A Grand Slam (or Grand Chelem) is when a driver takes pole position, a race win whilst leading every lap and the fastest lap, all at one grand prix. A total of only 25 five drivers have taken a combined 68 Grand Slams in total, with Verstappen taking the most recent (and his fifth) at the 2025 Bahrain GP.
While 65 drivers have converted a pole position start to a race win, only 12 drivers have managed to reach double figures. Here’s everything you need to know about drivers with the most poles to race wins.
F1 drivers with the most pole positions converted to race wins
1. Lewis Hamilton – 61 pole position to race wins
Lewis Hamilton has converted the most pole positions to grand prix victories with a total of 61 over his 18-year career. This is a conversion rate of 58.65% from his 104 pole positions, which is unsurprising given the Brit’s dominant performance between 2014 and 2021.
The race saw four safety car periods and 10 drivers out of the grand prix, but Hamilton remained calm and drove smoothly, later saying it was a “fairly simple race apart from the restarts”.
Lewis Hamilton, McLaren MP4-22 Mercedes
Photo by: Lorenzo Bellanca / Motorsport Images
By winning the race, the then-22-year-old took the lead in the drivers’ championship – leapfrogging his team-mate Alonso by eight points.
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