It’s now official: Lando Norris is a Formula 1 world champion.
The 26-year-old has become Britain’s 11th F1 world champion and also becomes McLaren’s eighth world champion and first since Lewis Hamilton in 2008.
Hamilton was the last British champion in 2020 and is a joint record-holder overall as a seven-time world champion. But where does he and Norris rank in the list of British champions?
Plenty of top British drivers don’t make the list, given they have not won a world championship. These include Sir Stirling Moss – widely considered the greatest driver never to win an F1 world championship – as well as Johnny Herbert and David Coulthard.
But with Norris’s victory in 2025, 11 have – and here they are ranked:
