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Maximilian Alexander Chilton (born 21 April 1991) is a British former racing driver who competed in Formula One from to , and the IndyCar Series from 2016 to 2021.
Born and raised in Redhill, Surrey, Chilton is the younger brother of racing driver Tom Chilton. He competed in the GP2 Series from 2010 to 2012, finishing fourth in the latter with Carlin. Chilton competed in Formula One for Marussia from to . After Formula One, Chilton competed in the IndyCar Series from 2016 to 2021 for Chip Ganassi and Carlin. He holds the hillclimbing record at the Goodwood Festival of Speed, set in 2022 in the McMurtry Spéirling.
For 2008, Chilton moved to David Hayle's Hitech Racing, and improved to tenth place in the championship. He recorded pole positions at Monza and Rockingham, and scored two podiums – second in the opening race at Oulton Park and third at Rockingham. He moved to Carlin Motorsport for the 2009 season, taking three pole positions in the first four races. He won twice during the season, the first at the Autódromo Internacional do Algarve in Portimão, and the second in his final Formula Three race at Brands Hatch.
In 2011, Chilton joined his father's Carlin team for the outfit's first foray into GP2, having previously driven for them in Formula Three. Partnered variously by reigning Formula Renault 3.5 Series champion Mikhail Aleshin and Álvaro Parente, he finished 22nd in the Asia series and 20th in the main series. He remained with the team, now with backing from the Marussia Formula One team, for the 2012 season alongside Rio Haryanto. He secured his first series podium finish in the feature race of the first round of the championship in Malaysia, and later his first pole position and race victory in the Hungarian feature race. This improvement in form, together with consistent points-scoring finishes throughout the season, resulted in Chilton rising to fourth place in the drivers' championship.
In December 2012, Nikolai Fomenko, the engineering director of Marussia F1, announced that Chilton would race for the team full-time in 2013. The team confirmed the next day that Chilton would race. Chilton qualified twentieth on his debut at the Australian GP. He achieved his best finish of the season at the 2013 Monaco Grand Prix, when he finished in fourteenth place following several retirements. He achieved his best qualifying result of sixteenth position at the 2013 Belgian Grand Prix in a mixed-weather session where he was one of three drivers to go out on slick tyres at the end when the track's condition was improving.
Chilton is the only driver to have finished every race of his rookie season.
On 11 January, it was announced that Marussia F1 would be retaining Chilton for the season. Chilton achieved his best finish to date at the , finishing thirteenth. He finished 13th again at the .
Chilton had finished every Formula One race he had contested until the 2014 Canadian Grand Prix, which meant that he had finished 25 consecutive races, nineteen of them in his rookie season. This was a record for most classified finishes in a rookie season. Lewis Hamilton holds the record for most consecutive classified finishes at 48. Chilton's Canadian Grand Prix retirement came when he collided with his teammate Jules Bianchi on the first lap, sending the Frenchman into the wall at Turn 4. Chilton received a three-place grid penalty at the following race. His season ended after Marussia went into administration and then closed down, resulting in Chilton missing the last three races of the season and having no seat for 2015.
In the 2017 Indianapolis 500, Chilton dominated the latter part of the race and led 47 of the last 72 laps, but ultimately finished fourth. Chilton led the most laps total with 50.
On 6 June 2019, it was announced that Chilton would no longer run races on oval tracks, with the exception of the Indy 500. Conor Daly would run the remainder of the Oval races for the 2019 season for Carlin Motorsport.
