#MAX VERSTAPPEN RECORDS DRIVERS#
#MAX VERSTAPPEN RECORDS DRIVER#

#MAX VERSTAPPEN RECORDS DRIVER#

He won the most races out of any driver that season, ten, including six in a row between rounds five and six. Verstappen won twenty other karting championships between 20.įor 2014 he graduated to the FIA Formula 3 European Championship with van Amersfoort Racing. By beating out future rival Charles Leclerc he also became the youngest winner of the CIK-FIA World Karting Championship in the KZ category. He had an exceptional karting career, ending by winning the 2013 CIK-FIA European Karting Championship in both the KF and KZ categories. Verstappen began karting at age four, driving in Championships by the age of seven. 3.4.2 Records where Max is listed in the top 10.

#MAX VERSTAPPEN RECORDS DRIVERS#

Son of former F1 driver Jos, Verstappen is widely regarded as one of the greatest drivers of all time, winning three Drivers Championships, contributing to two Constructors Championships and winning

He went on to dominate the following two seasons, breaking the record for most wins in a season in 2022 and most consecutive wins in 2023. In 2021, after a year-long battle with Lewis Hamilton, he became the first Dutch World Champion by controversially winning the final race of the season in Abu Dhabi. After four races of the 2016 season, he was promoted to the senior Red Bull team and won on debut at the 2016 Spanish Grand Prix to also become the youngest race winner in Formula One history. He made his Formula One debut at age 17 in 2015 with Toro Rosso, becoming the youngest Formula One driver in history. He is the reigning Formula One World Champion, winning the title in 2021, 20 with his current team Red Bull Racing. The coldest race on record in Formula One world championship history was the 1978 Canadian Grand Prix in Montreal where temperatures that October dropped to five degrees Celsius.Max Emilian Verstappen (born 30 September 1997) is a Belgian-born Dutch racing driver, racing under the flag of the Netherlands. 'It's going to be a big challenge for us all and we're looking forward to taking it on.'

Plus, the track layout itself is unusual with many slow corners but long straights. 'We'll be running at night, where ambient and track temperatures will likely be in the single digits. 'We have prepared the best we can, using the limited information we have, and there are some unique characteristics we can anticipate,' said Mercedes F1 boss Toto Wolff, whose team are still battling Ferrari for second overall. If another Verstappen victory comes as no surprise, it cannot be considered a given.Īny new event on the calendar has a strong element of the unpredictable, and all teams will be in the same position of entering the unknown. The Mexican is 32 points clear of Mercedes' Lewis Hamilton, with 26 remaining to be won after Las Vegas. Teammate Sergio Perez can finally clinch second place in the championship, which would be the first time Red Bull have finished a season with their drivers one-two in the standings. I'm more like 'I'll go there and do my thing and be gone again'.' 'But you know, I'm actually not that into it. 'First of all, I think we are there more for the show than the racing itself if you look at the layout of the track,' commented Verstappen. The 17-corner anti-clockwise track is the second longest on the current calendar, a 6.2km blast past local landmarks with a 1.9km flat-out straight and a mix of old and new asphalt. Qualifying for the race starts at midnight on Friday with the race at 10pm on Saturday - the latest start in Formula One history and one designed to show off the neon-lit city skyline to maximum effect. Verstappen, who clinched his third title in Qatar last month, will be the favourite again even if many questions remain to be answered about the track layout, low temperatures, surface conditions and timetable.

Season records for podiums, points and laps led will have to be adjusted.Ī 20th win of the season for Red Bull would also be a record, with the team currently tied with Mercedes who won 19 races in 2016. It would also be a record-extending 18th from a single campaign, with one more race to come in Abu Dhabi the following weekend. Only Lewis Hamilton (103) and Michael Schumacher (91) have won more.

Victory in Nevada would be the 53rd of his career, equalling the tally of four-time world champion Sebastian Vettel and lifting Verstappen to joint third in the all-time win list. Formula One's Saturday (Nov 18) night spectacular in Las Vegas may be the most-hyped grand prix of all time but Red Bull's triple world champion Max Verstappen has a job to do and he will not be distracted.Įven if the casinos and hotels of Sin City and its famed Strip grab most of the limelight, the Dutch 26-year-old still has milestones to pass and records to break in the most dominant of seasons.

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