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F1 may seem like it's all about the sport but it's also at the end of the day about the individual ability of drivers. And several drivers with consecutive finishes in the points have come and dominated the sport given their penchant for consistency. Their race craft has reflected a culture of unfettered excellence in that time and again they've been able to exploit the maximum out of their car. And on other accounts, even as a driver hasn't necessarily been paired with a great or race winning car, he's aligned prime focus with unflinching consistency to get the best race result for himself and for the team on the whole. There've been several examples of drivers back in the day who dominated F1 despite having manageable cars and not necessarily world championship winning ones and then we saw several talents shaping the landscape of F1 given their endless potential. Let us look at some astonishing drivers with consecutive finishes in the points who happened to have made a world record with their great feat:
Here is a list of drivers with most consecutive points finishes in F1 history:
Lewis Hamilton (48)
There are great drivers who win multiple races. Then there are legends of the sport who win more than one world championship, thereby solidifying their careers. But only a few rise to become true icons of the sport, their mastery underscored by the fact that not only do they win multiple world championships but make frequent or consistent point scoring their second nature. In other words, an inveterate habit of their lives in Formula 1.And the name that truly commands our attention when he does so, is none other than Sir Lewis Hamilton, who from the onset of the 2018 British Grand Prix, until the 2020 Bahrain Grand Prix finishes as many as 48 consecutive races in points.
This is actually a humungous achievement and no amount of verbal decoration of Sir Lewis with respect of adulatory sentences can ever capture the significance of his feat.
Interestingly, back in Silverstone during the 2018 race, the then Mercedes racer finished on the podium despite an early skirmish with Ferrari's Kimi Raikkonen that dropped him a few places down the grid) but he continued to fight on.
Max Verstappen (43)
The world champion from the onset of 2021 to 2024, Max Verstappen is not only a four-time world champion but also someone who repeated the rare but widely respected Sebastian Vettel feat, that of securing four driver's titles with Red Bull. His is a brilliant tale of triumph amid much pressure and not to forget, scrutiny. A man who's often pushed himself to the extremes; Verstappen, from the onset of the 2022 Emilia Romagna Grand Prix to the completion of the 2024 Saudi Arabian Grand Prix finished in points on 43 consecutive races.
Verstappen has made a name for himself for, more often than not, finishing at a better grid position in a race than was thought given his ability at constantly pushing the car to its very edge and potential.
Lewis Hamilton (33)
Back in the day, the giant of Mercedes was simply senational and became the holder of the record of drivers to have races with consecutive finishes in points. Back then, Hamilton did that for the first time in his F1 career from the onset of the 2016 Japanese Grand Prix until the end of the 2018 French Grand Prix.
And this was an interesting racing event in which Hamilton confessed during the post-race media presser that prior to getting into Formula 1, he would always play the F1 video game, in which he would always be "Kimi in the McLaren."
What was fun about the fact was that Hamilton, who won the race at France that year, had Kimi sitting by his side; the Finn stood third in that very event.
Max Verstappen (31)
Max Verstappen has not once but twice scored the record for being among the drivers with consecutive finishes in points.
So utterly dominant was he from the onset of the 2024 Japanese Grand Prix until the completion of the 2025 Canadian Grand Prix that Verstappen finished in points in no fewer than 31 races, which was no ordinary feat given his current Red Bull car is anything but the fastest on the current grid.
And despite the car being anything but a regular podium-bagging machine, he won at Suzuka this year and at Imola before that.
Oscar Piastri (29)
Clearly, the man of the moment and the one driver out of 20 who is, at least at this point in time, most likely to win the current driver's championship fight, Piastri has already made a record for being among the drivers with consecutive finishes in points. He's been on a red hot point scoring spree as seen from the last year and from the onset of the race at Imola last year in 2024 until the completion of the Austrian Grand Prix as seen recently at Spielberg, he's finished in points in as many as 29 consecutive occasions.
Kimi Raikkonen (27)
The Iceman, the man known for his dread toward the media and his understated love for pure racing, Kimi scored a points finish in as many as 27 consecutive F1 Grands Prix. The last man from the Ferrari camp to seal the driver's world championship was in blazing form during his peak, as seen from the onset of Bahrain in 2012 until the completion of the 2013 Hungarian Grand Prix.
Raikkonen, who stepped away from the dizzying heights of F1 in 2010 and 2011 came back really strong in 2012 when with the Lotus-Renault team he clinched the famous Abu Dhabi Grand Prix, finishing that year in third despite battling cars and teams significantly stronger than his Renault association, such as Ferrari and Red Bull.
Forever a legend.
Frequently Asked Question (FAQ):
Q1. Which F1 driver has the record of most consecutive race finishes in points?
The name is that of a legend, an icon, a real hero of the sport: Sir Lewis Hamilton of Stevenage, England
Q2. Is there a European driver on the list as well, besides Hamilton?
The Flying Dutchman, also sometimes passionately described as "Mad Max" is on this list. Verstappen is on the list twice.
Q3. Is there a Finnish driver with most consecutive race finishes in points?
The Iceman Kimi Raikkonen is also present on this list due to his feats back in the days of his prime
