Although I am preparing for both my colonoscopy on Wednesday and my mom’s appointment with the social worker on Thursday, I still wanted to complete this final column for this portion of the project first ‘cause I’m still very worried that the colonoscopy will fuck me up. I wrote this intro on the bus and in the bus terminal en route to visiting Mom and typed up all the drivers last night.
This column effectively serves as a roll call where I list every driver who I think has the slightest possibility of making my 1,000 greatest drivers list. I have a master spreadsheet, which I started working on early last year grouping every driver who I think had a remote possibility of being listed in any of my annual top 200 lists for a given year (or top 100 for the years 1905-1941 or top 5 for the years 1894-1904). Many of these drivers (especially in the last column) probably have no such seasons but I wanted to check them anyway. Originally, I grouped these drivers into five categories: Lock, Near Lock, Bubble (Yes), Bubble (No), and Fringe. However, I came to realize as I went through my original driver list for the first time that the number of drivers I had in my Lock and Near Lock categories combined was over 1,000. Therefore, I have renamed my Near Lock category my Bubble, my Bubble (Yes) category Near Misses, my Bubble (No) category Fringe, and my Fringe category Sub-Fringe.
My Lock category consists of all drivers who I have either calculated as scoring a cumulative 25 points according to my scoring rubric or those drivers I have not gone through yet who I assume will meet that threshold. The Bubble consists of the drivers I assume to have scored between 14-24 points and the Near Misses are drivers who I assume scored between 10-13 points. I’d like to go through all the remaining drivers on these three lists by the end of the year to get a better sense of where exactly the bubble is. Is it 14, 15, 16 points? I don’t know yet. I’m sure there are still plenty of drivers I’ve misclassified who I will move one tier up or down, but there probably aren’t many drivers where I am more than one tier off.
I still change my mind on things periodically and I reserve the right to tweak any of my previously-announced season ratings for any given driver as I learn more information or think more deeply about a certain driver’s career. This especially holds true for recent drivers where current information may put some of a current driver’s previous seasons in better context. For example, Álex Palou is a driver I used to routinely argue was overrated (even as recently as St. Pete this year) because I was growing extremely irritated by how often he backed into wins on pit strategy in an era when only the Ganassi team has seemed to have good strategy in IndyCar at all over the past couple decades. Furthermore, I thought people were overrating him because he was a mediocre oval driver for years. Nonetheless, that all changed and now that he is poised to probably be #1 on this year’s list, I’m willing to give him a little more credit for his previous years than I did. I pointedly gave him only an E- last year because I didn’t like that he had only one on-track lead change but I just upgraded him to E and swapped Kelvin van der Linde out (I still think Colton Herta and Scott McLaughlin were better than him last year). In 2023, I moved Johan Kristoffersson from 4th to 3rd and Palou from 5th to 4th while dropping Ritomo Miyata from 3rd to 5th. I overrated Miyata in a euphoric mood for sweeping the two premier Japanese championships Super Formula and Super GT in the same year, but he isn’t the only driver to do that (although he is admittedly the only driver to do that with autism) and after he’s revealed himself to be an extremely mediocre Formula 2 driver, I decided to lower him because I don’t yet want to make him a lock. He should still make the list though. I upgraded several Chaz Mostert seasons after I familiarized myself with my touring car model better. I just swapped out Frankie Schneider for Troy Ruttman for 5th place in 1952, which I think was a better choice. I’ve also made many more minor tweaks to my annual lists and I’m sure I’ll continue to do so. I really don’t like Felix Rosenqvist as a lock so I might downgrade his 2017 but I’m not ready to do so yet.
I’m sure my regular subscribers will already be aware of this, but for anyone who might be stumbling on this post months later, I award 100 points for the #1 driver for each postwar (1946-present) season, 70 for #2, 50 for #3, 30 for #4, 20 for #5, 10 for E (6th-25th), 5 for E- (26th-50th), 3 for C+ (51st-100th), 2 for C (101st-150th), and 1 for C- (151st-200th). For 1905-1941, I simply downgraded the scale by two levels (1st: 50, 2nd: 30, 3rd: 20, 4th: 10, 5th: 5, E: 3, E-: 2, C+: 1) and removed the bottom two categories since there was significantly less competition, but I won’t insist on rating 100 drivers in all of those years because I don’t think there are 100 drivers worth rating for most of them. I’m also not going to rate a C+ caliber season as an E even if a driver was a top 25 driver in one of those grossly uncompetitive seasons. For 1894-1904, I only rate the top five drivers: 10, 5, 3, 2, and 1 since there was barely any racing in those years at all, although I’ll probably include a couple drivers from the first decade. I have filled all my top fives back to 1894 but I still need to fill most of the other slots as I currently only have 6526/19355 seasonal rating slots filled (33.7%).
