Max Verstappen can eqaul his own F1 record for most progressive wins, that he set just last season.
It is the platform for the 2023 Italian Fantastic Prix, and Max Verstappen is lounging in the brilliance of taking his tenth continuous F 1 win to break the record. One more of Sebastian Vettel’s old imprints has failed miserably, however as the champagne runs out and Mercedes group head Toto Wolff makes his “Wikipedia” agree, consideration goes to making it 11 next break in Singapore.
The fact that Verstappen only managed to finish fifth at the Marina Bay Street Circuit on a weekend when he was unable to get the car into the correct set-up window is a relief to many F1 fans.
The predominant Dutchman, however, returns quickly at the following race in Japan with one more imperious drive to put himself on the cusp of a third title in Qatar.
Another grand prix victory came shortly after finishing second in the Sprint to win the championship. Verstappen hasn’t lost a race in the Sprint or main event since then. It implies going into this end of the week’s Australian Great Prix, only six-and-a-half months after his record-breaking accomplishment last year, Verstappen can match his own unique accomplishment.
Verstappen had a healthy 35 wins going into the 2023 season, placing him between Fernando Alonso’s 32 and Ayrton Senna’s 41 wins on the all-time list. Only 24 races later, he’s soared to 56, third on the untouched rundown, just beaten by Lewis Hamilton’s 103 and Michael Schumacher’s 91.
He has polished off the platform only multiple times in the last 69 races, extending back to Abu Dhabi 2020 and strangely has completed seventh more times (two times) in the last 74 races, back to Portugal 2020, than he has third – just in Monaco 2022.
Would it be a good idea for him he guarantee that tenth success in succession at Albert Park to match his record, Verstappen will get an opportunity to increase present expectations again when F1 heads to Japan for cycle four one month from now.