Verstappen Matches Another Hamilton's Feat With Eyes On More History

Max Verstappen has been so dominant in Formula One in the past two seasons that there almost isn't a week when he wouldn't break or match some record.

By now, the Dutch driver got used to seeing his name on top of the history tables. While he still sits quite far from the best in the most important feats, he's currently holding almost all of the records that show dominance.

He holds a record for most wins in a single F1 season, but also the highest winning percentage in one season. Still, records are not something that interests Verstappen.

However, as a by-product of his incredible dominance, he always breaks some, or at least matches some rare feat of his current colleague, and the same happened at the 2024 Japanese Grand Prix at the Suzuka Circuit.

Verstappen won his third race of the season and his win came after yet another start from the pole position, a place on the start that no other driver occupied so far in 2024.

It was Verstappen's already 36th start from the pole position, which is the fifth-best feat, but what's more impressive is that at the start of the new season, no one managed to out-qualify the Dutch driver so far.

That means the Red Bull driver started the 2024 season with four consecutive pole positions, a feat that Lewis Hamilton managed to achieve in his Mercedes in 2015 or another Red Bull driver, Sebastian Vettel, in 2011.

Now, Verstappen has joined this legendary company, but there are still places to go. Ayrton Senna was known for having incredibly dominant starts to the new seasons, at least when it came to qualifying, as he achieved four consecutive pole positions in 1991, five in 1989, and six in 1988.

Still, the best-ever feat was recorded by Alain Prost, who started the 1993 season with seven consecutive starts from the pole position, a feat that Verstappen could match this year at the Emilia Romagna Grand Prix, and break at the Monaco Grand Prix.