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2013 F1 Championship: When Was the Title Clinched?

Sebastian Vettel won the 2013 Drivers' Championship. Here is when each title was settled and who was knocked out along the way.

Sebastian Vettel clinched the 2013 Drivers' Championship at the Indian Grand Prix (round 16 of 19), with 3 race weekends still to come.

Champion
Sebastian Vettel
Clinched at
Indian Grand PrixRound 16 of 19
Race weekends left
3
Final points
397155 ahead of Fernando Alonso

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. Italian Grand PrixRound 12
    Paul di Resta, Adrian Sutil, Sergio Perez, Daniel Ricciardo, Nico Hulkenberg, Jean-Éric Vergne, Pastor Maldonado, Esteban Gutiérrez, Valtteri Bottas, Jules Bianchi, Charles Pic, Max Chilton, Giedo van der Garde and Heikki Kovalainen
  2. Singapore Grand PrixRound 13
    Felipe Massa, Romain Grosjean and Jenson Button
  3. Korean Grand PrixRound 14
    Mark Webber and Nico Rosberg
  4. Japanese Grand PrixRound 15
    Kimi Räikkönen and Lewis Hamilton
  5. Indian Grand PrixRound 16
    Fernando Alonso
  6. Indian Grand Prix
    Sebastian Vettel is champion.

When did Sebastian Vettel clinch the 2013 Drivers' Championship?

Sebastian Vettel clinched the 2013 Drivers' Championship at the Indian Grand Prix (round 16 of 19), with 3 race weekends still to come.

When did Red Bull clinch the 2013 Constructors' Championship?

Red Bull clinched the 2013 Constructors' Championship at the Indian Grand Prix (round 16 of 19), with 3 race weekends still to come.

When was the first driver eliminated from the 2013 title fight?

The first drivers who could no longer win the 2013 Drivers' Championship, even with everything going their way, were Paul di Resta, Adrian Sutil, Sergio Perez, Daniel Ricciardo, Nico Hulkenberg, Jean-Éric Vergne, Pastor Maldonado, Esteban Gutiérrez, Valtteri Bottas, Jules Bianchi, Charles Pic, Max Chilton, Giedo van der Garde and Heikki Kovalainen, after the Italian Grand Prix (round 12).

Who was the last driver to have a chance of beating Sebastian Vettel in 2013?

Fernando Alonso stayed mathematically alive longest, until the Indian Grand Prix (round 16).