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Top 5 Youngest F1 Drivers to win a F1 Championship

In this article, check out the top 5 youngest drivers to win a F1 championship. The list of the youngest drivers who have won a F1 championship are the ones who have gone on to achieve true greatness in their careers.

Harsh Chopra
Last updated: 26.03.2022
Top 5 Youngest F1 Drivers to win a F1 Championship

In the previous articles we talked about the youngest F1 Drivers to start a race and the youngest to win a F1 race but now it is the big one as far the youngest list is concerned we will now look at the 5 youngest drivers to win the whole F1 World Championship and as always it features the who’s who of the F1 community as winning a race can happen but to win a championship a driver needs consistency and not everyone has that.


The list of the youngest drivers who have won a F1 championship are the ones who have gone on to achieve true greatness in their careers as they knew how to win the big one every year and after a few years a new young Driver would come and then he would dominate for a few years. So , let’s see the Top 5 Youngest F1 Drivers to win a F1 championship.


Sebastian Vettel (23 Yrs 134 Days)


Sebastian Vettel is the youngest driver in the history of F1 to win the F1 Championship and he did it at an incredible age of 23 years when he won the 2010 season and since that time , he was Unstoppable for a number of years and no other driver was even close to him. He was among the first German drivers to win the big one and even now he is among the best drivers in the world.


Lewis Hamilton (23 Yrs 300 Days)


The second name on this list is someone who is the best driver of all time in the history of this sport and he began his dominance since the year 2008 when he won his first F1 Championship and since then Lewis Hamilton has won 6 more titles and he was close to winning his 8th title but just fell short and even this upcoming season he has a good chance to win his 8th title as he will be raring to go .


Fernando Alonso (24 Yrs 73 Days)


The third name in this list is another driver who is one of the best of all time in the sport of F1 and he even now gets to the podium white often so that says a lot about his consistency. He won his first F1 Championship when he was only 24 years old and the year was 2005. All his fans would hope that he would become one of the oldest to win the F1 Championship this season.


Max Verstappen (24 Yrs 273 Days)


The latest addition to this list is the winner of the 2021 F1 Championship and that is the Dutch driver Max Verstappen. He is someone who is prominently featured in all the lists that we have done till now and last season was his test till now and he was giving full competition to the greatest Lewis Hamilton and in the dying stages of the F1 season he won the title and he will only get better and better every year.


Emerson Fittipaldi (25 Yrs 273 Days)


The fifth and final name in this list is a name that not many young fans of the sport would have heard but he was the youngest until these four names came around and he was one of the best in his time and he is an inspiration to a lot of the young drivers from Brazil and around the world as well.

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