50 grands prix wins for Italian drivers in the F1 world championship 🏁🇮🇹
Kimi Antonelli’s 7th career grand prix win sees him move up to be the Italian driver with second most wins in F1 history.
It won’t be long before he surpasses Alberto Ascari’s total of 13 the way things are going...
- Motor Sport Magazine
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| Reuters |
Max Verstappen's 17th win of the Formula One season rewrote the record book and established the triple world champion as the most dominant driver the sport has ever seen over the course of a campaign.
Until Sunday's Sao Paulo Grand Prix at Interlagos, the highest win percentage for a season was the 75% of late Italian champion Alberto Ascari who won six out of eight world championship races with Ferrari in 1952.
Verstappen's tally so far from 20 races puts his percentage at 85%, and even if he does not win the remaining two rounds of the season in Las Vegas and Abu Dhabi, he will still finish above 77%.
Not that the Dutch 26-year-old was paying too much attention to the statistics when asked how much the numbers resonated and motivated him.
