Max Verstappen Joins Legendary Company With 50th F1 Grand Prix Win

Max Verstappen recorded his 50th F1 Grand Prix win at the 2023 United States Grand Prix, joining very prestigious company.

Only four Formula One drivers managed to win 50 races in their careers. The leader among them is Lewis Hamilton, who got his first race win in McLaren, but the vast majority during Mercedes' dominance. During his career, the British driver won a total of 103 F1 races.

He's also the only driver to win more than 100 Grands Prix, as second Michael Schumacher, a fellow seven-time World Champion, recorded 91 victories, out of which the majority came in his Ferrari.

Two more drivers won more than 50 races, both during different eras. Red Bull's Sebastian Vettel recorded 53 race wins, out of which the majority came in the Austrian team, with some of the also during his stint in the Scuderia Ferrari.

And legendary Alain Prost got also more than half-century of victories, collecting 51 winners' trophies throughout his career between years 1981 and 1993, when he won his last race in Germany.

That was four years before certain Max Emilian Verstappen was born in Hasselt, Belgium. Only 17 years after that, the Dutch driver became the youngest-ever F1 driver, when he entered the 2015 Australian Grand Prix at the age of 17 years and 166 days.

One year later, he won the 2016 Spanish Grand Prix, becoming the youngest-ever driver for win a Grand Prix, and recording his first-ever victory in the Formula One World Championship.

Seven years later, Verstappen is a three-time World Champion, and during the most-dominant season by a driver in the history of the sport, he added 15 race wins to his total, which is now at 50.

With Red Bull's dominance quite clear, and the Flying Dutchman having four more races ahead of him, he has a chance to overtake both Sebastian Vettel and Alain Prost, ranking himself only behind two legends of the sport and two seven-time World Champions, Lewis Hamilton and Michael Schumacher.