Most F1 Pole Positions

How this is measured

• Pole is counted as starting first on the grid. Session-by-session qualifying data only exists from 1994, so grid position is used across the whole of history. A small number of P1 grid slots therefore belong to drivers who inherited them through another driver’s penalty.
• 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.
• The current season is included, so these figures change after every Grand Prix.