Formula 1: Max Verstappen broke a record he won’t want to keep
By Asher Fair
Max Verstappen broke a Formula 1 record with his win in Sunday’s Dutch Grand Prix, but it is a record that he will be looking to get rid of as soon as possible.
Red Bull’s Max Verstappen held off Mercedes’ Lewis Hamilton to become the fourth active driver to win his home Formula 1 race in Sunday’s Dutch Grand Prix at Circuit Zandvoort.
This win is his second in a row following the summer break, and it is his career-high seventh in the 2021 season. He entered the year with 10 career victories, meaning he now sits at 17.
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There are 16 drivers in Formula 1 history who have won more than 17 races, and all have won at least 20. But aside from the fact that all of them have won at least 20 races, all of them have at least one world championship to their name.
After 132 starts, Verstappen is now the winningest non-champion in Formula 1 history.
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With his victory in the shortened (to put it nicely) Belgian Grand Prix at Circuit de Spa-Francorchamps, Verstappen tied the late Stirling Moss in this category. Moss won 16 races in 66 starts.
Moss finished inside the top three in the driver standings in seven consecutive seasons from 1955 to 1961. He had four consecutive runner-up efforts from 1955 to 1958, but he was never able to become a world champion.
Verstappen has finished in a career-high third place in the driver standings in both of the last two seasons, and after his win in Sunday’s race, he now leads the standings by three points (224.5 to 221.5) over the seven-time and four-time reigning world champion Hamilton.
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There are nine races remaining on this year’s 22-race schedule, with the next one scheduled to take place this Sunday, September 12. This race, the Italian Grand Prix, is set to be broadcast live on ESPN from Monza beginning at 9:00 a.m. ET. If you have not started your free trial of FuboTV, now would be a great time to do so!