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2024 F1 Championship: When Was the Title Clinched?

Max Verstappen won the 2024 Drivers' Championship. Here is when each title was settled and who was knocked out along the way.

Max Verstappen clinched the 2024 Drivers' Championship at the Las Vegas Grand Prix (round 22 of 24), with 2 race weekends still to come.

Champion
Max Verstappen
Clinched at
Las Vegas Grand PrixRound 22 of 24
Race weekends left
2
Final points
43763 ahead of Lando Norris

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. Dutch Grand PrixRound 15
    Lance Stroll, Yuki Tsunoda, Nico Hulkenberg, Daniel Ricciardo, Pierre Gasly, Oliver Bearman, Kevin Magnussen, Esteban Ocon, Alex Albon, Guanyu Zhou, Valtteri Bottas, Logan Sargeant, Franco Colapinto, Liam Lawson and Jack Doohan
  2. Italian Grand PrixRound 16
    Fernando Alonso
  3. Singapore Grand PrixRound 18
    Sergio Perez
  4. United States Grand Prix SprintRound 19
    George Russell
  5. United States Grand PrixRound 19
    Lewis Hamilton
  6. Mexico City Grand PrixRound 20
    Carlos Sainz
  7. São Paulo Grand PrixRound 21
    Charles Leclerc and Oscar Piastri
  8. Las Vegas Grand PrixRound 22
    Lando Norris
  9. Las Vegas 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 2024 Drivers' Championship?

Max Verstappen clinched the 2024 Drivers' Championship at the Las Vegas Grand Prix (round 22 of 24), with 2 race weekends still to come.

When did McLaren clinch the 2024 Constructors' Championship?

McLaren clinched the 2024 Constructors' Championship in the final race of the season, the Abu Dhabi Grand Prix (round 24 of 24).

When was the first driver eliminated from the 2024 title fight?

The first drivers who could no longer win the 2024 Drivers' Championship, even with everything going their way, were Lance Stroll, Yuki Tsunoda, Nico Hulkenberg, Daniel Ricciardo, Pierre Gasly, Oliver Bearman, Kevin Magnussen, Esteban Ocon, Alex Albon, Guanyu Zhou, Valtteri Bottas, Logan Sargeant, Franco Colapinto, Liam Lawson and Jack Doohan, after the Dutch Grand Prix (round 15).

Who was the last driver to have a chance of beating Max Verstappen in 2024?

Lando Norris stayed mathematically alive longest, until the Las Vegas Grand Prix (round 22).