Although the F1 title is already in hand, F1 world champion Makku Verstappen continued to add to his list of accolades with his 14th win of the season and 416 points at the 2022 F1 Mexican Grand Prix. But this is not the only a fascinating number produced in the F1 field.
Two-time F1 World Champion Max Verstappen managed his tyres, taking his fourth F1 win at the Hermanos Rodriguez circuit.
• Max Verstappen has won the Red Bull Ring four times (including two in 2021), but never at the same track in four different years.
● Max Verstappen won in Mexico in 2017, 2018, 2021 and 2022.
● Max Verstappen set a new record with 14 wins in one season and broke the record for the most points in a season (Lewis Hamilton scored 413 points in 2019).
• Max Verstappen’s victory tied Red Bull Racing’s team record with nine straight wins, just two short of McLaren’s all-time F1 record of 11 in 1988.
● Red Bull Racing also tied the team record of 19 consecutive podium finishes set in 2010-11.
● Max Verstappen wins from pole position. The pole sitter had not finished on the podium in any of the last four races at the track.
● Lewis Hamilton finished on the podium for the eighth time this season. That’s more than either of his last two seasons at McLaren.
● Only Max Verstappen and Charles Leclerc have surpassed Lewis Hamilton in the last 12 races since the F1 Canadian Grand Prix.
• Sergio Pérez finished third, reclaiming second place in the Drivers’ Championship and leading Charles Leclerc by five points.
● The podium was the same as the 2021 Mexican GP
2021 results: 1. Verstappen, 2. Hamilton (+16.555s), 3. Perez (+17.752s)…Ferrari P5 and P6
2022 results: 1. Verstappen, 2. Hamilton (+15.186s), 3. Perez (+18.097s)…Ferrari P5 and P6
● George Russell finished fourth and set the fastest lap of the race on the final lap.
• Ferrari finished 5th and 6th in Mexico for the second year running, but the order was reversed from 2021, with Carlos Sainz Jr fifth and Charles Leclerc sixth.
● This is Carlos Sainz Jr’s best ever finish. in Mexico and the first time since Singapore to go over two laps.
• This was Charles Leclerc’s 100th Grand Prix start, but his sixth-place finish ended his career-best run of five podium finishes.
• Daniel Ricciardo, who had only scored two points in the last eight races, finished seventh despite a 10-second penalty.
● Esteban Ocon finished 8th for the Alpine F1 Team. This was his first points in Mexico since 2017 and he has only scored points twice in his last five races.
• Lando Norris achieved his best finish in Mexico with a ninth place finish.
● In the battle for 4th place in the Constructors’ Championship, McLaren are close to 7 points behind Alpine.
• Valtteri Bottas returns in 10th to end his longest streak of no points (not scoring points in 10 races since Canada)
Category: F1 / F1 Mexican Grand Prix