Finally, there are a number of drivers in the Near Miss category who have technically not yet scored 10 points. I decided to include all the drivers who made any of my 2021-2024 top 100 lists in that category even if some of them don’t really seem like likely contenders (such as Marcus Ericsson, Santino Ferrucci, Callum Ilott, and Erik Jones). Additionally, there are a number of rising stars who have not yet scored ten points and are not yet worthy of making the list but might be by the time I finish in (hopefully) 2028. Here are most of them: Andrea Kimi Antonelli, Taylor Barnard, Gabriel Bortoleto, Isack Hadjar, Carson Hocevar, Christian Lundgaard, David Malukas, Morris Schuring, Joel Sturm, Rinus VeeKay, Bubba Wallace, Connor Zilisch. I could see any of them blowing up into perennial championship contenders in their respective series (obviously some more likely than others). I definitely don’t want to say any of those drivers are flat out nos even if they haven’t scored ten points YET so I listed them here. Essentially, any drivers who I thought stood a solid chance of scoring ten points by the time I finish I listed in the third group even if they’re not there yet. There are a few drivers of this ilk I bumped up based on their accomplishments this year. Entering this season, Oscar Piastri had 17 points but he’ll definitely be an E and ascend to lock status. Kyle Kirkwood had 9 but he’ll at least be E- (probably E) which will move him up to 14-19 points. Broc Feeney had 10 entering this season but he will almost certainly make my top five and advance to at least 30 points and lock status, so I’ve already promoted them. I also made a few judgment calls like Hershel McGriff. Even though I gave him only nine points, I realize I’m a contrarian on him so I need to at least leave him on this list even though I think I’m extremely unlikely to list him.
In all, I presently have 618 locks, 487 bubble drivers, and 576 close misses. I’ve broken them up by last initial for readability purposes. As an ugly American, I didn’t bother entering any drivers’ accent marks as I was typing them, but I certainly will when I write the entries. I doubt many people will read through these entire lists, but if you do decide to, please let me know if there is anyone at all who I have NOT listed below who you believe is worthy of consideration. Thank you and good night.
Locks (618):
Rauno Aaltonen, Laurent Aiello, Johnny Aitken, Nasser Al-Attiyah, Michele Alboreto, Filipe Albuquerque, Markku Alen, Olimpio Alencar, Jr., Jean Alesi, Bobby Allison, Davey Allison, Fernando Alonso, Uwe Alzen, Joe Amato, Marcos Ambrose, Michael Ammermuller, Chris Amon, Greg Anderson, Mario Andretti, Michael Andretti, Paolo Andreucci, Jean-Claude Andruet, Max Angelelli, Billy Arnold, Alberto Ascari, Antonio Ascari, Roland Asch, Bill Auberlen, Didier Auriol, Mikel Azcona
Buck Baker, Buddy Baker, Mauro Baldi, Jack Baldwin, Renato Balestrero, Earl Bamber, Joao Barbosa, Woolf Barnato, Rubens Barrichello, Johnny Beauchamp, Jean Behra, Christopher Bell, Derek Bell, Stefan Bellof, Jean-Pierre Beltoise, Robert Benoist, Olivier Beretta, Gerhard Berger, Jorg Bergmeister, Timo Bernhard, Kenny Bernstein, Andrea Bertolini, Gary Bettenhausen, Tony Bettenhausen, Miki Biasion, Frank Biela, Greg Biffle, Thed Bjork, Ryan Blaney, Jeroen Bleekemolen, Stig Blomqvist, Geoff Bodine, Georges Boillot, Colin Bond, Neil Bonnett, Jo Bonnier, Terry Borcheller, Pietro Bordino, Valtteri Bottas, Christophe Bouchut, Sebastien Bourais, Thierry Boutsen, John Bowe, David Brabham, Geoff Brabham, Jack Brabham, Kenny Brack, Don Branson, Craig Breedlove, Ryan Briscoe, Peter Brock, Tony Brooks, Antron Brown, David Bruce-Brown, Martin Brundle, Gianmaria Bruni, Jimmy Bryan, Sebastien Buemi, Caca Bueno, Richard Burns, Jeff Burton, Kurt Busch, Kyle Busch, Jenson Button, Red Byron, William Byron
