Who is the most consistent Formula 1 driver of all time?

Podium counts, points finishes and whole seasons without a mistake. The least glamorous route to greatness, and the one that wins titles raw pace throws away.

1

Alain Prost

Finished on the podium 106 times in 199 starts across four constructors.

2

Ayrton Senna

Scored 80 podiums from 161 starts, though he retired from races he was leading.

3

Lewis Hamilton

Has finished in the points in more races than any driver in the sport's history.

4

Michael Schumacher

Five consecutive titles between 2000 and 2004 with a strike rate no team has repeated.

5

Sebastian Vettel

Nine straight wins in 2013, still the longest single-season winning run on record.

6

Fernando Alonso

Two decades of scoring finishes in cars ranging from title-winning to hopeless.

7

Jackie Stewart

27 wins from 99 starts in an era when finishing at all was an achievement.

8

Juan Manuel Fangio

Finished on the podium in 35 of his 51 championship starts.

9

Max Verstappen

A run of podium finishes through the Red Bull dominance years that rewrote the record book.

10

Niki Lauda

Rebuilt a career twice and finished championships from cars that were rarely the fastest.

11

Nelson Piquet

Three championships built on knowing when a fourth place mattered more than a win.

12

Riccardo Patrese

Held the record for Grand Prix starts for over a decade with 256 entries.

13

Nico Rosberg

Finished every race of the 2015 season in the points on the way to the following year's title.