In the 2025 season, there are a total of 648 points up for grabs in the drivers' championship, with the maximum the champion can claim now being 473.
That is the highest number of points Lando Norris can achieve if he takes the remaining 116 on offer, and if he does, it will be a total of 72.99% of the total points available throughout the season.
That would slot Norris into 16th place on the all-time list of highest percentage of points scored in season, just behind Nico Rosberg's 2016 tally of 73.33%.
Max Verstappen's all-conquering 2023 season, in which he won 19 of 22 races and finished second twice, brought him a tally of 92.74% with his 575 points, which is the outright highest percentage of points scored in a season.
Sort of.
Believe it or not, but in the course of the world championship, two drivers have actually scored 100% of points available in a season - based on a technicality.
Up to and including the 1990 season, F1 used a system of dropped scores to decide the world championship.
For example, in the traditional 16-race season of 1990, only the best 11 results were counted, meaning the champion could score a maximum of 110 points, with any more than 110 not counting towards the standings, with Ayrton Senna winning the title with 78.
But back in the early days of the world championship, a maximum haul of points was achieved, three times.
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In 1952, despite there being eight grands prix (including the anomalous Indy 500), only the best four results counted for the championship.
Back in these days, the points system was 8-6-4-3-2 for the top five finishers, with an extra point for the fastest lap, meaning a driver could only score a maximum of 36 points, which is exactly what Alberto Ascari did, despite missing a race.
Ascari missed the season-opening Swiss GP to try and launch an attack on the Indy 500 - which failed along with his Ferrari - but when he returned, he was unbeatable. The Italian swept to six straight wins in the final six races, taking the fastest lap every time.
It meant Ascari scored 100% of the points available to him in the season, 36, although in a full-season championship, his tally would have been 53.5, with a fastest lap point being split with José Froilán González at Monza.
Fast forward to 1963, and the great Jim Clark would match Ascari's feat of 1952, for the first time.
The points system had now been changed to 9-6-4-3-2-1 for the top six, with the best six of the 10 rounds counting for the championship.
That meant 54 points were the maximum, and Clark swept to seven wins, actually giving him 63 points through wins alone. In total, the Flying Scotsman took home 73 of the 90 points on offer, although he capped out at 54.
Remarkably, two years later, Clark did the same thing.
This time, he 'only' won six of the nine rounds in which he competed, once again giving him 54 points and a maximum 100% haul. For good measure, he missed the Monaco GP to compete at the Indy 500, which he won.
To this day, Clark is the only driver in history to win the F1 world championship and the Indy 500 in the same calendar year.
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