Site icon Lights Out ●●●●●

2019’s Tallest F1 Team Is…

It’s the analysis you’ve all been waiting for. Which team has the tallest driver line-up in 2019? Who is the tallest driver, who is the shortest, and what is the combined height of this year’s grid? We have all the answers!


Update: driver height stats for 2020 can be found here.

If the drivers on the 2019 grid all stood on each other’s heads in an impressive acrobatic circus act, their total height would be 35.73 metres. That’s double the size of Abraham Lincoln’s face on Mount Rushmore.

At 186cm, Alexander Albon is the tallest driver on the 2019 Formula 1 grid, while Lando Norris is the shortest driver this year at 170cm. Overall, the 2019 grid is 8cm taller than last year’s grid. Gangly Frenchman Esteban Ocon may have departed, but he’s been replaced by four drivers (Albon, Giovinazzi, Russell and Kubica) of a similar height.

The Camlin Hotel in Washington is about the same size as 20 F1 drivers combined. (Image: Joe Mabel / CC BY-SA 3.0)

The combined height of 2019’s F1 drivers is:

Mercedes and McLaren are tied as the teams with the shortest driver line-ups this year, with Lewis Hamilton and Valtteri Bottas being the same combined height as Carlos Sainz and Lando Norris at 347cm. Sainz and Norris measure 1cm less combined than the 2018 McLaren line-up. Sainz is the same height as Stoffel Vandoorne, while Norris is a single centimetre shorter than Fernando Alonso.

Meanwhile, Williams have the tallest driver line-up in 2019, with Robert Kubica and George Russell equalling a height of 369cm. It’s the second consecutive year in which the team have had the tallest line-up, with last year’s pairing of Lance Stroll and Sergey Sirotkin being 3cm shorter in total than their 2019 counterparts. Ferrari have gained the most height this year, with Charles Leclerc 4cm taller than Kimi Raikkonen, while Force India have lost the most – the still-lanky Lance being 4cm shorter than Ocon.

Hans-Joachim Stuck is believed to be the tallest ever F1 driver at 194cm, while Andrea Montermini is thought to be the shortest of the modern era at just 5 foot, 2 inches (around 157cm).


[one_half]

2019 F1 Driver heights:

  1. Alexander Albon – 186cm
  2. Antonio Giovinazzi – 185cm
  3. George Russell – 185cm
  4. Nico Hulkenberg – 184cm
  5. Robert Kubica – 184cm
  6. Lance Stroll – 182cm
  7. Daniil Kvyat – 180cm
  8. Max Verstappen – 180cm
  9. Romain Grosjean – 180cm
  10. Charles Leclerc – 179cm
  11. Daniel Ricciardo – 178cm
  12. Carlos Sainz – 177cm
  13. Pierre Gasly – 177cm
  14. Kimi Raikkonen – 175cm
  15. Sebastian Vettel – 175cm
  16. Sergio Perez – 175cm
  17. Kevin Magnussen – 174cm
  18. Lewis Hamilton – 174cm
  19. Valtteri Bottas – 173cm
  20. Lando Norris – 170cm[/one_half]

[one_half_last]2019 combined team heights:

  1. Williams – 369cm
  2. Toro Rosso – 366cm
  3. Renault – 362cm
  4. Sauber – 360cm
  5. Red Bull – 357cm
  6. Force India – 357cm
  7. Ferrari – 354cm
  8. Haas – 354cm
  9. Mercedes – 347cm
  10. McLaren – 347cm [/one_half_last]
Exit mobile version