What Is a Grand Prix in Formula 1 and How Do You Look Up Race Results and Statistics?

A Grand Prix is the name of a single Formula 1 event — one race weekend at one circuit — and a season is made up of a series of them. To look up results and statistics, you can use a statistics archive such as STATS F1, which organizes data by season, Grand Prix, drivers, constructors, engines, tyres, nations and circuits. The sections below explain what a Grand Prix weekend contains and how to navigate that kind of archive to find a specific race or a specific number.

What a Grand Prix actually is

"Grand Prix" (French for "grand prize") is the formal label for each round of the F1 championship. So when a season is described as having a certain number of races, each of those races is a Grand Prix — for example, the Singapore Grand Prix or the United States Grand Prix. A Grand Prix is tied to a host circuit and a host country, which is why the same event name can appear across many seasons while the statistics attached to it keep accumulating.

This matters for searching: you can approach the same race from several directions — by season, by the Grand Prix name, by the circuit, or by the country — and land on the same event.

What happens during a Grand Prix weekend

A Grand Prix weekend is not a single session. Depending on the event, it typically includes:

• Practice sessions — running before qualifying to set up the car and learn the track.
• Qualifying — determines the starting grid order.
• A sprint — held at some events only, with its own result and points.
• The race — the main event, with a final classification.

On STATS F1, these appear as separate data views for a given Grand Prix, including race entrants, laps led, sprint results, best laps, qualifications, lap-by-lap data and the starting grid. That separation is useful: if you want to know who started where rather than who finished where, you look at the grid view, not the race result.

How to look up a specific Grand Prix

The archive is built around a small set of top-level categories, and Grand Prix is one of them. A practical path to a single race:

1. Choose the season. Season pages group all the Grands Prix held that year.
2. Open the Grand Prix you want from that season, or go directly to the Grand Prix section and select the event.
3. Pick the data view you need — result, entrants, laps led, best laps, qualifying, lap by lap, or starting grid.
4. Cross-check with the championship view if you want to see how that race affected the standings.

The same event can also be reached through the Circuits category (if you know the track) or the Nations category (if you know the country). All three routes describe the same race from a different angle.

What statistics you can pull from a single Grand Prix

Once you are on a Grand Prix, the available views let you answer different kinds of questions:

The site also surfaces "did you know" style milestones — for instance, a driver's number of wins, wins with the same constructor, number of different circuits won on, and career Grand Prix or pole position counts. These are aggregated across a career rather than belonging to one race, which is the key distinction below.

Grand Prix statistics vs. driver, constructor and other statistics

The archive separates statistics by dimension, and mixing them up is the most common source of confusion:

• Grand Prix statistics are about the event itself — its results, its sessions, its history as a round of the championship.
• Driver statistics follow a person across every Grand Prix they entered.
• Constructor statistics follow a team.
• Engine, tyre and nation statistics slice the same history by those attributes.
• Circuit statistics follow a track rather than a race name.

So if you want "how many times has this driver won," that is a driver statistic. If you want "who won this race in a given year," that is a Grand Prix statistic. The two are linked, but they are not the same query.

Practical notes

STATS F1 describes itself as an amateur site with no connection to the Formula One Group or the FIA, and its content is not approved or sponsored by them — worth knowing if you need officially sourced data. The site also provides a contact route for reporting mistakes or requesting information that is hard to find, which is useful when a specific figure is missing.