Although his car is no longer as strong as in the world champion years between 2021 and 2024, Max Verstappen was also able to win a race in the current Formula 1 season. The third run last weekend in Suzuka was time. This makes the Dutch member of a very exclusive and historical club.
When Max Verstappen in Suzuka kept both McLarens in chess and was the first to cross the finish line in his Red Bull, he not only achieved his first win of the season, but also achieved historical ones. Only three drivers in front of him managed to take at least one win in ten consecutive season.
Formula 1: ten years in a row with Verstappen-Sieg
In 2016 Red Bull Max Verstappen brought to Redia GP to Red Bull, where the Dutch replaced the Russian Daniil Kvyat. And Verstappen won the poles and victory for the bulls in the first race.
To date, the now four-time Formula 1 world champion has won at least once a year-last year it was particularly good for him: only in Saudi Arabia, Azerbaijan and Singapore was the first to cross the finish line.
Alain Prost in the 1980s barely beat
Like Verstappen, Alain Prost also collected four World Cup titles and can always win at least one GP per season between 1981 and 1990. In 1981 the Frenchman won his first race in his home race in Dijon in Renault, France.
In 1990, the Ferrari driver Prost at that time lost in the World Cup fight Knapp Ayrton Senna, before he was so badly traveling due to a weak racing car in the following year that the relationship between Prost and Scuderia ended during the season. In 1993 Prost celebrated a successful comeback with his fourth title.
Only Schumacher and Hamilton even better
In order to get to the top, Verstappen has a long way to go: 1st place in this statistics are the two record champions – Michael Schumacher and Lewis Hamilton each were victorious in a row.
Hamilton won his debut victory in his first Formula 1 season 2007 in Canada. A season in which he missed the World Cup title only one point. It was not until 2022, at that time already with seven World Cup titles in his pocket, did Hamilton experienced a season for the first time without a single GP victory. He was able to spend this notch at the home race in Silverstone last year.
Only the statistics of Michael Schumacher are even more impressive: until his first resignation at the end of 2006, the Kerpener won at least one race every year – with the exception of his only a few races in 1991, in inferior material.