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Formula One: Quick Facts

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F1 ends plans for backup race in Italy as season finale nears in Qatar and Abu Dhabi • Nov. 10, 2026, 11:26 AM ET (AP)
McLaren's Lando Norris wins Formula 1’s Sao Paulo Grand Prix, Mercedes clinches constructors’ title • Nov. 8, 2026, 7:26 PM ET (AP)
'Mamma mia Kimi!' Italy erupts after Antonelli becomes country's 1st F1 champion in 73 years • Nov. 2, 2026, 7:01 AM ET (AP)
Mercedes driver Kimi Antonelli becomes youngest champion in F1 history at age 20 • Nov. 1, 2026, 8:03 PM ET (AP)
Kimi Antonelli is set to end Italy's 73-year wait for an F1 champion. Here's why it's been so long • Oct. 28, 2026, 9:22 AM ET (AP)

Facts

Also Known As F1
Notable Honorees Niki Lauda • John Surtees • James Hunt

Photos

Max Verstappen in the Red Bull Racing car leads a group of Formula One cars around a brightly lit curve at the Marina Bay Street Circuit during the Singapore Grand Prix.
Lewis Hamilton in a racing suit and Pirelli cap smiles and gives a thumbs up on the victory podium after winning the Formula 1 Spanish Grand Prix.
Lewis Hamilton raises his arms in victory on the podium at the 2016 British Grand Prix, with Nico Rosberg to his left and Max Verstappen to his right.
Lando Norris
Lewis Hamilton stands on his Mercedes Formula One car with arms raised in celebration after winning the Turkish Grand Prix and clinching his seventh World Drivers' Championship.
Max Verstappen
Michael Schumacher wearing a red helmet, seated in his red Ferrari F2005 Formula 1 car, with only his eyes visible above the cockpit.
Formula One winner
Confident Senna
F1 prodigy
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Formula One winner
Michael Schumacher
German race-car driver
F1's youngest race winner
Max Verstappen
Belgian-born race-car driver
Lewis Hamilton
Lewis Hamilton
British race-car driver
Sebastian Vettel, wearing a racing suit, sits cross-legged and works on a crossword puzzle in a book before practice at the Italian Formula One Grand Prix in Monza.
Sebastian Vettel
German race-car driver
Andrea Kimi Antonelli in a Mercedes AMG Petronas racing suit celebrates on the podium holding a trophy and a champagne bottle at the F1 Grand Prix of Spain in Madrid.
Kimi Antonelli
Italian race-car driver
Lando Norris
Lando Norris
British automobile racing driver
Formula One driver
Oscar Piastri
Australian race-car driver
A smiling Daniel Ricciardo at the 2018 Australian Grand Prix.
Daniel Ricciardo
Australian race-car driver
Mario Andretti in a white racing suit with sponsor patches, smiling and seated outdoors at the 1970 British Grand Prix in Brands Hatch, Kent, England.
Mario Andretti
Italian-born American race-car driver
Phil Hill at the wheel
Phil Hill
American race-car driver
McLaren, Bruce
Bruce McLaren
New Zealand automobile racer
Juan Manuel Fangio drives a vintage silver Mercedes race car around a curve on the Laguna Seca Raceway track, with red and white curbing visible.
Juan Manuel Fangio
Argentine automobile racing driver
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John Michael Hawthorn
British automobile racer
Sir Stirling Moss sits in a vintage silver Mercedes race car with a red number 8, smiling at the camera, with a crowd of spectators in the background at Goodwood House.
Stirling Moss
British race-car driver
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Alberto Ascari
Italian automobile racer
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James Clark
British automobile racer
First Formula One Drivers' Champion
Giuseppe Farina
Italian automobile racer