Driver of the Day: Every Driver

Awards and fan-vote record, 2016–2026

39 drivers have won Driver of the Day or polled in the fan vote's published results since 2016. Max Verstappen leads with 56 awards. Open a driver for their season-by-season record and every award.

#	Driver	Awards	Runner-up	Top 5	Best share	First award	Latest award
1	Max Verstappen	56	33	134	74%	2016 Spanish Grand Prix	2026 Singapore Grand Prix
2	Sebastian Vettel	23	5	28	56.64%	2016 Singapore Grand Prix	2022 Abu Dhabi Grand Prix
3	Lewis Hamilton	21	36	110	51.86%	2016 Belgian Grand Prix	2026 Barcelona-Catalunya Grand Prix
4	Charles Leclerc	21	20	101	50.23%	2018 Azerbaijan Grand Prix	2026 Belgian Grand Prix
5	Lando Norris	19	11	85	45.50%	2019 French Grand Prix	2026 Dutch Grand Prix
6	Sergio Perez	11	17	53	36.86%	2020 Styrian Grand Prix	2023 Hungarian Grand Prix
7	Daniel Ricciardo	11	8	26	86%	2016 German Grand Prix	2024 Singapore Grand Prix
8	Carlos Sainz	8	4	44	40.35%	2021 Turkish Grand Prix	2025 Azerbaijan Grand Prix
9	Fernando Alonso	7	7	24	53.28%	2018 Australian Grand Prix	2025 Singapore Grand Prix
10	Oscar Piastri	6	6	36	34.94%	2023 Japanese Grand Prix	2026 Japanese Grand Prix
11	Kimi Antonelli	5	7	23	38.87%	2025 Chinese Grand Prix	2026 Italian Grand Prix
12	Valtteri Bottas	5	6	15	28.55%	2017 Russian Grand Prix	2019 Japanese Grand Prix
13	Kimi Räikkönen	5	5	13	42.82%	2016 Hungarian Grand Prix	2021 Abu Dhabi Grand Prix
14	Alexander Albon	4	6	20	28.70%	2019 Chinese Grand Prix	2023 Canadian Grand Prix
15	Pierre Gasly	3	2	18	89%	2018 Bahrain Grand Prix	2020 Italian Grand Prix
16	Nico Hulkenberg	3	1	8	49.04%	2019 Abu Dhabi Grand Prix	2025 British Grand Prix
17	Romain Grosjean	3	0	1	36.78%	2016 Australian Grand Prix	2020 Bahrain Grand Prix
18	Sergio Pérez	3	0	1	15.40%	2016 Monaco Grand Prix	2021 Portuguese Grand Prix
19	Yuki Tsunoda	2	1	11	24.19%	2023 Abu Dhabi Grand Prix	2025 Japanese Grand Prix
20	Oliver Bearman	2	0	5	48.28%	2024 Saudi Arabian Grand Prix	2025 Mexico City Grand Prix
21	Gabriel Bortoleto	2	0	2	30.04%	2025 Austrian Grand Prix	2025 Hungarian Grand Prix
22	George Russell	1	5	33	48.81%	2020 Sakhir Grand Prix	–
23	Esteban Ocon	1	3	6	23.46%	2023 Monaco Grand Prix	–
24	Isack Hadjar	1	2	6	38.57%	2025 Dutch Grand Prix	–
25	Daniil Kvyat	1	0	4	14.10%	2016 Chinese Grand Prix	–
26	Guanyu Zhou	1	1	3	29.66%	2024 Qatar Grand Prix	–
27	Kevin Magnussen	1	1	3	22.53%	2016 Russian Grand Prix	–
28	Mick Schumacher	1	1	3	24.50%	2022 Austrian Grand Prix	–
29	Lance Stroll	1	0	2	8.16%	2017 Azerbaijan Grand Prix	–
30	Nyck De Vries	1	0	1	24.82%	2022 Italian Grand Prix	–
31	Nico Rosberg	1	0	0	–	2016 Italian Grand Prix	–
32	Franco Colapinto	0	1	11	16.26%	–	–
33	Liam Lawson	0	1	3	14.44%	–	–
34	Nikita Mazepin	0	0	2	7.27%	–	–
35	Robert Kubica	0	0	2	14.01%	–	–
36	Alex Albon	0	0	1	–	–	–
37	Arvid Lindblad	0	0	1	10.54%	–	–
38	Nicholas Latifi	0	0	1	9.70%	–	–
39	Pietro Fittipaldi	0	0	1	5.76%	–	–

Winners are published from 2016, the top three (whole percentages) from 2018 and the official top five from 2019, so runner-up counts start in 2018 and top-5 counts in 2019. Data: formula1.com via the open TracingInsights/DOTD dataset.