: Jack Brabham, 28

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=27: Ronnie Peterson, 28

28/50

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=29: Valtteri Bottas, 25

29/50

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=29: Rene Arnoux, 25

30/50

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=31: James Hunt, 24

31/50

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=31: Alan Jones, 24

32/50

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33: Jody Scheckter, 23

33/50

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34: Mario Andretti, 22

34/50

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=35: Alberto Ascari, 21

35/50

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=35: Ralf Schumacher, 21

36/50

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=37: Clay Regazzoni, 20

37/50

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=37: Keke Rosberg, 20

38/50

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=37: Jacques Villeneuve, 20

39/50

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=40: Jacky Ickx, 19

40/50

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=40: Carlos Reutemann, 19

41/50

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=40: Jean Alesi, 19

42/50

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=40: Max Verstappen, 19

43/50

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=44: Emerson Fittipaldi, 18

44/50

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=44: Gilles Villeneuve, 18

45/50

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=44: Daniel Ricciardo, 18

46/50

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=47: John Surtees, 17

47/50

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=47: Denny Hulme, 17

48/50

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=49: Dan Gurney, 16

49/50

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=49: Jarno Trulli, 16

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* – Figures correct as of the end of the 2019 season.

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