Championship record
2
World titles
4
3
Runner-up
1
5
Top-3 finishes
7
P1
Best championship
P1
Career totals
Graham Hill
Max Verstappen
Championships
2
4
Wins
14
71
Poles
13
48
Podiums
36
130
Fastest laps
0
37
Career points
289
3,383.5
Starts
177
243
Rate-adjusted · per start
Graham Hill
Max Verstappen
Win rate
7.9%
29.2%
Podium rate
20.3%
53.5%
Pole rate
7.3%
19.8%
Points / start
1.6
13.9
Avg grid
P10.3
P4.9
Avg finish
P10.0
P5.6
Finish rate
58.2%
86.4%
Rates reward peak form; totals reward longevity. Avg grid/finish: lower is better.
On-track overtaking
Graham Hill
Max Verstappen
Overtakes
0
1,358
Overtakes / race
0.0
5.8
Places lost
0
1,135
Sum of lap-by-lap positions gained on track — start lap and own pit laps excluded.
Only races with lap data count, so the per-race figure is the fair comparison across eras.
Why they retired
Graham Hill
Max Verstappen
Mechanical retirements
58
14
Crash retirements
13
15
Classified from the finishing status. Mechanical covers car failures, crash covers accidents, collisions and damage — fewer is better on both.
Retirements with an unclear cause: 3 · 4
Milestones & racecraft
1958
Debut season
2015
1962 · aged 33
First win
2016 · aged 18
1962
First pole
2019
1962 · aged 33
First title
2021 · aged 24
P1
Best finish
P1
+0.4
Avg places gained
-0.6
Season points trajectory
Graham Hill
Max Verstappen
Final points each season — scoring systems changed over the eras.
Track by track
| Circuit | Graham Hill | Max Verstappen |
|---|---|---|
| W · Pod · Best | W · Pod · Best | |
| Circuit de Monaco | 5 · 7 · P1 | 2 · 3 · P1 |
| Autódromo Hermanos Rodríguez | 1 · 1 · P1 | 5 · 6 · P1 |
| Red Bull Ring | 0 · 0 · P5 | 5 · 9 · P1 |
| Circuit Park Zandvoort | 1 · 3 · P1 | 3 · 5 · P1 |
| Autodromo Nazionale di Monza | 1 · 2 · P1 | 3 · 3 · P1 |
| Circuit de Spa-Francorchamps | 0 · 1 · P2 | 3 · 6 · P1 |
| Autódromo José Carlos Pace | 0 · 0 · P11 | 3 · 7 · P1 |
| Silverstone Circuit | 0 · 2 · P2 | 2 · 5 · P1 |
| Circuit Paul Ricard | 0 · 0 · P10 | 2 · 3 · P1 |
| Nürburgring | 1 · 4 · P1 | 0 · 1 · P2 |
| Hockenheimring | 0 · 0 · — | 1 · 2 · P1 |
Team history
Graham Hill
Team Lotus 1958–1959BRM 1960–1966Lotus-BRM 1967Lotus-Ford 1967–1969Team Lotus 1970Brabham 1971–1972Shadow 1973Lola 1974–1975
Max Verstappen
19582026
Basis
Head-to-head counts races where both drivers were classified, compared by final position (post-penalty). Teammate section counts only seasons in the same car. Career totals mirror the source data. Data: Jolpica-F1 (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0).