In Numbers:

Lewis’ Historic Career at Mercedes

A Champion and a Centurion

Twelve seasons, 246 starts. Lewis holds the F1 record for the most starts with the same constructor, achieved at the 2022 Australian Grand Prix - when he surpassed Michael Schumacher’s stint of 180 with Ferrari.

Indeed, all 356 of Lewis’ F1 starts since his debut in Australia in 2007 have been powered by a Mercedes engine and our team-mates in Brixworth.

That number is also an F1 record, and one Lewis has held since the 2017 Monaco Grand Prix, when Michael and Ferrari were overtaken.

No driver has won more world titles with the same team than Lewis, who has claimed six of his seven Drivers’ Championships with the three-pointed star.

All 105 Grand Prix victories have been claimed with a Mercedes engine.

His tally of 84 Grand Prix wins with Mercedes is also a record with a single constructor, and that accolade was first reached at the 2020 Turkish Grand Prix, when Lewis equalled Michael for world titles, but surpassed the German’s record of 72 victories with the Scuderia.

At Portugal in 2021, Lewis surpassed Michael for all-time F1 wins when he clinched his 92nd victory at Portimão.

Lewis won 10 or more races in six of his twelve seasons with Mercedes - in 2014, 2015, 2016, 2018, 2019, and 2020.

A Perfect Partnership

The driver-team records keep coming.

The seven-time world champion’s 78 pole positions with the Mercedes is a record for most P1 starts with a single team, one that Lewis has held since Monaco 2019.

At Monza in 2017, Lewis overtook Michael’s overall record of 68 F1 poles.

Then there are the podiums. Of Lewis’ 202 top-three finishes in F1, 153 have been with Mercedes - a record for a driver-team partnership in the sport. Lewis first claimed that record in Bahrain in 2021.

Lewis and Mercedes hold the record for most podium finishes with the same engine, and have done since Abu Dhabi 2017.

No driver-team combination has recorded more fastest laps than Lewis and Mercedes, who have 55, one more than Michael Schumacher’s record of 54 at Ferrari.

Of Lewis’ 4,862.5 F1 points, his haul of 3,949.5 with Mercedes is the most achieved by a driver at a single team.

Mind-Blowing Maths

Of Lewis’ 246 races with the team, he has led a lap at 142 of them - a record of 58%.

In total, Lewis spent 4,210 laps of the 14,230 he raced in F1 for Mercedes in P1 - that’s 30%.

Lewis averaged 16 points a race weekend, enough for a P3 finish, during his time at Mercedes.

His average of 329 points per season would be enough to finish second in all but two of his 12 campaigns with the team.

Lewis started 128 of the 246 Grands Prix with Mercedes on the front row of the grid, meaning he qualified in the top two 52% of the time.

Of those 246 qualifying sessions, Lewis reached the top-10 Q3 shootout on 226 occasions, a strike rate of 91%.

Lewis saw the chequered flag on 232 of the 246 races he started for Mercedes and finished in the points in 228 of those races.

Home Comforts

Nowhere epitomised the Lewis-Mercedes relationship quite like Silverstone and the British Grand Prix.

Between 2013 and 2024, Lewis finished on the podium in front of his home fans at Silverstone - the circuit closest to our Brackley factory - on 12 of his 13 appearances. The only time he did not was 2013, when he finished P4.

This helped him extend his record of most podiums at a single F1 circuit to 15.

Lewis also holds the record for most Grand Prix wins at a single circuit (nine), at Silverstone. Eight of those came while driving for Mercedes.

At the 2024 British Grand Prix, he became the first driver to win a race after starting 300 Grands Prix, and the oldest race-winner of the 21st century at 38 years, 182 days.

He was the oldest race-winner since Nigel Mansell at the 1994 Australian Grand Prix, aged 41 years and 97 days.

He also became the first driver to win a Grand Prix in 16 different seasons, breaking the tie with Michael Schumacher.

Silverstone also ended a winless run of 945 days, since Saudi Arabia 2021 as well as setting a new record for time difference between first and latest F1 victory at that time - 17 years and one month had passed since the 2007 Canadian Grand Prix.

He would extend that record in Belgium three weeks later.

Always Hungary for More

The Hungaroring is another layout synonymous with Lewis’ time at Mercedes. Not only was it the scene of his first win with the team in 2013, it also became a record-breaking track for the seven-time world champion.

Of the eight wins achieved in Budapest - the second most at any track for a single driver in F1 - five have been with Mercedes, and all eight have been with a Mercedes engine.

Lewis’ record of nine poles at the Hungaroring is also the most for a driver at a single circuit. Six of those came while driving for Mercedes, the most recent his 104th in 2023, and all nine while powered by Mercedes-AMG High Performance Powertrains.

Super Streaks

Between 2017 and 2021, Lewis won the Spanish Grand Prix in five consecutive seasons, equalling hero Ayrton Senna’s tally of five in-a-row at Monaco between 1989 and 1993.

The 2018 German Grand Prix saw Lewis win from P14 on the grid, the furthest back he has won an F1 race from. It would be the fourth and final victory for the three-pointed star at home.

In terms of streaks, Lewis twice won five Grands Prix in a row for Mercedes. In 2014, he claimed victory in Italy, Singapore, Japan, Russia, and the United States, while in 2020 he won the Eifel, Portuguese, Emilia Romagna, Turkish and Bahrain races in succession.

He claimed seven consecutive pole positions between the 2015 Monaco and 2015 Italian Grand Prix.

Down Under in Australia, Lewis took six consecutive pole positions at the start of the hybrid era between 2014 and 2019.

Lewis reached the rostrum in 16 consecutive races between the 2014 Italian and the 2015 British Grand Prix

The record of most consecutive points finishes also sits with Lewis. Between the 2018 British Grand Prix and the 2020 Bahrain Grand Prix, he finished in the points in 48 Grands Prix in-a-row (the equivalent of two 2024 seasons!)

He also holds the third-longest streak of points-finishes, too, with 33. That was achieved while driving for Mercedes between the 2016 Japanese and the 2018 French Grand Prix.

Domination

Lewis achieved 17 F1 hat-tricks during his time with Mercedes. That is a pole position, fastest lap, and race-win combo.

There were also six times Lewis achieved the F1 Grand Slam with Mercedes. That is pole position, fastest lap, leading every lap, and the win.

LH 44

While the number 44 has become synonymous with Lewis’ time at Mercedes, a fun fact you might not know is that Lewis ran the number 10 for his first season with the team in 2013.