F1 GOAT - All Time Points since 1950

Who is the Formula 1 GOAT? The question about the F1 Goat may have been asked and answered many times but rarely who has the data to back up their claim. Well we will try to give you some ammunition in the discussions with your friends.

We recalculated every F1 race since 1950 with the modern F1 points system to even the field a little bit. Of course there are many other factors that are different and changing from 1950s until today like number of races per season (read until the end for that adjustment), f1 cars reliability, number of teams etc. Still applying the same points system gives us some interesting insights to play with.

Below you will find the interactive graph of Top 40 F1 Drivers and you can play with the data to include or exclude certain nationalities or move the bar to a specific decade or race to see how it changed.

Now lets go a bit deeper and divide these points by number of races each driver had because there is huge discrepancy with early years when there were 7 races per season and now with. 24 races in 2025.

F1 Driver	Points	Races	Avg Points per Race
Juan Manuel Fangio	876	51	17.17647
Lewis Hamilton	5155	356	14.48034
Max Verstappen	2897	209	13.86124
Alberto Ascari	443	32	13.84375
Nino Farina	452	33	13.69697
Michael Schumacher	3891	307	12.67427
Alain Prost	2486	199	12.49246
Jim Clark	847	72	11.76389
Ayrton Senna	1885	161	11.70807
José Froilán González	302	26	11.61538
Jackie Stewart	1118	99	11.29293
Sebastian Vettel	3287	299	10.99331
Mike Hawthorn	469	45	10.42222
Stirling Moss	632	66	9.575758
Damon Hill	1091	115	9.486957
Charles Leclerc	1355	147	9.217687
Juan Pablo Montoya	825	94	8.776596
Mika Häkkinen	1383	161	8.590062
Denny Hulme	951	112	8.491071
Nico Rosberg	1739	206	8.441748
Nelson Piquet	1692	204	8.294118
Nigel Mansell	1511	187	8.080214
Jody Scheckter	899	112	8.026786
Kimi Räikkönen	2795	349	8.008596
Fernando Alonso	3168	401	7.900249
Niki Lauda	1348	171	7.883041

Let us know in the comments below which drivers surprised you most in the list, who do you think is underrated and who is overrated?

And feel free to share this graph with your friends and community, we would love to hear the feedback from them too!

In another analysis we use different approach where after using one F1 point system we even the field by factoring the number of races in season. For example if base races in season is 24, then in a season with 8 races we multiply the points by 3 to account for length.

See how those result came out and compare with this ones!

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