With 22 points, Alpine finished last in the 2025 Formula 1 season, setting a new record and becoming the best last-place finisher of all time.
Imagine scoring 70 points in a Formula 1 season—and still only finishing second to last! That’s exactly what happened to Sauber last year. The Swiss racing team scored points in more than half of all races (13 out of 24) and still only managed to finish ahead of one other team in the overall standings.
The 2025 Formula 1 season was one of the most competitive ever – and not just at the top between Lando Norris, Max Verstappen, and Oscar Piastri.
Things were also heated at the back of the field, as the World Championship standings show. But someone always has to be last – and this year, that was Alpine. The French team scored 22 points, making them the best last-place team ever in Formula 1!
Never before has a team scored so many points and still finished last. Now, some may say: Well, there used to be far fewer points!
That’s true, of course, but even if you convert the points into a percentage value of a victory, no last-place team has ever been as successful as Alpine.
A look at history shows that in only 13 of the 76 years of Formula 1 history has every team that started the race also scored points. In all other seasons, there was always at least one participant with a zero points tally – at least since the introduction of the Constructors’ Championship in the 1958 season.
This means that in 55 seasons, at least one team had a zero points tally at the end of the season – most recently, this happened to the Haas team in 2021 with Mick Schumacher and Nikita Masepin.
Incidentally, the first time all teams scored points was in the 2002 season, when Minardi, Toyota, and Arrows each scored two points. The Arrows team finished last with two sixth places for Heinz-Harald Frentzen—after the German Grand Prix, the long-standing racing team disappeared from Formula 1 for good.