MAX VERSTAPPEN COMPLETES THE PROPHECY I FORETOLD
🇲🇾 2017
• Verstappen P1 in FP1
• Verstappen P4 in FP2
• Driver named Kimi is fastest in FP3
• Verstappen wins
🇲🇾 2026
• Verstappen P1 in FP1
• Verstappen P4 in FP2
• Driver named Kimi is fastest in FP3
• Verstappen wins
🚨 THE WAIT IS OVER - MAX VERSTAPPEN HAS WON A FORMULA 1 RACE FOR THE FIRST TIME IN 2026
IT'S MAX'S 11TH STRAIGHT SEASON WITH A VICTORY & RED BULL-FORD'S FIRST WIN AS A POWER UNIT BUILDER
🚨 Max Verstappen's pole position in Malaysia:
• First pole of Red Bull-Ford Powertrains era
• First driver to take pole in Ford-branded engine since 1999
• First driver to take pole while using #3 since Daniel Ricciardo in 2018
• First pole not powered by Mercedes in 2026
Not Ferrari, Not Audi and Not Honda.
Red Bull Power Trains has taken the first non-Mercedes pole position of the season.
Red Bull have just earned a pole with their first ever F1 engine.
Do you realise how INSANE THIS IS???
🚨 The accolades & records Max Verstappen holds as he turns 29 🤯
• 4 WDC, 71 wins, 48 poles, 134 podiums
• Youngest driver to participate in GP session
• Youngest driver to start a race
• Youngest driver to make Q3
• Youngest driver to score points
• Youngest driver to be on the podium
• Youngest race winner
• Most wins in a season
• Most podiums in a season
• Most laps led in a season
• Most points in a season
• Highest percentage of points in a season
• Most consecutive wins
• Best win percentage in a season
• Won WDCs with constructors that were 1st (x2), 2nd & 3rd
• Most wins, poles, podiums, laps led, fastest laps, points for Red Bull
• Most wins from pole in a season
• Most wins not from pole in a season
• Most consecutive wins from pole
• Most wins from different grid spots
• Most wins from different grid spots in a season
• Most consecutive poles
• Most consecutive poles to start a season
• First Dutch driver to win a race or take pole
• First Dutch world champion
• Fastest lap in average speed ever
• Highest average speed by winning driver in a race
• Lowest average speed by winning driver in a race
• Most consecutive number of points scored
• Highest avg points per GP in a season
• Largest deficit overcome to win WDC in a season
• Biggest gap to P2 in drivers’ standings in a season
• Highest percentage points difference to P2 in a season
• Highest percentage of laps led in a season
• Most races led in a season
• Most sprint wins, poles, podiums
• Most pit stops by winner in a race
• Most races left when clinching WDC in a season
• Most hat tricks in a season
• Most consecutive seasons with a grand slam
• Most consecutive races leading the championship
• Most consecutive days leading the championship
• Most combined wins and poles in a season
• Most wins over any 50-race or 75-race span ever
• First driver to win a GT3 race as reigning F1 champion
13 years ago in malaysia, sebastian vettel defied team orders to hold position and took mark webber's 10th win. nico rosberg was ordered to hold position behind lewis, who felt so bad about it he apologised to him immediately after.
resulting in the most suicidal podium ever