F1 driver heights: How tall are Lewis Hamilton, Max Verstappen and Charles Leclerc

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F1 driver heights: How tall are Lewis Hamilton, Max Verstappen and Charles Leclerc

Ever wondered who the shortest and tallest drivers on the grid are?

GPFans Staff

Thursday 13 March 2025 08:43 Updated: 01:36

Thousands of people every month ask how tall F1 drivers are - who'd have thought - so we're heer with all the answers to your height-related questions.

When drivers are careering round tracks at high-speed, we see just helmets poking out from their ultra-aerodynamic cars. Pretty tough to work out how tall they are from that.

But there might be a broader range of varying heights than you might think, so let’s take a look at the 2025 grid.

F1 drivers and their height in 2025

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Of the 20 drivers set to compete in the 2025 world championship, there is roughly a foot or 0.30m difference between the tallest and smallest men on the grid.

Driver	Team	Imperial Height	Metric Height
Alex Albon	Williams	6 ft 1 in	1.86m
Andrea Kimi Antonelli	Mercedes	5 ft 7 in	1.72m
Carlos Sainz	Williams	5 ft 10 in	1.78m
Charles Leclerc	Ferrari	5 ft 11 in	1.80m
Esteban Ocon	Haas	6 ft 1 in	1.86m
Fernando Alonso	Aston Martin	5 ft 7 in	1.71m
Gabriel Bortoleto	Sauber	6 ft 0 in	1.84m
George Russell	Mercedes	6 ft 1 in	1.85m
Isack Hadjar	Racing Bulls	5 ft 6 in	1.67m
Jack Doohan	Alpine	6 ft 0 in	1.83m
Lance Stroll	Aston Martin	5 ft 11 in	1.82m
Lando Norris	McLaren	5 ft 7 in	1.70m
Lewis Hamilton	Ferrari	5 ft 9 in	1.74m
Max Verstappen	Red Bull	5 ft 11 in	1.81m
Nico Hulkenberg	Sauber	6 ft	1.84m
Oliver Bearman	Haas	5 ft 10 in	1.77m
Oscar Piastri	McLaren	5 ft 10 in	1.78m
Pierre Gasly	Alpine	5 ft 10 in	1.77m
Yuki Tsunoda	Racing Bulls	5 ft 3 in	1.59m

Currently, the shortest driver is Racing Bulls' Yuki Tsunoda, who is just 5ft 3 in, or 1.59m, tall. At the opposite end of the scale, the tallest driver is a dead heat between Williams’ Alex Albon and Esteban Ocon of Alpine, who both measure up at 1.86m. Both of those drivers are just ahead of Mercedes’ George Russell, who stands 1.85m tall.

Brit Justin Wilson, who raced for Minardi before moving to Jaguar in 2003, is considered the tallest driver of the modern era, at 1.94m.

What is the average height of an F1 driver?

The average height for a F1 driver in 2025 is a shade under 1.77m, or 5 feet and 9 and three-quarter inches. Lewis Hamilton is almost exactly on that average mark.

Do drivers need to be a certain height?

As you would expect, for weight and design purposes, extremely tall drivers would have it tough with the modern car and cockpit design.

Size and space are at more of a premium than ever before, and as such it seems as though the likes of Albon and Ocon are at the upper limit of what is feasible for the current F1 car set-up.

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