4 Records Max Verstappen Smashed With His Incredible Spanish GP Win
We all knew a Max Verstappen victory would come at some point. But few expected it to come quite so soon. The Dutch driver was promoted to Red Bull from the Spanish Grand Prix onwards and he put in an incredible drive to claim victory.
The two Mercedes drivers took each other out on lap one after a dramatic crash. That opened up the door for Red Bull and Ferrari to go head-to-head for victory. Verstappen and Kimi Raikkonen completed two-stop races and finished with just six tenths between them.
Sebastian Vettel completed the podium while a late puncture dropped Daniel Ricciardo out of the running, but he recovered to fourth. Here are all the records Verstappen has broken:
1. Youngest ever F1 race leader
Lap 30 was the first record of the Spanish GP weekend for Verstappen as he became the youngest ever F1 race leader at the age of 18 years, 229 days.
2. Youngest ever F1 podium finisher
This is the least important of the records but he still has become the youngest driver to ever stand on the F1 podium.
3. Youngest ever F1 race winner
What a performance and what an achievement. He’s 18, in his second F1 season and has only just passed his driving test. And now he is a winner in the biggest motorsport series in the world.
4. First ever Dutch F1 winner
Verstappen has also given The Netherlands its maiden F1 win as he becomes the first driver from the country to take victory. In fact, he’s one of only two drivers to finish on the podium. The other is, as it happens, his father Jos, who scored two top three finishes for Benetton in 1994.
To add to his other records…
Of course, Verstappen is used to breaking records now, becoming the youngest to drive on a race weekend (Japanese GP free practice 2014, 17 years, 3 days), the youngest driver to start an F1 race (Australia 2015, 17 years, 166 days) and the youngest driver to score a point (Malaysia 2015, 17 years, 180 days).
Comments
Alright. So it’s agreed, we let Mercedes take each other out more often? I loved seeing good racing at the front instead of in the middle of the pack or somewhere way behind the leaders.
It was so tense. Great to see a multi-car battle for the top places
usually they show the pole sitter, rosberg or hamilton, for the first two laps, then only the last lap. we finally got to see some quality racing
Best race we’ve seen in years. Can we bring back Maldonado to take out the mercs?
I’m really happy for him and what he did today
Proud to be a Dutchman today. What a race. Was glued to the screen. Couldn’t even blink. Go Max
He didn’t really do something the strategy of rb and the bad setup of Kimi helped him…
So you’ll be driving next weekend?
Since it’s so easy….
oh yeah cuz redbull’s strategy qualified him in 4th right? Also, his nurturing the prime set for 35 laps was just “strategy of rb” right? he deserved this race win more than anyone else
Always that 1 guy…
A driver still has to make the strategy work and he did a great job to hold off Kimi
He is 18 and has 7 world records when I was 18 I was so happy to play with a gaming wheel
no hate for him,i like the way he drives and handles everything but….he needed two merc out of the race + red bull chose 3 pits stops for the leader Ricciardo so they give the win to max….only the one that watched the full race can get what iam saying…just dont be sheeps people :/
As soon as the Mercs crashed into eachother everyone knew this was gonna be a spectacular race. I would never have guessed Max to come in 1st though. Proud to be Dutch :)
Stellar driving from such a young man, under such pressure, with such tyres… Truly refreshing to watch.
No footbal for us no
eurosongfestival for us but max
just took the win proud to be dutch