Alessandro Cagno, Thiago Camilo, Dan Cammish, Giuseppe Campari, Malcolm Campbell, Matt Campbell, Agustin Canapino, Rinaldo Capello, Ron Capps, Rudolf Caracciola, Bob Carey, Pancho Carter, Gabriel Casagrande, Nick Cassidy, Helio Castroneves, Johnny Cecotto, Eddie Cheever, Gaston Chevrolet, Louis Chevrolet, Luigi Chinetti, Louis Chiron, Jim Clark, John Cleland, Emmanuel Collard, Peter Collins, Stefano Comini, Mike Conway, Josh Cook, Earl Cooper, Jeg Coughlin, Jr., David Coulthard, James Courtney, Alain Cudini, Bill Cummings
Antonio Felix da Costa, Cristiano da Matta, Yannick Dalmas, Dave Darland, Bernard Darniche, Jimmy Davies, Elio de Angelis, Gil de Ferran, Joao Paulo de Oliveira, Jake Dennis, Patrick Depailler, Ralph DePalma, Pete DePaolo, Ernie Derr, Lucas di Grassi, Paul di Resta, Albert Divo, Larry Dixon, Scott Dixon, Mark Donohue, Marc Duez, Romain Dumas, Dominique Dupuy, Loic Duval
Dale Earnhardt, Dale Earnhardt, Jr., Carl Edwards, Sean Edwards, Yann Ehrlacher, Fredrik Ekblom, Mattias Ekstrom, Vic Elford, Bill Elliott, Chase Elliott, Dante Emiliozzi, Erica Enders, Philipp Eng, Kevin Estre, Philippe Etancelin, Mitch Evans, Richie Evans
Teo Fabi, Luigi Fagioli, Juan Manuel Fangio, Nino Farina, Broc Feeney, Ron Fellows, Ralph Firman, Giancarlo Fisichella, Christian Fittipaldi, Emerson Fittipaldi, John Fitzpatrick, Fonty Flock, Tim Flock, George Follmer, Elliott Forbes-Robinson, John Force, A.J. Foyt, Felipe Fraga, Dario Franchitti, Heinz-Harald Frentzen, George Fury
Juan Galvez, Oscar Galvez, Harry Gant, Antonio Garcia, Frank Gardner, Don Garlits, Pierre Gasly, Oliver Gavin, Olivier Gendebien, Fabrizio Giovanardi, Dieter Glemser, Bob Glidden, Paul Goldsmith, Paulo Gomes, Jose Froila Gonzalez, Richard Goransson, Jeff Gordon, Robby Gordon, Jules Goux, Harry Grant, Jamie Green, Peter Gregg, Bobby Grim, Marcus Gronholm, Kenelm Lee Guinness, Dan Gurney
Mika Hakkinen, Lewis Hamilton, Denny Hamlin, Sam Hanks, Kenneth Hansen, Ray Harroun, Brendon Hartley, Harry Hartz, Tim Harvey, Kevin Harvick, Masahiro Hasemi, Mike Hawthorn, Hurley Haywood, Nick Heidfeld, Victor Hemery, Ray Hendrick, Wolf Henzler, Johnny Herbert, Hans Herrmann, Colton Herta, Jack Hewitt, Hans Heyer, Toine Hezemans, Robert Hight, Damon Hill, Graham Hill, Jake Hill, Phil Hill, Tracy Hines, Tommy Hinnershitz, Mikko Hirvonen, Chris Hodgetts, Irv Hoerr, Ingo Hoffmann, Al Holbert, Bill Holland, Ted Horn, Sam Hornish, Jr., Kazuyoshi Hoshino, Rob Huff, Patrick Huisman, Nico Hulkenberg, Denny Hulme, James Hunt, Ryan Hunter-Reay, Jim Hurtubise, Dick Hutcherson
Jacky Ickx, Russell Ingall, Jack Ingram, Tom Ingram, Innes Ireland, Ernie Irvan, Bobby Isaac
Mat Jackson, Mathieu Jaminet, Bob Jane, Dale Jarrett, Ned Jarrett, Stefan Johansson, Gordon Johncock, Dick Johnson, Jimmie Johnson, Junior Johnson, Warren Johnson, Alan Jones, Parnelli Jones, Andrew Jordan
Kasey Kahne, Doug Kalitta, Tony Kanaan, Juha Kankkunen, Helmut Kelleners, Rick Kelly, Tommy Kendall, Matt Kenseth, Mel Kenyon, Brad Keselowski, Leo Kinnunen, Steve Kinser, Kamui Kobayashi, Tom Kristensen, Johan Kristoffersson, Robert Kubica, Alan Kulwicki
Bobby Labonte, Terry Labonte, Jacques Laffite, Andy Lally, Pedro Lamy, Hermann Lang, Nicolas Lapierre, Nicola Larini, Gerard Larrousse, Kyle Larson, Pierre Lartigue, Jari-Matti Latvala, Niki Lauda, Christian Lautenschlager, Charles Leclerc, JJ Lehto, Butch Leitzinger, Joe Leonard, Robin Liddell, Marc Lieb, Herbert Linge, Richard Lloyd, Frank Lockhart, Sebastien Loeb, Joey Logano, Patrick Long, Tony Longhurst, Richard Longman, Jose Maria Lopez, Fred Lorenzen, Andre Lotterer, Craig Lowndes, Klaus Ludwig, Lucas Luhr, Arie Luyendyk
Sascha Maassen, Jan Magnussen, Tommi Makinen, Jean-Pierre Malcher, Nigel Mansell, Attilio Marinoni, Sterling Marlin, Mark Martin, Omar Martinez, Jochen Mass, Felipe Massa, Ricardo Mauricio, Rex Mays, Roger McCluskey, Jack McGrath, Bruce McLaren, Scott McLaughlin, Allan McNish, Colin McRae, Rick Mears, Jaime Melo, Alain Menu, Rene Metge, Louis Meyer, Norbert Michelisz, Hannu Mikkola, Ken Miles, Tommy Milton, Allan Moffat, Guy Monraisse, Juan Pablo Montoya, Greg Moore, Paul Morris, Edoardo Mortara, John Morton, Mike Mosley, Stirling Moss, Chaz Mostert, Satoshi Motoyama, Roberto Mouras, Shirley Muldowney, Ralph Mulford, Dirk Muller, Jorg Muller, Sven Muller, Yvan Muller, Sandro Munari, Frank Mundy, Greg Murphy, Jimmy Murphy
