Most Consecutive F1 Race Starts

Lewis Hamilton leads on 279 consecutive starts, ahead of Max Verstappen on 244.

Record holder

279consecutive starts

Most Consecutive F1 Race Starts
#	Driver	From	To	In a row
1st	Lewis Hamilton	2,007	2,026	279
2nd	Max Verstappen	2,015	2,026	244
3rd	Daniel Ricciardo	2,011	2,024	232
4th	Valtteri Bottas	2,013	2,026	208
5th	Nico Rosberg	2,006	2,016	206
6th	Riccardo Patrese	1,977	1,993	187
7th	Jenson Button	2,000	2,017	179
8th	Fernando Alonso	2,001	2,026	176
9th	David Coulthard	1,994	2,008	175
10th	Rubens Barrichello	1,993	2,011	167
11th	Sebastian Vettel	2,007	2,022	158
12th	Mark Webber	2,002	2,013	157
13th	Pierre Gasly	2,017	2,026	153
=14th	George Russell	2,019	2,026	150
=14th	Kimi Räikkönen	2,001	2,021	150
16th	Ayrton Senna	1,984	1,994	149
17th	Felipe Massa	2,002	2,017	146
18th	Giancarlo Fisichella	1,996	2,009	142
=19th	Alain Prost	1,980	1,993	141
=19th	Lando Norris	2,019	2,026	141
21st	Thierry Boutsen	1,983	1,993	138
22nd	Gerhard Berger	1,984	1,997	132
23rd	Jacques Villeneuve	1,996	2,006	131
24th	Jean Alesi	1,989	2,001	129
25th	Michael Schumacher	1,991	2,012	124

How this is measured

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 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.

10consecutive wins

112races

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