Thanks to his victory on Sunday in Baku, Max Verstappen is the youngest driver in Formula 1 to win at least 25 Grands Prix. The 24-year-old Dutchman broke the record from four-time world champion Sebastian Vettel.
Verstappen will count the 24y 255d on Sunday as Vettel was 25 years 103 days old on his 25th Grand Prix victory (in 2012 in South Korea). The Dutchman scored his first win of 2016 in Spain, four months before his 19th birthday.
With his 25th victory, Verstappen is joint ninth on the list of Formula 1 drivers with the most wins. Jim Clark and Niki Lauda have also won 25 Grand Prix.
The Formula 1 season continues next week with the Canadian Grand Prix in Montreal.
Most Grand Prize Winners
- 1. Lewis Hamilton – 103
- 2. Michael Schumacher – 91
- 3 – Sebastian Vettel – 53
- 4. Alain Prost – 51
- 5- Ayrton Senna – 41
- 6- Fernando Alonso – 32
- 7. Nigel Mansell – 31
- 8. Jackie Stewart – 27
- 9. Jim Clark – 25
- 9- Niki Lauda – 25
- 9. Max Verstappen – 25
Also scored for Alonso
Fernando Alonso is from Sunday the tallest active driver in Formula 1. The Spaniard holds the record for Michael Schumacher.
The forty-year-old Alonso made his Australian Grand Prix debut in March 2001 and was 7,770 days later at the Baku Street Circuit. The alpine driver has now been active for seven days longer than seven-times world champion Schumacher, who drove his first Grand Prix at Spa-Francorchamps in August 1991 and bid farewell to Brazil in November 2012, after exactly 7,763 days.
