List of Formula One World Championship points scoring systems

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Template:Short description Script error: No such module "Unsubst". Script error: No such module "Category handler".Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". Script error: No such module "Sidebar". Script error: No such module "Multiple image". Formula One, abbreviated to F1, is the highest class of open-wheeled auto racing series administered by the Fédération Internationale de l'Automobile (FIA), motorsport's world governing body.[1] The "formula" in the name alludes to a series of rules set by the FIA to which all participants and vehicles are required to conform.[1][2] The F1 World Championship season consists of a series of races, known as Grands Prix, usually held on purpose-built circuits, and in a few cases on closed city streets.[3] A points scoring system is used for each Grand Prix held over the course of the F1 season to determine the outcome of two annual championships, one for drivers (World Drivers' Championship) since 1950, and one for constructors (World Constructors' Championship) since 1958.[1][4] Each driver accumulates championship points individually in the World Drivers' Championship and collectively for the team they compete for in the World Constructors' Championship.[4] Both championships are formally awarded at the end-of-season FIA Prize Giving Ceremony to the driver and team with the most points.[4][5][6]

As of the Template:F1GP,Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". 355 drivers have scored Drivers' Championship points,[7] and 70 out of 170 teams have scored Constructors' Championship points,[8] in 1,134 World Championship races.[9] Lewis Hamilton has the highest Drivers' Championship points total with Template:F1stat, Max Verstappen is second with Template:F1stat and Sebastian Vettel is third with 3098.[7] Scuderia Ferrari holds the record for the highest Constructors' Championship points total with Template:F1cstat, Red Bull Racing is second with Template:F1cstat, and Mercedes is third with Template:F1cstat.[8] Drivers received an equal points distribution share if they shared a car with another or set the same fastest lap as another between 1950 and 1957. Second drivers of teams who officially entered only one car were ineligible for points on two occasions involving three drivers.[10][11]

Records and achievements

Jim Clark is the most dominant Drivers' Champion in terms of points scored, with a maximum of 54 points (7 and 6 wins, respectively) in both 1963 and 1965. More recently, Michael Schumacher finished on the podium in every race in the 2002 season, earning 144 of a possible 170 points.[12] The most dominant Constructors' Champion in recent times was McLaren in 1988, scoring 199 of a maximum 240 points and finishing 134 points ahead of its nearest rival.Script error: No such module "Footnotes".Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters".[13] In 2002, Ferrari scored 221 points, as many as all the other teams combined.[14]

Robert Kubica has the longest time between two successive points-scoring results: 8 years and 256 days (between the Template:F1GP and the Template:F1GP).[15] Fernando Alonso has the longest time between his first and last points-scoring results: he scored his first points in the 2003 Australian Grand Prix and his most recent at the 2025 Austrian Grand Prix, a span of 22 years, 3 months, and 20 days.[16] Hamilton holds the record for most consecutive points-scoring results at 48 Grands Prix: from the Template:F1GP to the Template:F1GP.[17] Max Verstappen is the youngest driver to score a championship point; he finished seventh at the Template:F1GP when he was 17 years and 180 days old.[18] Philippe Étancelin is the oldest driver to score a championship point; he was 53 years and 249 days old when he finished fifth at the Template:F1GP.[19]

History

The points scoring has been changed several times throughout F1 history.[10][20] Participants in every season until 1990 could only achieve Drivers' Championship points for their best-placed finishes in a specified maximum number of races.[20] Up until 1979, most years saw only the highest-scoring participant in each Grand Prix for each constructor contributing points towards the Drivers' title.[10] From 1950 to 1959, the top five finishers of each race plus the fastest lap setter tallied points. The format was expanded to include the first six finishers of each event between 1960 and 2002 but with no point for fastest lap.[20] In 2003, the FIA revised the structure to the top eight finishers of each race.[21] The FIA extended the system again to include the first ten Grand Prix finishers in 2010.[22] Each Grand Prix winner tallied 8 points from 1950 to 1960, 9 from 1961 to 1990, 10 between 1991 and 2009, and 25 since 2010.[20]

Half points were awarded for six Grands Prix that were red-flagged before a certain threshold in a race progression was reached (at different times being either 60% or 75% of the scheduled race distance);[23][24] starting from around 1977 to 1980 until the end of the 2021 season,[23] no points were able to be accumulated should a race conclude early with the leader having completed two or fewer laps.[25] Following the Template:F1GP in which half points were awarded to the first ten finishers despite no racing laps being completed, the standards by which a driver can tally championship points should a Grand Prix be suspended before full distance is covered and not be restarted, were changed to a gradual scale system beginning in 2022. No points are awarded unless the race leader completes two or more racing laps without the intervention of a safety car or virtual safety car. Only the top five finishers are eligible for championship points if the race leader completes more than two racing laps but covers less than 25% of the race distance. That switches to the top nine places should the race leader complete between 25% and 50% of race distance. If the race leader covers between 50% and 75% of race distance then participants finishing in the top ten positions tally points. Full championship points are tallied should the race leader complete 75% or more of the scheduled race distance.[26][27] Following initial confusion over how points were awarded at the 2022 Japanese Grand Prix, the FIA clarified the drivers are also eligible for full points if the race finishes under green flag conditions regardless of the percentage of the scheduled race distance that has been covered.[28] In 2023, the FIA clarified that shortened races would be subject to the gradual scale system "if the race distance from the start signal to the end-of-session signal is less than the scheduled race distance."[29]

