Name: Vallteri Bottas
Team Name: Mercedes
Country: Finland
Podiums: 22
Points: 716
Grand Prix entered: 98
World Championships: N/A
Highest Race Finish: 1st
Highest Grid Position: 1st
Date of birth: 28/08/1989
Place of birth: Nastola, Finland
Biography:
Valtteri is quite simply one of the most talented young racing drivers I have come across and we expect great things from him in the future.”
These were the words of Sir Frank Williams as he announced that the young man from Nastola in southern Finland would make his F1 debut as a
Williams race driver for the 2013 season. Williams’ expectations were high, but Bottas did not disappoint.
Name: Kimi Räikkönen
Team Name: Ferrari
Country: Finland
Podiums: 91
Points: 1565
Grand Prix entered: 273
World Championships: 1
Highest Race Finish: 1st
Highest Grid Position: 1st
Date of birth: 17/10/1979
Place of birth: Espoo, Finland
Biography:
He’s a man of few words,” Jenson Button once said of Kimi Raikkonen, “but he's all about racing." Never the most loquacious out of the car,
the mercurially-talented 2007 world champion has always preferred to let his driving do the talking, be that in a rally car, on a snowmobile,
or, most successfully, in Formula One machinery.
Name: Daniel Ricciardo
Team Name: Red Bull Racing
Country: Australia
Podiums: 27
Points: 816
Grand Prix entered: 129
World Championships: N/A
Highest Race Finish: 1st
Highest Grid Position: 1st
Date of birth: 01/07/1989
Place of birth: Perth, Australia
Biography:
If you want to be successful at anything in life the primary thing is you have to enjoy it”. Those were the words of the ever-smiling Daniel Ricciardo
as he reflected on his breakthrough 2014 season with Red Bull Racing - a season which saw the affable Australian not only win his first Grand Prix
(and two more) but also leave four-time world champion team mate Sebastian Vettel trailing in his wake.
Name: Lance Stroll
Team Name: Williams
Country: Canada
Podiums: 1
Points: 40
Grand Prix entered: 20
World Championships: N/A
Highest Race Finish: 3rd
Highest Grid Position: 2nd
Date of birth: 29/10/1998
Place of birth: Montreal, Canada
Biography:
Born in Montreal, Canada in 1998, Stroll was bitten by the racing bug aged five when his father, eminent businessman and occasional amateur sportscar driver
Lawrence Stroll, bought him a go-kart. He won his first race and championship three years later, before being selected for Ferrari's prestigious Driver
Academy in 2010 following more karting success.
Name: Sebastian Vettel
Team Name: Ferrari
Country: Germany
Podiums: 99
Points: 2425
Grand Prix entered: 199
World Championships: 4
Highest Race Finish: 1st
Highest Grid Position: 1st
Date of birth: 03/07/1987
Place of birth: Heppenheim, Germany
Biography:
A tour de force as he swept to four straight world championship crowns and countless Formula One records, Sebastian Vettel’s relentless hunger for victory,
as much as his outstanding talent, secure his place as one of the sport’s greats.
Name: Lewis Hamilton
Team Name: Mercedes
Country: United Kingdom
Podiums: 117
Points: 2610
Grand Prix entered: 208
World Championships: 4
Highest Race Finish: 1st
Highest Grid Position: 1st
Date of birth: 07/01/1985
Place of birth: Stevenage, England
Biography:
Few drivers have entered Formula One racing with as big a bang as Lewis Hamilton, whose sensational maiden season in 2007 - in which he lost out on the world
championship by a single point - remains one of the most remarkable rookie campaigns in history.
Name: Max Verstappen
Team Name: Red Bull Racing
Country: Netherlands
Podiums: 11
Points: 421
Grand Prix entered: 60
World Championships: N/A
Highest Race Finish: 1st
Highest Grid Position: 2nd
Date of birth: 30/09/1997
Place of birth: Hasselt, Belgium
Biography:
By any measure, Max Verstappen’s rise has been unprecedented. After just one - extremely successful - season in single-seaters,
Red Bull shocked the Formula One paddock by placing him with Toro Rosso for 2015. Never has one so young, and so inexperienced,
lined up on an F1 grid.
