Did Bottas stop Hamilton winning 10 in a row before Verstappen?

Lewis Hamilton handed on his congratulations to Max Verstappen for setting a brand new report of 10 consecutive grands prix wins in a row.

However what stopped System 1’s most profitable driver of all time from doing the identical when he loved a automobile of comparable dominance to the one Verstappen at the moment has?

“I had robust workforce mates,” stated Hamilton. “Valtteri [Bottas] was fast on lots of instances.

Verstappen’s ongoing victory run is twice so long as Hamilton’s finest. Though Bottas undoubtedly interrupted Hamilton’s successful runs throughout their five-year spell as workforce mates, he didn’t finish both of his two longest successful runs.

Hamilton scored his first five-race unbeaten run in 2014. That was ended by his first Mercedes workforce mate Nico Rosberg, who denied him pole and victory at that 12 months’s Brazilian Grand Prix.

The second time Hamilton managed to win 5 in a row was in late 2020, now with Bottas alongside him within the Mercedes storage. He was unable to win a sixth successive race on that event firstly as a result of he caught Covid-19 which dominated him out of the Sakhir Grand Prix. That race was nearly received by Hamilton’s stand-in, George Russell, however as a substitute Sergio Perez triumphed for Racing Level. Hamilton returned on the subsequent race in Abu Dhabi and completed third, Verstappen successful.

Verstappen’s success means Alberto Ascari and Sebastian Vettel are not the joint holders of the report for many consecutive race wins. What stopped them from turning 9 into ten?

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Ascari received six races in 1952, and in 1953 received the season opener, skipped the Indianapolis 500 (then a points-paying world championship spherical) and returned to F1 with victory within the subsequent two races. He took pole place for the French Grand Prix at Reims, however after being overtaken on lap one he couldn’t get again forward regardless of remaining in victory rivalry all the best way to the chequered flag. He completed fourth, 4.6 seconds behind the winner, Mike Hawthorn.

Vettel solely as soon as received greater than 4 instances in a row, and that event got here after the summer time break in 2013. He received the final 9 races of the season, however the successor to his dominant Purple Bull RB9 – the primary constructed to F1’s new hybrid energy unit guidelines – didn’t give him the chance to proceed that successful run into 2014.

Whereas Ascari returned to the highest step within the race after his victory run ended, Vettel needed to wait one other 20 rounds between his thirty ninth and fortieth F1 wins.

Verstappen’s record-breaking Italian Grand Prix victory final weekend was his forty seventh F1 win and his fourth in Italy, and got here from his 53rd entrance row begin. It was additionally his 91st podium end. He has now been on the rostrum for 15 grands prix in a row which places him stage with Fernando Alonso in having the third longest podium streak in F1 historical past.

Through the race Verstappen surpassed 2,500 laps led in his profession. His thirty third factors end in a row offers him the joint-second longest such run.

Verstappen’s successful time of 1 hour, 13 minutes, 41.143s is the second-shortest of the 74 editions of the race which have been held. This was due partly to the race distance being reduce by two laps as a result of issues at the beginning.

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The shortest Italian Grand Prix was received by Niki Lauda in 1978. On that event the space was reduce to 40 laps as a substitute of 52, as a result of horrible crash on the unique begin which finally claimed the lifetime of Ronnie Peterson.

Lauda accomplished that race in 1hr 07’04.54. Mario Andretti really took the chequered flag first in 1hr 06’50.87, however was given a one-minute penalty for leaping the beginning, as was the unique second-place finisher, Gilles Villeneuve.

Purple Bull are actually on 106 victories, and have received 15 grands prix in a row, with Perez serving to ship their twenty eighth one-two outcome. That’s the sixth time this 12 months the workforce have stuffed the highest two steps on the rostrum, and the 14th time in Perez’s profession that he has completed second. He matches world champions Mika Hakkinen and Jody Scheckter for runner-up finishes.

Ferrari’s Carlos Sainz Jnr took his fourth F1 pole, and solely his ninth ever entrance row begin, then transformed it into his sixteenth podium by ending third. He matched 1961 world champion Phil Hill on the latter two achievements, and within the race additionally reached the landmark of getting led 100 laps in F1.

Sainz hadn’t been on the rostrum because the 2022 Brazilian Grand Prix, marking the longest trophy drought for a Ferrari driver since workforce mate Charles Leclerc went 21 races with out ending within the prime three throughout the 2020 and ‘21 seasons.

McLaren’s rookie Oscar Piastri impressively clocked up his fifth consecutive Q3 look. He additionally led a grand prix for the primary time and claimed his first quickest lap within the race. His workforce mate Lando Norris’s eighth place end means he’s on the second-best scoring run of his F1 profession having taken 67 factors over the past six races.

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Alexander Albon matched Williams’ finest results of 2023 by coming dwelling seventh, which stays his finest ending place of the final 35 races, and sixth on the grid was his second finest qualifying results of the season.

Aston Martin had nothing to smile about, taking their smallest factors haul of the 12 months. Alonso delivered each of these factors by ending ninth, his joint worst race outcome since becoming a member of the workforce, and tenth on the grid marked his worst qualifying outcome as an Aston Martin driver.

However his workforce mate Lance Stroll had an much more damning weekend when it comes to efficiency, as sixteenth place was his worst end in a race he has met the chequered flag in because the 2020 Belgian Grand Prix, and he was the slowest driver to set a lap in Q1 for the ninth time in his profession. Whereas Alonso is the one driver on the grid to succeed in Q3 each time this 12 months, Stroll has solely executed so in half of the races.

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