Kazuki Nakajima, Satoru Nakajima, Alessandro Nannini, Felice Nazzaro, Matt Neal, Norm Nelson, Thierry Neuville, Josef Newgarden, Ryan Newman, Klaus Niedzwiedz, Lando Norris, Tazio Nuvolari
Johnny O’Connell, Pato O’Ward, Sebastien Ogier, Danny Ongais, Guillermo Ortelli, Stephane Ortelli
Gary Paffett, Simon Pagenaud, Alex Palou, Marvin Panch, Olivier Panis, Mike Parkes, Reg Parnell, Benny Parsons, Jim Paschal, Riccardo Patrese, David Pearson, Win Percy, Sergio Perez, Leonel Pernia, Stephane Peterhansel, Ronnie Peterson, Lee Petty, Richard Petty, Oscar Piastri, Alessandro Pier Guidi, Raffaele Pinto, Nelson Piquet, Emanuele Pirro, Jason Plato, Will Power, Thomas Preining, Andy Priaulx, Alain Prost, Don Prudhomme, Scott Pruett, Eddie Pullen
Dieter Quester, Ronnie Quintarelli
Paul Radisich, Jean Ragnotti, Bobby Rahal, Graham Rahal, Kimi Raikkonen, Rene Rast, Jim Rathmann, Roberto Ravaglia, Brian Redman, Jim Reed, Clay Regazzoni, Dario Resta, Carlos Reutemann, Manuel Reuter, Peter Revson, Daniel Ricciardo, Jim Richards, Tim Richmond, Jochen Rindt, Fireball Roberts, George Robertson, Mike Rockenfeller, Pedro Rodriguez, Walter Rohrl, Keke Rosberg, Nico Rosberg, Mauri Rose, Bernd Rosemeyer, Felix Rosenqvist, Louis Rosier, Alexander Rossi, Andre Rossignol, Andy Rouse, Kalle Rovanpera, Oliver Rowland, Lloyd Ruby, Ricky Rudd, George Russell, Johnny Rutherford, Troy Ruttman, Rickard Rydell
Carlos Sainz, Carlos Sainz, Jr., Mika Salo, Timo Salonen, Roy Salvadori, Ludovico Scarfiotti, Gary Scelzi, Donny Schatz, Jody Scheckter, Timo Scheider, Jean-Louis Schlesser, Bernd Schneider, Frankie Schneider, Walter Schock, Ken Schrader, Michael Schumacher, Ralf Schumacher, Tony Schumacher, Jack Sears, Logan Seavey, Henry Segrave, Ayrton Senna, Chico Serra, Daniel Serra, Glenn Seton, Scott Sharp, Wilbur Shaw, Gordon Shedden, Lee Shepherd, Jo Siffert, Mark Skaife, Tom Sneva, Dany Snobeck, Jimmy Snyder, Petter Solberg, Raymond Sommer, Steve Soper, Bruno Spengler, Gordon Spice, Jackie Stewart, Tony Stewart, Frank Stippler, Rolf Stommelen, Hans-Joachim Stuck, Danny Sullivan, John Surtees, Ashley Sutton, Toshio Suzuki, Kody Swanson, Bob Sweikert, Sammy Swindell, Ferenc Szisz
Yuji Tachikawa, Patrick Tambay, Ott Tanak, Garth Tander, Nick Tandy, Gabriele Tarquini, Jordan Taylor, Ricky Taylor, Marshall Teague, Larry ten Voorde, Teddy Tetzlaff, Leon Thery, Kurt Thiim, Nicki Thiim, Herb Thomas, Rene Thomas, James Thompson, Speedy Thompson, Johnny Thomson, Steve Torrence, Paul Tracy, Juan Maria Traverso, Benoit Treluyer, Dick Trickle, Maurice Trintignant, Martin Truex, Jr., Jarno Trulli, Sho Tsuboi, Colin Turkington, Curtis Turner, Darren Turner
Bernard Unett, Al Unser, Bobby Unser, Al Unser, Jr.
Eric van de Poele, Shane van Gisbergen, Dries Vanthoor, Laurens Vanthoor, Achille Varzi, Ari Vatanen, Jean-Eric Vergne, Jean-Karl Vernay, Max Verstappen, Sebastian Vettel, Toni Vilander, Gilles Villeneuve, Jacques Villeneuve, Luigi Villoresi, Rich Vogler, Wolfgang von Trips, Bill Vukovich
Louis Wagner, Juichi Wakisaka, Bjorn Waldegard, Tom Walkinshaw, Rusty Wallace, Darrell Waltrip, Rodger Ward, Cameron Waters, John Watson, Joe Weatherly, James Weaver, Mark Webber, Pascal Wehrlein, Bob Welborn, Karl Wendlinger, Marco Werner, Richard Westbrook, Dan Wheldon, Jamie Whincup, Don White, Rex White, John Whitmore, Howdy Wilcox, Justin Wilson, Jean-Pierre Wimillle, Joachim Winkelhock, Mark Winterbottom, Marco Wittmann, Bob Wollek, Del Worsham
Cale Yarborough
Alex Zanardi
Bubble Drivers (487):
Atila Abreu, Christian Abt, Jonny Adam, Tony Adamowicz, Andrea Aghini, Alex Albon, Darrell Alderman, Jeff Allam, Donnie Allison, A.J. Allmendinger, Jurgen Alzen, George Amick, Ove Andersson, Julien Andlauer, Emil Andres, John Andretti, Marco Apicella, Sam Ard, Art Arfons, Rene Arnoux, Lucas Auer, Oscar Raul Aventin, Soheil Ayari
