The records keep on coming in for Lewis Hamilton who at the weekend smashed a major milestone at the Portuguese Grand Prix by eclipsing Michael Schumacher’s 91 victories.
However there are still plenty of records the German still holds in the sport and many of them can be equalled or even broken by the Mercedes star during the last five races of the season.
Here Sportsmail looks at 10 F1 records held by Schumacher that Hamilton can pinch, the ones he has already conquered and the other targeted accolades held by other F1 greats.
Lewis Hamilton (left) still has many more Michael Schumacher (right) records in his sights
Most world championships
Schumacher’s record: 7
Hamilton’s record: 6
The biggest driver record of them all. When Schumacher cruised to his seventh world title in 2004, few would have guessed his tally would have been in danger of being beaten fewer than 20 years later.
Hamilton had only one world championship heading into 2014 but his utter domination to win the title every year bar 2016 since puts him just one short of the legendary German having eclipsed Juan Manuel Fangio’s five in 2019. It’s now no longer a matter of if the Brit can match the German, just a case of when.
With the regulations and cars not set to change next season either, don’t be surprised to see Hamilton soon grab this record exclusively.
Michael Schumacher celebrates winning his seventh and final world title in 2004 at Spa
Most wins with one team
Schumacher’s record: 72 with Ferrari
Hamilton’s record: 71 with Mercedes
Six seasons into his F1 career and Hamilton had just 21 wins under his belt. In the following seven he took 63 with the dominant Silver Arrows outfit.
This term he has taken a further eight and he now needs just two wins from the final five races to clinch the record outright. Given he has yet to go consecutive races without a victory this term, you can expect another Schumacher record to crumble very shortly.
The first of Schumacher’s 72 Ferrari wins came in a masterful drive to win in Spain in 1996
Most wins in a season
Schumacher’s record: 13
Hamilton’s record (from this season): 8
The 2020 season was set to be the longest ever in the history of Formula One with 22 events but following the coronavirus outbreak this has been reduced, with 17 races now scheduled.
It should have hindered Hamilton’s chances of landing this record but it’s still up for grabs late on – although he will now have to win the remaining five races to equal the German.
Schumacher set the record with 13 wins in just 18 events in 2004 underlying just how dominant Ferrari were in that campaign. Sebastian Vettel has since equalled it for Red Bull, while Hamilton’s best over a season is 11.
Schumacher took the last of his 13 2004 victories for Ferrari at the Japanese GP at Suzuka
Most fastest laps in a season
Schumacher’s record: 10
Hamilton’s record (from this season): 5
Schumacher set this record for Ferrari during his annus mirabilis in 2004.
But it was matched a year later by Kimi Raikkonen’s McLaren, who then again hit 10 for Ferrari during 2008.
Hamilton’s best season came in 2015 when he landed eight, and he can still match the record this term if he lands fastest laps at every remaining race.
However with a point now awarded for a fastest lap it creates a greater incentive to land it.
Many drivers including Red Bull’s Max Verstappen this term have exploited gaps behind them in the race to pit on the last lap for a new set of tyres to land this accolade.
Despite finishing runner-up in 2005, McLaren’s Kimi Raikkonen still equalled Schumacher’s record from the previous year by taking 10 fastest laps including in China (above)
Most podiums with one team
Schumacher’s record: 116 with Ferrari
Hamilton’s record: 112 with Mercedes
This record is all but certain to fall into Hamilton’s hands at some point, but he could do it at the final race of this season in Abu Dhabi.
He can’t afford any slip-ups but those have been a rarity anyway, with the world champion having picked up 10 podiums from 12 races this term. Only Valtteri Bottas, and Verstappen, to an extent, have even a glimmer of hope of beating him on the track.
So only mechanical reliability (none this term), a collision or a madcap race like the Italian Grand Prix where he was hit with a penalty can realistically deny him this record to close 2020.
Hamilton has been putting together a string of Mercedes podiums since his first with the team at the 2013 Malaysia Grand Prix won by Sebastian Vettel(left) for Red Bull
Most laps led
Schumacher’s record: 5,111
Hamilton’s record: 4,976
This record looked incredibly unlikely to go this season at least even when the campaign was scheduled to be 22 races. However in this 17-race season, it is another Schumacher record in danger of falling.
WIth five races to go , there are at least 289 laps left (depending on the Sakhir GP’s allocation, so this figure is expected to increase). The maths say Hamilton is just 135 behind which means this record could go as soon as Sakhir if Hamilton keeps pulling out lights-to-flag wins,
Schumacher pulling away from the chasing pack was a common site during the 2002 season
Most wins at the same grand prix
Schumacher’s record: 8, France
Hamilton’s record: 8, Hungary
Hamilton matched Schumacher’s record this season when he triumphed at the Hungaroring, and breaking it will be on his ‘things to do’ list for 2021 when F1 is due to return to Budapest next summer.
Schumacher was near faultless at Magny-Cours as he crosses the line for Ferrari to take his final French Grand Prix win in 2006
Consecutive podiums
Schumacher’s record: 19
Hamilton’s record: 16
The world champion may look close to Schumacher’s record with a tally of 16 but that streak ended four years ago. Instead Hamilton’s current run stands at just two, meaning he faces a tough but not impossible task just to go level with the German in 2021, whose run included the entire 2002 campaign and the last two races of the 2001 season.
Schumacher’s record streak of podiums started at the 2001 US GP won by Mika Hakkinen
Most podium finishes in a season
Schumacher’s record: 17
Hamilton’s record (from this season): 10
It’s the record that, outright, keeps slipping away from Hamilton. Four times in the last five years he has matched Schumacher and Vettel’s record. The previously scheduled record 22-race season presented his greatest chance to finally make the record his own.
With the season settling on 17 races part-way through the Covid-19 hit campaign, Hamilton would have had to land a podium at every race to even equal the record – although Schumacher did just that in 2002. Hamilton though effectively binned this one at race with a clumsy drive to fourth in Austria.
Don’t rule him out for 2021 though when he could get over 20 plus attempts to break it…
Schumacher celebrates the 2002 finale at the Japanese Grand Prix where he ended the year having finished on the podium for every single race of the 17-event season
Most fastest laps
Schumacher’s record: 77
Hamilton’s record: 52
Could this be the major Schumacher record that survives? Hamilton still curiously trails by 25 and fastest laps are not as sure as race victories for the Brit.
Hamilton may even need 2022 to have a good chance of beating this one…
Lewis Hamilton took a fastest lap at the Portuguese Grand Prix but still trails Schumacher
What other records can Hamilton still beat?
Schumacher doesn’t have a monopoly on all F1 records not yet beaten by Hamilton and there are still a number from other drivers including the Brit’s hero Ayrton Senna that he can still beat in other categories.
Incredibly though there is still one record from the 1960s that still stands with Jim Clark’s eight grand slams – which is taking pole position, leading every single race lap, gaining the fastest lap and of course winning the grand prix. Hamilton has six but has not been able to add to his total across his eight wins this term.
Sebastian Vettel has an impressive nine consecutive wins from his Red Bull days, but Hamilton has never had more than five, and has only gone on a run of three this term.
Consecutive poles has also alluded Hamilton, with Senna holding the record with eight. Hamilton has racked up seven before and did reach five this season.
Vettel has the record for most poles in a season with 15 but from this point Hamilton can only fall two short during this campaign.
Qualifying was a major strength for Ayrton Senna whose record for consecutive pole positions was set at nine in Phoenix for the 1989 United States Grand Prix while driving for McLaren