List of Superleague World Drivers' Champions

The GPVWC Superleague World Drivers' Championship (WDC) is awarded to the most successful Superleague racing car driver over a season, as determined by a points system based on Grand Prix results. The Drivers' Championship was first awarded in 2000, to Jason Endean. The first driver to win multiple Championships was Mikko Jakonen, in 2002 and 2004. As of January 2020, the current Drivers' Champion is Jannick Bock, who won his first World Championship in 2019.

All seasons prior to 2009 were raced using a system in which drivers competed remotely; submitting files that were verified and compiled in order to produce qualifying and race results. Only since 2009 have Superleague drivers directly competed against each other in single, online meetings.

The GPVWC does not officially declare the Champion until the end of the season, but a driver is said to have "clinched" the Championship after it is no longer possible for another to obtain more points than he has, even if the former driver were to not compete in the remaining races of the season, and the latter to score the maximum number of points possible. The Drivers' Championship has been won in the final race of the season seven times in the twenty seasons it has been awarded, not including the curtailed 2001 season. The earliest in any season that the Drivers' Championship has been clinched was in 2006, when Steve Elencevski secured the title with six races remaining.

Overall, fourteen different drivers have won the Championship, with Australian Steve Elencevski holding the record for most titles, at three. Elencevski also holds the record for most consecutive Drivers' Championships, winning all three of his titles from 2005 to 2007. Germany has produced the most championship-winning drivers, with five; Australia has produced three and Finland two. Only five drivers have won the championship on multiple occasions - Elencevski, Mikko Jakonen, Joe Consiglio, Lukas Euler and David Fidock. As stated before, Elencevski is the only driver to win more than two titles, while Lukas Euler is the only other driver apart from Elencevski to win back-to-back titles.

In terms of dominance, Elencevski's victory in 2006 was not only clinched with the most races remaining, but also was won by the highest percentage margin, and claimed the highest percentage of points available. The highest number of points won in any one season was by Rudy van Buren, however, who in 2017 scored 368 points and in doing so won by the highest points margin; 101.

It is worth noting that the scoring system in Superleague has changed radically over the years. From 2000—2002, the top 11 finishers scored a maximum of 20 points, with a further bonus point each for Fastest Lap and/or Pole available; these bonuses were removed from 2003 onwards, with then the top 8 scoring a maximum of 10 points; in 2010 this was changed to the top 10 scoring a maximum of 15 points and then in 2013 the present system, where the top 15 score a maximum of 25 points, was introduced.

Shiro Ryong won the 2003 championship by a single point; easily the slimmest margin, regardless of points system. Lukas Euler won his second championship in 2013 by only 3 points. On the subject of slim numbers; the lowest number of wins taken in a championship year is two; as recorded by both David Fidock in 2016 and Christian Neumann back in 2001; although Neumann only had three races that year, compared to Fidock's eighteen. In complete contrast, Janne Tanskanen, who also had eighteen races in 2010, won fourteen of them.

Discounting 2001, only five seasons have seen the champion win half the races or more in that year: Tanskanen in 2010; van Buren winning 12/18 in 2017; Consiglio winning 10/20 in 2011 and Euler winning 9/18 in his other championship year of 2012; the inaugural champion, Endean, won 6/9 in 2000. This was a feat surprisingly not matched by Elencevski, although he does hold the distinction of finishing in the top 3 in every race of 2006. This distinction is also held by Fidock, the only champion to finish every race on the podium whilst competing directly with the rest of the field. Fidock also, ironically, holds the distinction of having the least podiums in a championship year, post-2009; he finished on the podium 10/18 times in his second championship year, 2016.

By season

Season	Driver	Constructor	Engine	Tyres	Poles	Wins	Podiums	F. Laps	Points	% Points	Clinched	Margin	% Margin
2000	Jason Endean	BA Racing	Mercedes	B	1	6	8	5	154	77.778	Round 9 of 9	10	6.494
2001†	Christian Neumann	CVRT	BMW	B	1	2	2	1	52	78.788	Round 3 of 3	9	17.308
2002	Mikko Jakonen	Mapes-VO	Honda	M	1	5	9	5	186	49.733	Round 15 of 17	70	37.634
2003	Shiro Ryong	SCUM	Holden	B	1	3	12	1	109	68.125	Round 16 of 16	1	0.917
2004	Mikko Jakonen	Mapes-VO	Honda	M	0	3	14	2	121	71.176	Round 17 of 17	6	4.959
2005	Steve Elencevski	FinOz Racing	Ferrari	M	4	7	14	2	126	74.118	Round 13 of 17	53	42.063
2006	Steve Elencevski	FinOz Racing	Ferrari	M	8	7	18	6	154	85.556	Round 12 of 18	83	53.896
2007	Steve Elencevski	FinOz Racing	Ferrari	B	6	8	12	7	110	64.706	Round 15 of 17	28	25.455
2008	Laurentiu Albu	Belami Racing	Renault	B	4	6	14	1	121	71.176	Round 14 of 17	43	35.537
2009	Joe Consiglio	Nordsjøen Racing	Honda	B	7	6	12	3	104	57.778	Round 17 of 18	20	19.231
2010	Janne Tanskanen	Nordsjøen Racing	Mercedes	B	15	14	17	11	232	81.404	Round 15 of 18	60	25.862
2011	Joe Consiglio	Nordsjøen Racing	Mercedes	P	11	10	15	10	230	80.702	Round 19 of 20	39	16.957
2012	Lukas Euler	Midnight Motorsport	Ferrari	P	15	9	15	11	208	72.982	Round 16 of 18	37	17.788
2013	Lukas Euler	Midnight Motorsport	Potentia	G	9	6	15	5	335	74.444	Round 18 of 18	3	0.896
2014	David Fidock	CSG Racing	Potentia	G	3	5	17	4	345	81.176	Round 16 of 17	58	16.812
2015	Philipp Puschke	Vod:Bul Racing	Valiant	G	5	6	12	5	300	81.176	Round 17 of 17	58	16.812
2016	David Fidock	Nordsjøen Racing	Martex	G	4	2	10	1	282	62.667	Round 18 of 18	8	2.837
2017	Rudy van Buren	Vod:Bul Racing	Valiant	G	12	12	15	7	368	81.778	Round 14 of 18	101	27.446
2018	Alex Siebel	ACR Zakspeed	Valiant	G	11	8	13	6	312	69.333	Round 17 of 18	54	17.308
2019	Jannick Bock	Evolution Motorsports	Valiant	G	6	3	12	0	218	70.250	Round 16 of 16	25	8.897
2020	Adam Maguire	Edonis Engineering	Reventón	G	6	4	9	2	245	61.250	Round 16 of 16	3	0.750
Season	Driver	Team	Engine	Tyres	Poles	Wins	Podiums	F. Laps	Points	% Points	Clinched	Margin	% Margin

