Closest F1 Race Finishes

Peter Gethin holds the record on +0.010s seconds, ahead of Rubens Barrichello on +0.011s.

Record holder

+0.010sseconds

Closest F1 Race Finishes
#	Grand Prix	Driver	Margin
1st	1971 Italian Grand Prix	Peter Gethin	+0.010s
2nd	2002 United States Grand Prix	Rubens Barrichello	+0.011s
3rd	1986 Spanish Grand Prix	Ayrton Senna	+0.014s
4th	1982 Austrian Grand Prix	Elio de Angelis	+0.050s
5th	1969 Italian Grand Prix	Jackie Stewart	+0.080s
=6th	1961 French Grand Prix	Giancarlo Baghetti	+0.100s
=6th	1954 French Grand Prix	Juan Fangio	+0.100s
8th	2000 Canadian Grand Prix	Michael Schumacher	+0.174s
9th	2023 Australian Grand Prix	Max Verstappen	+0.179s
10th	2002 Austrian Grand Prix	Michael Schumacher	+0.182s
=11th	1967 Italian Grand Prix	John Surtees	+0.200s
=11th	1955 British Grand Prix	Stirling Moss	+0.200s
=13th	1992 Monaco Grand Prix	Ayrton Senna	+0.215s
=13th	2005 San Marino Grand Prix	Fernando Alonso	+0.215s
15th	1981 Spanish Grand Prix	Gilles Villeneuve	+0.220s
16th	2025 Canadian Grand Prix	George Russell	+0.228s
17th	1985 Dutch Grand Prix	Niki Lauda	+0.232s
18th	2002 Italian Grand Prix	Rubens Barrichello	+0.255s
19th	1990 Hungarian Grand Prix	Thierry Boutsen	+0.288s
20th	2010 Singapore Grand Prix	Fernando Alonso	+0.293s
21st	2002 European Grand Prix	Rubens Barrichello	+0.294s
=22nd	1955 Dutch Grand Prix	Juan Fangio	+0.300s
=22nd	1956 French Grand Prix	Peter Collins	+0.300s
24th	1999 Austrian Grand Prix	Eddie Irvine	+0.313s
25th	1978 Dutch Grand Prix	Mario Andretti	+0.320s

How this is measured

The gap between the winner and the runner-up at the flag.

Only races where the winner and the runner-up completed the same number of laps are counted. A lapped runner-up has no comparable time gap.
The 1950–1960 Indianapolis 500 rounds counted towards the world championship but were run to American rules with roughly 33-car grids and almost no overlap in entrants. They are excluded from every leaderboard on this site.

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11different winners