Name: Sergio Perez
Team Name: Force India
Country: Mexico
Podiums: 7
Points: 467
Grand Prix entered: 136
World Championships: N/A
Highest Race Finish: 1st
Highest Grid Position: 1st
Date of birth: 26/01/1990
Place of birth: Guadalajara, Mexico
Biography:
On his 2011 race debut, Sergio Perez Mendoza became only the fifth Mexican to make it into Formula One racing. In 2015 - four seasons and two team moves later,
and with his stock continuing to rise - he also flies the flag for his nation, as Mexico City returns to the F1 calendar for the first time since 1992.
Name: Esteban Ocon
Team Name: Force India
Country: France
Podiums: N/A
Points: 87
Grand Prix entered: 29
World Championships: N/A
Highest Race Finish: 5th
Highest Grid Position: 3rd
Date of birth: 17/09/1996
Place of birth: Évreux, Normandy
Biography:
Esteban Ocon may have landed his F1 seat midseason in 2016, following the departure of Rio Haryanto from Manor, but the Frenchman arrived on the grid with plenty
of relevant experience, having tested both that season’s Renault and Mercedes F1 machinery. Born in Evreux, Normandy in 1996, the Frenchman predictably began his
career with success in karting, before progressing to single-seaters in 2012, scoring three podium finishes in Formula Renault 2.0 with Koiranen Motorsport.
Name: Carlos Sainz
Team Name: Renault
Country: Spain
Podiums: N/A
Points: 118
Grand Prix entered: 60
World Championships: N/A
Highest Race Finish: 4th
Highest Grid Position: 5th
Date of birth: 01/09/1994
Place of birth: Madrid, Spain
Biography:
The son of a much-loved double world rally champion, it was perhaps inevitable that Carlos Sainz Junior would choose to pursue a career in motorsport.
But unlike his famous father - namesake Carlos Sainz - the gifted young Spaniard chose to ply his trade on the track rather than on the loose.
Name: Nico Hulkenberg
Team Name: Renault
Country: Germany
Podiums: N/A
Points: 405
Grand Prix entered: 137
World Championships: N/A
Highest Race Finish: 4th
Highest Grid Position: 1st
Date of birth: 19/08/1987
Place of birth: Emmerich am Rhein, Germany
Biography:
For many in the Formula One paddock, Nico Hulkenberg is a world champion in waiting. A winner in every category he has ever competed in before Formula One racing
- and a champion in three of them - he appeared from an early age to be destined for greatness.
Name: Romain Grosjean
Team Name: Haas
Country: France
Podiums: 10
Points: 344
Grand Prix entered: 124
World Championships: N/A
Highest Race Finish: 1st
Highest Grid Position: 1st
Date of birth: 17/04/1986
Place of birth: Geneva, Switzerland
Biography:
While Romain Grosjean has firmly established himself among the Formula One elite, his path to the top has been as turbulent as it has been glittering.
Few earn a second chance in F1 racing; Grosjean won a reprieve not only after a stunted introduction in 2009, but again three years later when several
accused him of being an accident waiting to happen during his 2012 comeback. Grosjean’s redemption came on the track, as a series of blistering performances
the following season underlined his ability and transformed his reputation.
Name: Kevin Magnussen
Team Name: Hass
Country: Denmark
Podiums: 1
Points: 81
Grand Prix entered: 61
World Championships: N/A
Highest Race Finish: 2nd
Highest Grid Position: 4th
Date of birth: 05/10/1992
Place of birth: Roskilde, Denmark
Biography:
In 1995, a promising young Dane made his Formula One debut with McLaren. That man was Jan Magnussen and in a delightful twist of fate, some 19 years later,
the same team handed an F1 chance to his son, Kevin.
Name: Fernando Alonso
Team Name: McLaren
Country: Spain
Podiums: 97
Points: 1849
Grand Prix entered: 293
World Championships: 2
Highest Race Finish: 1st
Highest Grid Position: 1st
Date of birth: 29/07/1981
Place of birth: Oviedo, Spain
Biography:
Fernando Alonso is the man who ended Michael Schumacher’s Formula One reign, and became the then-youngest champion in F1 history.
A second consecutive crown was confirmation of his brilliance, and with Schumacher retiring, Alonso seemed certain to replace him as the sport’s dominant superstar.
Name: Stoffel Vandorne