Notes

Bold indicates the team also won the Constructors' Championship
^† The 2001 season saw only 3 of 17 rounds contested.

By driver

Driver	Titles	Season(s)
Steve Elencevski	3	2005, 2006, 2007
Mikko Jakonen	2	2002, 2004
Joe Consiglio		2009, 2011
Lukas Euler		2012, 2013
David Fidock		2014, 2016
Jason Endean	1	2000
Christian Neumann		2001
Shiro Ryong		2003
Laurentiu Albu		2008
Janne Tanskanen		2010
Philipp Puschke		2015
Rudy van Buren		2017
Alex Siebel		2018
Jannick Bock		2019
Adam Maguire		2020

Drivers in bold competed in the 2020 World Championship.

By nationality

Country	Titles	Drivers	Seasons	Drivers by name (titles)
Germany	6	5	2001, 2012–2013, 2015, 2018–2019	Lukas Euler (2)
				Christian Neumann (1)
				Philipp Puschke (1)
				Alex Siebel (1)
				Jannick Bock (1)
Australia	5	3	2000, 2003, 2005–2007	Steve Elencevski (3)
				Jason Endean (1)
				Shiro Ryong (1)
Finland	3	2	2004, 2006, 2010	Mikko Jakonen (2)
				Janne Tanskanen (1)
Malta	2	1	2009, 2011	Joe Consiglio (2)
England	2	1	2014, 2016	David Fidock (2)
Romania	1	1	2008	Laurentiu Albu (1)
Netherlands	1	1	2017	Rudy van Buren (1)
Ireland	1	1	2020	Adam Maguire (1)

Drivers in bold competed in the 2020 World Championship.

By constructor

Constructor	Country	Titles
Nordsjøen Racing	Italy Norway	4
FinOz Racing	Finland	3
Mapes-VO	England	2
Midnight Motorsport	England	2
Vod:Bul Racing	England	2
BA Racing	England	1
CVRT	Australia	1
SCUM	Australia	1
Belami Racing	Romania	1
CSG Racing	England	1
ACR Zakspeed	England	1
Evolution Motorsports	Germany	1
Edonis Engineering	Netherlands	1

Constructors in bold competed in the 2020 World Championship.

By constructor nationality

Nationality	Titles	Constructors	Constructor name (titles)
England	9	6	Mapes-VO (2)
			Midnight Motorsport (2)
			Vod:Bul Racing (2)
			BA Racing (1)
			CSG Racing (1)
			ACR Zakspeed (1)
Finland	3	1	FinOz Racing (3)
Italy	3	1	Nordsjøen Racing (3)
Australia	2	2	CVRT (1)
			SCUM (1)
Romania	1	1	Belami Racing (1)
Norway	1	1	Nordsjøen Racing (1)
Germany	1	1	Evolution Motorsports (1)
Netherlands	1	1	Edonis Engineering (1)

Constructors in bold competed in the 2020 World Championship.

By engine

The following list only includes championships since 2013, which saw the introduction of the present engine-development system, and league-based engine manufacturers.

Engine	Titles	Constructors	Constructor name (titles)
Valiant	4	3	Vod:Bul Racing (2)
			ACR Zakspeed (1)
			Evolution Motorsports (1)
Potentia	2	2	Midnight Motorsports (1)
			CSG Racing (1)
Martex	1	1	Nordsjøen Racing (1)
Reventón	1	1	Edonis Engineering (1)

Engine manufacturers and constructors in bold competed in the 2020 World Championship.
Constructors marked in italics functioned as works-teams.

Superleague Lights

Since 2019, the Superleague Lights series has been run as the direct feeder series into Superleague. The Lights sees similar cars and technical regulations, but is run over a shorter race length and has a single engine manufacturer. The inaugural season was won by Lukas Schmidt.

Season	Driver	Constructor	Engine	Tyres	Poles	Wins	Podiums	F. Laps	Points	% Points	Clinched	Margin	% Margin
2019	Lukas Schmidt	Cosmo	Martex	G	6	8	13	8	306	76.500	Round 15 of 16	57	18.627
2020	Liam de Waal	Cenobite Motorsports	Martex	G	9	10	10	3	250	62.250	Round 10 of 16	47	11.750
Season	Driver	Constructor	Engine	Tyres	Poles	Wins	Podiums	F. Laps	Points	% Points	Clinched	Margin	% Margin

See also

• List of Superleague World Constructors' Champions
• List of GPVWC scoring systems