Winningest Drivers/Riders In Motorsport History

[JockeP22]

I've never found a list like this so I went ahead and made one myself.
Give me a shout if I have missed a worthwhile race series.

*No photo included if there is a tie.


Categories in order of appearance;
-Formula racing
-Stock/Touring car racing
-Motorcycle racing
-Drag racing
-Rally racing
-Le Mans/Endurance racing


Formula 1
Michael Schumacher - 91 wins

GP2
Stoffel Vandoorne - 11 wins

GP3
Esteban Gutierrez, Marvin Kirchhofer & Dean Stoneman - 5 wins
*no photo*


A1GP
Neel Jani - 10 wins

IndyCar series
Scott Dixon - 38 wins

Champ Car / CART
Michael Andretti - 42 wins

Formula E
Sebastien Buemi - 5 wins

AAA / USAC
A.J. Foyt - 67 wins

Formula Nippon
Satoshi Motoyama - 27 wins

International F3000
Juan Pablo Montoya, Vitantonio Liuzzi & Nick Heidfeld - 7 wins
*no photo*


Japanese F3000
Kazuyoshi Hoshino - 15 wins

British F3
Takuma Sato - 16 wins

British F1
Emilio de Villota - 9 wins

European Formula 2
Jochen Rindt - 12 wins

European F3
Lewis Hamilton - 16 wins

Indy Lights
Greg Moore - 13 wins

Formula Atlantic
Mark Dismore - 15 wins


German F3
Joao Paulo de Oliveira & Markus Pommer - 14 wins
*no photo*


French F3
Franck Montagny & David Saelens - 14 wins
*no photo*


British Formula Ford
Daniel Cammish - 26 wins

Italian Formula Renault 2.0
Dani Clos, Kevin Gilardoni, Pastor Maldonado & Kamui Kobayashi - 8 wins
*no photo*


British Formula Renault 2.0
Lewis Hamilton - 13 wins

World Series by Nissan
Franck Montagny - 21 wins

Australian F3
Tim Macrow - 31 wins

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Nascar Sprint Cup
Richard Petty - 200 wins

Nascar Xfinity
Kyle Busch - 79 wins

Nascar Camping World Trucks
Ron Hornaday Jr. - 51 wins

ARCA
Frank Kimmel - 80 wins

Speedcar series
Jean Alesi - 5 wins

V8 Supercar Championship Series
Craig Lowndes - 103 wins

BTCC
Jason Plato - 94 wins

WTCC
Yvan Muller - 47 wins

STCC
Richard Goransson - 39 wins

ETCC
Gabriele Tarquini & Jorg Muller - 12 wins
*no photo*


DTM
Bernd Schneider - 43 wins

Australian Super Touring Championship
Paul Morris - 49 wins

German Super Touring Championship
Laurent Aiello - 20 wins

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MotoGP/500cc
Valentino Rossi - 86 wins

MotoGP 350cc
Giacomo Agostini - 54 wins

MotoGP 250cc
Anton Mang - 33 wins

MotoGP 125cc
Angel Nieto - 62 wins

MotoGP 80cc
Jorge Martinez - 22 wins

MotoGP 50cc
Angel Nieto - 27 wins

MotoGP Moto2
Marc Marquez - 16 wins

MotoGP Moto3
Luis Salom - 9 wins

World Superbike
Carl Fogarty - 59 wins

British Superbike
Shane Byrne - 65 wins

Isle of Man TT
Joey Dunlop - 26 wins

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NHRA Top Fuel
Tony Schumacher - 80 wins

NHRA Funny car
John Force - 143 wins

NHRA Pro Stock
Warren Johnson - 97 wins

NHRA Pro Stock Motorcycle
Dave Schultz - 45 wins

IHRA National Event Pro
Clay Millican - 52 wins

IHRA National Event Sportsman
Anthony Bertozzi - 59 wins

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World Rally Championship
Sebastien Loeb - 78 wins

FIA World Rallycross Championship - Supercars
Petter Solberg - 8 wins

Intercontinental Rally Challenge
Juho Hanninen - 11 wins

FIA European Rallycross Championship
Martin Schanche - 74 wins

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24h of Le Mans
Tom Kristensen - 9 wins

24h of Nurburgring
Timo Bernhard, Pedro Lamy & Marcel Tiemann - 5 wins
*no photo*


