At the 60th British Grand Prix to be held at Silverstone, Hamilton could become the first driver to take ten home wins, while Red Bull could record their 300th podium finish. Here are the milestones and the records which could be broken at the 2026 British Grand Prix!
The 2026 British Grand Prix Milestones
The 2026 British Grand Prix will be the 1,158th race in World Championship history.
The 2026 British Grand Prix will be the fourth Sprint weekend of the 2026 F1 season. This will be the 28th Sprint event in total. It will be the first time that Silverstone has hosted the Sprint format since 2021, when the inaugural Sprint event took place.
The 2026 British Grand Prix will be the 61st Grand Prix held at Silverstone. 59 of the previous races at the track have been British Grands Prix. The circuit also hosted the 70th Anniversary Grand Prix in 2020.
This will be the 81st British Grand Prix since the event was first held in 1926. It will be the 77th time that the race has been run as a round of the Formula 1 World Championship.
The 2026 British Grand Prix is the ninth F1 race to take place on July 5. It is the first time F1 has raced on this date since the 2020 Austrian Grand Prix – the first race since the coronavirus pandemic. The 2015 British Grand Prix is the only time F1 has previously raced at Silverstone on July 5.
This weekend marks the 350th Grand Prix appearance for Mercedes. They are the tenth constructor to reach the milestone.
The Formula 1 Records Which Could Be Broken
A victory at the 2026 British Grand Prix for Lewis Hamilton would see him extend his record for the most wins at a single circuit to ten.
A win for Lewis Hamilton would make him the first F1 driver in history to have won on home soil on as many as ten occasions. He currently shares the record with Michael Schumacher, who won nine times in total at Hockenheim and the Nurburgring during his career.
A win for Lewis Hamilton at the 2025 British Grand Prix would make him only the second driver to have won as many as ten races in a single country. Michael Schumacher is the only other driver to have done so, recording 12 wins in Italy over the course of his career.
A podium finish for Lewis Hamilton at the 2025 British Grand Prix would see him extend the record for most podium finishes at a single circuit to 16. Hamilton has finished on the podium at Silverstone in all of the last 11 seasons.
A fastest lap for Lewis Hamilton in the 2026 British Grand Prix would see him equal the record for the most fastest laps at a single venue. He already shares the record with Michael Schumacher, having set seven fastest laps at Monza to date. Schumacher recorded seven fastest laps at Circuit de Barcelona-Catalunya during his career.
Ferrari hold the record for the most fastest laps at a single circuit. They’ve taken 20 fastest laps at both Silverstone and Monza. A fastest lap in the 2026 British Grand Prix would see them set a new record for the most fastest laps at a single track.
If Arvid Lindblad or Ollie Bearman win the 2026 British Grand Prix, they will become the first driver to take their maiden win at home since Johnny Herbert at the 1995 British Grand Prix. They would be the tenth driver in total to take their first Grand Prix victory at home.
If Lewis Hamilton wins the 2026 British Grand Prix, it will be the second time that he has won the British Grand Prix on July 5. It would be the 23rd time that a driver has won the same race twice on the same date.
A victory for Ferrari this weekend would see them become the first team in Formula 1 history to record 250 Grand Prix victories.
A Ferrari victory would mark the first time the team has won at successive races since the 2024 United States and Mexico City Grands Prix. A win for Lewis Hamilton would make him the first Ferrari driver to win successive events since Charles Leclerc at the 2019 Belgian and Italian Grands Prix.
A front row start for Max Verstappen would see him overtake Ayrton Senna for fourth place on the list of most front row starts in Formula 1 history. Verstappen has made 87 front row starts to date.
If Max Verstappen or Isack Hadjar finish on the podium this weekend, Red Bull will become the fifth constructor in F1 history to record as many as 300 top three finishes.
Victory for Norris would see him equal David Coulthard for sixth on the list of most Grand Prix wins with McLaren.
A victory for McLaren would make 2026 the 40th season in which they’ve taken a win.
If Oscar Piastri wins, he will join a list of eight other drivers who have won as many as ten Grands Prix without ever winning the title.
A sixth place finish for Carlos Sainz or Fernando Alonso will see them equal Felipe Massa for the most sixth place finishes in F1 history. Massa recorded 27 sixth place finishes during his career, while Sainz and Alonso have had 26 to date.
With Kimi Antonelli having taken his maiden win at the 2026 Chinese Grand Prix, there are now 13 previous Grand Prix winners on the grid. If another driver takes a maiden victory this year, the next race will be the first time since the 1980 British Grand Prix that as many as 14 previous winners have lined up on the grid.
A pole position for Charles Leclerc would see him equal Nigel Mansell for eighth on the list of most poles with a single team. Mansell took 28 poles with Williams during his career, while Leclerc has taken 27 poles with Ferrari to date.
A Grand Slam for Max Verstappen or Lewis Hamilton – winning from pole position having led every lap and set the fastest lap – would be their seventh Grand Slam. It would see them take outright second place on the list of most Grand Slams in F1, behind only Jim Clark.
The British Grand Prix Records On Offer
A podium finish for a Ferrari driver would make them the first team to record as many as 60 podium finishes in British Grand Prix history.
If Lewis Hamilton leads 33 laps of the 2026 British Grand Prix, he will become the first driver to have led 400 laps at Silverstone. He is already way ahead of anyone else on this list. Hamilton has led 367 laps at the track to date, while Jim Clark – second on the list – led 210 laps here in his career.
