F1 | Statistics, world championship victories: Sebastian Vettel the youngest world champion

Sebastian Vettel holds the record as the youngest world champion in the history of Formula One. The German in fact won his first title at 23 years and 134 days, at the end of the 2010 edition of the Abu Dhabi Grand Prix.

On that occasion, disastrous for Ferrari and its millions of fans, Vettel managed to get the better of the world championship standings as a "third wheel" by mocking Fernando Alonso (the Spaniard entered the final round of that season leading the world championship) and his then Red Bull teammate Mark Webber.

In fact, the German won the race in the Emirates, while the Spaniard - stuck in the traffic of Petrov's Renault - and the Australian closed their race in seventh and eighth place respectively.

Lewis Hamilton and Fernando Alonso complete the podium of this special ranking of the youngest world champions. The Englishman won the title in 2008 at 23 and 300 days, while the Spanish won the title at 24 and 59 days in 2005.

Instead, Juan Manuel Fangio dominates the scene in the ranking of the oldest drivers to have won the world crown. Aboard the Maserati, in 1957, the Argentine ace won his fifth (and last) world title at 46 years and 41 days.