This is a list of Ben and Toad's Contest records and statistics.
General statistics
Year | Season | Winner | Runner-up | Third Place | Fourth Place |
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2012 | Season 1 | Viktor Ahn | Emmitt Smith | Tomoka Takeuchi | Kelly Monaco |
2013 | Season 2 | Jennifer Lopez | Mýa | Laila Ali | Joanna Krupa |
2013 | Season 3 | Zendaya Coleman | Corbin Bleu | Shakira | Amber Riley |
2014 | Season 4 | Kim Yu-Na | Mao Asada | Nick Carter | Gwen Stefani |
2014 | Season 5 | Gilles Marini | Hélio Castroneves | Kristi Yamaguchi | Yuna Kim |
2015 | Season 6 | Juan Pablo Montoya | Will Power | Lee Sang-hwa | Meryl Davis |
2015 | Season 7 | Simon Pagenaud | |||
2016 | Season 8 | Takkatan Chonlada | |||
2016 | Season 9 | ||||
2017 | Season 10 | ||||
2019 | Season 11 | Diana Flipo | Milo Manheim | Luca Hänni | Ally Brooke |
2020 | Season 12 | Elvana Gjata | Zdeněk Piškula | Taťána Kuchařová | Dev Griffin |
2020 | Season 13 | Milo Manheim | Jirayu La-ongmanee | Ranee Campen | Nev Schulman |
2021 | Season 14 | Ed Jones | Nichaphat Chatchaipholrat | V | Park So-hyun |
2021 | Season 15 |
- Season 7 rest of season was cancelled after week 12 due to near-death situation at the 2015 Race of the Stars.
- Season 12 was shortened from 15 weeks to 9 weeks because of the COVID-19 pandemic.
- Season 13 was postponed to September 12 and extended to 200 contestants because of the COVID-19 pandemic.
- Season 14 was postponed to January 30 because of the COVID-19 pandemic.
- Season 15 was postponed to May 22 because of the COVID-19 pandemic.
Countries: season position
The countries represented by any contestant in the tables below are ordered by the season the quantity was attained in (the countries that attained the quantity is listed first). If the quantity was ordered by more than one country in the same season, these teams are ordered alphabetically.
- Most titles won
- 2, South Korea (Season 1 and Season 4), United States (Season 2 and Season 3)
- Most finishes in the top two
- 4, United States (all expect Season 5 and six)
- Most finishes in the top three
- 5, United States (every season expect six)
- Most finishes in the top four
- 5, United States (every season)
- Most finishes in the top eight
- 5, United States (every season)
- Most finishes in the top sixteen
- 6, United States (every season)
- Most country representatives
- United States (every season)
Consecutive
- Most consecutive championships
- 2 United States (Season 2-3).
- Most consecutive finishes in the top two
- 4, United States (Season 1-4).
- Most consecutive finishes in the top three
- 5, United States (every season expect six)
- Most consecutive finishes in the top four
- 5, United States (every season)
- Most consecutive finishes in the top eight
- 5, United States (every season)
- Most consecutive finishes in the top sixteen
- 6, United States (every season)
- Most consecutive appearances in the season
- 6, United States (every season)
- Most consecutive championships by confederation
- 2, CONCACAF (season 2 and 3)
- Most consecutive finals by contestant
- 2, Kim Yuna and Mao Asada, season 4 and 5.
