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2019 F1 Championship: When Was the Title Clinched?

Lewis Hamilton won the 2019 Drivers' Championship. Here is when each title was settled and who was knocked out along the way.

Lewis Hamilton clinched the 2019 Drivers' Championship at the United States Grand Prix (round 19 of 21), with 2 race weekends still to come.

Champion
Lewis Hamilton
Clinched at
United States Grand PrixRound 19 of 21
Race weekends left
2
Final points
41387 ahead of Valtteri Bottas

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. Hungarian Grand PrixRound 12
    Sergio Perez, Romain Grosjean, Antonio Giovinazzi, Robert Kubica and George Russell
  2. Belgian Grand PrixRound 13
    Carlos Sainz, Daniil Kvyat, Kimi Räikkönen, Alex Albon, Lando Norris, Daniel Ricciardo, Nico Hulkenberg, Lance Stroll and Kevin Magnussen
  3. Italian Grand PrixRound 14
    Pierre Gasly
  4. Japanese Grand PrixRound 17
    Charles Leclerc, Max Verstappen and Sebastian Vettel
  5. United States Grand PrixRound 19
    Valtteri Bottas
  6. United States Grand Prix
    Lewis Hamilton is champion.

The clinching maths uses the modern points table. Rules from this season it cannot model exactly: fastest-lap point. 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 2019 Drivers' Championship?

Lewis Hamilton clinched the 2019 Drivers' Championship at the United States Grand Prix (round 19 of 21), with 2 race weekends still to come.

When did Mercedes clinch the 2019 Constructors' Championship?

Mercedes clinched the 2019 Constructors' Championship at the Mexican Grand Prix (round 18 of 21) at the latest, with 3 race weekends still to come. Under the points table alone it could have been settled as early as the Japanese Grand Prix (round 17); which of the two it was depends on the season's special rules (fastest-lap point).

When was the first driver eliminated from the 2019 title fight?

The first drivers who could no longer win the 2019 Drivers' Championship, even with everything going their way, were Sergio Perez, Romain Grosjean, Antonio Giovinazzi, Robert Kubica and George Russell, after the Hungarian Grand Prix (round 12).

Who was the last driver to have a chance of beating Lewis Hamilton in 2019?

Valtteri Bottas stayed mathematically alive longest, until the United States Grand Prix (round 19).