P1racenews AI automatic summary:
A quirk of the rules allowed it to happen, but these days, one F1 record can never be broken or matched.
In the 2025 season, there are a total of 648 points available in the drivers’ championship, with the champion able to claim a maximum of 473 points this time. Lando Norris could achieve the highest number of points at 116, which would represent 72.99% of the total points available for the season, placing him in 16th place on the all-time list just behind Nico Rosberg’s 2016 record of 73.33%. Max Verstappen’s dominant 2023 season, where he won 19 out of 22 races, earned him a record 92.74% of the points with 575, the highest percentage scored in a single season. As a fun fact, in the history of the world championship, two drivers have actually scored 100% of available points during a season due to the scoring system at that time. One such instance was in 1990 when the F1 championship system allowed only the best 11 results out of 16 races to count, resulting in Ayrton Senna winning with 78 points, although the maximum possible was 110 points. The early days of the championship saw three instances where a driver achieved a perfect score in a season.
