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2014 F1 Championship: When Was the Title Clinched?

Lewis Hamilton won the 2014 Drivers' Championship. Here is when each title was settled and who was knocked out along the way.

Lewis Hamilton clinched the 2014 Drivers' Championship in the final race of the season, the Abu Dhabi Grand Prix (round 19 of 19).

Champion
Lewis Hamilton
Clinched at
Abu Dhabi Grand PrixRound 19 of 19
Race weekends left
0Decided in the last race
Final points
38467 ahead of Nico Rosberg

How the Lead Grew

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

Who Dropped Out, and When

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

  1. Japanese Grand PrixRound 15
    Sergio Perez, Kimi Räikkönen, Kevin Magnussen, Jean-Éric Vergne, Daniil Kvyat, Romain Grosjean, Jules Bianchi, Adrian Sutil, Esteban Gutiérrez, Max Chilton, Pastor Maldonado, Marcus Ericsson, Kamui Kobayashi, André Lotterer and Will Stevens
  2. Russian Grand PrixRound 16
    Fernando Alonso, Jenson Button, Nico Hulkenberg and Felipe Massa
  3. United States Grand PrixRound 17
    Daniel Ricciardo, Valtteri Bottas and Sebastian Vettel
  4. Abu Dhabi Grand PrixRound 19
    Nico Rosberg
  5. Abu Dhabi Grand Prix
    Lewis Hamilton is champion.

The clinching maths uses the modern points table. Rules from this season it cannot model exactly: double points in the final race. So the weekend a title was settled is checked two ways (a slightly strict and a slightly generous reading of the rules). Where they agree the weekend is exact.

When did Lewis Hamilton clinch the 2014 Drivers' Championship?

Lewis Hamilton clinched the 2014 Drivers' Championship in the final race of the season, the Abu Dhabi Grand Prix (round 19 of 19).

When did Mercedes clinch the 2014 Constructors' Championship?

Mercedes clinched the 2014 Constructors' Championship at the United States Grand Prix (round 17 of 19) at the latest, with 2 race weekends still to come. Under the points table alone it could have been settled as early as the Japanese Grand Prix (round 15); which of the two it was depends on the season's special rules (double points in the final race).

When was the first driver eliminated from the 2014 title fight?

The first drivers who could no longer win the 2014 Drivers' Championship, even with everything going their way, were Sergio Perez, Kimi Räikkönen, Kevin Magnussen, Jean-Éric Vergne, Daniil Kvyat, Romain Grosjean, Jules Bianchi, Adrian Sutil, Esteban Gutiérrez, Max Chilton, Pastor Maldonado, Marcus Ericsson, Kamui Kobayashi, André Lotterer and Will Stevens, after the Japanese Grand Prix (round 15).

Who was the last driver to have a chance of beating Lewis Hamilton in 2014?

Nico Rosberg stayed mathematically alive longest, until the Abu Dhabi Grand Prix (round 19).