# 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.

*By YPB Team · Published August 16, 2026 · https://youpick.best/ranking/who-is-the-most-consistent-formula-1-driver-of-all-time*

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## Current results (0 votes)

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.

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