After winning the 2021 Abu Dhabi Grand Prix, Verstappen became the first Dutch driver to win the Formula One World Championship, and the 34th Formula One World Drivers’ Champion.
Sergio Michel Pérez Mendoza is a Mexican racing driver who races in Formula One for Red Bull Racing. Perez popularly known as Checo was born on 26 January 1990 in Guadalajara, Jalisco.
Carlos Sainz or Carlos Sainz Jr is a Spanish racing driver currently competing in Formula One for Scuderia Ferrari. Sainz was born 1 September 1994 in Madrid, Spain to Carlos Sainz and Reyes Vázquez de Castro.
Charles Leclerc’s Ferrari races ahead of Valterri Bottas’ Mercedes at the 2021 US Grand Prix. (Image: Twitter)
Daniel Joseph Ricciardo often referred to as “the honey badger” is an Italian-Australian Racing driver who is currently competing in the 2022 FIA Formula One World Drivers Championship driving for the McLaren Formula One team, under the Australian flag.
Lando Norris is a British-Belgian racing driver currently competing in Formula One with McLaren, racing under the British flag. He was born on 13 November 1999 in Bristol, to Adam and Cisca Norris. His father is a retired pensions manager, and is one of Bristol’s wealthiest people.
Sebastian Vettel is a German racing driver who competes in Formula One for Aston Martin. He was born on 3 July 1987 in Heppenheim, West Germany. He has won four World Drivers’ Championship titles, which he won consecutively from 2010 to 2013.
Lance Stroll is a Canadian-Belgian racing driver competing under the Canadian flag in Formula One World Championship. Stroll has driven for Aston Martin since 2021, having previously driven for Williams and Racing Point.
Yuki Tsunoda is a Japanese racing driver who is racing for Scuderia AlphaTauri in Formula One under the Japanese flag. Tsunoda was born on 11 May 2000 in Sagamihara, Kanagawa.
In his five seasons at Mercedes, Bottas came into his own as a Formula One driver and perhaps even became one the greatest team players the sport has ever seen.
Ocon is a French driver who currently is a part of the Alpine F1 team. His biggest career highlight in the sport so far is winning the 2021 Hungarian GP.
Until 2020, K-Mag was a mainstay in F1 at Haas for quite a number of years before being ‘wrongfully’ axed by the team due to financial trouble. In 2022, he is back at Haas.
When his Formula One career began, Albon was a driver for Red Bull Racing after being promoted from Scuderia Toro Rosso. Currently, he drives for Williams.
Schumacher has a joint-record seven World Drivers’ Championship titles with Lewis Hamilton and, at the time of his retirement from Formula One in 2012, he held the records for the most wins, pole positions, and podium finishes.
The Brazilian was a three-time world champion, winning the crown in 1988, 1990, and 1991. He perhaps would have added at least one more title to his collection had it not been for arguably the most tragic incident in F1 history.
The collision between Ayrton Senna and Alain Prost at Suzuka in 1990 mirrored their clash from a year earlier. (Image: Twitter)
Prost is considered to be one of the greatest drivers in history. Of course, with four world championships, 51 wins and 106 podiums, it is easy to see why.
He competed in 15 seasons of Formula One between 2002 and 2017, where he scored 11 Grand Prix victories, 41 podiums and finished as championship runner-up in 2008 by one point.
With Prema Racing, Piastri won the Formula Renault Eurocup in 2019, the FIA Formula 3 Championship in 2020, and the Driver’s Formula 2 Championship in 2021.
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