In February 2022, Chilton announced his retirement from IndyCar Series, in order to concentrate on other ventures, including the Le Mans Endurance Race.
| T Cars Autumn Trophy | 7 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 106 | 3rd | |
| Formula Renault 3.5 Series | Comtec Racing | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 40th |
| GP2 Final | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 23rd | |
| Formula One | Sahara Force India F1 Team | Test driver | ||||||
| Formula One | Marussia F1 Team | Test/Reserve driver | ||||||
| FIA World Endurance Championship | Nismo | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 34th |
| 2007 ! nowrap | Arena Motorsport ! nowrap | Dallara ! nowrap | Mercedes-Benz | Oulton Park | Oulton Park | Donington Park | Donington Park | Bucharest Ring | Bucharest Ring | SNE 1 | SNE 2 | MNZ 1 | MNZ 2 | Brands Hatch | Brands Hatch | SPA 1 | SPA 2 | SIL 1 | SIL 2 | Thruxton Circuit | Thruxton Circuit | Croft Circuit | Croft Circuit | ROC 1 | ROC 2 ! 18th ! 0 ! |
| 2008 ! nowrap | Hitech Racing ! nowrap | Dallara ! nowrap | Mercedes-Benz | Oulton Park | Oulton Park | Croft Circuit | Croft Circuit | MNZ 1 | MNZ 2 | ROC 1 | ROC 2 | SNE 1 | SNE 2 | Thruxton Circuit | Thruxton Circuit | Brands Hatch | Brands Hatch | SPA 1 | SPA 2 | SIL 1 | SIL 2 | Bucharest Ring | Bucharest Ring | Donington Park | Donington Park ! 10th ! 72 ! |
| 2009 ! nowrap | Carlin Motorsport ! nowrap | Dallara ! nowrap | Volkswagen | Oulton Park | Oulton Park | SIL1 1 | SIL1 2 | ROC 1 | ROC 2 | Hockenheimring | Hockenheimring | SNE 1 | SNE 2 | Donington Park | Donington Park | SPA 1 | SPA 2 | SIL2 1 | SIL2 2 | ALG 1 | ALG 2 | Brands Hatch | Brands Hatch | ! 4th ! 171 ! | |
| 2010 !nowrap | Ocean Racing Technology | CAT FEA | CAT SPR | MON FEA | MON SPR | Istanbul Park | Istanbul Park | VAL FEA | VAL SPR | SIL FEA | SIL SPR | Hockenheimring | Hockenheimring | Hungaroring | Hungaroring | SPA FEA | SPA SPR | MNZ FEA | MNZ SPR | YMC FEA | YMC SPR | ! 24th ! 3 | |||
| 2011 !nowrap | Carlin | Istanbul Park | Istanbul Park | CAT FEA | CAT SPR | MON FEA | MON SPR | VAL FEA | VAL SPR | SIL FEA | SIL SPR | NÜR FEA | NÜR SPR | Hungaroring | Hungaroring | SPA FEA | SPA SPR | MNZ FEA | MNZ SPR | ! 20th ! 4 | |||||
| 2012 !nowrap | Carlin | SEP FEA | SEP SPR | BHR1 FEA | BHR1 SPR | BHR2 FEA | BHR2 SPR | CAT FEA | CAT SPR | MON FEA | MON SPR | VAL FEA | VAL SPR | SIL FEA | SIL SPR | Hockenheimring | Hockenheimring | Hungaroring | Hungaroring | SPA FEA | SPA SPR | MNZ FEA | MNZ SPR | MRN FEA | MRN SPR ! 4th ! 169 |
| 2009–10 !nowrap | Addax Team | YMC1 FEA | YMC1 SPR | BHR1 FEA | BHR1 SPR | BHR2 FEA | BHR2 SPR !rowspan=2 | 18th !rowspan=2 | 2 | ||
| 2011 !nowrap | Carlin | YMC FEA | YMC SPR | IMO FEA | IMO SPR | ! 22nd ! 0 | |||||
