All Records Max Verstappen Broke During Insane 2023 Season

Wednesday, 29 November 2023 at 14:00

Updated at Wednesday, 29 November 2023 at 17:21

The 2023 F1 season has been almost completely dominated by Max Verstappen and the Red Bull Racing team, and together, they broke 14 insane driver records.

Max Verstappen won 19th out of 22 races of the 2023 season after the last race of the season in Abu Dhabi. He left only two race wins on the table for his teammate Sergio Perez and only one for a non-Red Bull driver, Carlos Sainz, in Singapore.

While the Dutchman admitted he did not expect the 2023 season to be better than the already super-dominant 2022, his team gave an ultra-competitive car to him, and Verstappen delivered with incredible consistency.

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All Records Max Verstappen Broke In 2023 Season

Record	Stat
Most wins in a season	19
Highest percentage of wins in a single season	86.36%
Most Consecutive Wins In a Season	10
Most consecutive wins from pole	16
Most wins from pole in a season	12
Most pitstops by winning driver in one race	6 (2023 Dutch Grand Prix)
Only driver to win three times in one country in a season	Miami, Austin, Las Vegas - In the United States
Most Points In a Season	575
Biggest point gap between first and the second driver in standings	290 (point gap to Sergio Perez in second place)
Highest percentage points difference between first and second in the World Championship	50.43% (percentage gap to Sergio Perez in second place)
Most laps led in a season	1003
Highest percentage of laps led in a season	75.70%
Most podiums in a season	21
Most consecutive races as a championship leader	39

Mercedes team principal Toto Wolff said after the 2023 season, Verstappen was the only driver on the F1 grid who understood how to manage tires.

The outstanding consistency of the three-time World Champion often depressed his competitors as they knew even starting ten positions ahead of the Dutchman would not help them in the battle for Grand Prix victory.

Multiple drivers like Lando Norris and Lewis Hamilton gave it their best in the fight with Verstappen when some circuit suited their cars, like in Austin or Sao Paulo, but they just could not catch up with the Flying Dutchman in the lead.

After the 2023 Sao Paulo Grand Prix, Norris told the media, "P2 is as good as we can get nowadays," which summarizes the 2023 pretty well for the remaining 19 drivers on the grid.

Verstappen has been so dominant, that he was declared the biggest risk to the business of F1 at one point of the season as multiple fans of competitor teams stopped looking forward to race weekends.

It seems almost impossible that the Dutchman's and Red Bull's utter dominance could continue in the 2024 season, but Verstappen said he is ready for the challenge.