Verstappen’s historic numbers in 2023 you should know

Max Verstappen swept the 2023 F1 season. He wins in a seductive and insulting way, forming an almost indissoluble couple with her Red Bull RB19a car that only Max (not his partner Pérez) was able to fly above any rival, to win the a whopping 19 races out of 22 possible in the same year. Absolute record for Max in a course where Red Bull took 21 out of 22 Grand Prix (19 Max and 2 Pérez) and where only Carlos Sainz achieved victory for a non-Red Bull driver. The 2023 season of Max Verstappen It became historic because of the numbers left behind by the Dutchman. Records that are very hard to beat.

More wins in a year and better annual ratio

86.36% of total winnings in 2023

The year started in March with Max Verstappen crushing it. And it ended the same way in Abu Dhabi, in the last meeting. The Dutch won his 19th victory of the season in 22 races in the same yeara cruelty that says absolutely everything. Absolute record and one that no one could possibly beat. With this, he achieved a winning ratio of 86.36% of the total. So it surpassed Alberto Ascari’s 75% dating from 1952 either 72.22% of Michael Schumacher from 2004 (13 of 18). His legacy may be indelible.

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First champion to double 2nd in points

Max Verstappen swept everyone, along with his teammate ‘Checo’ Pérez, who in the same car was unable to match Max’s pace. Verstappen finished the 2023 season with 575 points ahead of the general classification. ‘Checo’ Pérez, second in the World Cup, finished with 285, 2.5 points less than half of what Max achieved.
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Thus Verstappen became the first F1 world champion capable of doubling the 2nd place finisher in the F1 World Championship in points.

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Just more points than any other team

His superiority was so great that he allowed himself the luxury of winning the Constructors’ World Championship on his own, without needing Pérez’s points for Red Bull. won the title with 575 points out of a total of 860 achieved by the Milton Keynes team. The 2nd in the World Cup, Mercedes, achieved 409. He alone doubled the 5th, Aston Martin (280 points) in points.

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From 6th to 3rd most wins in history

He started at 35 and is now 54

In one year, Max Verstappen has gone from having 35 victories on his record, occupying 6th position in the world ranking just ahead of Fernando Alonso (32), to becoming the third driver with the most victory in F1 history with a total of 54. In one year he surpassed Ayrton Senna (41), Alains Prost (51) and Sebastian Vettel (53).

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Driver with most laps led in a year

He led 75.70% of the laps

In Abu Dhabi, Max Verstappen became the first driver in the entire history of Formula 1 to complete 1,000 laps leading grand prix races in one year in F1 (1,003 out of a total of 1,325). In fact, he led 75.70% of the laps, the highest percentage in a single year in the sport’s history.

The previous record was Vettel, who had a maximum of 739 in one year. The previous percentage record was set by Jim Clark in 1963 (71.47%, with 506 laps led out of 708).

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Kilometers traveled in the same year

​Verstappen was first with 4,914 kilometers this year, 73.34% of the total km traveled in the 22 GPs held. This surpassed the 72.06% achieved by Jim Clark in 1963 and Mansell’s 72.06 in 1992.

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Took the most Grand Prix wins in one year

According to data from ‘Opta’, Max Verstappen became the Abu Dhabi driver to lead at least one lap at the most different grands prix in a year, 20 in total, surpassing Lewis Hamilton’s record of 2019 (19).

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Red Bull, 21 races won out of 23

Red Bull achieved 21 wins out of a possible 22. 19 of them, with the signature of Max Verstappen. To the Dutchman’s delight, Red Bull managed to become the team that achieved the most wins in one year in the entire history of Formula 1. Red Bull won 95.5% of the races in 2023, the highest percentage in one year in the entire F1 history, surpassing McLaren in 1988 (93.8%, 15 out of 16).