Formula One drivers from Belgium

Formula One drivers from Belgium
Drivers	25
Grands Prix	433
Entries	558
Starts	476
Best season finish	2nd (1969, 1970)
Wins	11
Podiums	45
Pole positions	14
Fastest laps	16
Points	387
First entry	1950 British Grand Prix
First win	1968 French Grand Prix
Latest win	1990 Hungarian Grand Prix
Latest entry	2018 Abu Dhabi Grand Prix
2024 drivers	None

Last updated July 06, 2024

There have been 25 Formula One drivers from Belgium, of whom Jacky Ickx and Thierry Boutsen were the most successful ones as the only Belgians to win races.^[1]^[2] The most recent Belgian driver is Stoffel Vandoorne, who raced for McLaren in 2017 and 2018.^{[lower-alpha 1]}

Former drivers

In the early years of Formula One, Belgium was well represented with a highlight in 1953 when there were no less than seven Belgian drivers taking part in the championship.^[2] The first victory for a Belgian only occurred in 1968 however, when Jacky Ickx won the French Grand Prix.^[3] Ickx went on to win eight races in total, reaching the podium 25 times and becoming the runner-up in both the 1969 and 1970 seasons.^[4] The only other driver to win a Grand Prix was Thierry Boutsen, who won three races during his two-year stint with Williams-Renault in 1989–1990 and managed to reach the podium 15 times.^[3]^[5]

Besides Ickx and Boutsen, the only other Belgian drivers to reach the podium are Olivier Gendebien (who scored two podium finishes), Lucien Bianchi, Paul Frère and Willy Mairesse who each finished on the podium once.^[6]

Bertrand Gachot, who was born in Luxembourg as the son of French-German parents carried a French passport but raced under a Belgian FIA Super Licence until 1991, from the 1992 Formula One season he changed to a French licence.^[7]

All-time table


Driver	Active years	Championships	Wins	Podiums	Pole positions	Career points	Fastest laps	Entries	Starts
Jacky Ickx	1966–1979	0	8	25	13	181	14	122	116
Thierry Boutsen	1983–1993	0	3	15	1	132	1	164	163
Olivier Gendebien	1955–1956, 1958–1961	0	0	2	0	18	0	15	14
Paul Frère	1952–1956	0	0	1	0	11	0	11	11
Willy Mairesse	1960–1963, 1965	0	0	1	0	7	0	13	12
Lucien Bianchi	1959–1963, 1965, 1968	0	0	1	0	6	0	19	17
Stoffel Vandoorne	2016–2018	0	0	0	0	26	0	42	41
Bertrand Gachot ^{[lower-alpha 2]}	1989–1991	0	0	0	0	4	1	41	15
André Pilette	1951, 1953–1954, 1956, 1961, 1963–1964	0	0	0	0	2	0	14	9
Eric van de Poele	1991–1992	0	0	0	0	0	0	29	5
Johnny Claes	1950–1953, 1955	0	0	0	0	0	0	25	23
Jérôme d'Ambrosio	2011–2012	0	0	0	0	0	0	20	20
Patrick Nève	1976–1978	0	0	0	0	0	0	14	10
Jacques Swaters	1951, 1953–1954	0	0	0	0	0	0	8	7
Charles de Tornaco	1952–1953	0	0	0	0	0	0	4	2
Teddy Pilette	1974, 1977	0	0	0	0	0	0	4	1
Philippe Adams	1994	0	0	0	0	0	0	2	2
Georges Berger	1953–1954	0	0	0	0	0	0	2	2
Roger Laurent	1952	0	0	0	0	0	0	2	2
Arthur Legat	1952–1953	0	0	0	0	0	0	2	2
Bernard de Dryver	1977–1978	0	0	0	0	0	0	2	0
André Milhoux	1956	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	1
Christian Goethals	1958	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	1
Charles Van Acker	1950	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0
Alain de Changy	1959	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0
Source:^[1]

Notes

↑ Lando Norris, Lance Stroll and Max Verstappen all have Belgian nationality, and are competing in 2023, but race under other nationalities - British, Canadian and Dutch respectively - as all three drivers hold dual nationality.
↑ Competed under French racing license in 1992 and 1994–1995.^[7] As this article is about Formula One drivers competing under a Belgian licence his stats from 1992 and 1994–1995 are not included in this article but are instead detailed in Formula One drivers from France.

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[3] Lando Norris, Lance Stroll and Max Verstappen all have Belgian nationality, and are competing in 2023, but race under other nationalities - British, Canadian and Dutch respectively - as all three drivers hold dual nationality.

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