The longest finishing streaks: 62 races in a row and counting

Published Invalid Date · figures as of the 2026 Singapore Grand Prix, round 17.

Max Verstappen has finished, and been classified in, every race since the 2024 Japanese Grand Prix: 62 in a row at the 2026 Singapore Grand Prix, the longest such run in the championship’s history. The run is still open, so it grows by one with every finish.

The counting rule: a classified finish is one with a finishing position, with no retirement and no disqualification. A race the driver does not start ends the run. The Indianapolis 500, part of the championship from 1950 to 1960, is left out, as is standard practice.

Consecutive classified finishes

Seven of the eight longest runs belong to the current decade, and five of them are still open. That is a statement about the cars as much as the drivers: a modern Formula 1 car almost always finishes. In the 1980s a season had roughly as many retirements as finishes; a run of 20 finishes was exceptional.

Consecutive points finishes

Scoring in every race is harder than finishing every race, because only the top ten score (the top six before 2003).

Hamilton’s 48 is also a run of 48 classified finishes: for two and a half seasons every race he started he finished in the points.

Consecutive starts

The longest unbroken run of starts, a different measure, belongs to Lewis Hamilton: 265 races from his first, the 2007 Australian Grand Prix, to the 2020 Bahrain Grand Prix, ended by a missed race. Max Verstappen’s run of 250 starts from 2015 is still open.

The live tables, with every driver who qualifies, are on the records pages: most consecutive classified finishes, most consecutive points finishes and most consecutive race starts. Each updates within hours of a race.

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