The Dutchman won in Mexico with insulting superiority. Lewis Hamilton and Checo Pérez accompanied him on the podium
Max Verstappen is on his way to breaking all known Formula 1 records. The Dutchman won the Mexican Grand Prix, taking the title from Michael Schumacher and Sebastian Vettel. world record They shared the most wins in a single season. The number was 13 and Max is on 14 and there are still two races left.
The Red Bull driver is in a focused and totally unattainable version for his rivals. Verstappen reached 416 points at the Hermanos Rodríguez Autodrome in a season beating the mark for most points in a year held by Lewis Hamilton, who achieved 413 in the 2019 season.
Verstappen, two-time champion barely 25 years old, he has in his hand to destroy all the records in Formula 1 And not only thinking about the seven world titles that Michael Schumacher and Hamilton himself have. The Dutch rider has many more challenges ahead of him this season and the ones to come.
In 2013, Vettel ended up taking the World Cup against Fernando Alonso with a record lead of 155 points. In this 2022, Verstappen He will have to take an advantage of 19 points between now and the end of the season, something that is complicated but not impossible to keep the record for the greatest distance.
Next year, without going any further, he will want to improve the four races in advance with which he has been proclaimed champion and beat the record set by Schumacher in 2002 when he was already champion six races before the end of the World Championship. That year he achieved 17 podiums in 17 races, something that Max also has in his future agenda to beat.
Last season, Verstappen was on the podium in 18 of 22 races and wants to achieve that 100% that Schumacher achieved two decades ago. The Red Bull driver also wants the record for fastest race laps set by Michael Schumacher (2004) and Kimi Raikkonen (2005 and 2008) with 10 in a single season.
Currently Verstappen is the youngest driver to make his debut in a Formula 1 race. besides being the youngest to score and also to achieve a victory at just 18 years old. The challenges that lie ahead of him are more than interesting, although it will also depend on his decisions as a driver and the teams to which he entrusts his talent.
Alonso, again burned
I can talk to you about that at length. Fernando Alonso who had a race to forget in Mexico. After running in a placid seventh position for 90% of the race, his Alpine said enough with a cylinder rupture and later the engine failure that forced him to abandon. “Things always happen to number 14”settled.