Most Wins in a Single F1 Season: The Complete Record List

The single-season wins record is the clearest measure of driver dominance in Formula 1 — and a reminder that even the greatest years were never perfect. Here’s the ranking, drawn from every World Championship season since 1950.

The most single-season wins

Wins	Driver	Season	Calendar
19	Max Verstappen	2023	22 races
15	Max Verstappen	2022	22 races
13	Sebastian Vettel	2013	19 races
13	Michael Schumacher	2004	18 races
11	Lewis Hamilton	2014, 2018, 2019, 2020	19–21 races
11	Sebastian Vettel	2011	19 races
11	Michael Schumacher	2002	17 races

What the numbers show

Verstappen’s 2023 stands alone. Nineteen wins from 22 starts is a rate no one else has approached. It obliterated the previous mark of 13, which had stood since Schumacher set it in 2004 and Vettel matched it in 2013.

The 13-win seasons were era-defining too. Schumacher’s 2004 Ferrari won 12 of the first 13 races. Vettel’s 2013 finished with nine straight wins to close the year. Both were as close to untouchable as F1 gets — and both still lost multiple races.

The 11-win club is remarkably deep. Hamilton reached 11 four separate times without ever being credited with a “record” season, a sign of how sustained Mercedes’ hybrid-era dominance was. Rosberg’s nine wins in 2016 were enough to beat Hamilton to a title in the same car.

The gap that never closes

Line these up against the calendar and the pattern is stark. The best season ever, by wins, still left three races on the table. The record has crept from 13 to 19, but the last few races of a season have always gone somewhere else — to a rival’s perfect weekend, a reliability scare, or a wet-weather gamble.

That final gap between “utterly dominant” and “perfect” is exactly what the 24-0 game asks you to close. For the flip side — the seasons where a team, not just a driver, nearly swept the board — see the most dominant F1 seasons ever.