Brady Bacon, Craig Baird, Claude Ballot-Lena, Alessandro Balzan, Lorenzo Bandini, Edgar Barth, Marc Basseng, Raymond Beadle, Norm Beechey, Ernesto Bessone II, Jules Bianchi, Lucien Bianchi, Tom Bigelow, Clemente Biondetti, Prince Bira, Sam Bird, Henry Birkin, Tom Blomqvist, Eugen Bohringer, Andre Boillot, Mirko Bortolotti, Baconin Borzacchini, Clint Bowyer, Dmitry Bragin, Colin Braun, Jason Bright, Gastone Brilli-Peri, Antonio Brivio, Dick Brooks, Warwick Brown, Will Brown, Ivor Bueb, John Buffum, Steve Butler
James Calado, Dane Cameron, Jamie Campbell-Walter, Erik Carlsson, Patrick Carpentier, Oscar Castellano, Leo Cella, Francois Cevert, Eugene Chaboud, Ross Chastain, Tom Chilton, Joie Chitwood, Marcos Ciani, Bryan Clauson, John Cobb, Roberto Colciago, Rob Collard, Erik Comas, Bernard Consten, Jerry Cook, Eduardo Copello, Tom Coronel, Bartolomeo Costantini, Fabian Coulthard, Tyler Courtney, Chris Craft, Peter Cunningham
Robert Dahlgren, Wally Dallenbach, Wally Dallenbach, Jr., Ryan Dalziel, Sammy Davis, Lex Davison, Will Davison, Gaston de Chasseloup-Laubat, Gerard de Courcelles, Toulo de Graffenried, Roger de Lageneste, Nyck de Vries, Jorge Omar Del Rio, Francois Delecour, Louis Deletraz, Pipo Derani, Jorge Descotte, Don Devendorf, Julio Devoto, Luis Ruben di Palma, Darel Dieringer, Pierre Dieudonne, Jon Dooley, Edgar Doren, Rene Dreyfus, Tony Dron, Arthur Duray
Mike Edwards, Ray Elder, Maro Engel, Christian Engelhart, Kenneth Eriksson, Harald Ertl, Nasif Estefano, Elfyn Evans, George Eyston
Carlo Facetti, Juan Manuel Fangio II, Augusto Farfus, Red Farmer, Marcel Fassler, Ricardo Feller, Adrian Fernandez, Enzo Ferrari, John Fitch, Bob Flock, Ron Flockhart, Jon Fogarty, Norberto Fontana, Giorgio Francia, Paul Frere, Robin Frijns, Antonio Fuoco
Mario Gayraud, Bob Gerard, Peter Gethin, Felipe Giaffone, Zeca Giaffone, Mauro Giallombardo, Richie Ginther, Antonio Giovinazzi, Leonce Girardot, Nestor Girolami, Timo Glock, Marcos Gomes, Scott Goodyear, Jules Gounon, Hector Luis Gradassi, Stuart Graham, Justin Grant, Henri Greder, Masten Gregory, Allan Grice, Harald Grohs, Romain Grosjean, William Grover-Williams, Esteban Guerrieri, Mauricio Gugelmin, Jean Guichet
Christopher Haase, Matt Hagan, Armin Hahne, Jim Hall, Pete Halsmer, Joey Hand, Timmy Hansen, Walt Hansgen, Philip Hanson, Peter Harper, Eddie Hearne, Altfrid Heger, Laurin Heinrich, Walter Hernandez, Ryo Hirakawa, David Hobbs, Bob Holbert, Rickey Hood, James Hylton
Eddie Irvine, Hiroaki Ishiura
Jean-Pierre Jabouille, Neel Jani, Jean-Pierre Jarier, Camille Jenatzy, Mikkel Jensen, Amos Johnson, Brad Jones, Davy Jones, Levi Jones, Bruno Junqueira
Pierre Kaffer, Harry Kallstrom, Yoshimi Katayama, Ray Keech, Al Keller, Todd Kelly, Tom Kimber-Smith, Mark Kinser, Kyle Kirkwood, Norbert Kiss, Arno Klasen, Gunter Klass, Takashi Kogure, Franz Konrad, Brodie Kostecki, Heikki Kovalainen, Peter Kox, Erwin Kremer, Daniil Kvyat, Horst Kwech
Andre Lagache, Robert Laly, Jan Lammers, Simo Lampinen, Oscar Larrauri, Jud Larson, Danny Lasoski, Buddy Lazier, Walter Lechner, Christian Ledesma, Marcel Lehoux, Rene Leonard, David Leslie, Brian Lewis, Piero Liatti, Richard Lietz, Thomas Lindstrom, Jason Line, David Loring, Henri Louveau, John Love, Tiny Lund
Walt Maas, Rob MacCachren, Dave MacDonald, Umberto Maglioli, Willy Mairesse, Timo Makinen, Frederic Makowiecki, Guillermo Maldonado, Roger Mandeville, Olaf Manthey, Johnny Mantz, Raffaele Marciello, Dave Marcis, Henry Martin, Jean-Michel Martin, Pierluigi Martini, Giulio Masetti, Hiroshi Masuoka, Emilio Materassi, Fabio Sotto Mayor, Cameron McConville, Jim McElreath, Bill McGovern, Jamie McMurray, Graham McRae, Jimmy McRae, Christopher Mies, Andreas Mikkelsen, Rod Millen, Steve Millen, Tommy Milner, Ferdinando Minoia, Gerhard Mitter, Ritomo Miyata, Stefano Modena, Guy Moll, Franck Montagny, Tiago Monteiro, Roberto Moreno, Adam Morgan, Bob Morris, Michele Mouton, Brian Muir, Fritz Muller, Luigi Musso
