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🇬🇧 Mike Hawthorn

Racing driver from United Kingdom. Formula 1, Ferrari. One-time champion.

Driver facts

Full name

Mike Hawthorn

Born

10 April 1929(b. 1929)

Nationality

United Kingdom

Current team

Ferrari

Series

Formula 1

Status

Retired

Championships

11958

Career wins

Career podiums

Career starts

Career DNFs

Racer Rating

6,504

Source: Wikimedia Commons

Racer Rating

6,504

Rank 55 of 40,700 indexed, -604 this season

FIA Categorisation

Not on file

Not yet indexed
Source: fia.com

Synthesized from 2 sources, updated 152h ago

Mike Hawthorn was an elite professional racing driver who competed in Formula 1 from 1952 to 1958. He drove for Ferrari across those seven seasons, accumulating 46 starts in a field that mixed amateur and semi-professional entrants with graded professionals. His racing career also extended to endurance competition, where he won the 24 Hours of Le Mans and the 12 Hours of Sebring in 1955 with Jaguar.[1]

Hawthorn won the 1958 Formula 1 World Championship with Ferrari, taking one win and seven podiums from ten rounds. Across his full Formula 1 career he finished on the podium eighteen times from 46 starts and won three Grands Prix. He regularly outpaced established professionals Jean Behra and Maurice Trintignant in head-to-head competition, and he finished ahead of five-time champion Juan Fangio on six occasions.[2]

Hawthorn stood among the strongest drivers in a generation that included Fangio; he became Britain's first Formula 1 World Champion while also excelling in endurance racing's most demanding events.

Sources: [1] Indexed race classifications[2] Wikipedia

Synthesized from 1 source, updated 0h ago

Mike Hawthorn is a racing driver from United Kingdom who last raced in Formula 1 for Ferrari. Hawthorn is a one-time champion (1958), with 3 wins and 18 podiums from 46 starts.[1]

A Racer Rating of 6,504 ranks Hawthorn 55th of 40,700 indexed drivers, on an Elo scale where the strongest reach the high 8,000s. It is built from every indexed race in the driver's file, decayed for time since their last race.

Sources: [1] Indexed race classifications

1958 form

Last 20 races, finish position (higher is better)

Recent results

Tap a row for the full race

1958-10-19	Ain Diab	Formula 1	P2	+74
1958-09-07	Autodromo Nazionale di Monza	Formula 1	P2	+78
1958-08-24	Circuito da Boavista	Formula 1	P2	+77
1958-08-03	Nürburgring	Formula 1	DNF	−38
1958-07-19	Silverstone	Formula 1	P2	+84

Career-best drives

Ranked by rating won, which prices the opposition

Rating won	Race	Series	Finish
+132	Reims-Gueux 1953	Formula 1	P1
+130	Silverstone 1952	Formula 1	P3
+116	Reims-Gueux 1958	Formula 1	P1
+114	Nürburgring 1957	Formula 1	P2
+113	Circuit de Spa-Francorchamps 1952	Formula 1	P4

Circuits

Rating per start against their own form that season

Raises their game

Silverstone5 starts+20

Zandvoort4 starts+12

Nürburgring4 starts+10

Circuit de Spa-Francorchamps5 starts+5

Struggles

Circuit de Monaco4 starts-47

Autódromo Juan y Oscar Gálvez5 starts-12

Reims-Gueux4 starts-6

Season by season

Season	Series	Team	Races	Wins	Podiums	DNFs	Poles	Points	Pos	Gain/Loss	Rating
1958	▸Formula 1	Ferrari	10	1	7	2	4	49	P1	+517	7,108
1957	▸Formula 1	Ferrari	6	0	2	2	0	13	P4	+169	6,591
1956	▸Formula 1	BRM	4	0	1	2	0	4	P9	−228	6,422
1955	▸Formula 1	Ferrari	5	0	0	2	0	0	P15	−254	6,650
1954	▸Formula 1	Ferrari	8	1	4	3	0	25	P3	+129	6,904
1953	▸Formula 1	Ferrari	8	1	3	0	0	27	P4	+706	6,775
1952	▸Formula 1	Cooper	5	0	1	2	0	10	P4	+4,718	6,068

Recent coverage

F1 Rewind: Mike Hawthorn – Britain’s first-ever World Champion[1]

Motorsport Week

19 Oct 2026

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Not yet for Verstappen: These are the F1 champions who conquered endurance racing’s biggest classics[2]

GPblog

17 May 2026

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10 of the best F1 bromances from over the years[3]

Formula 1

24 Aug 2025

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Head-to-head

Most-raced and strongest-beaten: times Hawthorn finished ahead vs behind

Rival	Rating	Raced	Ahead	Behind	Record
🇫🇷 Jean Behra	5,968	42	28	14	67%
🇫🇷 Maurice Trintignant	5,961	40	26	14	65%
🇬🇧 Stirling Moss	6,330	38	22	16	58%
🇺🇸 Harry Schell	6,087	37	28	9	76%
🇦🇷 Juan Fangio	6,889	33	10	23	30%
🇬🇧 Peter Collins	6,124	29	21	8	72%
🇫🇷 Louis Rosier	5,960	22	17	5	77%
🇬🇧 Roy Salvadori	5,678	22	17	5	77%
🇮🇹 Luigi Musso	6,124	21	12	9	57%
🇮🇹 Luigi Villoresi	6,019	19	11	8	58%

Raced wheel-to-wheel, not as team-mates

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55	🇬🇧 Mike Hawthorn	Formula 1	6,504
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Hawthorn stood among the strongest drivers in a generation that included Fangio; he became Britain's first Formula 1 World Champion while also excelling in endurance racing's most demanding events.

Sources: [1] Indexed race classifications[2] Wikipedia