24h of Daytona
Scott Pruett & Hurley Haywood - 5 wins
*no photo*


Indy 500
A.J. Foyt, Al Unser & Rick Mears - 4 wins
*no photo*


FIA GT1 World Championship
Frederic Makowiecki - 12 wins

ALMS GT1
Olivier Beretta & Oliver Gavin - 17 wins
*no photo*


ALMS GT2
Jorg Bergmeister - 20 wins

ALMS GTS
Olivier Beretta - 24 wins

There are some series not included in the list above simply because
I can't find the statistics for them. Some of those are:

Formula Renault 3.5

Super GT (300 & 500) - I can find championship wins but not race wins.

World Supersport - They used to have number of career race wins on their official website
but not anymore.

British Superbike - Same as above.

AMA Superbike

 

[Jimlaad43]

How about "Drivers and Riders with the most wins in History". Winningest is one of the worst words in the English Language.

 

[Liquid]

More often than not the correct superlative is Most Successful.

 

[-Fred-]

Considering Patrick Carpentier managed to win 9 races in Atlantics in 1996, including 8 in a row, I think you've got the wrong info there.

 

[TenEightyOne]

More often than not the correct superlative is Most Successful.

Absolutely. It's only a word in North American English as far as I can tell... and it's horrid

 

[JockeP22]

Considering Patrick Carpentier managed to win 9 races in Atlantics in 1996, including 8 in a row, I think you've got the wrong info there.

Edit;
I will remove the Atlantic Series from the list until I have found more information
on the subject.

And about the thread title. I had no idea the word 'winningest' was
loathed that much. CNN Sports, Sports Illustrated and Yahoo Sports
frequently use the word, just to name a few sports media outlets.
There are even GTP News pages using 'winningest'.

 

[GTracer38]

Whilst Jamie Whincup's 98 race wins (he hasn't cracked 100 yet!) is phenomenal, Craig Lowndes has the most race wins in V8 Supercars at the moment, with 103 wins.

 

[JockeP22]

Craig Lowndes has the most race wins with 103.

I updated the V8's. Thanks a lot for noticing it.

 

[GTPorsche]

AAA/USAC, CART and INDYCAR are considered the same series for record keeping purposes.

Edit: Mark Dismore had 15 wins in the Atlantic Series, that is most all time for Formula Atlantic/Toyota Atlantic.

 

[ukfan758]

After this guy spends most likely hours compiling all of this information and making it into a post, instead of complimenting the OP, people complain about a word. Wow.

Anyway, great job @JockeP22 !

 

[GTPorsche]

I agree with the above post. Can tell a lot of work went into this, which is why I went looking for the Atlantic records.

Sourced from here: http://www.deepthrottle.com/History/Records/fa_champs.shtml

Was on mobile at the time so I couldn't figure out how to link.

 

[TheElbows]

Awesome, though probably a mix of series I'd imagine Scott Pruett is up there. Hell, he's won the 24 Hours of Daytona five times (don't know if anyone else has done that). And I'd imagine he's won more Rolex Sportscar races than anyone else. I'll see if I can scrounge up some info.

He's amassed over 60 wins in prototypes and something like eight championships in the Rolex series.

 

[Hun200kmh]

Great work and some curious stats there. Thanks for compiling and sharing 👍

 

[IforceV8]

The Scott Pruett file

Leads North American sports car competitors with 59 victories in major competition. • Five career Rolex Series DP titles, 2004, 2008, 2010-12, all for Chip Ganassi Racing with Felix Sabates. • Five-time overall winner of Rolex 24 At Daytona (tied Hurley Haywood for all-time lead), also leads with 10 class victories. • Two victories in Champ Car competition, including 1995 Michigan 500. • Three-time SCCA Trans-Am champion, two-time IMSA GT champion. • 1989 Indianapolis 500 co-Rookie of the Year. - See more at: http://www.imsa.com/drivers/scott-pruett#sthash.s9N5DOTp.dpuf

 

[JockeP22]

I went looking for the Atlantic records.

Thank you for the link, I will reinstate the Atlantic Series and put Dismore in as the winningest driver.
Thanks again.

Scott Pruett

I see he's won 41 races in the NASCAR Rolex Grand-Am Sports Car Series.
I don't know if it's the record though.

