Most wins in F1 in a row: the longest driver and team winning streaks

Who has won the most races in a row

Max Verstappen: ten Grands Prix in a row, from Miami on 7 May to Italy on 3 September 2023, all with Red Bull. Formula 1 calls it the championship record. By its count, the previous record was Sebastian Vettel’s nine in 2013.

As of 11 October 2026, Verstappen is on another run: two wins, at the Bahrain and Singapore Grands Prix. Six races of the 2026 season are left.

The longest winning streaks

From 1950 to Singapore 2026 there have been 15 runs of five wins or more, by ten drivers. They are all in the table.

Two rows depend on how you count. Ascari’s run leaves out the Indianapolis 500; with it, the run is shorter, at seven wins. Jim Clark did not start the 1965 Monaco Grand Prix. If you count only the races a driver started, his 1965 run is six wins, because he had also won in South Africa before Monaco.

The seven longest runs, of six wins or more, belong to five drivers, and all five are world champions: every run overlapped at least one of their title-winning seasons. Verstappen and Schumacher each have three runs of five or more. Lewis Hamilton, who has the most wins in history, has never won more than five in a row: he stopped at five twice, in 2014 and 2020.

Career records for wins, poles and starts are on the Records page.

The most recent run of five belongs to Kimi Antonelli in 2026: China, Japan, Miami, Canada and Monaco. It ended at the Barcelona-Catalunya Grand Prix on 14 June 2026, where Hamilton won for Ferrari and Antonelli retired with an electrical problem five laps from the end.

Nine or seven: how to count Ascari’s run

Nine if you leave out the Indianapolis 500, seven if you include it. From 1950 to 1960 the American 500-mile race was part of the world championship, but the drivers of the European rounds hardly ever started it.

Alberto Ascari won nine Grands Prix in a row for Ferrari, from Belgium 1952 to Belgium 1953. Between Argentina and the Netherlands in 1953 came the Indianapolis 500: Ascari did not start it, and Bill Vukovich won. Count that race and the run ends at the seventh win, in Argentina in January 1953.

Formula 1 counts every championship race in its statistics, the Indianapolis 500 included. That is why in 2023 it called Verstappen the first driver to win ten races in a row and named Vettel, with nine, as the previous record holder: by that count Ascari has seven.

We show both counts and put nine in the table. Of the regular drivers of the European rounds in 1950–1960, only Ascari started the Indianapolis 500: once, in 1952, in the race just before his run began. With or without that race, every other driver’s run of five or more stays the same.

Why winning streaks end

Of the seven runs longer than five wins, four ended with the driver finishing but not winning, and three with him retiring. Sometimes it is a team-mate who ends the run. Here is what happened each time:

• Verstappen, 10: Singapore 2023. He qualified 11th and finished fifth; Carlos Sainz won from pole for Ferrari.
• Vettel, 9: the run lasted to the end of the 2013 season, and in the first race of 2014, in Australia, he retired after three laps with a power unit problem.
• Verstappen, 9: Australia 2024. He retired after three laps with a brake failure, and Sainz won again.
• Ascari, 9: France 1953. His Ferrari team-mate Mike Hawthorn won, and Ascari finished fourth.
• Schumacher, 7: Belgium 2004. Kimi Räikkönen won for McLaren; Schumacher was second and clinched the title at that race.
• Rosberg, 7: Spain 2016. On the first lap he collided with his team-mate Lewis Hamilton, and both retired.
• Schumacher, 6: Brazil 2001. He finished second, behind David Coulthard’s McLaren.

Verstappen won that race in Spain in 2016, the first win of his career; it is covered in the article on age records.

Sometimes only one race separates two runs. For Verstappen, Singapore 2023 split his runs of ten and nine: from Miami 2023 to Saudi Arabia 2024 he won 19 races out of 20. In 2004 Schumacher won 12 of the first 13 races: five in a row, a retirement in Monaco, then seven more.

In 2023 Verstappen won 19 of the 22 races. All his wins by circuit and by year are in the article on Verstappen’s wins.

Which team has won the most races in a row

Red Bull: 15 wins in a row, from Abu Dhabi 2022 to Italy 2023. Formula 1 called them the first constructor to win 15 consecutive championship races. The same 2023 Singapore race, won by Sainz, ended the run.

Ferrari’s 1952–1953 run leaves out the Indianapolis 500: Kuzma and Kurtis Kraft cars won it in those years, so with it the run breaks. With or without that race, every other team run of ten or more stays the same.

McLaren won 15 of the 16 races in 1988, and the first 11 in a row. The Italian Grand Prix ended the run: Ayrton Senna retired after a collision two laps from the end, Alain Prost retired with an engine failure, and Gerhard Berger won for Ferrari.

Some runs come almost back to back. From Japan 2015 to Singapore 2016 Mercedes won 20 races out of 21; their two runs of ten were split by Spain 2016, where their drivers collided. From France 2022 to Saudi Arabia 2024 Red Bull won 33 races out of 35.

The first long run in championship history belongs to Alfa Romeo. They won the first nine Grands Prix, leaving out the Indianapolis 500: the six European rounds of 1950 and the first three European rounds of 1951.

Poles and podiums in a row

The most poles in a row is eight: Ayrton Senna in 1988–1989 and Verstappen in 2023–2024. The most podiums in a row is 19, by Michael Schumacher in 2001–2002: in 2002 he finished on the podium in all 17 races.

Seven poles in a row were taken by Senna (1990–1991), Alain Prost (1993), Schumacher (2000–2001) and Hamilton (2015). You can count pole by the fastest qualifying time or by first place on the grid; none of these runs changes either way. In both record runs of eight, every pole was both. How pole is decided is in the article on pole position.

Who has won the most titles in a row

Michael Schumacher, with five in a row for Ferrari in 2000–2004. Juan Manuel Fangio (1954–1957), Sebastian Vettel (2010–2013), Lewis Hamilton (2017–2020) and Max Verstappen (2021–2024) each won four in a row. Fangio won his four with three teams: Mercedes, Ferrari and Maserati.

The most Constructors’ titles in a row is eight, by Mercedes from 2014 to 2021; Ferrari won six in a row in 1999–2004. The counts are as of the end of 2025. Every champion and the title records are in the article on the most F1 championships, and the runs of Constructors’ titles in the article on the Constructors’ Championship.