Championship record
1
World titles
4
1
Runner-up
1
2
Top-3 finishes
7
P1
Best championship
P1
Career totals
John Surtees
Max Verstappen
Championships
1
4
Wins
6
71
Poles
8
48
Podiums
24
130
Fastest laps
0
37
Career points
180
3,383.5
Starts
112
243
Rate-adjusted · per start
John Surtees
Max Verstappen
Win rate
5.4%
29.2%
Podium rate
21.4%
53.5%
Pole rate
7.1%
19.8%
Points / start
1.6
13.9
Avg grid
P7.7
P4.9
Avg finish
P10.3
P5.6
Finish rate
50%
86.4%
Rates reward peak form; totals reward longevity. Avg grid/finish: lower is better.
On-track overtaking
John Surtees
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
John Surtees
Max Verstappen
Mechanical retirements
50
14
Crash retirements
5
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: 1 · 4
Milestones & racecraft
1960
Debut season
2015
1963 · aged 29
First win
2016 · aged 18
1960
First pole
2019
1964 · aged 30
First title
2021 · aged 24
P1
Best finish
P1
-2.7
Avg places gained
-0.6
Season points trajectory
John Surtees
Max Verstappen
Final points each season — scoring systems changed over the eras.
Track by track
| Circuit | John Surtees | Max Verstappen |
|---|---|---|
| W · Pod · Best | W · Pod · Best | |
| Autódromo Hermanos Rodríguez | 1 · 2 · P1 | 5 · 6 · P1 |
| Red Bull Ring | 0 · 0 · — | 5 · 9 · P1 |
| Autodromo Nazionale di Monza | 2 · 2 · P1 | 3 · 3 · P1 |
| Circuit de Spa-Francorchamps | 1 · 1 · P1 | 3 · 6 · P1 |
| Circuit Park Zandvoort | 0 · 2 · P2 | 3 · 5 · P1 |
| Silverstone Circuit | 0 · 3 · P2 | 2 · 5 · P1 |
| Nürburgring | 2 · 4 · P1 | 0 · 1 · P2 |
| Circuit de Monaco | 0 · 0 · P4 | 2 · 3 · P1 |
| Circuit Paul Ricard | 0 · 0 · P8 | 2 · 3 · P1 |
| Hockenheimring | 0 · 0 · P9 | 1 · 2 · P1 |
Team history
John Surtees
Team Lotus 1960Cooper-Climax 1961Lola 1962Ferrari 1963–1966Cooper-Maserati 1966Honda 1967–1968BRM 1969McLaren-Ford 1970Surtees 1970–1972
Max Verstappen
19602026
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).