Osamu Nakako, Emanuele Naspetti, Felipe Nasr, Mike Nazaruk, Xandy Negrao, Mauro Nesti, Jean-Pierre Nicolas, John Nielsen, Nicklas Nielsen, Jan Nilsson, Morio Nitta, Tomoki Nojiri
Pat O’Connor, Kieth O’Dor, Esteban Ocon, Barney Oldfield, Jackie Oliver, Dennis Olsen, Pierre Orsini, Mads Ostberg, Cotton Owens
Hayden Paddon, Carlos Pairetti, Gilles Panizzi, Max Papis, J.G. Parry-Thomas, Chuck Parsons, Johnnie Parsons, Scooter Patrick, John Paul, Jr., Kenneth Peacock, Cruz Pedregon, Tony Pedregon, Roger Penske, Jordan Pepper, Dylan Pereira, Henri Pescarolo, Christian Pescatori, Kelly Petillo, Kyle Petty, Larry Phillips, Roy Pierpoint, Patrick Pilet, Andy Pilgrim, Carlo Maria Pintacuda, Enrico Pinto, Nelson Piquet, Jr., Didier Pironi, Randy Pobst, Helmut Polensky, Al Pombo, Ben Pon, Gabriel Ponce de Leon, Alexandre Premat
Larry Ragland, Eduardo Ramos, Giulio Ramponi, Dick Rathmann, Tyler Reddick, Anthony Reid, David Reynolds, John Rhodes, Willy T. Ribbs, Steven Richards, Ulli Richter, Eddie Rickenbacker, Chip Robinson, Jean Rolland, Tony Rolt, Alessio Rovera, Hans Ruesch, Paul Russo, Tommy Rustad
Bruno Saby, Eddie Sachs, Boris Said, Bob Sall, Julian Santero, Roscoe Sarles, Stephane Sarrazin, Takuma Sato, Emilio Satriano, Tomas Scheckter, Harry Schell, Bill Schindler, Dorsey Schroeder, Vern Schuppan, Manfred Schurti, Richard Seaman, Lloyd Seay, Jeff Segal, Wolfgang Seidel, Masanori Sekiya, Bryan Sellers, Bob Senneker, Francesco Severi, Doc Shepherd, Morgan Shepherd, Kenjiro Shinozuka, Buddy Shuman, Jimmy Sills, Juan Manuel Silva, Jack Smith, Patrick Snijers, Madison Snow, Bengt Soderstrom, Marco Sorensen, Nelson Stacy, Gilbert Staepelaere, Robbie Stanley, Dave Steele, Mike Stefanik, Bugs Stevens, Chuck Stevenson, Ivan Stewart, Henri Stoffel, Claude Storez, Ramo Stott, Paul-Ernst Strahle, Hans Stuck, Lukas Sundahl, Len Sutton, Ed Swart, Brad Sweet, Kevin Swindell, Frank Sytner
Nobuhiro Tajima, Shinichi Takagi, Kunimitsu Takahashi, Nobuteru Taniguchi, Piero Taruffi, Thierry Tassin, Bob Tattersall, Trevor Taylor, Wayne Tylor, Shorty Templeman, Yojiro Terada, Jean-Luc Therier, Didier Theys, Dick Thompson, Hans-Jurgen Tiemann, Marcel Tiemann, Harry Tincknell, Jerry Titus, Henri Toivonen, Pauli Toivonen, Martin Tomczyk, Tom Trana, Jean Trevoux, Ernie Triplett, Sleepy Tripp, Carlo Felice Trossi, Bob Tullius, Brian Tyler
Louis Unser
Nino Vaccarella, Kelvin van der Linde, Sheldon van der Linde, Renger van der Zande, Gijs van Lennep, Stoffel Vandoorne, Maurice Vasselle, Jimmy Vasser, Fermin Velez, Alfred Velghe, Auguste Veuillet, Pierre Veyron, Jean Vinatier, Winfried Vogt, Manfred von Brauchitsch, Huschke von Hanstein, Bill Vukovich II
Cort Wagner, Andy Wallace, Hans-Joachim Walter, Achim Warmbold, Derek Warwick, Bob Wente, Christian Werner, Dirk Werner, Robert Wickens, Max Wilson, Chris Windom, Manfred Winkelhock, Markus Winkelhock, Billy Winn, Franz Wittmann, Doug Wolfgang, Vince Woodman, Alexander Wurz
Jean Xhenceval
Naoki Yamamoto, LeeRoy Yarbrough, Jim Yates, Ye Yifei, J.J. Yeley, Nick Yelloly
Peter Zakowski, Antonio Zanini, Sobieslaw Zasada, Ricardo Zonta
Near Misses (576):
Rico Abreu, Fabian Acuna, Jack Aitken, Christijan Albers, Gil Andersen, Gunnar Andersson, Marco Andretti, Andrea Kimi Antonelli, Faundo Ardusso, Nicolas Armindo, Sebastian Asch, Richard Attwood, Antonio Juan Aventin, Diego Aventin, Manny Ayulo
Klaus Bachler, Andreas Bakkerud, Robert Ballou, Warwick Banks, Jason Bargwanna, Taylor Barnard, Ben Barnicoat, Eduardo Barrichello, Kevin Bartlett, Whit Bazemore, Rollie Beale, Oliver Bearman, Gary Beck, Jack Beckman, Bernard Beguin, Anthony Beltoise, Maurice Bequet, Heinz-Josef Bermes, Julius Beutler, Thomas Biagi, Eugen Bjornstad, Bill Blair, Dave Blaney, Mark Blundell, Raul Boesel, Walt Bohren, Bob Bondurant, Juan Manuel Bordeu, Gabriel Bortoleto, Alex Bowman, Giovanno Bracco, Vittorio Brambilla, Darin Brassfield, Tony Brise, Chris Buescher, Philippe Bugalski, Maximilian Buhk, Doc Bundy, Bob Burdick, Bob Burman, Kelvin Burt, Ward Burton, Rory Butcher, Bastian Buus
