Pit Lane F1
Qualifying-focused leaderboards across every cached F1 season
Qualifying-focused leaderboards built from grid positions in every race-result file on disk. The classics — career titles, podiums, total wins — live on the main records page; this page surfaces the qualifying-specific angles: who turns pole into wins, who lives on the front row, who dominated qualifying in a single season.
Top 25 driver-season combinations by pole count, across every cached F1 season.
Percentage of pole positions that converted to a race win. Sorted by conversion %, ties broken by total poles.
| Rank | Driver | Poles | Wins | % |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Max Verstappen | 48 | 37 | 77.1 |
| 2 | Emerson Fittipaldi | 6 | 4 | 66.7 |
| 3 | Oscar Piastri | 6 | 4 | 66.7 |
| 4 | Alberto Ascari | 14 | 9 | 64.3 |
| 5 | Fernando Alonso | 22 | 14 | 63.6 |
Race wins where the driver started P1. The 'lead from lights to flag' leaderboard.
P1 + P2 grid positions combined. Career qualifying consistency at its purest.
Career poles tallied from every cached race-result file. Complements the all-time poles leaderboard on the main records page (which uses Jolpica career fetches).
Aggregated from 1149 race-result records spanning 1950–2026.
| 6 | Jenson Button | 8 | 5 | 62.5 |
| 7 | Lewis Hamilton | 104 | 61 | 58.7 |
| 8 | Michael Schumacher | 67 | 39 | 58.2 |
| 9 | George Russell | 9 | 5 | 55.6 |
| 10 | Alain Prost | 33 | 18 | 54.5 |
| 11 | Sebastian Vettel | 56 | 30 | 53.6 |
| 12 | Nigel Mansell | 32 | 17 | 53.1 |
| 13 | Nico Rosberg | 30 | 15 | 50.0 |
| 14 | Felipe Massa | 16 | 8 | 50.0 |
| 15 | Lando Norris | 16 | 8 | 50.0 |
| 16 | James Hunt | 14 | 7 | 50.0 |
| 17 | John Surtees | 8 | 4 | 50.0 |
| 18 | Carlos Reutemann | 6 | 3 | 50.0 |
| 19 | Carlos Sainz | 6 | 3 | 50.0 |
| 20 | Jackie Stewart | 17 | 8 | 47.1 |
| 21 | Jack Brabham | 13 | 6 | 46.2 |
| 22 | Juan Fangio | 29 | 13 | 44.8 |
| 23 | Ayrton Senna | 65 | 29 | 44.6 |
| 24 | Mario Andretti | 18 | 8 | 44.4 |
| 25 | Jim Clark | 34 | 15 | 44.1 |