Formula 1: The mark Lando Norris has inherited from Lewis Hamilton

With Lewis Hamilton’s disappointing result in the Azerbaijan Grand Prix, Lando Norris can now say something that Hamilton had been able to say since the 2018 Formula 1 season.

After Red Bull’s Max Verstappen crashed from the lead late in last weekend’s Azerbaijan Grand Prix at Baku City Circuit, Mercedes’ Lewis Hamilton was in position to capitalize in the Formula 1 world championship battle, having been promoted from third place to second with Verstappen’s crash.

Hamilton entered the race trailing Verstappen 105-101 in the driver standings, and a win for Verstappen would have dropped him further behind.

But instead of making up ground on the 23-year-old Dutchman with a solid result, Hamilton still trails him by four points after the sixth of 23 races on the schedule.

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Following the red flag period caused by Verstappen’s incident, a standing restart took place with two laps remaining in the 51-lap race around the 20-turn, 3.73-mile (6.003-kilometer) temporary street circuit in Azadliq Square, Baku, Azerbaijan.

Hamilton briefly took the lead from Red Bull’s Sergio Perez, but he locked up his brakes and went sailing into the turn one runoff area. He came back onto the track, but he was only able to finish in 15th place, scoring no points.

Entering the weekend, Hamilton had scored points in a record 54 consecutive races going back to the 2018 British Grand Prix at Silverstone Circuit. His retirement from the 2018 Austrian Grand Prix at the Red Bull Ring due to a fuel pressure issue marked the last time he hadn’t scored points.

Four races later, Hamilton already had the longest point-scoring streak in the series, although he was tied with teammate Valtteri Bottas. Bottas’s streak ended at 22 with a crash in the 2019 German Grand Prix at the Hockenheimring. But Hamilton’s continued.

Now, however, the 36-year-old Briton’s streak is over, and a new driver can now say that he has scored points in more consecutive races than anybody, something that Hamilton had been able to say for the last few years.

That driver is McLaren’s Lando Norris.

Norris has finished in the top 10 in each of the last 11 races going back to the Emilia Romagna Grand Prix at Autodromo Internazionale Enzo e Dino Ferrari last November.

He is the only driver to score points in every race this season. The next highest streak is five, which belongs to AlphaTauri’s Pierre Gasly. His streak began in this year’s Emilia Romagna Grand Prix at Autodromo Internazionale Enzo e Dino Ferrari back in April.

Three other drivers currently have point-scoring streaks (longer than one): Perez (four), Ferrari’s Carlos Sainz Jr. (three), and Aston Martin’s Sebastian Vettel (two). Other Azerbaijan Grand Prix point scorers include Ferrari’s Charles Leclerc, Alpine’s Fernando Alonso, AlphaTauri rookie Yuki Tsunoda, McLaren’s Daniel Ricciardo and Alfa Romeo’s Kimi Raikkonen.

Will Norris extend his point-scoring streak to 12 in Sunday’s French Grand Prix at Circuit Paul Ricard? This race is set to be broadcast live on ESPN beginning at 9:00 p.m. ET. In his lone start at the track in 2019, Norris finished in ninth place.