Sprint qualifying was introduced in 2021 to set the starting order at three Grands Prix that season and the top three finishers of each of these mini-races received points.[30] The first eight drivers were awarded points in three sprint races in 2022,[31] and in six sprint races in 2023.[32]

The fastest lap bonus point was re-introduced in 2019, however only drivers and constructors who finished in the top ten are eligible to score the point.[33] From 2022, the fastest lap point is only awarded if 50% or more of the scheduled race distance is completed.[27] The FIA abolished the fastest lap point rule for the 2025 season onwards.[34] Unlike various other motor racing series, F1 has never awarded bonus points to drivers for leading the most laps (e.g., the IndyCar Series) or qualifying on pole position (e.g., the F1 feeder series, such as Formula 2 and Formula 3).[20]

Points scoring systems

List of Formula One World Championship points scoring systems used throughout history[20]
Seasons 1st 2nd 3rd 4th 5th 6th 7th 8th 9th 10th Fastest lap Drivers' Championship Constructors' Championship Notes
1950–1953 8 6 4 3 2 – – – – – 1 4 N/A Template:EfnTemplate:Efn
1954 5 Template:EfnTemplate:EfnTemplate:Efn
1955 Template:EfnTemplate:EfnTemplate:Efn
1956–1957 Template:EfnTemplate:EfnTemplate:EfnTemplate:EfnTemplate:Efn
1958 6 Template:EfnTemplate:EfnTemplate:EfnTemplate:EfnTemplate:EfnTemplate:Efn
1959 5 Template:EfnTemplate:EfnTemplate:EfnTemplate:Efn
1960 8 6 4 3 2 1 – – – – – 6 Template:EfnTemplate:Efn
1961 9 (<templatestyles src="Template:Tooltip/styles.css" />DScript error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters".) 6 4 3 2 1 – – – – – 5 Template:EfnTemplate:Efn
8 (<templatestyles src="Template:Tooltip/styles.css" />CScript error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters".)
1962 9 6 4 3 2 1 – – – – – Template:Efn
1963–1965 6
1966 5 Template:EfnTemplate:EfnTemplate:Efn
1967 9 (5 from first 6, 4 from last 5)
1968 10 (5 from both first and last 6) Template:Efn
1969 9 (5 from first 6, 4 from last 5) Template:EfnTemplate:Efn
1970 11 (6 from first 7, 5 from last 6) Template:Efn
1971 9 (5 from first 6, 4 from last 5)
1972 10 (5 from both first and last 6)
1973–1974 13 (7 from first 8, 6 from last 7)
1975 12 (6 each from first and last 7)
1976 14 (7 from each of first and last 8)
1977 15 (8 from first 9, 7 from last 8)
1978 14 (7 from each of first and last 8)
1979 8 (4 from first 7, 4 from last 8) All –
1980 10 (5 from both first and last 7)
1981–1990 11 Template:Efn
1991–2002 10 6 4 3 2 1 – – – – – All –
2003–2009 10 8 6 5 4 3 2 1 – – –
2010–2018 25 18 15 12 10 8 6 4 2 1 – Template:Efn
2019–2024 1 Template:EfnTemplate:Efn
2025 onwards – –

Special cases

Sprint races

Since 2021, select events have held an additional sprint race, which has awarded points as follows:

Sprint qualifying and the sprints[20]
Seasons 1st 2nd 3rd 4th 5th 6th 7th 8th
2021 3 2 1 – – – – –
2022–present 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1

Shortened races

Shortened race points criteria[23][25][26][27][35][29]
Seasons Race length completed 1st 2nd 3rd 4th 5th 6th 7th 8th 9th 10th Fastest lap Notes
1975–1976 Less than 30% – – Template:EfnTemplate:Efn
Between 30% and 60% Half
60% – 100% Full
1980–2021 Less than two laps – Template:EfnTemplate:EfnTemplate:Efn
Between two laps and less than 75% Half
75% – 100% Full 1Template:Efn
2022–2025 Less than two full racing laps – – Template:EfnTemplate:Efn
Between two racing laps and less than 25% 6 4 3 2 1 – – – – –
Between 25% and less than 50% 13 10 8 6 5 4 3 2 1 –
Between 50% and less than 75% 19 14 12 10 8 6 4 3 2 1 1Template:Efn
75% – 100% Full

See also

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Notes

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References

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