F1's Top 10 Ferrari Drivers of All Time

Ferrari tops all the major Formula 1 statistics, and by some margin. It has more race wins, more drivers’ titles and more constructors’ crowns than any other team.

That means picking out the top 10 Ferrari F1 drivers is incredibly difficult, with some top drivers and world champions missing the cut. But we’ve given it a go.

For this list, Autosport’s Chief Editor Kevin Turner assessed the amount of success the drivers scored with Ferrari, the impact they had on the team and the circumstances of their time there.

Want to know more about our top 10 or hear experts debate the list? Take a look here:

00:00 - Intro
00:33 - Alain Prost
01:43 - Mike Hawthorn
02:58 - Kimi Raikkonen
04:35 - Juan Manuel Fangio
05:52 - Gilles Villeneuve
07:07 - Fernando Alonso
08:09 - Sebastian Vettel
08:57 - John Surtees
11:00 - Alberto Ascari
13:06 - Niki Lauda
14:41 - Michael Schumacher
16:47 - Outro

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[StephenLMW]

Let’s be honest we all knew who number 1 was before clicking on the video

It’s because of the great Michael Schumacher that made me fall in love with motorsport

Keep fighting Michael forever my biggest hero 🏎🏎🏎🇩🇪🇩🇪🇩🇪👑👑👑🐐🐐🐐

[benn]

I still find Michael's comeback in 1999 extremely impressive. Imagine breaking your leg, being out of action for months, coming back in the penultimate race of the season and putting the car on pole by just one second. Then, at the beginning of the race, he pulled away from the pack, only to let Irvine pass later. Michael would have been world champion quite easily without his accident.

[ISirSmoke]

Kimi should be in 7th place, like his number. Missed an opportunity there

[corpsecoder_nw]

Schumacher's influence, personnel requests with Ross Brawn, Rory Byrne, Aldo Costa etc., led to the period of Ferrari's greatest technical innovation, development etc., . Schumacher also pioneered modern F1 driver fitness with his methods. He also set the tone for modern F1 driver work ethic.

[DaniMacYo]

Schumacher!!! ❤
I’m actually wearing my Michael Schumacher sneakers while watching. Schumacher my childhood hero. Big fan.😊

[JoshuaGeake]

Vettel clearly deserves to be in the top 10 - I think it's hard to blame him for his failures when the management that hired him left, the replacement died and the replacement after that conspired against him.

Frankly, with all that pressure (that we could visibly see) I'm impressed he won as many races as he did. The races he won, he won on merit and even the races he messed up (in 2017 and 2018) he still put in some excellent drives to get back into P3-P6. He also demolished Kimi.

[ApexPredatorWithSungGlasses]

Seb, Fernando, Charles they all have one thing on common: they're not a Ferrari champion like Kimi.

They all wanted to be like Schumi and Kimi, but in the end, Kimi is still the last Ferrari champion. No amount of pay or WDC championships you have can compare to being a Ferrari champion, it's a prestige that only few had ever achieved.

[bernardoberner]

Imagine Alonso in the 17, 18 Ferrari, he'd probably made it tougher for Lewis, don't know about winning it tho, although I think he could've done it, imagine, if he did in 10, 12, 17 and 18 he would've been a 6 time world champ, and a 4 time world champ for Ferrari

[BrandnThundr]

Even with vettels mistakes i still belive he should of been top 10

[TheMrFishnDucks]

Fantastic video. I love these deeper dives and history videos. It always fun to learn about Formula One from a different era. Keep up the good work.

[johnstuckaiii]

Really feel like Phil Hill should be here.

[Warbler-Productions]

I wasn’t a huge fan of Schumacher during his dominance, but I do admit he was one of the best drivers in Formula 1 history, no question about it and it really is a shame that he had that accident which has put him out of public gaze indefinitely. I’m hoping his son can come close to his ability at some point, he just needs the right machinery to show his talent.

[wolfgangmarkusgstrein]

Alain Prost is the GOAT! He was by far the best tactician, never had a team on his side, and therefore had to fight harder than anyone else. He is still underestimated, if not ignored. Tragically, the AP story goes on, and on, and on...

[detonator]

Raikkonen should definitely be higher. True, he wasn't in his prime at Ferrari anymore but he was consistent and won the last WDC with Ferrari. Without unreliable McLaren he'd have 3 WDC titles and at his prime he was insanely fast. Nigel Mansell should also be in the top 10. True he was soundly beaten by Prost during his Ferrari stint but overall he was a great driver.

[Alan.livingston]

Alesi is my sentimental favourite Ferrari man.

[stefanobouaabid]

-The top 3 Ferrari drivers are Michael Schumacher, Niki Lauda and Alberto Ascari, all the others are playing it safe.
-J.M.Fangio, Mike Hawton, Phill Hill, John Surtess, Jody Scheckter and Kimi Raikkonen have all won a world drivers' championship with Ferrari and it seems fitting that they should rightfully enter the Top 10 of Ferrari drivers (4th until 9th place). It's More difficult
-Fernando Alonso was the most competitive driver in the history of Ferrari who did not win the world championship with the Ferrari because he came second 3 times and lost the world title twice in the last race. However, no one else was so competitive among the drivers. who did not win the world championship with the red and consequently Fernando Alonso deserves 10th place in the ranking of the best Ferrari driver.

[rgarlinyc]

Very well done - I found it (almost) impossible to disagree with any of your choices! 👏🏻👏🏻

[anthonydavies]

do a micheal top 10 races would love to see which of his races was his best races

[robtolley]

I cannot believe Nigel Mansell never made the top 10

[julianschernthaner]

I actually think Gerhard Berger should be on this list. During both of his stints at Ferrari, he had downright awful machinery yet he still came 3rd in two of those seasons. He dominated former championship runner-up Alboreto in his first stint and Alesi mostly in his second stint (something he would not match when the pair drove for Benetton apart from two superb drives in Hockenheim).

In some years it was uncompetitive, in other years it was hampered by other issues. I think in one year the Ferrari V12 was so thirsty they had to like go at slow speed deliberately. Some time near the end of the season he once told himself "well screw that" and just went full throttle retiring halfway with not nearly enough fuel left, leading by half a minute or so. ^^

I generally think his racecraft is oft underestimated due to two reasons: Senna dominating him at McLaren and apart from that him always picking the wrong time to move teams.