Drivers
World champions, rally heroes and Le Mans legends — and the builders whose names ended up on the badge. [29 drivers · 12 builders]
Behind the wheel — and the badge
41 people who made these cars matter: the ones who drove them faster than anyone thought sensible, and the ones who built them in the first place. Filter by discipline or search above.
41 legends
Formula 1Juan Manuel Fangio
Five world titles with four different teams
Formula 1Stirling Moss
The greatest driver never to win the title
Formula 1Jim Clark
Two world titles and the 1965 Indy 500
Formula 1Jackie Stewart
Three titles — then made racing safer
Formula 1James Hunt
Won the 1976 title by a single point
Formula 1Niki Lauda
Back in the car 42 days after the fire
Formula 1Gilles Villeneuve
Enzo Ferrari's favourite
Formula 1Alain Prost
‘The Professor’ — four world titles
Formula 1Ayrton Senna
Three world titles and the wet lap at Donington
Formula 1Michael Schumacher
Seven world titles
Formula 1Lewis Hamilton
Seven world titles and over a hundred wins
Formula 1Max Verstappen
Youngest Grand Prix winner in history
RallyHannu Mikkola
1983 world champion in the quattro
RallyWalter Röhrl
Two world titles — then Porsche's development driver
RallyMichèle Mouton
Four world-rally wins, 1982 runner-up
RallyJuha Kankkunen
Four world titles with three makes
RallyTommi Mäkinen
Four world titles in a row, 1996–1999
RallyColin McRae
1995 world champion — flat out or nothing
RallyRichard Burns
2001 world champion
RallySébastien Loeb
Nine consecutive world titles
RallySébastien Ogier
Nine world titles — level with Loeb
EnduranceDerek Bell
Five Le Mans wins
EnduranceJacky Ickx
Six Le Mans wins — and a Dakar podium
EnduranceTom Kristensen
Nine Le Mans wins — ‘Mr Le Mans’
AmericaA. J. Foyt
Four Indy 500s and Le Mans 1967
AmericaMario Andretti
F1 champion, Indy 500 and Daytona 500 winner
AmericaDale Earnhardt
Seven NASCAR titles — ‘The Intimidator’
CultureKen Block
Gymkhana — and a generation of drivers
CultureTravis Pastrana
Motocross, rallying and the first double backflip
BuilderFerdinand Porsche
The Beetle, the Auto Union racers — and the name
BuilderEttore Bugatti
Art, engineering and the Type 35
BuilderEnzo Ferrari
Racing first — road cars paid for it
BuilderFerruccio Lamborghini
The tractor maker who took on Ferrari
BuilderCarroll Shelby
Won Le Mans, then built the Cobra
BuilderColin Chapman
‘Simplify, then add lightness’
BuilderBruce McLaren
The driver who put his name on the team
BuilderGordon Murray
Designed the McLaren F1
BuilderHoracio Pagani
From Lamborghini's composites shop to the Zonda
BuilderAdrian Newey
The most successful designer in Formula 1
BuilderChristian von Koenigsegg
A hypercar maker built from a boyhood dream
BuilderMate Rimac
From a Croatian garage to running Bugatti