Max Verstappen’s exploits go beyond numbers. The Dutchman is dominating this era of F1 as past greats have done at various historical points. Sunday’s victorious comeback in Miami was yet another pearl in a long series. The Red Bull driver unleashed all his phenomenal skills, with repeated overtaking and perfect tactical management, in order to extend the life of the tyres. He swept away his teammate Sergio Perez, who started from pole, and made it clear that he is the sole master of the World Championship. It was victory number 38 for Super Max. Ahead of him, among the most successful of all time, are Ayrton Senna (41), Alain Prost (51), Sebastian Vettel (53), Michael Schumacher (91) and Lewis Hamilton (103). Reading it like this, it would seem that Verstappen is still far away, despite two titles on the bulletin board at 25 years old. But the statistics don’t tell everything. There are manoeuvres, technical gestures and masterpieces, such as the one accomplished in Miami or last year in Hungary and Belgium when he triumphed with absurd comebacks, which cannot be summarized in a ranking. Nor can they be explained only by the superiority of the machine. Who knows, continuing like this, where he will be able to arrive …
Max Verstappen dominates F1: is he among the greatest? Here are all the answers
