A Grand Slam (or Grand Chelem) is when a driver takes pole place, a race win while main each lap and the quickest lap, all at one grand prix. A complete of solely 25 5 drivers have taken a mixed 68 Grand Slams in complete, with Verstappen taking the newest (and his fifth) on the 2025 Bahrain GP.
Whereas 65 drivers have transformed a pole place begin to a race win, solely 12 drivers have managed to succeed in double figures. Right here’s all the pieces it is advisable learn about drivers with probably the most poles to race wins.
F1 drivers with probably the most pole positions transformed to race wins
1. Lewis Hamilton – 61 pole place to race wins
Lewis Hamilton has transformed probably the most pole positions to grand prix victories with a complete of 61 over his 18-year profession. This can be a conversion price of 58.65% from his 104 pole positions, which is unsurprising given the Brit’s dominant efficiency between 2014 and 2021.
The race noticed 4 security automotive intervals and 10 drivers out of the grand prix, however Hamilton remained calm and drove easily, later saying it was a “pretty easy race other than the restarts”.

Lewis Hamilton, McLaren MP4-22 Mercedes
Photograph by: Lorenzo Bellanca / Motorsport Pictures
By profitable the race, the then-22-year-old took the lead within the drivers’ championship – leapfrogging his team-mate Alonso by eight factors.
On lap 37 of the race, Verstappen was discovered to have gained a bonus over Hamilton at flip 1 by overtaking him off the observe for the lead,
However was ordered to present the place again. Mercedes had not instructed Hamilton the move would occur and when the Dutchman broke all of a sudden, he discovered himself colliding with the again of the Pink Bull, which prompted injury to his entrance wing. Verstappen was handed a 10-second time penalty and Hamilton took his ultimate win of the season, leaving him tied in factors with the Pink Bull driver.
2. Michael Schumacher – 40 pole place to race wins
Schumacher took a complete of 40 pole positions to race wins from his total complete of 68 pole positions, giving him a win ratio of 58.62%.
His first pole place conversion got here 4 seasons into his profession on the 1994 Monaco GP, while racing for Benetton. Much like Hamilton, Schumacher’s first pole place was adopted by a win – albeit it was his sixth victory.

Michael Schumacher, Benetton Ford
Photograph by: Sutton Pictures
3. Max Verstappen – 32 pole place to race wins
His first pole place transformed to a race win was taken on the 2019 Brazilian GP, together with his first pole place coming eight races earlier in Hungary. Verstappen out-qualified Ferrari’s Vettel by 0.123 seconds and was capable of preserve his lead firstly of the race because the German battled with Hamilton. He briefly misplaced the lead from a mixture of a block from the Williams automobiles and an undercut from Hamilton however regained the lead rapidly. He repeated the tactic through the first security automotive and later introduced house his eighth win.
4. Sebastian Vettel – 31 pole positions to race wins
He was the primary driver to pit on lap 18, briefly handing the result in the Finnish McLaren driver, earlier than regaining first place three laps later. Because the observe dried, Vettel prolonged his result in a powerful 12.512 seconds from Kovalainen when he crossed the end line, and in doing so turned the youngest driver to win a System 1 race at 21 years and 73 days previous – a report which was later damaged by Verstappen who took a win on the 2016 Spanish GP aged 18 years and 228 days previous.

Sebastian Vettel, Toro Rosso STR03
Photograph by: Glenn Dunbar / Motorsport Pictures
Vettel’s ultimate pole place to race win got here on the 2018 Canadian GP, regardless of taking an additional three pole positions and the identical variety of race wins. After beginning the race forward of Mercedes’ Bottas he was capable of end with a lead of seven.376 seconds forward of the Finn, throughout an uneventful race. Race officers ordered flag bearer Winnie Harlow to wave the chequered flag earlier than Vettel had accomplished the penultimate lap, which means the ultimate race outcomes had been taken from lap 68. His ultimate pole to win was additionally Vettel’s fiftieth profession win, making him the fourth driver to attain as many victories.
5. Ayrton Senna – 29 pole positions to race wins
Ayrton Senna is the final System 1 driver to have been capable of convert over 20 pole positions right into a race win. The Brazilian achieved 65 complete pole positions however was solely capable of convert 29 to a win, leading to a conversion proportion of 44.62%. His first pole to win was taken on the 1985 Portuguese GP with Lotus – one in every of three he took with the crew, together with the 1986 Spanish and 1986 Detroit GPs.
Much like many on the high of this checklist, Senna’s first pole place was adopted by a race win, which was additionally his maiden victory. He led the race from McLaren’s Alain Prost and confirmed off his spectacular moist climate driving expertise when he completed over a minute forward of second place Michele Alboreto and a lap or extra above the remainder of the grid.