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2020 F1 Championship: When Was the Title Clinched?

Lewis Hamilton won the 2020 Drivers' Championship. Here is when each title was settled and who was knocked out along the way.

Lewis Hamilton clinched the 2020 Drivers' Championship at the Turkish Grand Prix (round 14 of 17), with 3 race weekends still to come.

Champion
Lewis Hamilton
Clinched at
Turkish Grand PrixRound 14 of 17
Race weekends left
3
Final points
347124 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. Russian Grand PrixRound 10
    Sebastian Vettel, Daniil Kvyat, Nico Hulkenberg, Antonio Giovinazzi, Kimi Räikkönen, Kevin Magnussen, Nicholas Latifi, George Russell, Romain Grosjean, Jack Aitken and Pietro Fittipaldi
  2. Eifel Grand PrixRound 11
    Sergio Perez, Lando Norris, Alex Albon, Charles Leclerc, Lance Stroll, Pierre Gasly, Carlos Sainz and Esteban Ocon
  3. Portuguese Grand PrixRound 12
    Daniel Ricciardo
  4. Emilia Romagna Grand PrixRound 13
    Max Verstappen
  5. Turkish Grand PrixRound 14
    Valtteri Bottas
  6. Turkish 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 2020 Drivers' Championship?

Lewis Hamilton clinched the 2020 Drivers' Championship at the Turkish Grand Prix (round 14 of 17), with 3 race weekends still to come.

When did Mercedes clinch the 2020 Constructors' Championship?

Mercedes clinched the 2020 Constructors' Championship at the Emilia Romagna Grand Prix (round 13 of 17), with 4 race weekends still to come.

When was the first driver eliminated from the 2020 title fight?

The first drivers who could no longer win the 2020 Drivers' Championship, even with everything going their way, were Sebastian Vettel, Daniil Kvyat, Nico Hulkenberg, Antonio Giovinazzi, Kimi Räikkönen, Kevin Magnussen, Nicholas Latifi, George Russell, Romain Grosjean, Jack Aitken and Pietro Fittipaldi, after the Russian Grand Prix (round 10).

Who was the last driver to have a chance of beating Lewis Hamilton in 2020?

Valtteri Bottas stayed mathematically alive longest, until the Turkish Grand Prix (round 14).