Max Verstappen equalled the document for race wins in a Formula One season with Sunday’s victory in Texas.
The Dutchman claimed his thirteenth win of the 12 months on the United States Grand Prix to match Michael Schumacher and Sebastian Vettel’s document.
Schumacher received 13 races out of 18 within the 2004 season and Vettel 13 of 19 in 2013, with Verstappen matching the latter due to Sunday’s success.
His first likelihood to interrupt the document outright is available in race 20 in Mexico this weekend and with Sao Paulo and Abu Dhabi additionally to return, he can nonetheless get anyplace as much as 16 wins this season.
It is notable that he has achieved it with far fewer pole positions than both Vettel or Schumacher, who had 9 and eight respectively in comparison with Verstappen’s 5 this marketing campaign.
As it stands, Verstappen has received 68.2 per cent of races this season, a mark that might rank equal-fourth all time with Vettel. Should he win all three remaining races to make it 16 out of twenty-two, that 72.7 per cent determine would carry him to second.
Alberto Ascari received six out of eight in 1952 for a document 75 per cent win charge, whereas Schumacher’s 13 out of 18 equates to 72.2. Jim Clark had the one different 70 per cent season with seven wins out of 10 in 1963.
Verstappen had already wrapped up the title forward of going to America, with 4 races to spare.
Only Schumacher in 2002 and Nigel Mansell in 1992 had sealed the deal earlier, with Verstappen becoming a member of two extra Schumacher campaigns and one from Vettel to share third place on that checklist.
The Dutchman is on track for less than the fourth three-figure successful margin in F1 – even second-place finishes behind nearest challenger Charles Leclerc within the three remaining grands prix and the Sao Paulo dash race would safe that honour.
The totally different scoring programs over time clearly play a component in that, with the earlier three belonging to Vettel (155 factors in 2013 and 122 in 2011) and Hamilton (124 factors in 2020).
A fairer comparability is the share lead and whereas Verstappen, at present with over 46 per cent extra factors than Leclerc, has fallen behind document tempo, by that measure his remains to be among the many most dominant seasons ever.
Mansell, and Jacques Villeneuve 5 years later, received with simply over 48 per cent extra factors than their nearest challengers. Schumacher twice exceeded Verstappen’s present margin and Jackie Stewart and Juan Manuel Fangio additionally exceeded a 40 per cent successful margin twice every.
Verstappen is just the eleventh driver to win back-to-back titles and one other win subsequent season would make him solely the fifth to win three in a row.
Schumacher holds the document of 5 straight titles, between 2000 and 2004, whereas Fangio, Vettel and Lewis Hamilton all received 4 in a row.
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