2023-06-19 08:55:41
The mark of 100 Formula 1 victories for his Red Bull team is only a way station for world champion Max Verstappen. “It’s a great performance by the team. But we want to keep winning. The new goal is 200 victories,” said the World Championship leader after his undisputed victory at the Canadian Grand Prix. “He’s only 25 years old. But he has the world in his hands. Max Verstappen (…) is heading for his third title without wavering,” wrote “Mundo Deportivo”.
Red Bull is the fifth racing team in the history of the racing series to reach the mark of 100 Grand Prix victories. Ferrari has the most wins with 241, followed by McLaren (183), Mercedes (125) and Williams (114). “100 victories were something we never dreamed of,” Red Bull motorsport consultant Helmut Marko told Sky TV. It is a pity that the company founder, Dietrich Mateschitz, who died last October, was no longer able to experience this success.
Red Bull team boss Christian Horner spoke of having entered an “elitist club” with the 100th victory. “It’s phenomenal and we’re just getting there. We’re still young, we got our first win in 2009. Obviously we’ve come a long way in that time and hopefully we’ll continue like that and get another 100. It’s a milestone for that Team.” He still remembers the first success clearly. He thought that if nothing else came, then at least one race had been won.
Verstappen himself drew level with icon Ayrton Senna with his 41st race win. “Of course I’m proud of it, but I hope it doesn’t stop there and we keep winning races,” said the Dutchman. Senna, who later died in an accident, was already 33 when he had clinched his 41st victory. “You can now start naming him in one sentence with the big ones,” Horner said of Verstappen. “L’Équipe” wrote: “There is Max Verstappen, and there is the rest. In the lead from start to finish, the Dutch pilot gets his 41st success and draws level with a certain Ayrton Senna.”
For Verstappen it was already the sixth success in the eighth round of the season. The double world champion leads the overall standings ahead of the upcoming Red Bull home game on the first weekend in July in Spielberg with a 69-point lead over team-mate Sergio Perez.
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