Now updated with the 2000s:
1890s: Luigi Fagioli (Born 1898) won the 1951 French Grand Prix, credited alongside Juan Manuel Fangio - At 53 years of age, he may forever be the oldest Grand Prix winner in history
1900s: Guiseppe 'Nino' Farina (Born 1906) won the 1950 British Grand Prix, the inaugural World Championship race
1910s: Juan Manuel Fangio (Born 1911) won the 1950 Monaco Grand Prix, the very next race
1920s: José Froilán González (Born 1922) won the 1951 British Grand Prix, the first Grand Prix victory for Scuderia Ferrari
1930s: Troy Ruttman (Born 1930) won the 1952 Indianapolis 500 - Considering the Indy 500 was counted as a World Championship race at the time, Ruttman also held the record as the youngest Grand Prix winner for 51 years until Fernando Alonso bettered him in 2003.
1940s: Pedro Rodriguez (Born 1940) won the 1967 South African Grand Prix... Fun fact, Pedro's brother Ricardo was the first driver born in the '40s to start a Grand Prix (Aged 19 at the 1961 Italian Grand Prix) and has the sad distinction of being the youngest Formula 1 driver to die, aged just 20 in 1962.
1950s: Jody Scheckter (Born 1950) won the 1974 Swedish Grand Prix, the first time a driver representing an African country had won a Grand Prix.
1960s: Ayrton Senna (Born 1960) won the 1985 Portuguese Grand Prix, a soaking wet race that Senna won by a minute over Michele Alboreto and lapped every car from 3rd on down.
1970s: David Coulthard (Born 1971) won the 1995 Portuguese Grand Prix, which was also the first win for a Scottish driver since Sir Jackie Stewart retired in 1973.
1980s: Fernando Alonso (Born 1981) won the 2003 Hungary Grand Prix, breaking Ruttman and Bruce McLaren's records as the youngest winner of both a Grand Prix and/or a World Championship event, which stood until Sebastian Vettel 5 years later.
1990s: Max Verstappen (Born 1997) won the 2016 Spanish Grand Prix on his debut for Red Bull, which is still the current record for the youngest driver to win a Grand Prix (18 years, 7 months and 15 days), and is also the only instance of a driver winning a Grand Prix before turning 20.
2000s: Oscar Piastri (Born 2001) won the 2024 Hungarian Grand Prix, one of only 2 drivers not born in the 20th century to win a Grand Prix, and the only one to win a Grand Prix outright.
So out of that lot, you have a 5-time World Champion in Fangio, two 3-time World Champions (Senna & Verstappen), another 2-time World Champion (Alonso), plus two more World Champions in Farina and Scheckter.
Of the others:
Fagioli was credited with the win for the '51 French Grand Prix alongside Fangio after Alfa Romeo made them swap cars 20 laps into the race due to an issue with Fangio's car, a move that disgruntled Fagioli so much that he never competed in another Grand Prix, making himself and Jim Clark the only two drivers to win their last Grand Prix start.
As mentioned before, Gonzalez (Who also won the '54 British Grand Prix) will forever be known in the history as the first driver to win a Grand Prix for Scuderia Ferrari, who are now up to 244 Grand Prix victories.
72 years after winning the '52 Indy 500, Rutman still holds the record as the youngest winner of the Indianapolis 500 (22 years, 80 days).
Pedro Rodriguez was one of only two drivers born in the 1940s to win a race in the 1960s (The other was Jochen Rindt in 1969)... he would also win the 1968 24 Hours of Le Mans in a Ford GT40, and won a second F1 race at the 1970 Belgian Grand Prix, his last win before dying in an accident in 1971 - The Mexican Grand Prix track is named in Pedro's honour.
David Coulthard's win in Portugal in 1995 was his only win for Williams, with DC's other 12 wins coming with McLaren, and he is still the only Scotsman to win a race in the last half century...
And two seasons in, Oscar Piastri is a work in progress.
I guess we'll resume this thread in no fewer than 7 years' time, when the drivers from the 2010s start reaching the edges of Formula One.
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