Your suggestion of most wins in the 24h of Daytona is a good one.
It made me think of most Indy 500 wins, which is 4 tied between three drivers.

The list will be updated and thanks for contributing.

 

[The Stig Farmer]

FIA World Rallycross Championship - Supercars
Petter Solberg - 8 wins

Intercontinental Rally Challenge
Juho Hanninen - 11 wins

 

[JockeP22]

FIA World Rallycross Championship - Supercars
Petter Solberg - 8 wins

Intercontinental Rally Challenge
Juho Hanninen - 11 wins

Thanks for that.

I will also add MotoGP's 80cc and 50cc classes of old.
I hesitated at first since I figured MGP/500, 350, 250, 125, M2 and M3 was enough.

But they deserve their place in the list so Jorge Martinez (22 wins in 80cc)
and Angel Nieto (27 wins in 50cc) will also be added to the list.

Here are the MotoGP numbers by the way if anybody wants to learn more:
http://www.motogp.com/en/Results+Statistics/Statistics/winners

 

[CodeRedR51]

I updated the V8's. Thanks a lot for noticing it.

Old picture though.

And ARCA technically isn't NASCAR.

 

[daan]

Martin Schanche won 74 European Rallycross races which seems to be a record.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Martin_Schanche

As well as being a complete nutjob...

 

[JockeP22]

As well as being a complete nutjob...

Being a Swede I can translate the Norwegian commentator in the video if
you're interested.
I had to play it back a few times though.


Martin won the first two rounds of the European season in 1992
but the following round in Finland ended in shambles.
He got spun by Pekka Ranton (sp?) and the car suffered enough damage
that he had to park it next to the track and that was when Mr. Rallycross' emotions
got the better of him.

He walked out onto the track and waited, and like a traffic police officer stopped the drivers
and nearly got hit. There was a red flag and Martin would get excluded from the event.

He also lost his racing license (for three months) and with that lost all hope of
becoming European champion.

 

[Ingram]

Would you include the Isle of Man TT? I appreciate it might be considered slighty different from an outright championship (indeed it was a round of the MotoGP calender for almost 30 years) but it's a pretty worthy discipline..

Current leader is Joey Dunlop (26 wins).

Most successful BSB winner is Shane Byrne with (if my counting is correct) 65 wins.

 

[JockeP22]

Mark Dismore

Scott Pruett

Petter Solberg
Juho Hanninen

Joey Dunlop
Shane Byrne

Martin Schanche

Thank you, guys. The list was just updated.
And thanks @GTP_Ingram for the Byrne numbers.
I really wanted BSB in the list.

 

[Mike-ZENKAI]

Nice and interesting list.👍

How about including the Dakar?

(if I am correct)
Stephane Peterhansel 6 times on bike and car.
Vladimir Chagin 7 times with truck.

 

[JockeP22]

Stephane Peterhansel 6 times on bike and car.

Do you mean six times on each vehicle?
It says here he has the record for most overall wins with 11.
http://dakar.wikia.com/wiki/Dakar_Rally_records

 

[Mike-ZENKAI]

Do you mean six times on each vehicle?
It says here he has the record for most overall wins with 11.
http://dakar.wikia.com/wiki/Dakar_Rally_records

He won this year as well with Peugeot.
So 6 times on bike and 6 times in car.

(https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stéphane_Peterhansel)

 

[Sick Cylinder]

Hi Jocke - I am nominating Gerry Marshall - probably the winningest driver of all time with 625 documented race victories between 1964 and 2004. He is rated as one of the world's best drivers and possibly the UK's greatest ever driver. Most famous for his victories in the Dealer Team Vauxhall "Baby Bertha" Firenza in British Super Saloons (the car was powered by a five litre Repco Holden V8). Gerry and Baby Bertha can be seen and heard in action in this wonderful clip.



PS I believe Shane Byrne has 68 BSB victories - that was the figure quoted by the commentary team during today's BSB round.

 

[SagarisGTB]

Super GT (300 & 500) - I can find championship wins but not race wins.

Motoyama and Tachikawa share the record in GT500 at 15 wins a piece. Morio Nitta stands alone in GT300 with 18 wins.

 

[Mike-ZENKAI]

World Supersport

Must be Kenan Sofuoglu with 33 wins?

(http://www.worldsbk.com/en/rider/Kenan+Sofuoglu)