Matteo Cairoli, Andrea Caldarelli, Julio Campos, John Cannon, Ivan Capelli, Danny Caruthers, Jimmy Caruthers, Eduardo Alfredo Casa, Eugenio Castellotti, Nicky Catsburg, Ernesto Ceirano, Dario Cerrato, Fernand Charron, Jean Chassagne, Paul-Loup Chatin, Ross Cheever, Michael Christensen, Daniel Cingolani, Johnny Claes, Frank Clement, Price Cobb, Jonny Cocker, Ricky Collard, Kelly Collins, Paul Coltelloni, Jerry Coons, Jr., John Cooper, Michael Cooper, Alf Costanzo, Piers Courage, Dave Cowart, Gianfranco Cunico, Briggs Cunningham, Jorge Cupeiro, Alan Curnow, Eric Curran
Jerome d’Ambrosio, Chuck Daigh, Jeremy Dale, Colin Davis, Andrea de Adamich, Jun Bautista de Benedictis, Pierre de Caters, Henri ded Costier, Pierre de Crawhez, Jules-Albert de Dion, Rene de Knyff, Anton de Pasquale, Connor de Phillippi, Jean-Denis Deletrz, Lucien Desvaux, Larry Dickson, Tom Dillmann, Bert Dingley, Louis Disbrow, Freddie Dixon, Arthur Dobson, David Donohue, Michel Dore, Phil Dowsett, Jay Drake, Robert Droogmans, John Duff, Frank Duryea
Bob Earl, Ralph Earnhardt, Bobby East, Charlie Eastwood, Dan Eaves, Mike Eddy, Tony Elliott, Philip Ellis, Franz Engstler, Luca Engstler, Marcus Ericsson, Jaxon Evans, Bert Everett
Mario Farnbacher, Antonio Fassina, Damien Faulkner, Axel Felder, Sacha Fenestraz, Santino Ferruci, Alain Ferte, Clint Field, Martino Finotto, Alex Fiorio, Anton Fischhaber, Pat Flaherty, Myron Fohr, Robby Foley, Jean-Pierre Fontenay, Brittany Force, Henri Fournier, Fred Frame, Guy Frequelin, Brad Frisselle, Nirei Fukuzumi, Ernst Furtmayr
Gary Gabelich, Michael Galati, Gabriele Gardel, Maurice Gatsonides, Marc Gene, Alain Genestier, Paul Gentilozzi, Leo Geoghegan, Louis Gerard, Alessandro Ghiretti, Bruno Giacomelli, Affonso Giaffone, Jr., Kuba Giermaziak, Franco Girolami, Ignazio Giunti, Giosue Giuppone, Fabrizio Gollin, Maximilian Gotz, Marcos Gracia, Jerry Grant, David Gravel, Robb Gravett, Andy Green, John Greenwood, Sepp Greger, Bob Grossman, Olivier Grouillard, Roberto Guerrero, Pablo Gulle, Ross Gunn, Maximilian Gunther, Chuck Gurney, Ayhancan Guven
Ferdinand Habsburg, Isack Hadjar, Jochen Hahn, Hubert Hahne, Mike Hailwood, Claude Haldi, Roy Hall, Nick Ham, Bobby Hamilton, Pete Hamilton, John Handley, Jerry Hansen, Kevin Hansen, Mel Hansen, Peter Hanson, George Hartley, Butch Hartman, Loek Hartog, Maurice Harvey, Paul Hawkins, Jack Hawksworth, George Heath, Ludwig Heimrath, Eric Helary, Marc Hennerici, Bryan Herta, Mike Hezemans, James Hinchcliffe, Trent Hindman, John Hine, Kohei Hirate, Carson Hocevar, Paddy Hopkirk, Ron Hornaday, Jr., Pappy Hough, Earl Howe, Will Hoy, Scott Huffaker, Warren Hughes, Claudia Hurtgen, Alan Hutcheson, Sonny Hutchins, Gus Hutchison
Callum Ilott, Daisuke Ito, Boris Ivanowski
Kenny Jacobs, Paul Jamin, Adalberto Jardim, Oliver Jarvis, Jean-Pierre Jaussaud, Gunnar Jeannette, Frank Jelinski, Bill Jenkins, Bruce Jennings, Kurt Johnson, Erik Jones, Harri Jones, P.J. Jones, Mats Jonsson, Daniel Juncadella
Bud Kaeding, Howard Kaeding, Masami Kageyama, Reds Kagle, Kajetan Kajetnowicz, Scott Kalitta, Iggy Katona, Willi Kauhsen, Leh Keen, Ralf Kelleners, Glen Kidston, Harry King, Sheldon Kinser, Mike Klapak, Jutta Kleinschmidt, Pierre Kleinubing, Jeff Kline, Karl Kling, Jens Klingmann, Buddy Kofoid, Nicolas Koob, Jan Kopecky, Freddy Kottulinsky, Michael Krumm
Dick Lahaie, Vincenzo Lancia, Chico Landi, Tony Lanfranchi, Shawn Langdon, Emilio Laporte, Gerard Laureau, Darren Law, Liam Lawson, Lou Lazzaro, Come Ledogar, Geoff Lees, Jason Leffler, Albert Lemaitre, John Lepp, Les Leston, Emile Levassor, Dave Lewis, Stuart Lewis-Evans, Hakan Lindberg, Dick Linder, Butch Lindley, Bill Lloyd, Carlos Loeffel, Alberto Logulo, Freddy Loix, Osvaldo Lopez, Giuliano Losacco, Kurt Lotterschmid, Pete Lovett, Alexey Lukyanuk, Christian Lundgaard, Alex Lynn, Richard Lyons
