Max Verstappen’s seventeenth win of the System One season rewrote the file e-book and established the triple world champion as essentially the most dominant driver the game has ever seen over the course of a marketing campaign.

Till Sunday’s São Paulo Grand Prix at Interlagos, the best win share for a season was the 75% of late Italian champion Alberto Ascari who received six out of eight world championship races with Ferrari in 1952.

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Verstappen’s tally so removed from 20 races places his share at 85%, and even when he doesn’t win the remaining two rounds of the season in Las Vegas and Abu Dhabi, he’ll nonetheless end above 77%.

Not that the 26-year-old was paying an excessive amount of consideration to the statistics when requested how a lot the numbers resonated and motivated him.

“It isn’t about that. I imply, it is not one thing that after I joined System One, I must have a 75% win file over a season you already know,” he instructed reporters.

“These sorts of issues come alongside when all the pieces simply works rather well. I really feel good within the automobile, the automobile could be very aggressive, and the crew barely makes errors as effectively. So then you will get a season like we’re having.

“For me it is extra about simply having fun with the second and making an attempt to maximise each single alternative.”

Verstappen took a then-record 15 wins in 2022 however an unprecedented run of 10 successive victories from Could to September and a brand new ongoing streak of 5 in a row might imply he ends this yr with 19 out of twenty-two — an 86.3% win price.

His 19 podiums for the yr to date are additionally a file, even when seasons have been far shorter within the previous days, as are the 524 factors scored, though scoring techniques have additionally turn out to be way more beneficiant.

He has led 922 laps, one other file for a season, and counting.

The hole between him and teammate Sergio Pérez, second within the standings, is 266 factors — far more than the file margin of 155 factors between first and runner-up set by Sebastian Vettel with the identical crew in 2013.

That very same hole can also be greater than Vettel’s total factors haul (256) in profitable the 2010 title.

Verstappen has led the championship standings throughout two seasons, for the reason that Spanish Grand Prix of Could 2022, and is assured to finish the season with a file run of 39 races in a row as chief.

He has received extra occasions (11) from pole place in a season than some other driver, after final yr setting a file for many wins in a season not from pole (9).

Purple Bull’s nineteenth win of the marketing campaign equalled Mercedes’ 2016 file and broke their rivals’ file from that very same season of most laps led (1,055).