[PT]

Alonso easily tops this, along with Raikkonen, having won races with Renault, Mercedes-Benz and Ferrari powerplants, and he could add to that next year with Honda…Kimi obviously has won with Mercedes-Benz, Ferrari and Renault powerplants.

By contrast Vettel has only won races with Renault engine, while Lewis Hamilton with Mercedes-Benz.

Alonso also has the experience of most teams – 4 (Minardi, Renault, McLaren and Ferrari…and has won with three of the teams). Here too Raikkonen accompanies him – 4 (Sauber, McLaren, Ferrari and Lotus)

Vettel has the experience of only one team, while Hamilton has the experience with 2 teams.

Alonso is also the only one of the current drivers to have won the Monaco Grand Prix consecutively with two different teams powered by two different powerplants – 2006 and 2007 with Renault and McLaren-Mercedes…

Beyond talent, Alonso has the wealth of winning experience with various teams, engine manufacturers and rule changes that make him hot property. Little wonder then, that McLaren forgot their bitterness against the Spaniard and hired him in this crucial period of their Honda partnership.

If Alonso manages to win the title in 2015 or beyond, he will be the first Latin driver to win for McLaren since Ayrton Senna…

[Sri Harsha]

@pt
By contrast Vettel has only won races with Renault engine
The STR of 2008 is run by Ferrari and 2007 BMW Sauber powered was BMW P86/7

Vettel has the experience of only one team, while Hamilton has the experience with 2 teams.
BMW sauber again along with STR Unless you think RBR and STR are one team
Apart from that we have to wait for 2015 and see how it unfolds

[PT]

@Sri Harsha

Yeah, how silly of me to forget Vettel’s Toro Rosso and BMW Sauber years. Just overlooked them. So Vettel has race winning experience with Ferrari and Renault engines. Thanks for reminding mate.

[JamieFranklinF1]

And forgetting about Button who has experience with Williams, Benetton/Renault, BAR/Honda/Brawn and Mclaren. If you count those as three teams, then he has won in 2 of those four teams (3/5 if you count Brawn as separate).

As for engines, he has won with both Honda and Mercedes, but been involved with BMW and Renault on top of those.

[Prof Kirk]

2015 Grid: Drivers machinery and success

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Key:
DRIVER NAME (Competing in 2015 season)
TEAMS: Teams driver has won with in Bold
ENGINES: Engine Manufacturer Driver has won with in Bold

Data Includes Test sessions during Grand Prix weekends. (Does not include other tests, feel free to dig that information up and add it in !)
Data as of 2014, (not including the soon to be 2015 season, eg: Vettel = Ferrari)

Feel Free to improve this list or whatever. May be someone can do more drivers! Past World Champions would be interesting to compare.

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Lewis Hamilton
Teams: McLaren | Mercedes
Engines: Mercedes V8 | Mercedes V6

Nico Rosberg
Teams: Williams | Mercedes
Engines: Cosworth V8 | Toyota V8 | Mercedes V8 | Mercedes V6

Daniel Ricciardo
Teams: Torro Rosso | HRT | RedBull
Engines: Ferrari V8 | Cosworth V8 | Renault V6

Daniil Kvyat
Teams: Torro Rosso
Engines: Renault V6

Felipe Massa
Teams: Sauber | Ferrari | Williams
Engines: Ferrari V10 | Ferrari V8 | Mercedes V6

Valtteri Bottas
Teams: Williams
Engines: Renault V8 | Mercedes V6

Sebastian Vettel
Teams: Sauber | Torro Rosso | RedBull
Engines: BMW V8 | Ferrari V8 | Renault V8 | Renault V6

Kimi Raikkonen
Teams: Sauber | McLaren | Ferrari | Lotus
Engines: Ferrari V10 | Mercedes V10 | Mercedes V8 | Ferrari V8 | Renault V8 | Ferrari V6

Fernando Alonso
Teams: Minardi | Renault | McLaren | Ferrari
Engines: Cosworth V10 | Renault V10 | Renault V8 | Mercedes V8 | Ferrari V8 | Ferrari V6

Jenson Button
Teams: Williams | Benetton | Renault | BAR | Honda | BrawnGP | McLaren
Engines: BMW V10 | Renault V10 | Honda V10 | Honda V8 | Mercedes V8 | Mercedes V6

Sergio Perez
Teams: Sauber | McLaren | Force India
Engines: Ferrari V8 | Mercedes V8 | Mercedes V6

Nico Hulkenberg
Teams: Williams | Force India | Sauber
Engines: Cosworth V8 | Mercedes V8 | Ferrari V8 | Mercedes V6

Romain Grosjean
Teams: Renault | Lotus
Engines: Renault V8 | Renault V6

Pastor Maldonado
Teams: Williams | Lotus
Engines: Cosworth V8 | Renault V8 | Renault V6

Marcus Ericsson
Teams: Caterham
Engines: Renault V6

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Some Facts:

• Only 4 Drivers left in the 2015 F1 Season that would have experienced V10 engines during a GP Weekend
• Button is the only driver in the field to have Honda engine experience
• Lewis Hamilton is the only driver to win with anything he’s given.
• Alonso, Button, Vettel, Grosjean, Maldonado, Ericsson, Nasr, will be the only drivers to experience a different V6Turbo Power Unit.
• I was expecting that last fact to be more interesting.

[PT]

Hearty thanks to @Prof Kirk (a professor indeed) for that exhaustive list. I acknowledge my forgetfulness of many key aspects, particularly that of Button and Vettel’s pre-Red Bull years.

Thanks also to @JamieFranklinF1 for dusting the cobwebs about Button’s vast pre-McLaren experience.

[Anonymous]

@PT The Alonso comments rather disguise the fact he hasn’t settled into any team he has driven for. Two spells at Renault, now starting on second spell at McLaren, and a stint at Ferrari thrown in too. Most champions spend a long time in either one or two teams; look at M.Schumacher, Vettel, Hamilton.

You have to wonder, what is it that makes him unable to maintain a long-term association with a team?

[PT]

@Rodney That depends on what you exactly define by “settling into”. Alonso was a long time Renault driver even before his second spell with the team. He joined the team as test driver in 2002 and then raced from 2003 to 2006 – four years as a driver plus one as test driver. That seems reasonable enough to me. Five years with Ferrari (2010 to 2014) also seems long enough to me, for a driver who is keen on winning and adding to his title tally.

Staying on and on with a team isn’t necessarily a plus point for a competitive driver. If Schumacher, Vettel or Hamilton have stayed long with some teams it is probably because, either things were good or they had the belief that things would get better. When they knew or felt it wouldn’t they left their respective squads.

Ayrton Senna never “settled in” based on your definition – one year with Toleman, three years with Lotus and six years with McLaren (that too the last year was spent grudgingly) before the fateful Williams spell. Alain Prost, Nigel Mansell and Nelson Piquet are all examples.

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