Another race weekend, another dominant victory from Max Verstappen and Red Bull. You heard it here first, Verstappen’s 2022 season will go down as the greatest singular season in Formula 1 history. With 11 wins after a thoroughly dominant performance in the Italian GP and winning 5 in a row as of this writing, Verstappen has a chance to surpass several F1 win records in the final 6 races of the season. It’s not just the numbers backing up this claim, it is the shear dominance of the Red Bull machinery. For almost all this year that car has been nearly untouchable. With all the uncertainty following the regulation and car changes going into this year, Red Bull nailed it and with it, Verstappen is having an all time season.
Verstappen sits just 2 wins away from tying and 3 away from breaking the most wins in a season of 13 held by Michael Schumacher and Sebastian Vettel and if he wins from Singapore through to the Brazilian Grand Prix, will also break the record for the most consecutive wins in a season of 9 also held by Sebastian Vettel in his dominant 2013 season. It seems more and more likely each week that Verstappen will break all these records this season with 6 races left because it doesn’t seem anyone can stop Verstappen and the Red Bull.
Ferrari had the cleanest of runs today in the Italian GP and still couldn’t touch Verstappen who won from 7th after grid penalties again this week. Much like the Hungarian and Belgian GP’s Verstappen breezed through the field for another easy victory. And to think these records could already be broken and at the very least tied by now. Barring an engine failure in Bahrain and a front wing lodged in his car in Britain, Verstappen was looking good for victory in both those races which would of put him at 13 wins already. Simply put Verstappen is on another level right now that no driver in F1 can match. He can mathematically clinch the title in Singapore, which would leave him 5 races to spare. That would not quite match Michael Schumacher’s earliest clinch at 6 races remaining in 2002, but the shear difference of the number of GP’s all that more impressive with Schumacher contesting 17 to the current 22.
Picking up right where he left off in 2021, Max Verstappen is having an all time Formula 1 season, a type of dominance we may not see again and should be appreciating no matter who you root for or however you feel about him, Max Verstappen is having the greatest season in Formula 1 history.