Verstappen soon in the Top 3 of Grand Prix winners

Since his first win in Barcelona, seven years ago, Max Verstappen continues to astonish statistics. With his 50th Grand Prix win, on Sunday, in Austin, he is now only one step away from Alain Prost.

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Never, since he arrived with fanfare at Red Bull in 2016, has Max Verstappen gone a season without winning a Grand Prix. It is also a common point he shares with Lewis Hamilton to this day: both men have only had one season in their career without achieving any victory.

Max Verstappen truly hammered the competition in 2023 and brought his total to fifteen victories in one season. A record that is unlikely to fall any time soon and which will, in all likelihood, be improved until the end of the season. He is now credited with 50 victories in Formula 1.

His career path reminds us of Sebastian Vettel’s, not to mention Lewis Hamilton’s record-breaking accomplishments. The two men mentioned are on the podium of the highest Grand Prix winners in History: Hamilton is the leader (103), followed by Michael Schumacher (91) and Vettel is in 3rd place (53).

If Alain Prost has 51 victories, he may soon be overtaken by Max Verstappen: the Dutchman could equal the former record holder for success in F1 as early as this weekend, in Mexico, and beat him at the following round, in Brazil.

Ascending Slope

In his career, Max Verstappen has experienced a meteoric rise in his F1 successes over the seasons.

  • 2016: one victory
  • 2017, 2018 and 2020: two victories
  • 2019: three victories
  • 2021: ten victories
  • 2022: fifteen victories

. Who knows how far he will go, as there are still four Grand Prix to be contested this season.

If this trend continues, his only way to do better would be to win all the races of the season. So far, no driver or team has managed to do it. And it wasn’t far off this year.

His place on the F1 winners’ podium is no longer in doubt: if he wins the last four Grand Prix of the season, he will move just ahead of Vettel and enter the Top 3 most victorious drivers.

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