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2011 F1 Championship: When Was the Title Clinched?

Sebastian Vettel won the 2011 Drivers' Championship. Here is when each title was settled and who was knocked out along the way.

Sebastian Vettel clinched the 2011 Drivers' Championship at the Japanese Grand Prix (round 15 of 19), with 4 race weekends still to come.

Champion
Sebastian Vettel
Clinched at
Japanese Grand PrixRound 15 of 19
Race weekends left
4
Final points
392122 ahead of Jenson Button

How the Lead Grew

The points between first and second after each race or sprint. The green marker is the weekend nobody could catch Sebastian Vettel.

Who Dropped Out, and When

A driver is out when no set of results in the races left could make them champion.

  1. Hungarian Grand PrixRound 11
    Vitaly Petrov, Michael Schumacher, Kamui Kobayashi, Adrian Sutil, Sébastien Buemi, Jaime Alguersuari, Paul di Resta, Sergio Perez, Rubens Barrichello, Jarno Trulli, Jérôme d'Ambrosio, Timo Glock, Heikki Kovalainen, Pastor Maldonado, Vitantonio Liuzzi, Narain Karthikeyan, Pedro de la Rosa, Daniel Ricciardo, Karun Chandhok and Bruno Senna
  2. Belgian Grand PrixRound 12
    Felipe Massa, Nico Rosberg and Nick Heidfeld
  3. Singapore Grand PrixRound 14
    Fernando Alonso, Mark Webber and Lewis Hamilton
  4. Japanese Grand PrixRound 15
    Jenson Button
  5. Japanese Grand Prix
    Sebastian Vettel is champion.

When did Sebastian Vettel clinch the 2011 Drivers' Championship?

Sebastian Vettel clinched the 2011 Drivers' Championship at the Japanese Grand Prix (round 15 of 19), with 4 race weekends still to come.

When did Red Bull clinch the 2011 Constructors' Championship?

Red Bull clinched the 2011 Constructors' Championship at the Korean Grand Prix (round 16 of 19), with 3 race weekends still to come.

When was the first driver eliminated from the 2011 title fight?

The first drivers who could no longer win the 2011 Drivers' Championship, even with everything going their way, were Vitaly Petrov, Michael Schumacher, Kamui Kobayashi, Adrian Sutil, Sébastien Buemi, Jaime Alguersuari, Paul di Resta, Sergio Perez, Rubens Barrichello, Jarno Trulli, Jérôme d'Ambrosio, Timo Glock, Heikki Kovalainen, Pastor Maldonado, Vitantonio Liuzzi, Narain Karthikeyan, Pedro de la Rosa, Daniel Ricciardo, Karun Chandhok and Bruno Senna, after the Hungarian Grand Prix (round 11).

Who was the last driver to have a chance of beating Sebastian Vettel in 2011?

Jenson Button stayed mathematically alive longest, until the Japanese Grand Prix (round 15).