- Biggest improvement by contestant in season 5 in position
- Season 1 Week 7 - Season 5 Week 20: Gilles Marini ( France), Hélio Castroneves ( Honduras)
- Biggest downfall by contestant in season 5 in position
- Season 1 Week 16 - Season 5 Week 1: Vita Semerenko ( Ukraine), Season 1 Final - Season 5 Week 4: Tomoka Takeuchi ( Japan)
Gaps
- Longest gap between successive titles
- 4 seasons, South Korea (Season 1-4)
- Longest gap between successive appearances in the top two
- 4 seasons, South Korea (Season 1-4)
- Longest gap between successive appearances in the top three
- 4 seasons, South Korea (Season 1-4), Japan (Season 1-4)
- Longest gap between successive appearances in the top four
- 4 seasons, South Korea (Season 1-4), Japan (Season 1-4)
- Longest gap between successive appearances in the top eight
- 4 seasons, South Korea (Season 1-4), Japan (Season 1-4)
- Longest gap between successive appearances in the top sixteen
- 5 seasons, Netherlands (Season 1-6)
- Longest gap between successive appearances in the season
- 3 seasons, South Korea (Season 1-4)
Season 5 contestants
- Best finish by AFC
- Finale, Kim Yu-Na ( South Korea), Mao Asada ( Japan), Kristi Yamaguchi ( Japan),
- Best finish by CONCACAF
- Finale, Zendaya ( United States), Hélio Castroneves, ( Honduras)
- Best finish by UEFA
- Finale, Melissa Rycroft ( Kazakhstan), Kellie Pickler ( Belarus), Gilles Marini ( France)
Streaks
- Most consecutive finale appearances (contestant)
- 2, Kim Yuna and Mao Asada (Season 4-5)
- Most consecutive finale appearances (country)
- 6, United States (every season)
- Most consecutive IndyCar weeks (season 2, 3, 4, 6, 8 only)
- April 12-June 14, Season 6.
- Most consecutive oval weeks (season 2, 3, 4, 6, 8 only)
- June 8-July 6, Season 2.
- Most consecutive road course weeks (season 2, 3, 4, 6, 8 only)
- March 29-May 10, Season 4; March 28-May 9, Season 6.
- Most seasons with a race car driver
- 4, season 1, 5-7.
- Most seasons with an Olympic athlete
- 7, seasons 1-8.
Individual
- Most seasons participated
- 3, Hélio Castroneves, season 1, 5 as contestant and 7 (replacement for Sébastien Bourdais)
- Most championships
- 1, 6 contestants.
- Youngest contestant
- 15, Willow Shields and Hayes Grier, season 7; Bella Thorne, season 3.
- Oldest contestant
- 115, Misao Okawa, Season 4; Jiroemon Kimura, season 1.
- Ever since the new rules, no supercentenarians cannot be on the show.
- First contestant fired
- Week 1 Season 1, Nicky Sapera.
- Oldest contestant fired
- 116 years, Misao Okawa, season 4.
- Ever since the new rules, no Supercentenarians cannot be on the show.
- Youngest contestant fired
- 16 years, Bella Thorne, season 3.
- Biggest firing
- 6 contestants, season 6 (May 10 and May 24, located in Indianapolis).
- Most consecutive weeks without a firing
- May 30-July 4, season 6, due to the 2015 FIFA Women's World Cup; May 31 due to bad Detroit weather.
- Shocking eliminations
- Gilles Marini ( France, season 1 week 7), Kristi Yamaguchi/Brooke Burke ( Slovakia 2013 Sao Paulo).
- Most weeks with a contender eliminated
- 3, season 1 week 6-8.
- Most contestants at a single event
- 195, 2015 Indy 500.
- Most contestants involved in a caution flag
- 193, Lap 136 at the 2015 MAVTV 500; Lap 131 at the 2015 ABC Supply Wisconsin 250; Lap 10 at Iowa Speedway in 2015; Lap 166 at Pocono in 2015.
- Fewest contestants involved in a caution flag
- 0, many cautions.
- Most contestants in a season
- 84, season 8.
- Fewest contestants in a season
- 42, season 1.
- Sponsor with the most contestants
- 41, Target, all season one contestants expect Helio Castroneves. (A Penske, Not a Ganassi driver).
- Most sponsors by a contestant
- 6, Helio Castroneves, season 1 and season 5. (Hitachi, AAA Insurance, Shell, Pennzoil, Verizon, PPG Automotive Finishes).
Engines
- Fewest Chevrolets in a season
- 1, season 1.
- Fewest Hondas in a season
- 6, season 5.
- Most Chevrolets in a season
- 53, season 6.
- Most Hondas in a season
- 41, season 1.
IndyCar streaks
- Most wins by a country (2013-2015)
- 7, Australia.
