In Formula 1, a win is sweet — but a 1–2 finish is pure dominance. It means your car, your drivers, and your strategy worked so perfectly that the rest of the field was racing for third.
The record holders
- Mercedes — 59 one-two finishes.
The Silver Arrows owned the turbo-hybrid era (2014–2020) so completely that seeing Hamilton and Rosberg, or later Hamilton and Bottas, lock out the podium became routine.
The other giants
- Ferrari — 85+ years of history, 50+ one-twos. Their golden stretch came in the early 2000s with Schumacher and Barrichello, who delivered season after season of scarlet domination.
- McLaren — around 45 one-twos, most of them in the Senna–Prost era (1988 alone had 10, an insane stat in itself).
- Red Bull — still climbing, especially with Verstappen’s streaks. Multiple double podiums with Webber–Vettel, then Verstappen–Pérez, but not yet at Mercedes or Ferrari levels.
The drivertalk take
Nothing screams control like a one-two. Ferrari made it an art form in the Schumacher years, McLaren perfected it with Senna and Prost, and Mercedes industrialised it in the 2010s. Red Bull today? They’re piling them up, but history shows the benchmark is a moving target — dynasties don’t last forever, but while they burn, they burn with double firepower.
