1) Grands Prix won: 106
He’s finally done it. After a debut Ferrari season to forget, Lewis Hamilton has finally rediscovered his vintage form and scored his first-ever win for the Scuderia. He’s the only Formula 1 driver to have hit triple figures for wins, with Michael Schumacher next on the list with 91 and Max Verstappen in third on 71.
2) Podiums: 206
This podium stat is another record. Hamilton the wonderkid famously opened with nine of them in a row in his very first season with McLaren in 2007.
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3) Grands Prix entered: 387
...and counting. Only Fernando Alonso (435 and also counting) and Kimi Raikkonen (353 and very much never counting again) have more.
4) Win rate: 27.39%
This figure used to be a lot higher, before a debut year to forget at Ferrari, and before that, when Mercedes forgot how to build fast F1 cars. He’s sixth on the all-time list as things stand, behind Verstappen, Schumacher, Jim Clark, Alberto Ascari, and Juan Manuel Fangio, who won 47.06% of all the grands prix he ever entered. Yikes.
5) Points: 5,133.5
Despite years in the wilderness, Hamilton is still number one, ahead of Verstappen and old rival Sebastian Vettel. A lot of the top 10 is made up of current drivers, as you get more points for finishing fifth these days than you used to in years gone by.
6) Pole positions: 104
Sixty-one of which he’s converted into victory. Decent hit-rate, that.
7) Fastest laps: 69
Schumi still leads the way on 77, but Hamilton is closing in.
8) Retirements: 34
Remember that string of retirements that Hamilton had in 2012, ruining any shot he had at the world title? Mechanical DNFs that—rumor has it—convinced him to jump ship to Merc for the following year. Didn’t work out too badly, did it?
9) Points finishes: 340
A remarkable stat.
10) Laps driven: 22,090
This doesn’t include laps in practice, or qualifying, or testing...he’s driven a long way, basically. Not as long as Fernando, mind.
11) Laps led: 5,521
Another F1 record that used to belong to Schumacher. Verstappen is currently third on the list, having led 3,873...
12) World championships: 7
Hamilton prevailed in 2008 with McLaren (“Is that Glock?!" If you know, you know), and then in 2014, 2015, 2017, 2018, 2019, and 2020 with Mercedes. In 2007, 2016, and 2021 (the greatest title fight ever?), he missed out by just one, five, and eight points, respectively. He’s a 10-time champ in another dimension.
13) Formula 1 teams: 3
He started out with McLaren in 2007 and stayed until the end of 2012, when he switched to Mercedes. Almost a decade of success came to an abrupt halt when F1 changed its aero rules in 2022, and after two seasons of being in a non-competitive car, he decided it was time to drop an absolute bombshell and make the switch to Ferrari. Cue another season of...being in a non-competitive car.
But now it’s 2026, and things are a little different.
14) Teammates: 7
We thought it was more than that: Fernando Alonso (2007), Heikki Kovalainen (2008 to 2009), Jenson Button (2010 to 2012), Nico Rosberg (2013 to 2016), Valtteri Bottas (2017 to 2021), and George Russell (2022 to 2024). In 2025, Charles Leclerc became the seventh member of the Hamilton teammate club.
15) Car number: 44
This was Hamilton’s karting number, and when F1 decided to let drivers choose their own numbers (rather than assign them automatically), Lewis picked 44 again for old times’ sake.
16) Age: 41
Hamilton is getting on a bit in modern F1 terms. On the current grid, only Alonso will be getting his state pension sooner. But in historic terms, Hamilton is still a spring chicken/vegan substitute compared to the oldest winner (Luis Fagioli, 53 years 22 days), oldest polesitter (Giuseppe Farina, 47 years 79 days), and oldest world champion (Fangio, 46 years 41 days).
NOTE: This article first appeared on TopGear.com. Minor edits have been made.