Aymo Maggi, Claudio Maglioli, Kevin Magnussen, David Malukas, Ersilio Mandrini, Darren Manning, Robert Manzon, Eusebio Marcilla, Claude Marreau, Tony Marsh, Bobby Marshman, John Martin, Markko Martin, Philippe Martin, Mauro Martini, Giannino Marzotto, Oliver Mathai, Frank Matich, Tsugio Matsuda, Keiji Matsumoto, Dave Matthews, Scott Maxwell, Emil Mayade, Jeremy Mayfield, Bernd Maylander, Raymond Mays, Cory McClenathan, Jack McCoy, Ed McCulloch, Mike McGreevy, Hershel McGriff, Andy McMillin, Mark McMillin, Michael Meadows, Kris Meeke, Shekhar Mehta, Vitor Meira, Christian Menzel, Harald Menzel, Guido Meregalli, Volkert Merl, Otto Merz, Arturo Merzario, Alec Mildren, Butch Miller, Kenper Miller, Nicolas Minassian, Luis Minervino, Milt Minter, Miguel Molina, Marcel Mongin, Georges Monneret, John Moore-Brabazon, Giuseppe Morandi, Gianni Morbidelli, Emanuel Moriatis, Pat Moss-Carlsson, Edmond Mouche, Stefan Mucke, Lee Mueller, Thomas Mutsch, Billy Myers
Naoki Nagasaki, James Nash, Jurgen Neuhaus, Chuck Nicholson, Richard Noble, Peter Nocker, Michel Nykjaer
Eddie O’Donnell, Jorg Obermoser, Hideki Okada, Anders Olofsson, Pepe Oriola, Peter Graff Orssich, Johannes Ortner, Kazuya Oshima, Mark Oswald
Carlos Pace, Angelo Pallavicini, Jonathan Palmer, Markus Palttala, “Pam”, Alvaro Parente, Bill Patterson, John Paul, Sr., Alain Peltier, Nick Percat, Luiz Alberto Pereira, Franck Perera, Larry Perkins, Thierry Perrier, Philipp Peter, Joe Pezza, Andrea Piccini, Greg Pickett, Teddy Pilette, Jean-Francois Piot, David Piper, Tom Pistone, Olivier Pla, Sam Posey, Austin Prock, Nicolas Prost, Antonio Pucci, Spencer Pumpelly, Jesus Puras, Daison Pursley
Martin Ragginger, Gioanni Battista Raggio, Cesar Ramos, Jorge Recalde, Emmanuel Remion, Robert Renauer, Marcel Renault, Alex Riberas, Luca Riccitelli, Buddy Rice, Larry Rice, Louis Rigal, Louis Rigolly, Davide Rigon, Johnny Roberts, Tony Roberts, George Robson, Larry Roeseler, Jean Rondeau, Jose Rosinski, Luca Rossetti, Fred Rosterg, Henri Rougier, Romain Rusinov
Joey Saldana, Ed Samples, Edward Sandstrom, Marshall Sargent, Giorgio Scarlatti, Jose Scaron, Tim Schenken, Jo Schlesser, Dieter Schmid, Udo Schutz, Larry Schumacher, Mick Schumacher, Morris Schuring, Armin Schwarz, Skip Scott, Peter Seikel, Robert Senechal, Bruno Senna, Oriol Servia, Bob Sharp, Hap Sharp, Ryan Shrp, Carroll Shelby, Andre Simon, Alexander Sims, Carl-Magnus Skogh, Malcolm Smith, Les Snow, Alex Soler-Roig, Tommy Sopwith, Dani Sordo, Marc Sourd, Ronnie Sox, Emiliano Spataro, Lake Speed, Dieter Spoerry, Henri Springuel, Pierre Stasse, Klaus Steinmetz, Herbert Stenger, Reinhardt Stenzel, Lance Stewart, Max Stewart, Bib Stillwell, Chuck Stoddard, Luca Stolz, Lance Stroll, Volker Strycek, Joel Sturm, Tim Sugden, Marc Surer, Aguri Suzuki
Fabrizio Tabaton, Mario Tadini, Alex Tagliani, Tora Takagi, Noritake Takahara, Adrien Tambay, Al Tasnady, Alfonso Thiele, Pierre Thiriet, Bruno Thiry, Bill Thompson, Eric Thompson, Mickey Thompson, Nino Todaro, Sam Tordoff, Rene Trautmann, Renato Travaglia, John Tremblay, Sylvain Tremblay, Jean Treunet, Manfre Trint, Martin Tschornia, Keiichi Tsuchiya, Koudai Tsukakoshi, Yuki Tsunoda
Jerry Unser, Jeff Uren, Santiago Urrutia
Fernand Vallon, Giedo van der Garde, Shaun van der Linde, Raijmond van Hove, Jaap van Lagen, Jorg van Ommen, Nicolas Varrone, Matthieu Vaxiviere, Rinus VeeKay, Just-Emile Vernet, Renaud Verreydt, Frederic Vervisch, Richard von Frankenberg, Jurgen von Gartzen, Karl von Wendt, Adartico Vudafieri
John Wagstaff, Bubba Wallace, Heini Walter, Phil Walters, Bob Watson, Danny Watts, Erwin Weber, Charles Weerts, Volker Weidler, Greg Weld, Kenny Weld, Heribert Werginz, Ken Wharton, Doug Whiteford, Peter Whitehead, Mark Wilkins, Barrie Williams, Tony Willman, Simon Wills, Bill Wimble, George Wintersteen, Jens Winther, Tommy Wisdom, Karl-Heinz Wlazik, Glen Wood, Gary Wright (sprint car driver), Bill Wuesthoff
Kenta Yamashita, Don Yenko, Hisashi Yokoshima
Juan Zanelli, Maurizio Zanetti, Patrick Zaniroli, Peter Zbinden, Teodoro Zeccoli, Goffredo Zehender, Connor Zilisch, Paolo Zuccarelli