As with all motorsports, Formula One has witnessed fatal accidents.
The first driver fatality that occurred in the Formula One series was that of Cameron Earl. He was killed while working as an English Racing Automobiles team technical consultant. His car overturned while he was test driving. He died in the hospital from skull fractures at age 29.
Chet Miller was the oldest Formula One driver ever to die, aged 50. The youngest was Ricardo Rodríguez, aged 20.
The death of Jules Bianchi was the first driver fatality of Formula One since that of Ayrton Senna after he crashed into a wall in the 1994 San Marino Grand Prix at 233km/h. Bianchi died on 17 July 2015, after nine months in a coma as a result of crashing into a recovery vehicle at the 2014 Japanese Grand Prix, and suffering a diffuse axonal injury, at age 25. The accident was eerily similar to that of María de Villota's testing crash in 2012.
Although the deaths of these racing legends were tragic events, they helped the sport to develop many of the modern safety devices and regulations that are used in the sport today. As a result of this, Formula One celebrated the 20th fatality-free season in 2014, up until Bianchi's accident in Japan. The 2000's remains the only decade to date in which no driver was killed.
The following list includes Formula One drivers that were killed during a FIA World Championship race weekend (1950–present). This includes:
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