The 2023 F1 season will go down in history as the season in which Max Verstappen and Red Bull completed an almost flawless course. Max Verstappen broke many records, we list them for you.
Max Verstappen became world champion for the third time in a row in 2023 and he did so in a dominant manner. He won no fewer than nineteen races last season and since the Abu Dhabi GP last weekend he is only ahead of Lewis Hamilton and Michael Schumacher when it comes to the number of race victories.
He may not yet add that record to his impressive list of achievements, but which records will he break in 2023? Let’s take a look at it.
The largest number of wins in a season and the highest percentage of wins
He also won this record in 2022 when he broke the record shared by Sebastian Vettel and Michael Schumacher with fifteen victories, both winning thirteen.
Last season he won no fewer than nineteen of the twenty-three races, good for 86 percent of the races. The previous record was held by Alberto Ascari, who won six of eight races in 1952 (75 percent).
Most consecutive wins
Verstappen won no fewer than ten races in a row this year, making him one race better than Sebastian Vettel, who won the last nine races in 2013.
First rider to lead more than 1000 laps
Last season we were able to admire Max Verstappen’s Red Bull leading a race for no fewer than 1003 laps. The previous record was held by Sebastian Vettel, who led 739 laps in 2011.
Here too, Verstappen does better in terms of percentage of laps in the lead with 75.7% than Jim Clark, who led 71.47% of the laps in 1963.
Other records that Max Verstappen won in 2023
– 21 podium finishes in a season (All races except Singapore GP)
– Most consecutive top two finishes (14)
– First rider to win three races in the same country in the same year (Miami, Austin, Las Vegas)
– Most consecutive pole wins (16, a streak that started at the 2022 Dutch GP)
– Most wins from pole in a season (12)
– Most consecutive races as championship leader (39 a streak that started at the 2022 Spanish GP)
– Most consecutive points finishes scored
– Most pit stops by the winning rider in one race (GP of the Netherlands)
– Most Sprint wins in one season (4)