Comments on: F1’s greatest winners (F1 in numbers)

By: Keith Collantine

Keith Collantine — Tue, 08 Jun 2010 07:05:49 +0000

39 in 1989, I think, though only 26 could start the race. One-third of the entry were eliminated in pre-qualifying and qualifying.

By: Sanjay Das

Sanjay Das — Tue, 08 Jun 2010 06:56:27 +0000

What was the maximum number of competitors to participate in F1’s history?

By: Zop Leguest

Zop Leguest — Mon, 15 Mar 2010 08:30:59 +0000

Italian Maria Teresa De Filippis entered 3 races in 1958 with Scuderia Centro Sud’s Maserati and DNQ in another one. Also failed qualification in Monaco 1959 driving a Porsche.

Italian Lella Lombardi was the only woman scoring world championship points, at the 1975 Spanish Grand Prix in her March. She entered 12 Grand Prix in her career and failed to qualify in another four.

Also in the seventies British Divina Galica failed qualifications in her only three attempts.

Same for Italian Giovanna Amati in 1992: 3 attempts and 3 DNQ

I can’t remember of other F1 female drivers. Waiting for Danica

By: Keith Collantine

Keith Collantine — Sun, 03 May 2009 22:53:51 +0000

Yes, more than one, and no.

By: Chris Miller

Chris Miller — Fri, 01 May 2009 11:06:02 +0000

Has there been any female Grand Prix drivers? If, what was here name and did she win any races?

By: Sasquatsch

Sasquatsch — Tue, 03 Mar 2009 08:15:39 +0000

Since none of the regular F1 drivers (except for Ascari, once in 1952) participated in de Indianapolis 500 and none of the regular Indy 500 drivers competed in de regular F1 events during the years that the race counted for the F1 championship in my opinion they don’t count as F1 races.

The Indy 500 was only on the F1 calendar to give the term World Championship more meaning because of a race outside Europe.

But I agree that it is an interesting statistic.

By: dmw

dmw — Mon, 02 Mar 2009 18:53:11 +0000

The fact that Prost, Senna, and Mansell evacuated about the time of Schumacher’s entry is an interesting insight. Senna dueled Prost dueled Mansell duled Piquet. Stewart also suffered some good competition. And they all dueled unreliability. Schumacher dueled a parade of great but never truly historic drivers: Villeneuve, Hakkinen, Coulthard, D. Hill. It was not until Alonso got a good car (and whenever Raikkonen had a reliable one) that we saw again a true phenomenon challenge Schumacher. And it was only Alsonso who proved to have the talent and cool to put it to him under any condition.

By: DASMAN

DASMAN — Mon, 02 Mar 2009 13:16:27 +0000

@Whewbacca

Remember it took Schumi Nearly 5 years before he won a championship with Ferrari. He most certainly did not have the best machinery from ’96 – 2000.

By: Keith Collantine

Keith Collantine — Mon, 02 Mar 2009 09:58:27 +0000

Ignoring Lee Wallard, of course – one of my favourite F1 stats

By: Sasquatsch

Sasquatsch — Mon, 02 Mar 2009 09:25:17 +0000

In my opinion not the absolute number of wins count, but the number of wins relative to the number of events a driver competed in counts.

An absolute comparison is not fair to those who competed in less events because there were not so many Grand Prix in a year as there are now.

That gives us a whole new list:

1. Fangio 47.0% (24 victories in 51 races)
2. Ascari 38.2 (13 – 34)
3. Schumacher 36.4% (91 – 250)
4. Clark 34.2% (25 – 73)
5. Stewart 27.0% (29 – 100)
6. Prost 25.4% (51 – 201)
7. Senna 25.3% (41 – 162)

Alonso scores only 17% (21 – 123)

This list tells us that Fangio was the most dominant driver of all time, followed by Ascari (in the same era !!), Schumacher and Jim Clark.