Formula 1 Driver Number 19

Vettel followed his surprising 2010 title by dominating the 2011 F1 season. He clinched his second drivers' championship two months before the end of the season. All told, Vettel won 11 of the 19 races of the 2011 season. Although less commanding in 2012, he nevertheless won five races to capture his third consecutive drivers' championship. Vettel's performance enabled Red Bull to win its second manufacturers' title in 2011 and its third in 2012.

In 2013 he again ran roughshod over the F1 field, winning 10 of the first 16 series races to clinch his fourth consecutive title with a month remaining in the season. That year he also became the first driver in F1 history to win eight consecutive races in a season, a record he extended to nine straight wins by the end of the year. Vettel's streak of drivers' championships ended with a fifth-place finish in 2014.

Late in that season he announced that he was leaving the Red Bull team and joining Ferrari, beginning with the 2015 season. Vettel grew up idolizing German racing icon Michael Schumacher, and he took up karting in 1995. He proved to have great talent and soon drew the attention of Gerhard Noack, a track owner who had shepherded Schumacher through his own youth-karting career. Noack's support (as well as that of Red Bull Racing, which sponsored Vettel's karting career from age 12) helped Vettel win numerous karting titles before he switched to open-wheel racing in 2003.

Vettel finished second in the overall standings in his first season of driving in the junior Formula BMW series and won the series championship handily in 2004, posting 18 victories in his 20 races. He subsequently moved to the Formula Three Euro Series and the World Series by Renault before making his Formula One race debut in 2007 after having served as an F1 test driver for two seasons. The racing drivers who participate in the Formula one races, also known as F1 races are called F1 drivers.

F1, officially referred to as the FIA Formula One World Championship, is a single seat auto racing governed by the Federation Internationale de l'Automobile . The 'formula' refers to a set of rules that must be followed by all the participants. F1 drivers participate in a series of races called the Grands Prix that are held all over the world on public roads or race circuits built specifically for this purpose. The F1 races constitute the highest class of auto racing and the F1 cars race at speeds of up to 350 km/h.

These cars are the fastest multi-turn circuit-racing cars in the world. Driving in the F1 championship is a highly demanding job. Only the best racing drivers are able to make it to the F1 races. Drivers with several years of experience in other competitive racing events and the highest level of driving skills are the ones who ultimately get selected for F1 championships. F1 drivers also need to be risk-takers as the risk of automobile malfunction or accidents is ever present. This section provides you information about the life and works of various famous F1 drivers from all over the world.

Vettel won four races and finished second in the world drivers' championship standings in his first season with Red Bull. In capturing the 2010 title, he became the third driver in F1 history to win the drivers' championship despite never being atop the championship standings until the final race of the season. He won the 24 Hours of Le Mans in 1955 and the F1 championship in 1958, despite winning only one race that season.

In his career, he won just three grands prix, though he scored 15 other podium finishes. Surtees, born in London in 1934, won the 1964 world title for Ferrari, but he only finished in the top three one other time in his F1 career. Before his F1 career, Surtees was also a motorcycle racer, and he is still the only man to win world championships in both motorsport disciplines. Widely considered one of the greatest drivers in Formula One history, Sebastian Vettel holds a number of records, including most podium finishes and most consecutive race wins. Sebastian has a unique habit of naming his cars as he feels it is important to share a close relationship with the cars that he drives. Former race-car driver David Coulthard, also known as DC, gained fame for his 15-season stint with Formula One.

He has 13 Grand Prix wins and 62 podium finishes to his credit. Following his retirement from F1, he worked a BBC commentator and later joined the Deutsche Tourenwagen Masters series. Widely considered one of the greatest F1 drivers of all time, Ayrton had won the prestigiousF1 World Drivers' Championship thrice. Following his fatal accident in 1994, several safety improvements were introduced to the sports' set-up; higher crash safety standards, redesigned tracks, and improved crash barriers became part of the sport. The number of drivers from Belgium to have competed in Formula 1. Belgium's most recent F1 driver was Stoffel Vandoorne, who raced for McLaren in 2017 and 2018.

Vandoorne has since found success racing with Mercedes in Formula E, where he has won several races. Romain Grosjean is a racing driver who spent nine Formula One seasons with several teams. In 2011, he won the GP2 Series as well as the GP2 Asia Series, becoming the first two-time GP2 Asia champion.

