Max Verstappen turned solely the fifth driver in System 1 historical past to win 50 grands prix final weekend, however he acknowledged he nonetheless has an extended method to go to succeed in the record-holder.
“It’s an ideal quantity,” stated Verstappen after the US Grand Prix, sitting subsequent to Lewis Hamilton, whose 103 wins stays the benchmark.
“Nonetheless rookie numbers in comparison with Lewis,” he continued. “However for positive it’s an ideal quantity. I’m very pleased with it, very happy with it, however let’s attempt to win a couple of extra.”
Little question he’ll. Certainly, with 4 rounds left this 12 months, he may overtake Alain Prost’s 51 and Sebastian Vettel’s 53 victories to grow to be F1’s third most-successful of all time earlier than the season is over. Past them lie solely Hamilton and 91-times grand prix winner Michael Schumacher.
Verstappen’s win final Sunday got here from sixth on the grid and was the sixth time he has taken a victory after beginning exterior the highest 5. Schumacher managed that 5 instances throughout his profession, Hamilton and Prost did it 4 instances, however Vettel’s six wins from third on the grid had been the one wins he took from exterior the entrance row.
Hamilton adopted Verstappen in second place, as he did the earlier two years, however the Mercedes driver was disqualified after the race. Because of this, for the primary time since 2010, he failed to attain in two consecutive grands prix, having crashed out of the Qatar Grand Prix two weeks in the past earlier. Nevertheless he scored factors in each dash races.
McLaren’s Lando Norris inherited second place. He had already taken his twelfth profession podium, leaving him one away from matching Nick Heidfeld for the report of most grand prix podiums with no win. He’s the primary McLaren driver to attain 4 podiums in a row since Jenson Button at first of 2012.
Ferrari’s Carlos Sainz Jnr moved as much as third place. This was the third time he has taken residence a trophy with out truly standing on the rostrum in F1. He did the identical within the 2019 Brazilian Grand Prix when Hamilton was penalised and on the 2021 Hungarian Grand Prix when Vettel was disqualified.
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Sainz’s crew mate Charles Leclerc had much less luck, taking pole for the twenty first time in his F1 profession after which failing to covert it right into a victory for the seventeenth time. Like Hamilton, he was disqualified and subsequently it was the primary F1 race to function two disqualifications because the 2019 Japanese Grand Prix. It was additionally the primary time the pole-winner has been disqualified from a race since Ralf Schumacher on the 2004 Canadian Grand Prix, whose Williams brake ducts infringed the principles.
From his 17 poles, Leclerc has solely received 4 instances, and made it to the rostrum from pole in 13 situations. Of the drivers 15 to have taken 21 poles or extra poles, solely Nelson Piquet received as few races as Leclerc from the primary 21 instances he began on pole, and he solely made the rostrum eight instances.
Juan Manuel Fangio turned 9 of his first 21 poles into wins, however didn’t make the rostrum within the different 12 situations. Fernando Alonso had an particularly spectacular report from his first 21 pole positions, taking 13 wins and 20 podium finishes in complete.
Alonso retired from final weekend’s grand prix and noticed his run as the one driver this 12 months to succeed in Q3 at each spherical come to an finish. His Aston Martin crew mate Lance Stroll completed seventh, his greatest end result since ending fourth within the dash race on the Austrian Grand Prix, and greatest Sunday end result since his sixth place on the Spanish Grand Prix in June. His earlier greatest end in North America since he completed fifth within the Daytona 24 Hours race for sportscars again in 2016, earlier than he had made it to F1.
The house followers at Circuit of the Americas had one thing to cheer about post-race because the disqualifications lifted Williams’ Logan Sargeant as much as tenth place and the rookie scored his first level. He’s the primary American to attain in F1 since Michael Andretti in 1993, and the primary to take action on residence soil since Eddie Cheever completed third within the 1988 United States Grand Prix.
Nevertheless the final American driver to complete within the high 10 at a grand prix was Scott Velocity. He by no means scored some extent in F1, however had the present scoring system been used throughout his profession, he would have picked up six factors by advantage of pairs of ninth and Tenth-place finishes for Toro Rosso in the course of the 2006 and 2007 seasons.
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That crew is now referred to as AlphaTauri, and on the final lap of Sunday’s race Yuki Tsunoda delivered them their first quickest lap because the 2021 Hungarian Grand Prix. It was the primary quickest lap of his F1 profession. By ending eighth he took his greatest end result because the 2022 Emilia Romagna Grand Prix and likewise continued a scoring run at COTA having completed ninth there in 2021 and tenth final 12 months.
COTA has now held 11 grands prix, the identical as Adelaide and Reims, however 12 F1 races courtesy of final Saturday’s dash race. Indianapolis Motor Speedway, the earlier venue for the US Grand Prix, held eight grands prix however 19 world championship races, and Watkins Glen was on the F1 calendar for 20 seasons because the longest-serving venue for the grand prix.
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