Max Verstappen already has plenty of F1 records under his belt, but there are plenty which he could still yet break...
The F1 records currently held by Max Verstappen…and ones on the horizonMax Verstappen already has plenty of records under his belt and with a car finally able to match his ability, there is no telling just where he might stop.
An F1 education spent fighting with a dominant Mercedes has grafted him into an efficient title winner who could go on to break every record going. It was also not a great day for his new team-mate Sainz, who had to wait an age during a pit stop as the mechanics tried to remove his stubborn rear left tyre.This particular record looks to be set in stone now for Verstappen with the FIA introducing a new rule in 2021 stating that F1 drivers must be 18 years old or over to compete.Verstappen bounced back from his disappointment Down Under to register the first points of his F1 career in Malaysia.
But, Helmut Marko and Christian Horner had every reason to be confident. He ended the 2015 season with point-scoring finishes in all but three of the final 12 races and continued that form into 2016 with three in the first four. The latter proved the most effective meaning that all the young Dutchman had to do was hold off the veteran Finn and the victory was his. He did just that, showing a mentality well above his years and with it, he made history.The race in Barcelona also saw Verstappen become the youngest podium sitter, beating the previous record of Vettel by more than two years.
Verstappen’s time in 2016 moved him ahead of Rosberg who had the previous record of 20 years and 258 days in 2006.Verstappen may have had 14 wins, 13 fastest laps and six pole positions to his name by this point but it took until the 2021 Austrian Grand Prix for him to put them all together. Before 2021, Verstappen had been on the podium 42 times but he increased that figure by 43% during his remarkable year.
But, Verstappen does have a chance of beating that tally this season. He currently has 366 and with four races plus a Sprint race in Brazil, there are a total of 112 left to play for. The current holder is Vettel in 2013 who finished the season with an 155-point lead over Fernando Alonso on his way to his fourth, and last, World Championship.
Alonso has four races left on his Alpine contract plus two years with Aston Martin so if we predict that he calls time on his career after that and that he starts every race, he will most likely end on 403 race starts.
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