The number of laps that Lucien Bianchi finished behind race winner Graham Hill at the 1968 Monaco Grand Prix. In a race of attrition, this was still good enough for third place and the only podium of the Belgian driver's career. Forty six years later, his great nephew Jules Bianchi recorded the best finish of his career at the same race, finishing eighth for the struggling Marussia team and scoring two points.

Tragically, both Lucien and Jules Bianchi would lose their lives in accidents soon after recording their best F1 result on the streets of Monaco. Schumacher, left, and Damon Hill, right, went into the final race of the season separated by just one point in the championship. On lap 35 of the 81-lap race, Schumacher brushed a barrier that may have caused some damage to the car's aerodynamics. The brush give an opening to Hill, who came up on Schumacher on the next turn. Schumacher, in what race stewards ruled was a racing move, then made contact with Hill.

The contact knocked both cars out of the race and out of the points. Hunt won the title when he finished third in the final race of the season in Japan. Lauda, along with several other drivers, retired early in Japan, saying the driving rain created unsafe conditions to race. Vettel began his Ferrari career with two solid seasons that did not reach his previous heights, finishing in third place in 2015 and fourth in 2016.

His 2017 season began with a strong start as he won three of the first six races. However, he managed only two more victories, and he ended the year in second place, behind Lewis Hamilton. Vettel had similar results in 2018, winning five races and finishing the season as runner-up to Hamilton. He struggled over the next two seasons, winning only one event in 2019 and none in 2020.

At the end of the latter season, he and Ferrari parted ways, and in 2021 he signed with Aston Martin. Mike Hawthorn announced himself to the F1 world with a victory in his ninth grand prix start, the 1953 French Grand Prix, and he finished third in the championship the following season. With seven Formula One championship under his belt, Michael Schumacher is the most successful racer of Formula 1 and one of the greatest motor sports driver in the world. The retired German racer was the face of Ferrari for a decade and with his tremendous on track success also became one of best paid athletes in the sport's history. His incredible achievements and personality will be etched on our sport forever.

Under his leadership, Williams won the Formula One drivers' title seven times and the constructors' championship on nine occasions. I strongly disagree that he's been better than the 3 you mention. I'd only say Latifi has been slightly better, but the other two much better.

And I think Bahrain was one of the most over rated rookie performances I've seen. That car I believe on that occasion was the 3rd best, and Sky thought that too based on what Gasly did in qualifying. Tsunoda got no end of praise for finishing 9th when he qualified 13th. In the race, he lost 3 places off the line and then gained from his team mate hitting his front wing and Alonso retiring. To be realistic, his finishing position was likely to be where he started which was poor for the car.

Even if it's clear that Yuki has raw speed and that he improved mentally after Albons coaching started, his win or wall attitude and lack of maturity played against on him. His radio outbursts on first half off the season showed how he wasn't mentally ready to cope with pressure and his lows were much more pronounced than his highs. To make matters worse, the fact that Alpha Tauri had one of the most balanced and well rounded cars on the grid + a great performing Gasly didn't do him no favours and extrapolated his weaknesses. Alpha Tauri should be 5th on Constructors this year, and it wasn't only because of Yuki. I can just wonder what Albon would be able to reach in this Alpha Tauri in 2021, but Yuki for me was a letdown, and only his Honda ties and Japan market helped him have a 2nd season. Like I said in the beginning, he has speed and he can be exciting, but he will need to step up mentally and be more consistent in 2022, it will be a make or break season for him, I hope he succeeds.

If we channel his strengths correctly, and mature a bit, he can be really a good driver with a long career, it will depends on how he cope with 2022, and if Alpha Tauri produces a good car as well. In the last lap of the last race of the season, Massa won the race. Hamilton was in 6th, meaning Massa was the World Champion. But then, into the final corner, a car had a mechanical issue, and Hamilton overtook that car to take 5th, which made Hamilton champion by one point. Since then, Hamilton has won 6 more titles, all in the last 7 years. Michael Schumacher previously held the record for most Drivers' World Championships, with 7 under his belt.

Hamilton equalled that record in 2020 by winning the title. Hamilton's Formula 1 career began many around 14 years ago in 2007. He was just 22 years old and had an incredibly successful junior career, where he repeatedly proved his unparalleled talent. McLaren, who had nurtured Hamilton since he was 13, signed the 2006 GP2 Champion to their F1 team. It only took Hamilton one race in Formula 1 to become an F1 sensation. Hamilton's debut season in Formula 1 was arguably the most successful debut season in F1 history.

