Ayrton Senna fastest F1 driver ever, Max Verstappen fourth | Motorsport

sport">The organization behind Formula 1 has investigated this in collaboration with an IT company that is linked to the American e-commerce company Amazon.

sport">It took no less than a year to find out, using complicated algorithms and big data, who has been driving the fastest lap in Formula 1 since 1983. Among other things, crashes, material failure, changed weather conditions and even the age of the driver was taken into account to arrive at a fair ranking.

sport">look at the top 20 of the fastest Formula 1 drivers.

sport">The uncrowned king of the qualifying races thus turns out to be Senna. The Brazilian took pole position 65 times. While both Schumacher and Hamilton have more to their name, both have said that Senna would have taken a lot more pole positions had he not been killed in 1994.

sport">A video explanation and analysis of the data:

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