- Fewest wins by a country (2013-2015)
- 0, a lot of teams.
- Most last place finishes (2013-2015)
- 4, Spain, 2014-2015.
- Fewest last place finishes (2013-2015)
- 0, a lot of teams.
- Most finishes outside the top ten (2014)
- 17, Ecuador (every race expect Long Beach).
- Most finishes inside the top ten (2014)
- 15, Australia (every race expect both Houston races and Iowa)
- Fewest finishes inside the top ten (2014, full-time)
- 1, Ecuador (Long Beach)
- Fewest finishes outside the top ten (2014, full-time)
- 3, Australia (Houston 1 and 2, Iowa)
- Fewest finishes inside the top ten (2015, full-time)
- 1, Switzerland (Indianapolis GP).
- Most finishes inside the top ten (2015, full-time)
- 12, Colombia (expect Barber and Iowa).
- Fewest finishes outside the top ten (2015, full time)
- 2, Colombia.
- Most finishes outside the top ten (2015, full time)
- 14, Switzerland.
- Most finishes outside the top ten (2016, full time)
- TBA
- Fewest finishes outside the top ten (2016, full time)
- TBA
- Most shortened races in a season (usually due to rain)
- 4, 2014.
- Fewest shortened races in a season (usually due to rain)
- 0, 2013.
- Most DNFs by a team (2015, full-time)
- 5, Switzerland.
- Fewest DNFs by a team (2015, full-time)
- 1, Russia, Ukraine, Colombia and Ecuador.
- Fewest DNFs by a team (2014, full-time)
- 0, Australia and Ukraine.
- Most DNFs by a team (2014, full-time)
- 7, Japan.
- Fewest DNFs by a team (2013, full-time)
- 0, Honduras.
- Fewest drivers running at the finish
- 6, 2017 Rainguard Water Sealer 600, Will Power, Larvesta, Simon Pagenaud, Graham Rahal, Gabby Chaves, Pee Saderd
- Oldest team full time (2014)
- 39 years, Brazil and Honduras.
- Youngest team full time (2014)
- 22 years, Spain.
- Youngest team full time (2015)
- 21 years, Ecuador.
- Oldest team full time (2015)
- 40 years, Honduras and Brazil.
- Youngest team at the Indy 500
- 19 years, Sweden, 2014.
- Youngest team to lead a lap
- 20 years, Sweden, 2015.
- Oldest team to lead a lap at the 2015 MAVTV 500
- 40 years, Honduras and Brazil.
- Most lead changes in a race
- 80 lead changes, 2015 MAVTV 500.
- Most substitutions in a race
- 7, 2015 MAVTV 500. Turkiye, Poland and Chile on lap 136; Austria, Netherlands, Belarus and Belgium on lap 241. 2015 Pocono 500: Poland and Chile on lap 179, Paraguay and Iran on lap 131, Belgium on lap 166, Netherlands and Belarus on lap 92.
- Most countries leading a lap
- 17, 2015 MAVTV 500.
- Fewest countries leading a lap
- 2, 2014 Grand Prix of Houston Race 2.
- Most DNFs by a major team (Power, Castroneves, Dixon only)
- 3, Australia and Honduras, 2015.
- Most races in a season
- 19, 2013.
- Most parody songs written about IndyCar
- 8, The Germany Lap 136 incident that took them into last place; the death of Jules Bianchi; death of Justin Wilson; Lap 167 at Pocono that took Germany out; and Juan Pablo Montoya's lap 9 crash at Iowa, all in 2015; and the 2015 Pocono 500 that had too much cautions.
- Fewest parody songs written about IndyCar
- 0, a lot of races.
- Most cancelled races
- 1, 2015 and 2016.
- Most ovals in a season
- 6, 3 seasons.
- Most road courses in a season
- 13, 2013.
- Most countries that were contending for the IndyCar trophy at the last race
- 7, Ukraine, Australia, Honduras, Croatia, Colombia, Uruguay, and Serbia, 2015.
- Most countries that crashed in a race
- 17, 2013 MAVTV 500.
