Most Consecutive F1 Pole Positions

Ayrton Senna and Max Verstappen share the record on 8 consecutive poles.

Longest unbroken run of Grands Prix started from pole position.

Joint record holders

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Most Consecutive F1 Pole Positions
#	Driver	From	To	In a row
=1st	Ayrton Senna	1988	1989	8
=1st	Max Verstappen	2023	2024	8
=3rd	Alain Prost	1993	1993	7
=3rd	Lewis Hamilton	2015	2015	7
=3rd	Michael Schumacher	2000	2001	7
=6th	Mika Häkkinen	1999	1999	6
=6th	Nico Rosberg	2015	2015	6
=6th	Nigel Mansell	1992	1992	6
=6th	Niki Lauda	1974	1974	6
=6th	Stirling Moss	1959	1960	6
=11th	Alberto Ascari	1952	1953	5
=11th	Fernando Alonso	2006	2006	5
=11th	Jacques Villeneuve	1996	1997	5
=11th	Juan Pablo Montoya	2002	2002	5
=11th	Phil Hill	1961	1961	5
=11th	Sebastian Vettel	2010	2011	5
=17th	Charles Leclerc	2019	2019	4
=17th	Damon Hill	1995	1995	4
=17th	David Coulthard	1995	1995	4
=17th	Jim Clark	1962	1963	4
=17th	Juan Fangio	1950	1951	4
=17th	Ronnie Peterson	1973	1974	4
=23rd	Alan Jones	1979	1980	3
=23rd	Andrea Kimi Antonelli	2026	2026	3
=23rd	Chris Amon	1968	1968	3
=23rd	Felipe Massa	2007	2007	3
=23rd	Jack Brabham	1960	1960	3
=23rd	James Hunt	1977	1977	3
=23rd	Kimi Räikkönen	2005	2005	3
=23rd	Lando Norris	2025	2025	3
=23rd	Mario Andretti	1977	1977	3
=23rd	Mark Webber	2010	2010	3
=23rd	Nelson Piquet	1984	1984	3
=23rd	René Arnoux	1980	1980	3
=23rd	Riccardo Patrese	1991	1991	3
=23rd	Valtteri Bottas	2019	2019	3

How this is measured

Pole is credited to the driver who started first on the grid. Session-by-session qualifying data only exists from 1994, so grid position is used across the whole of history; it also matches the official record when a grid penalty promotes another driver to P1, and for the 2021 sprint weekends. The one exception is the 2022 sprint weekends, where the official pole went to the fastest qualifier rather than the sprint winner: Kevin Magnussen, not George Russell, holds pole for the 2022 São Paulo Grand Prix.
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.
A start is a race entry that took the start. Entries recorded as did not qualify, did not pre-qualify, failed the 107% rule, or withdrew are excluded.
The current season is included, so these figures change after every Grand Prix.