| 2011 !nowrap | Carlin | YMC FEA | YMC SPR ! 23rd ! 0 |
| !nowrap Marussia F1 Team !nowrap | Marussia MR01 !nowrap | Cosworth CA2012 2.4 V8 | AUS | MAL | CHN | BHR | ESP | MON | CAN | EUR | GBR | GER | HUN | BEL | ITA | SIN | JPN | KOR | IND | ABU | USA | BRA ! – ! – |
| !nowrap Marussia F1 Team !nowrap | Marussia MR02 !nowrap | Cosworth CA2013 2.4 V8 | AUS | MAL | CHN | BHR | ESP | MON | CAN | GBR | GER | HUN | BEL | ITA | SIN | KOR | JPN | IND | ABU | USA | BRA | ! 23rd ! 0 |
| !nowrap Marussia F1 Team !nowrap | Marussia MR03 !nowrap | Scuderia Ferrari 059/3 1.6 V6 Turbocharger | AUS | MAL | BHR | CHN | ESP | MON | CAN | AUT | GBR | GER | HUN | BEL | ITA | SIN | JPN | RUS | USA | BRA | ABU | ! 21st ! 0 |
| 2015 !nowrap | Carlin Motorsport | STP | STP | LBH | ALA | ALA | IMS | IMS | INDY | TOR | TOR | Milwaukee Mile | Iowa Speedway | MOH | MOH | LAG | LAG !style="background:#DFFFDF;" | 5th !style="background:#DFFFDF;" | 258 ! |
| 2016 ! rowspan=2 nowrap | Chip Ganassi Racing ! rowspan=2 | 8 ! rowspan=6 nowrap | Dallara DW12 ! Chevrolet | STP | PHX | LBH | ALA | IMS | INDY | DET | DET | ROA | IOW | TOR | MOH | POC | TXS | WGL | SNM | !style="background:#CFCFFF;" 19th !style="background:#CFCFFF;" | 267 ! | |
| 2017 ! Honda | STP | LBH | ALA | PHX | IMS | INDY | DET | DET | TXS | ROA | IOW | TOR | MOH | POC | GTW | WGL | SNM !style="background:#CFCFFF;" | 11th !style="background:#CFCFFF;" | 396 ! | |||
| 2018 ! rowspan=4 | Carlin ! rowspan=4 | 59 ! rowspan=4 | Chevrolet | STP | PHX | LBH | ALA | IMS | INDY | DET | DET | TXS | ROA | IOW | TOR | MOH | POC | GTW | POR | SNM ! style="background:#CFCFFF;" | 19th ! style="background:#CFCFFF;" | 223 ! |
| 2019 | STP | COA | ALA | LBH | IMS | INDY | DET | DET | TXS | RDA | TOR | IOW | MOH | POC | GTW | POR | LAG !style="background:#CFCFFF;" | 22nd !style="background:#CFCFFF;" | 184 ! | |||
| 2020 | TXS | IMS | ROA | ROA | IOW | IOW | INDY | GTW | GTW | MOH | MOH | IMS | IMS | STP | !style="background:#CFCFFF;" 22nd !style="background:#CFCFFF;" | 147 ! | ||||||
| 2021 | ALA | STP | TXS | TXS | IMS | INDY | DET | DET | ROA | MOH | NSH | IMS | GTW | POR | LAG | LBH | !style="background:#CFCFFF;"25th !style="background:#CFCFFF;" | 134 ! |
| 2016 | Dallara | Chevrolet | 22 | 15 | Chip Ganassi Racing |
| 2017 | Dallara | Honda | 15 | 4 | Chip Ganassi Racing |
| 2018 | Dallara | Chevrolet | 20 | 22 | Carlin |
| 2019 | Dallara | Chevrolet | DNQ | Carlin | |
| 2020 | Dallara | Chevrolet | 30 | 17 | Carlin |
| 2021 | Dallara | Chevrolet | 29 | 24 | Carlin |
| 2015 !nowrap | Nismo ! LMP1 !nowrap | Nissan GT-R LM Nismo !nowrap | Nissan VRX30A 3.0 L Turbo V6 | SIL | SPA | LMS | NÜR | COA | FUJ | SHA | BHR ! 34th ! 0 |
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