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2022 F1 Championship: When Was the Title Clinched?

Max Verstappen won the 2022 Drivers' Championship. Here is when each title was settled and who was knocked out along the way.

Max Verstappen clinched the 2022 Drivers' Championship at the Japanese Grand Prix (round 18 of 22), with 4 race weekends still to come.

Champion
Max Verstappen
Clinched at
Japanese Grand PrixRound 18 of 22
Race weekends left
4
Final points
454146 ahead of Charles Leclerc

How the Lead Grew

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

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 13
    Mick Schumacher, Yuki Tsunoda, Guanyu Zhou, Lance Stroll, Alex Albon, Nicholas Latifi, Nico Hulkenberg and Nyck de Vries
  2. Belgian Grand PrixRound 14
    Esteban Ocon, Fernando Alonso, Valtteri Bottas, Kevin Magnussen, Sebastian Vettel, Daniel Ricciardo and Pierre Gasly
  3. Dutch Grand PrixRound 15
    Lando Norris
  4. Italian Grand PrixRound 16
    Lewis Hamilton
  5. Singapore Grand PrixRound 17
    George Russell and Carlos Sainz
  6. Japanese Grand PrixRound 18
    Sergio Perez and Charles Leclerc
  7. Japanese Grand Prix
    Max Verstappen 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 Max Verstappen clinch the 2022 Drivers' Championship?

Max Verstappen clinched the 2022 Drivers' Championship at the Japanese Grand Prix (round 18 of 22), with 4 race weekends still to come.

When did Red Bull clinch the 2022 Constructors' Championship?

Red Bull clinched the 2022 Constructors' Championship at the United States Grand Prix (round 19 of 22), with 3 race weekends still to come.

When was the first driver eliminated from the 2022 title fight?

The first drivers who could no longer win the 2022 Drivers' Championship, even with everything going their way, were Mick Schumacher, Yuki Tsunoda, Guanyu Zhou, Lance Stroll, Alex Albon, Nicholas Latifi, Nico Hulkenberg and Nyck de Vries, after the Hungarian Grand Prix (round 13).

Who was the last driver to have a chance of beating Max Verstappen in 2022?

Sergio Perez and Charles Leclerc stayed mathematically alive longest, until the Japanese Grand Prix (round 18).