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Verstappen’s 2023 historical numbers you need to know
max verstappen It dominated the 2023 F1 season. He won in an overwhelming and insulting manner and formed a virtually insurmountable couple with his husband. Red Bull RB19the car in which only Max (and not his partner Perez) was able to outperform his rivals and win. A whopping 19 races out of a possible 22 races! In the same year.absolute record Max in a certain course Red Bull won 21 of 22 Grand Prix races. (Max 19 cars, Perez 2 cars) And Carlos Sainz was the only driver other than Red Bull to achieve victory. The 2023 season will be max verstappen It became historic thanks to the numbers left by the Dutch. It’s a very difficult record to break.
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Increased number of wins per year and improved annual percentage
86.36% of total wins in 2023
This year started with a landslide victory for Max Verstappen in March last year. And the last Abu Dhabi meeting had the same outcome.Dutch It was his 19th win out of 22 races that year.brutality that says absolutely everything. An absolute record, a record that probably no one can break.. This achieved a winning rate of 86.36%. This puts him ahead of Alberto Ascari’s 75% in 1952. which one Michael Schumacher in 2004 72.22% (13 of 18). The achievements he left behind may be indelible.
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The first champion to double the points of second place.
Max Verstappen dominated everyone, including his teammate ‘Czeco’ Perez, who was in the same car, but Perez was unable to replicate Max’s pace. Verstappen finished the 2023 season with a score 575 points higher than the general standings. “Czech” Perez, who placed second in the World Cup, finished with 285 points, 2.5 points short of half of Max.
Verstappen thus became the first F1 World Champion to be able to double the points earned for second place in the F1 World Championship.
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Score more points than any team alone
His advantage was so great that Perez could allow himself the luxury of winning the Constructors’ World Championship on his own without having to give Red Bull any points. He scored 575 points out of a total of 860 points achieved by the Milton Keynes team, winning the title. Second-placed Mercedes in the World Cup achieved 409 points, twice as many points as Aston Martin (280 points) in fifth place.
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From 6th place to 3rd place with the most wins of all time
He started at 35 years old and is now 54 years old
Max Verstappen has amassed 35 wins in just one year, making him sixth in the world rankings behind Fernando Alonso (32), making him the third driver in F1 history to win the most races. He surpassed Ayrton Senna (41 years old), Alain Prost (51 years old) and Sebastian Vettel (53 years old) in one year.
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Driver who led the most laps in a year
He leads 75.70% of the laps.
In Abu Dhabi, Max Verstappen became the first driver in F1 history to complete 1,000 laps (1,003 of a total of 1,325 laps) in major Grand Prix races in one year. In fact, he remains in the lead on 75.70% of his laps, his highest percentage in a single year in the history of the sport.
Vettel’s previous record was 739 in a single year. The previous record percentage was set by Jim Clark in 1963 (71.47%, 506 of 708 laps led).
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Number of kilometers driven in the same year
Verstappen has covered 4,914 kilometers this year, accounting for 73.34% of the total kilometers covered in the 22 GPs held. This is higher than the 72.06% achieved by Jim Clark in 1963 and the 72.06% achieved by Mansell in 1992.
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Won the most Grand Prix in a year
Max Verstappen became the driver in Abu Dhabi to lead at least one lap in the most different grands prix of the year, with a total of 20 times, surpassing Lewis Hamilton’s record of 19 in 2019, according to Opta data. .
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Red Bull wins 21 out of 23 races
Red Bull has achieved 21 wins out of 22. 19 of them have Max Verstappen’s autograph. Thanks in part to the Dutchman’s joy, Red Bull have become the team with the most wins in a year in the entire history of F1. Red Bull won 95.5% of its races in 2023, its highest win percentage of the year. Better than McLaren in 1988 (93.8%, 15 of 16) in the entire history of F1.
Source: Mundo Deportivo
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