Max Verstappen cruised to victory on home turf at the Dutch GP to become the sixth fastest driver to reach 30 race wins
Max Verstappen won the Dutch Formula 1 Grand Prix ahead of Mercedes’ George Russell & Ferrari’s Charles Leclerc. With this win, Verstappen has now won 10 of this season’s 15 races. It was his 72nd podium finish & he collected 26 points from this race. Verstappen won the Dutch GP in 2021 as well. He has now won a total of 30 races, making the 24-year-old the sixth fastest man in F1 history to achieve this feat.
Michael Schumacher, Sebastian Vettel, Ayrton Senna, Alain Prost and Lewis Hamilton occupy the top five spots in order of this elite list which Verstappen is now a part of. As of the 2022 Dutch Grand Prix, Verstappen has achieved 30 victories and 17 pole positions. He scored the first hat-trick of his career at the 2021 French Grand Prix and his first grand slam at the 2021 Austrian Grand Prix. He scored his second grand slam at the 2022 Emilia Romagna Grand Prix.
Hamilton, Vettel, Verstappen and Alonso are the only drivers from the current grid who have achieved 30 race wins or more in their F1 career.
As for Ferrari, their seems to be no end to their struggles and now that this surprising fact has surfaced, trolls continue to have a great time at the Scuderia’s expense.
Let’s take a look at how fans reacted after this extraordinary stat surfaced out in public domain.
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