DHL FASTEST LAP AWARD

FORMULA 1® DELIVERED BY DHL

All about speed

Scoring a Formula 1® victory is all about speed; but is the winner always the fastest? Redefining our standards of speed, the DHL Fastest Lap Award is one for fierce competitors. This is how it works: one driver sets the fastest lap at each race - the award will go to the man who sets the most over the season.

Pure speed

To win will require pure speed – something we at DHL know all about. As the world's leading logistics provider and Official Logistics Partner of Formula 1, we achieve our goals by shortening international routes, facilitating global trade and making the world a smaller place.

FORMULA 1 QATAR AIRWAYS BRITISH GRAND PRIX 2025

Oscar Piastri’s DHL Fastest Lap shows what might have been achieved at Silverstone

The Formula 1 weekend at the Silverstone Circuit got underway on Friday with highs of 25 degrees Celsius and unbroken sunshine, but by race Sunday, the weather had reverted to British typecasting with cool temperature and rain showers. The changeable conditions posed a challenge not only for the drivers but also for the team strategists.

Half an hour before the start of the twelfth race of the season, a brief downpour gave the Home of British Motor Racing a thorough soaking. The entire field chose intermediates for the formation lap, at the end of which four drivers immediately turned into the pits to switch to slicks. They accepted having to start from the pit lane as the price of taking this gamble.

Unfortunately for them, the strategy did not pay off, as the next heavy rain shower followed just ten laps later. McLaren driver Oscar Piastri showed impressive pace in all conditions, overtaking pole-sitter Max Verstappen on lap 7 and then proceeding to control the race.

At the end of the second of two safety car deployments, Piastri braked heavily, forcing Verstappen to take evasive action. Race control deemed the Australian’s maneuver to have been dangerous and imposed a ten-second penalty. With Verstappen having spun on the wet track, the race at Silverstone then turned into an internal McLaren duel.

As a result of the ten-second penalty, Piastri dropped behind his team-mate Lando Norris and was unable to make up the gap. On lap 51, the Australian at least had the satisfaction of proving he was the quicker man on the track with a DHL Fastest Lap time of 1:29.337 minutes.

Piastri professed himself content with the outcome though he was clearly seething about having to settle for the runner-up spot: "The whole team did a really good job. The car was obviously mega, and giving myself credit, I feel like I did a good job today. It just makes it more painful when you don’t win."

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2025 Season

Previous winners

SeasonDriverTeamDHL Fastest Laps
2024Lando NorrisMcLaren6
2023Max VerstappenRed Bull9
2022Max VerstappenRed Bull5
2021Lewis HamiltonMercedes6
2020Lewis HamiltonMercedes6
2019Lewis HamiltonMercedes6
2018Valtteri BottasMercedes7
2017Lewis HamiltonMercedes7
2016Nico RosbergMercedes6
2015Lewis HamiltonMercedes8
2014Lewis HamiltonMercedes7
2013Sebastian VettelRed Bull7
2012Sebastian VettelRed Bull6
2011Mark WebberRed Bull7
2010Fernando AlonsoFerrari5
2009Sebastian VettelRed Bull3
2008Kimi RäikkönenFerrari10
2007Kimi RäikkönenFerrari6

All Positions

How the drivers' performance improved during the course of the season

History of the Award

2024 Season

All the stats, facts and figures for the 2024 DHL Fastest Lap Award.