Purple Bull boss Christian Horner recognised after Sunday’s landmark Canadian Grand Prix that his runaway Components One leaders may win each race this season.

“Can we? Sure. Will we? Who is aware of, as a result of there are such a lot of variables on this sport,” Horner advised Sky Sports activities after Max Verstappen took his forty first profession win, equalling Ayrton Senna’s tally, and the group’s milestone a centesimal.

The query, usually requested when a group begins with a successful sequence, is turning into a genuinely severe one now that the group’s victories are stacking up.

No group has received each race of a season since 1952 — McLaren coming closest in 1988 when Alain Prost and Senna received all however one among 16 rounds. Mercedes received 19 of 21 in 2016 and there are 22 this 12 months.

Verstappen has received six of the eight races this season, together with the final 4 in a row, however there are glimmers of hope for his rivals.

The successful margin at Montreal’s Circuit Gilles Villeneuve was the smallest to this point, not together with Australia which successfully ended behind the security automobile.

Verstappen completed 9.5 seconds away from Aston Martin’s Fernando Alonso, in comparison with the 24 seconds over Mercedes’s runner-up Lewis Hamilton in Spain or the 27.9 seconds over Alonso in Monaco.

The true extent of the hole could have been distorted by Verstappen controlling the race from pole place, though he stated he needed to push laborious to get warmth within the tyres, and having a lifeless chook wedged behind a entrance brake duct.

“On this venue sure, the hole is shorter … It is inevitable that they’re closing, we might be shocked if that would not be the case,” Horner stated.

If there’s an Achilles’ heel in Purple Bull’s dominance, it’s the present dependence on Verstappen for the highest step of the rostrum.

Group mate Sergio Perez is now 69 factors adrift, albeit nonetheless second within the standings, and has not certified within the high 10 or stood on the rostrum within the final three races after a powerful begin to the marketing campaign.

Aston Martin’s Fernando Alonso is now solely 9 factors behind Perez, who was sixth in Montreal, and, requested whether or not he felt he may beat him within the championship, replied merely: “Sure”.

The final time Max Verstappen was overwhelmed by somebody not in a Purple Bull was final November, when Mercedes’s George Russell received in Brazil.