Max Verstappen is signing an almost perfect season, is a hungry lion in the middle of a herd of gazelles and does not want to leave any for the rest. We could see it when he risked to get the fastest lap by pitting on the penultimate lap of the Austrian Grand Prix. That voracious hunger can serve you this season to to be able to beat some pilots and historical records.
the dutch has won in seven of the nine races that have been held this season. This year he will try to surpass his own record: 15 wins. The great performance of the Austrian team makes his adviser think, Helmut Marko, in the possibility of winning all the races of the championship: “If they expect us to win every race, it’s practically impossible, but if things continue like this, I don’t rule it out.” Still, Max, sees it “very unlikely”.
Every victory is a step to Olympus
Being the first driver to see the checkered flag at the end of the race is not an easy task, but the red bull driver surpassed in Spielberg the great Ayrton senna with 42 wins. It seems that his ceiling does not exist, and if he continues with the dynamics that he is showing, he will be able to surpass two motorsport legends this season: Alain Prost (51) and Sebastian Vettel (53).
Verstappen has other records in his sights to enlarge his figure and enter the F1 history books, in case he hasn’t already done so. In another subject in which he is impeccable is in the qualifying sessions (six pole positions). Last year he got seven, and is only one away from equaling his record, but this year with 13 grands prix still to go. He seems complicated, but surely he dreams of beating Vettel (15), a feat that the German achieved in 2011 and which would place him as driver with the most pole position in history.
This season the Dutchman has led the races for the vast majority of the time. With 2,274 he is the sixth driver in history who has driven the most laps in first position. The goal of Christian Horner’s pupil is to hunt down Alain Prost (2683) and Ayrton Senna (2931), to be the 4th all-time driver in this classification.
Everything seems that Max will get his third World Champion title. Thus will equalize as three-time champion pilots like: Ayrton Senna, Nelson Piquet, Niki Lauda, ​​Jackie Stewart or Jack Brabham. A pilot who goes beyond the domain of a world championship. He wants to leave his mark among the biggest in the history of Formula 1.