It has more wins, poles and titles than any other team, despite not having won an F1 championship since taking the constructors’ crown in 2008.
Enzo Ferrari drove Alfa Romeos in Grand Prix racing before World War II and then started his own brand. Competition was a focus from the start and Ferrari started winning in F1 before the 1950 World Championship started.
The following statistics include the 1952 and 1953 World Championships, which were conducted in accordance with Formula 2 regulations. Ferrari dominated both seasons.
Who has the most Ferrari F1 victories?
Item | driver | Race wins |
1 | Michael sSchumacher | 72 |
2 | Niki Lauda | fifteen |
3 | Sebastian Vettel | 14th |
4th | Alberto Ascari | 13th |
= 5 | Felipe Massa | 11 |
= 5 | Fernando Alonso | 11 |
7th | Kimi Raikkonen | 10 |
8th | Rubens Barrichello | 9 |
= 9 | Jacky Ickx | 6th |
= 9 | Gilles Villeneuve | 6th |
With 238 wins, Ferrari is in second place with 56 wins ahead of McLaren. Williams is third, Mercedes fourth.
Jose Froilan Gonzalez took Ferrari’s first pole and won the 1951 British Grand Prix. This ended the five-year domination of Alfa Romeo. Notably, 39 drivers have won world championship races for Ferrari, with Charles Leclerc most recently on the list at the 2019 Belgian GP.
Michael Schumacher has by far the most wins after winning 72 for Ferrari between 1996 and 2006.
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Schumacher has scored more victories in an F1 championship season than any other driver after taking 13 wins en route to the 2004 title. This was only achieved by Sebastian Vettel, who did the feat for Red Bull in 2013.
Which Ferrari driver has occupied the most F1 pole positions?
Item | driver | Pole positions |
1 | Michael sSchumacher | 58 |
2 | Niki Lauda | 23 |
3 | Felipe Massa | fifteen |
4th | Alberto Ascari | 13th |
5 | Sebastian Vettel | 12th |
= 6 | Jacky Ickx | 11 |
= 6 | Rubens Barrichello | 11 |
= 8 | Gerhard Berger | 7th |
= 8 | Kimi Raikkonen | 7th |
= 8 | Charles Leclerc | 7th |
Ferrari is 228 points ahead of McLaren when it comes to pole positions. Williams is third again and Mercedes fourth.
Schumacher heads the Ferrari driver’s table from Niki Lauda, who scored all but one of his 24 F1 poles for the Italian team between 1974 and 1977.
With the exception of the Indianapolis 500, which ran by different rules, Ferrari took pole in every championship race in 1952, but the highest record was in 2004. Schumacher and Rubens Barrichello took 12 poles out of 18 races.
Who got the most F1 podiums for Ferrari?
Item | driver | Podiums |
1 | Michael sSchumacher | 116 |
2 | Rubens Barrichello | 55 |
3 | Sebastian Vettel | 54 |
4th | Kimi Raikkonen | 52 |
5 | Fernando Alonso | 44 |
6th | Felipe Massa | 36 |
7th | Niki Lauda | 32 |
8th | Gerhard Berger | 24 |
= 9 | Ton Regazzoni | 23 |
= 9 | Eddie Irvine | 23 |
Ferrari drivers stood on the podium 772 times in the World Championship, at least one driver finished in the top three in 584 races. McLaren and Williams are next on both lists, with McLaren taking 488 podiums.
Schumacher tops this list again and has more career podiums (155) than any other driver except Lewis Hamilton.
Rubens Barrichello is second after being part of the super team of Ross Brawn / Rory Byrne / Jean Todt alongside Schumacher from 2000 to 2005. Despite his sometimes difficult time at Ferrari, Sebastian Vettel is third.
Who has the fastest F1 laps for Ferrari?
Item | driver | Fastest laps |
1 | Michael sSchumacher | 53 |
2 | Kimi Raikkonen | 23 |
3 | Rubens Barrichello | fifteen |
= 4 | Felipe Massa | 14th |
= 4 | Sebastian Vettel | 14th |
6th | Ton Regazzoni | 13th |
7th | Niki Lauda | 12th |
= 8 | Alberto Ascari | 10 |
= 8 | Jacky Ickx | 10 |
10 | Gerhard Berger | 9 |
Ferrari’s record of 254 fastest laps leaves it 98 ahead of second-placed McLaren, Williams on 133.
The popular Ferrari driver Kimi Räikkönen is in second place behind the inevitable Schumacher. The Finn set 16 fastest laps in his first stint with the team in 2007/09 and added seven more in his second 2014/18 season.
