Has Any Driver Won Every Race in an F1 Season?

The short answer is no. In 75 seasons of the Formula One World Championship (1950–2024), no driver has ever won every race on the calendar. It is the sport’s great unclaimed record, and the reason the “24-0” idea is so tantalising: even the most dominant machines in history have always dropped at least one race.

The closest by raw wins: Verstappen, 2023

The most wins any driver has taken in a single season is Max Verstappen’s 19 in 2023, from a 22-race calendar. His Red Bull team won 21 of those 22 races — themselves a record for a constructor’s win rate in the modern era — yet the season still wasn’t perfect. Ferrari’s Carlos Sainz won in Singapore, the one weekend Red Bull’s package didn’t come together. Nineteen wins from 22, in a car that good, and it still wasn’t a clean sweep.

Behind that: Verstappen won 15 of 22 in 2022, and Sebastian Vettel (13 of 19 in 2013) and Michael Schumacher (13 of 18 in 2004) share the previous benchmark.

The closest to a clean sweep: Ascari, 1952

The rawer number undersells one case. In 1952, Alberto Ascari won every World Championship Grand Prix he entered for Ferrari. The season’s opening round was effectively the Indianapolis 500, which the European front-runners skipped; Ascari contested the rest and won them all. It’s the nearest anyone has come to a truly perfect run of a season’s races — though it came in an era of six or seven European rounds, not 24.

Ascari’s streak actually ran across seasons: nine consecutive Grand Prix wins spanning 1952 and 1953, a record that stood for decades until Verstappen broke it in 2023.

The great team near-misses

Dominance has usually been a team story:

• McLaren, 1988 won 15 of 16 races with Ayrton Senna and Alain Prost. The only defeat came at Monza, when Senna tangled with a backmarker while leading — handing Ferrari an emotional home win weeks after Enzo Ferrari’s death.
• Mercedes, 2016 won 19 of 21 with Lewis Hamilton and Nico Rosberg.
• Red Bull, 2023 won 21 of 22.

In every case, a single bad afternoon — a crash, a failure, a strategic gamble that didn’t pay — ended the perfect run.

Why it never quite happens

A season is a war of attrition. Across 20-plus races, the probability that nothing goes wrong even once — no engine failure, no puncture, no wet-weather lottery, no safety car at the wrong moment, no rival stringing together a flawless weekend — shrinks toward zero. That’s the exact tension the 24-0 game is built on, and why we wrote a whole guide on why going 24-0 is nearly impossible.