- Fewest countries that crashed in a race
- 0, 2015 Toyota Grand Prix of Long Beach.
- Drivers with the most starts
- over 300, Hélio Castroneves and Tony Kanaan.
- Countries with the fewest DNS results
- a lot of countries.
- Contestants with the most crashes
- 22, Apolo Anton Ohno and Kristi Yamaguchi, Japan
- Countries with the most drivers
- 4, Portugal, Team Penske, 2015.
- Most rookie drivers full time in a season
- 4, 2014. ( Argentina, Russia, Chile and Belarus)
- Fewest rookie drivers full time in a season
- 1, 2013. ( Greece).
- Most countries that failed to qualify for a race
- 2, Pocono 2015 ( Switzerland and Czech Republic).
- Earliest country eliminated
- Lap 0-2, Honduras, Brazil and Italy, Mid Ohio 2014; Ecuador, 2013 Long Beach; Poland, Detroit 2013; Canada and Ecuador, 2013 Pocono; Romania, Texas 2013; Canada, Houston 2013; Russia, Chile and Ecuador; 2014 Indy GP; Belarus, 2014 Houston; Sweden, Belarus and Netherlands, 2015 Indy 500.
NASCAR streaks
- Most teams participating in a single race
- 5, 2014 Brickyard 400. Colombia, Brazil, Sweden, Poland, Switzerland.
- Fewest season 1 contestants in a single race
- 0, every NASCAR track expect the IndyCar tracks that were held in 2013, 2014, 2015.
- Most season 1 contestants in a single race
- 4, Gilles Marini, Apolo Ohno, Joey Fatone, Vita Semerenko, 2014 Brickyard 400.
Celebrity Family Feud
- Most sets played in tiebreakers over 10 points
- 3, Pee Saderd (third and fourth rounds), Tommy Davidson vs. Kristi Yamaguchi and Dave Foley vs. Jalen Rose
- Biggest age gap (over 20 years)
- 28 years, 9 months: Cameron Marshall vs. Pee Saderd, Tommy Davidson vs. Kristi Yamaguchi and Dave Foley vs. Jalen Rose
- Most consecutive titles
- 4, Hélio Castroneves, in 2016; from Kellie Pickler vs. Lance Bass and Ernie Hudson vs. NeNe Leakes to Professional Boxers and Joely Fisher vs. Tony Hawk
- Biggest victory in semifinals
- Hélio Castroneves def. Pee Saderd, by over 23.5 seconds in semifinals, AFC Defence vs. NFC Offence and AFC Offence vs. NFC Defence (August 7)
- Longest final
- Over 2.5 hours, Hélio Castroneves def. Drew Lachey, AFC Defence vs. NFC Offence and AFC Offence vs. NFC Defence (August 7)
- Shortest final
- Only 12 games, Pee Saderd def. Chespin, 6-0, 6-0, Garrett Morris vs. Alfonso Ribeiro and Todd Chrisley vs. Sara Evans
- Most-watched matches
- TBD
Arm wrestling streaks
- Most Arm wrestling events in a season
- 3, season 2, 4, 6.
- Most contestants in an arm wrestling event
- 41, season 1 week 12 (everyone expect Hélio Castroneves).
- Fewest contestants in an armwrestling event
- 2, season 2 week 16 (Detroit Belle Isle, Ryan Duchak and Austin Fannin); season 2 week 27 ( Ryan Duchak and Austin Fannin).
World Cup matches
- Most goals scored in a single World Cup final
- 7, 2015.
- Most goals scored in a single Women's match (group stage)
- 11, Switzerland vs Ecuador, 2015 FIFA Women's World Cup.
- Most goals scored in a single Men's match (group stage)
- 7, France vs Switzerland, 2014 FIFA World Cup.
- Fewest goals scored in a single men's match (group stage)
- 0, a lot of matches.
- Fewest goals scored in a single women's match (group stage)
- 0, a lot of matches.
- Most teams participating
- 32, 2014 FIFA World Cup and 2018 FIFA World Cup.