Max Verstappen’s beautiful Components 1 season rolls on.
The Pink Bull driver captured one other win in Sunday’s Mexico Metropolis Grand Prix, outlasting Lewis Hamilton to safe his sixteenth victory of the season. With that mark, Verstappen broke his personal file of 15 victories in a single F1 season, a file the Pink Bull driver set a season in the past.
It was additionally Verstappen’s third-straight victory in Mexico.
The three-time World Champion now stands atop an inventory together with Michael Schumacher and Sebastian Vettel for probably the most victories in a single season. Schumacher set the tempo with 13 wins in the course of the 2004 season, a mark Vettel tied throughout his championship marketing campaign in 2013.
Verstappen eclipsed each drivers final 12 months, after which himself along with his drive on Sunday:
Verstappen wanted to select up just a few spots on Sunday to safe that sixteenth victory, as Ferrari locked out the entrance row throughout qualifying with Charles Leclerc on pole with teammate Carlos Sainz Jr. alongside him. However he acquired off to an exceptional begin, catching a tow from Leclerc alongside the lengthy straight into Flip 1, and he was capable of overtake the Ferrari driver on the opening lap.
He additionally needed to maintain off the sector on a restart following an enormous crash from Kevin Magnussen. The shunt introduced out the pink flag, however on the following restart Verstappen held off Leclerc, who was then locked in a battle with Hamilton for P2. The Mercedes driver finally received that combat, with Leclerc setting for third.
However in a season that has largely been all about Verstappen, the Pink Bull driver made slightly extra historical past on this Sunday.