He was only one championship point shy of becoming the youngest Formula 1 champion. But his loss didn't last for long, because 2008 was a stellar year. Hamilton fought Felipe Massa to the line for the championship, even though the Ferrari was faster than the McLaren. Hamilton, seeking to become a champion as a rookie, qualified second for the finale, but battled a gearbox issue on race day and finished seventh.

Raikkonen, right, won the final race and the championship to become the first driver to go from third to first in the standings on the last race of the season. Like Button, Mansell waited a long time to win his only world championship. After finishing second three times, he took the title in 1992, standing on the first or second podium step at every race he completed. Lewis Hamilton came unstuck in last year's gripping F1 title race because he was 'fighting fire' against Max Verstappen , says former driver David Coulthard . Verstappen got the better of Hamilton in a historic battle for the 2021 championship, pipping his arch-rival to the crown after a controversial finale out in Abu Dhabi. The pair had already clashed on several occasions throughout the season, including when Verstappen was penalised for a collision with his title nemesis at the Saudi Arabian Grand Prix.

And the Dutchman eventually romped home to glory in contentious fashion, passing Hamilton on the final lap despite a late safety car emerging after a Nicholas Latifi crash. Meanwhile, he also ran a a high-performance driving school and published a memoir entitled The Carroll Shelby Story. Nico Hülkenberg initially worked as a forwarding agent at his father's shipping company. He had started his racing career with go-karting at age 10 and grew up to race for Formula BMW, Formula Three, and GP2, among others. He scripted history by winning the Le Mans 24-hour endurance race in his first attempt. Two-time FIA Hall of Fame inductee Fernando Alonso began go-carting at age 3 and won several trophies by 10.

The youngest to win the F-1 World Championship, for Renault, he later led a Ferrari team. When he isn't racing, he is busy managing his e-sports team and working for UNICEF. The F1 season has come to an end, with Max Verstappen winning his first world championship in 2021. All 10 teams have now revealed their driver line-ups for the new campaign, with changes at Mercedes, Williams and Alfa Romeo. Hamilton has closed the gap with victories in Brazil and Qatar as he looks to surpass Michael Schumacher's record by winning an eighth drivers' championship.

Despite an impressive Abu Dhabi weekend, he was a long way behind Pierre Gasly almost every weekend, and also had a lot of crashes. Alpha Tauri had the fifth-best car (or ninth/tenth best-car) this season, but only finished sixth in the constructors' championship, because Tsunoda finished fourteenth. In race points, he scored 32 to Gasly's 110, and if the championship was done by qualifying, he would have 27 points to Gasly's 168. Graham Hill is Damon's father and a two-time F1 World champion.

The elder Hill raced from 1958 to 1975, winning 14 grands prix. He never won the British Grand Prix, though, finishing second twice. He finished second in the Drivers' Championship four times and third on another three occasions. In 1958, he lost the title by a single point to Hawthorn, despite winning four times that season. Mansell leads all British drivers with 31 career victories and is sixth on the all-time F1 list. He also won his home race four times; only Clark and Alain Prost, with five each, have more British Grand Prix victories.

Button has won 15 grands prix in his career, just one fewer than Stirling Moss. This year will be Button's 15th British Grand Prix; he has never finished on the podium at his home race. The UK has also produced many of the best drivers in the history of F1, including 19 grand prix winners.

From Jackie Stewart and Jim Clark to Jenson Button and Lewis Hamilton, there have also been 10 British World Drivers' champions. Verstappen leads by the virtue of winning one more race than Hamilton's eight this season and only needs to finish above the seven-time champion to take his maiden championship. Sebastian Vettel holds many of the records, as his career was jumpstarted by a superb performance at the Italian Grand Prix in 2008.

In his first full Formula 1 season, he went on to gain pole position and win the race, making him the youngest driver to do both. In later years with Red Bull, he became the youngest driver to win a World Championship. Since then, Lewis Hamilton has opted to keep his career number 44, while Nico Rosberg retired after winning the championship in 2016, meaning he did not have the chance to run it the following season. From 2002 to 2013, Webber competed in Formula One, winning the 2010 British Grand Prix. From 2014 to 2016, he competed in the FIA World Endurance Championship, winning the 2015 season for Porsche alongside Timo Bernhard and Brendon Hartley.

In 2019, Mark Webber was inducted into the FIA Hall of Fame. The son of former Formula One world champion Keke Rosberg, Nico Rosberg followed in his father's footsteps to win the 2016 Formula One world championship. After announcing his retirement as a racing driver, Nico Rosberg became an eco-entrepreneur, helping with the construction of self-autonomous and electric vehicles.