2023 F1 Championship: When Was the Title Clinched?
Max Verstappen won the 2023 Drivers' Championship. Here is when each title was settled and who was knocked out along the way.
Max Verstappen clinched the 2023 Drivers' Championship at the Qatar Grand Prix Sprint (round 17 of 22) at the latest, with 5 race weekends still to come. Under the points table alone it could have been settled as early as the Japanese Grand Prix (round 16); which of the two it was depends on the season's special rules (fastest-lap point).
- Champion
- Max Verstappen
- Clinched by
- Qatar Grand Prix SprintRound 17 of 22
- Race weekends left
- 5–6
- Final points
- 575290 ahead of Sergio Perez
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, with the earliest the points table alone allows dashed.
Who Dropped Out, and When
A driver is out when no set of results in the races left could make them champion.
- Belgian Grand PrixRound 12Pierre Gasly, Alex Albon, Nico Hulkenberg, Valtteri Bottas, Guanyu Zhou, Yuki Tsunoda, Kevin Magnussen, Logan Sargeant, Nyck de Vries, Daniel Ricciardo and Liam Lawson
- Dutch Grand PrixRound 13Lando Norris, Lance Stroll, Esteban Ocon and Oscar Piastri
- Italian Grand PrixRound 14Carlos Sainz, Charles Leclerc and George Russell
- Japanese Grand PrixRound 16Lewis Hamilton and Fernando Alonso
- Qatar Grand Prix SprintRound 17Sergio Perez
- Qatar Grand Prix SprintMax Verstappen is champion (see the note below).
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. Here they do not, so the page gives the latest weekend and the earliest the points table allows.
When did Max Verstappen clinch the 2023 Drivers' Championship?
Max Verstappen clinched the 2023 Drivers' Championship at the Qatar Grand Prix Sprint (round 17 of 22) at the latest, with 5 race weekends still to come. Under the points table alone it could have been settled as early as the Japanese Grand Prix (round 16); which of the two it was depends on the season's special rules (fastest-lap point).
When did Red Bull clinch the 2023 Constructors' Championship?
Red Bull clinched the 2023 Constructors' Championship at the Japanese Grand Prix (round 16 of 22), with 6 race weekends still to come.
When was the first driver eliminated from the 2023 title fight?
The first drivers who could no longer win the 2023 Drivers' Championship, even with everything going their way, were Pierre Gasly, Alex Albon, Nico Hulkenberg, Valtteri Bottas, Guanyu Zhou, Yuki Tsunoda, Kevin Magnussen, Logan Sargeant, Nyck de Vries, Daniel Ricciardo and Liam Lawson, after the Belgian Grand Prix (round 12).
Who was the last driver to have a chance of beating Max Verstappen in 2023?
Sergio Perez stayed mathematically alive longest, until the Qatar Grand Prix Sprint (round 17).