DHL Fastest Lap Award

The DHL Fastest Lap Award is given annually by the courier, Formula One global partner and logistics provider DHL "to recognise the driver who most consistently demonstrates pure speed, with the fastest lap at the highest number of races each season",[1] and to reward the winning driver for "characteristics such as excellent performance, passion, can-do attitude, reliability and precision".

[2] First awarded in 2007 by DHL,[3] the trophy's official naming patron,[4] it is presented to the driver with the highest number of fastest laps over the course of the season,[5] with one point awarded to the fastest lap holder of a Grand Prix.

[6] In the event of a tie, there is a countback and the driver with the highest number of second-fastest laps earns the award.

[7] The trophy is presented to the winning driver at the final round of the season.

[6][8] The inaugural winner was the Ferrari driver Kimi Räikkönen with six fastest laps in 2007.

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Lewis Hamilton (pictured in 2016) has won the award six times, more than any other driver