A home Grand Prix is supposed to be the one race a driver wants more than any other. The crowd is theirs, the flags in the grandstand match the number on their car, and every local paper is watching. Actually winning it, though, is one of the hardest things to do in Formula 1.
In 77 championship seasons and more than 1,150 races, only 38 drivers have ever won a Grand Prix in their own country, and none since Lando Norris at the 2025 British Grand Prix. Here is the complete list, and the story of why so many great drivers never managed it at all.
Michael Schumacher and Lewis Hamilton holds the record for most home Grand Prix wins
Michael Schumacher and Lewis Hamilton share the record for the most home Grand Prix wins, with nine apiece.
Schumacher's nine are split across two race names held in the same country: five German Grands Prix and four races run under the European Grand Prix banner at the Nurburgring, which sits in Germany just like Hockenheim. In three separate seasons, 1995, 2004 and 2006, he won both home races on that year's calendar.
Hamilton's nine, by contrast, all came at a single race, the British Grand Prix at Silverstone, spread across three different decades from his rookie-era 2008 title season to 2024. Next on the list is Alain Prost with six French Grand Prix wins, an outright record for that race, followed by Jim Clark and Nigel Mansell with five British Grand Prix wins each.
Every driver who has won their home Grand Prix
| Driver | Country | Wins | Years |
|---|---|---|---|
| Michael Schumacher | Germany | 9 | 1995 x2, 2000, 2001, 2002, 2004 x2, 2006 x2 |
| Lewis Hamilton | UK | 9 | 2008, 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017, 2019, 2020, 2021, 2024 |
| Alain Prost | France | 6 | 1981, 1983, 1988, 1989, 1990, 1993 |
| Jim Clark | UK | 5 | 1962, 1963, 1964, 1965, 1967 |
| Nigel Mansell | UK | 5 | 1985, 1986, 1987, 1991, 1992 |
| Juan Fangio | Argentina | 4 | 1954, 1955, 1956, 1957 |
| Fernando Alonso | Spain | 3 | 2006, 2012, 2013 |
| Max Verstappen | Netherlands | 3 | 2021, 2022, 2023 |
| Alberto Ascari | Italy | 2 | 1951, 1952 |
| Jackie Stewart | UK | 2 | 1969, 1971 |
| Emerson Fittipaldi | Brazil | 2 | 1973, 1974 |
| Nelson Piquet | Brazil | 2 | 1983, 1986 |
| Ayrton Senna | Brazil | 2 | 1991, 1993 |
| David Coulthard | UK | 2 | 1999, 2000 |
| Ralf Schumacher | Germany | 2 | 2001, 2003 |
| Felipe Massa | Brazil | 2 | 2006, 2008 |
| Nino Farina | Italy | 1 | 1950 |
| Stirling Moss | UK | 1 | 1955 |
| Tony Brooks | UK | 1 | 1957 |
| Peter Collins | UK | 1 | 1958 |
| Ludovico Scarfiotti | Italy | 1 | 1966 |
| Carlos Pace | Brazil | 1 | 1975 |
| Jody Scheckter | South Africa | 1 | 1975 |
| Mario Andretti | USA | 1 | 1977 |
| James Hunt | UK | 1 | 1977 |
| Gilles Villeneuve | Canada | 1 | 1978 |
| Jean-Pierre Jabouille | France | 1 | 1979 |
| John Watson | UK | 1 | 1981 |
| Rene Arnoux | France | 1 | 1982 |
| Niki Lauda | Austria | 1 | 1984 |
| Elio de Angelis | Italy | 1 | 1985 |
| Riccardo Patrese | Italy | 1 | 1990 |
| Damon Hill | UK | 1 | 1994 |
| Johnny Herbert | UK | 1 | 1995 |
| Sebastian Vettel | Germany | 1 | 2013 |
| Nico Rosberg | Germany | 1 | 2014 |
| Charles Leclerc | Monaco | 1 | 2024 |
| Lando Norris | UK | 1 | 2025 |
Two entries are easy to misread. Elio de Angelis and Riccardo Patrese's wins both came at the San Marino Grand Prix, which despite the name was always held at Imola, in Italy, so they count as genuine home wins. Going the other way, several of the German wins above were scored at a race officially called the European Grand Prix rather than the German Grand Prix, but since it was also run at a German circuit, it counts all the same.
The 2026 season has not added a name to the list either. Through eleven rounds, home crowds have gone without a winner everywhere from Melbourne to the Hungaroring. Kimi Antonelli won the Belgian Grand Prix in July without being Belgian, stretching that country's drought further, and Charles Leclerc won the British Grand Prix at Silverstone ahead of Lewis Hamilton and George Russell, so even the one home win that looked likely on paper did not happen.
The home wins that never came
For every name on that list, there is a driver who never managed it at all, no matter how good their car was. Jenson Button won 15 Grands Prix and the 2009 world title without ever winning the British Grand Prix. Jack Brabham took three championships and 14 race wins and never won at home in Australia. Graham Hill won five Monaco Grands Prix and two world titles, but never a home race in Britain.
Rubens Barrichello's failure to win the Brazilian Grand Prix despite 11 career wins is the most famous version of this story, and it is far from unique. Carlos Reutemann never won in Argentina and Jacques Villeneuve never won in Canada. Among the current grid, Sergio Perez retired without a home win in Mexico despite one of the loudest crowds on the calendar, and George Russell and Carlos Sainz are both still chasing a first win in Britain and Spain.
Some countries have never produced a home winner at all, no matter how many home drivers they have sent to the grid. Despite three titles for Jack Brabham and one for Alan Jones, plus modern wins from Mark Webber, Daniel Ricciardo and Oscar Piastri, no Australian driver has ever won the Australian Grand Prix. Belgium sent Jacky Ickx to eight wins elsewhere on the calendar, and even he never won the Belgian Grand Prix at Spa, a drought Kimi Antonelli extended again just this July.
