Championship record
2
World titles
4
1
Runner-up
3
5
Top-3 finishes
8
P1
Best championship
P1
Career totals
Jim Clark
Sebastian Vettel
Championships
2
4
Wins
25
53
Poles
33
57
Podiums
32
122
Fastest laps
0
38
Career points
274
3,098
Starts
72
300
Rate-adjusted · per start
Jim Clark
Sebastian Vettel
Win rate
34.7%
17.7%
Podium rate
44.4%
40.7%
Pole rate
45.8%
19%
Points / start
3.8
10.3
Avg grid
P3.6
P6.3
Avg finish
P7.1
P7.1
Finish rate
68.1%
88%
Rates reward peak form; totals reward longevity. Avg grid/finish: lower is better.
On-track overtaking
Jim Clark
Sebastian Vettel
Overtakes
0
2,126
Overtakes / race
0.0
7.3
Places lost
0
1,897
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
Jim Clark
Sebastian Vettel
Mechanical retirements
21
20
Crash retirements
2
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: 0 · 1
Milestones & racecraft
1960
Debut season
2007
1962 · aged 26
First win
2008 · aged 21
1962
First pole
2008
1963 · aged 27
First title
2010 · aged 23
P1
Best finish
P1
-3.5
Avg places gained
-0.7
Season points trajectory
Jim Clark
Sebastian Vettel
Final points each season — scoring systems changed over the eras.
Track by track
| Circuit | Jim Clark | Sebastian Vettel |
|---|---|---|
| W · Pod · Best | W · Pod · Best | |
| Circuit de Spa-Francorchamps | 4 · 4 · P1 | 3 · 6 · P1 |
| Silverstone Circuit | 3 · 3 · P1 | 2 · 5 · P1 |
| Autodromo Nazionale di Monza | 1 · 2 · P1 | 3 · 6 · P1 |
| Circuit Park Zandvoort | 4 · 6 · P1 | 0 · 0 · P13 |
| Circuit de Monaco | 0 · 0 · P4 | 2 · 7 · P1 |
| Autódromo Hermanos Rodríguez | 2 · 2 · P1 | 0 · 2 · P2 |
| Nürburgring | 1 · 2 · P1 | 1 · 2 · P1 |
Team history
Jim Clark
Team Lotus 1960Lotus-Climax 1961–1966Lotus-BRM 1966Lotus-Climax 1967Lotus-BRM 1967Lotus-Ford 1967–1968
Sebastian Vettel
19602022
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).