If Lewis Hamilton leads 9 laps of the 2026 British Grand Prix, he will overtake Jim Clark for the most British Grand Prix laps led in the event’s World Championship history. Hamilton has led 357 laps at the event to date, compared to Clark’s 365.
A fastest lap for Lewis Hamilton would make him only the second driver, after Nigel Mansell, to have set the fastest lap at the British Grand Prix on as many as six occasions. Mansell set the fastest lap at the event seven times in total. A fastest lap would also see Hamilton overtake Mansell for the most fastest laps at Silverstone, with the duo currently tied on six apiece.
A fastest lap for a Ferrari driver at the 2026 British Grand Prix will see Ferrari become the first team to record 20 fastest laps at a single circuit.
Ferrari and Mercedes are currently tied as the most successful engine manufacturers at Silverstone, each with 15 wins at the track. A victory for a Ferrari or Mercedes-powered car this weekend would see them set a new outright record.
If three British drivers complete the podium at the 2026 British Grand Prix, it will be the first time since 1965 that the British Grand Prix has had an all-British podium. It would be the fifth time in total that it has happened, after 1958, 1963, 1964 and 1965 and the fourth time it has occurred at Silverstone.
Oscar Piastri is the only current driver with a 100% points-finish rate at Silverstone, having never finished outside of the top four here. He’ll be hoping to keep that record going at the 2026 British Grand Prix, while Piastri, Lando Norris, Lewis Hamilton, Lance Stroll and Ollie Bearman will be looking to maintain their 100% finishing streaks at the circuit.
A victory for a team other than Mercedes, Ferrari, Red Bull or McLaren would make this the first time that five different teams have won five successive races at Silverstone.
2026 British Grand Prix: Qualifying Records
A pole position for Lewis Hamilton at the 2026 British Grand Prix would make this only the fifth time that a driver has taken as many as eight pole positions at a single circuit.
A pole position for Max Verstappen or Fernando Alonso would see them become only the second driver, after Lewis Hamilton, to have taken as many as four pole positions at Silverstone.
Ferrari lead the way for most poles at Silverstone, with 12. They could extend that record at the 2026 British Grand Prix, while their existing tally could be equalled by Mercedes or Williams.
Lando Norris, Oscar Piastri, Kimi Antonelli and Ollie Bearman are the only current drivers with a 100% Q3 appearance record at Silverstone. They’ll be hoping to keep their record up at the 2026 British Grand Prix.
VERSTAPPEN AND RED BULL CHASING RECORDS
Max Verstappen has won 71 races to date with Red Bull. Another victory would see him equal Michael Schumacher for the second-most victories with a single constructor. Schumacher won 72 races with Ferrari during his career. The record for most wins with a team is 84, for Lewis Hamilton and Mercedes.
A fastest lap for Max Verstappen would be his 38th, equalling Sebastian Vettel for fifth on the list of most fastest laps.
A victory for Max Verstappen in 2026 would make him only the fourth driver – after Alain Prost, Michael Schumacher and Lewis Hamilton – to have won in as many as 11 different Formula 1 seasons.
If Max Verstappen wins a race in 2026, it would be the 11th consecutive season in which he has won a Grand Prix. Verstappen would be only the third driver to win in as many as 11 successive years. Michael Schumacher reached the milestone in 2002, while Lewis Hamilton achieved the feat in 2017. Both drivers went on to win in 15 consecutive years.
A pole position in 2026 for Max Verstappen would make him the fifth driver – after Nelson Piquet, Ayrton Senna, Michael Schumacher and Lewis Hamilton – to record pole positions in as many as eight consecutive Formula 1 seasons.
If Max Verstappen leads from start to finish, this would be the 19th Grand Prix which he has led from lights to flag. That would see him equal Ayrton Senna for second on the list of most races led from start to end.
Max Verstappen holds the record for wins from the most different grid positions in Formula 1. He’ll become the first driver to win from 11 different grid slots this weekend should he win from 5th, 8th, 11th, 12th, 13th, 15th, 16th, 18th, 19th or 20th on the grid.
A victory for Red Bull would be their 131st win, equalling Mercedes for third on the list of all-time Grand Prix victories.
A victory for Red Bull in 2026 would make this the 11th consecutive season in which they have won a Grand Prix. They would be the fifth team to have won in as many as 11 successive seasons, after Lotus, McLaren, Ferrari and Mercedes.
Longevity Records on Offer for Alonso
Fernando Alonso’s last win came at the 2013 Spanish Grand Prix. A victory at any race in 2026 would see him set a new record for the longest gap between wins in F1 history, by quite a margin. Riccardo Patrese holds the current record, having waited 6 years, 6 months and 28 days between wins at the 1983 South African Grand Prix and the 1990 San Marino Grand Prix.
A podium finish for Fernando Alonso at any race in 2026 would see him overtake Alain Prost for fifth on the list of most podium finishes in Formula 1. Both drivers have recorded 106 top three finishes.
If Fernando Alonso leads a race, he would become only the third driver – after Michael Schumacher and Lewis Hamilton – to have led a lap of a Grand Prix in as many as 16 different seasons.
A victory for Fernando Alonso in 2026 would make him only the fourth driver – after Juan Manuel Fangio, Stirling Moss, Jackie Stewart and Alain Prost to have won with as many as four different constructors during his Formula 1 career.