The F2004 delivered Ferrari’s best season in terms of fastest laps, driving 14 out of 18 races with Schumacher and Barrichello. Many of the car’s lap records stood for several years.
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Which driver has made the most F1 starts for Ferrari?
Item | driver | The race begins |
1 | Michael sSchumacher | 179 |
2 | Kimi Raikkonen | 151 |
3 | Felipe Massa | 139 |
4th | Sebastian Vettel | 109 |
5 | Rubens Barrichello | 102 |
= 6 | Gerhard Berger | 96 |
= 6 | Fernando Alonso | 96 |
8th | Michele Alboreto | 80 |
9 | Jean Alesi | 79 |
10 | Ton Regazzoni | 73 |
Starts: 999 (correct before the 2020 Tuscan GP)
Although Ferrari did not contest the first world championship race, the 1950 British GP at Silverstone, it has started most events since then and is in second place 128 ahead of McLaren.
Behind Schumacher and Raikkonen, Felipe Massa started 62 races for Ferrari before his fall at the 2009 Hungarian GP. After recovering, he played another 77 for the team. If he hadn’t missed eight races in 2009, his Ferrari record would have been 147.
Who is the greatest Ferrari F1 driver?
While the statistics (probably correct) show that Schumacher is the greatest Ferrari F1 driver after scooping five drivers’ titles with the team in his most successful era, the points behind are less clear-cut.
In terms of impact, Lauda must be seen as a strong candidate. Together with team manager Luca di Montezemolo and designer Mauro Forghieri, Lauda helped Ferrari out of the doldrums in the mid-1970s. Ferrari narrowly missed both titles in 1974, but Lauda was world champion in 1975 and 1977, and Ferrari won the constructors’ crown for three years.
John Surtees also helped Ferrari recover from a difficult season. He won the 1963 German GP before leading the team to both titles the following year. You could have repeated the feat in 1966 if Surtees hadn’t left after falling with team manager Eugenio Dragoni.
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Alberto Ascari was the first Ferrari driver to dominate the world championship. Ascari was probably equal to the great Juan Manuel Fangio, who won the title with Ferrari in 1956. In 1952 he won all but one of the general practitioners who paid the points and missed Switzerland because he was not there!
He continued his winning streak until 1953, recording nine consecutive GP victories (six in 1952 and the first three in 1953) and securing the crown of his riders in the second world.
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Regarding the greatest drivers who have not won titles with Ferrari, Gilles Villeneuve showed some notable performances, particularly his two 1981 wins with the difficult 126CK, while Fernando Alonso almost won the championship twice (2010 and 2012) with Ferraris not so quickly like their rivals.
How many F1 titles has Ferrari won?
Driver title: 15 (1952-53, 1956, 1958, 1961, 1964, 1975, 1977, 1979, 2000-04, 2007)
Constructor Title: 16 (1961, 1964, 1975-77, 1979, 1982-83, 1999-2004, 2007-08)
Ferrari has more drivers ‘titles than any other team – 15 to McLaren’s 12 – while the constructors’ titles of 16 are seven ahead of second-best Williams. McLaren has eight, Lotus has seven and Mercedes has six.
Ferrari clinched three drivers’ titles before the 1958 Constructors’ Championship opened, and lost that first title to Vanwall despite Ferrari’s Mike Hawthorn winning the drivers’ crown. The number of designers, however, is greater thanks to: Lauda’s German GP crash in 1976, which prevented him from taking an almost certain title; The 1982/83 season when Ferrari had competitive cars but, for various reasons, not a single driver was able to complete a championship challenge. In the 1999 and 2008 seasons, one McLaren driver did enough to win the driver’s crown, but Ferrari won the constructors’ competition.
Who was Ferrari’s youngest title winner?
Ferrari’s last driver title came in 2007 with Raikkonen when he beat McLaren drivers Hamilton and Alonso by one point. Massa lost by the same margin to Hamilton the following year, while Alonso, who lost three to Red Bull’s Vettel in 2012, is the next Ferrari driver.
The last constructors crown came in 2008, when Massa and Raikkonen collected 172 points for the 151 of the main competitor McLaren.
Even if Ferrari is not a challenge for titles, it was usually a race winner. Since its victory in 1951, Ferrari has failed to win at least one World Championship race only 13 times: 1957, 1962, 1965, 1967, 1969, 1973, 1980, 1986, 1991-93, 2014 and 2016.
His last win was the 2019 Singapore GP when Vettel Leclerc led 1-2 in a Ferrari.
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