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PARIS – Max Verstappen and girlfriend Kelly Piquet on the blue carpet at the FIA Price Giving Gala, where he will be awarded the World Cup. Verstappen is the first Dutch Formula 1 world champion ever. ANP SEM VAN DER WAL * PARIS Max Verstappen and girlfriend Kelly Piquet on the blue carpet at the FIA Price Giving Gala, where he will be awarded the World Cup Verstappen is the first Dutch Formula 1 world champion ever ANP SEM VAN DER WAL PUBLICATIONxINxGERxSUIxAUTxONLY Copyright: xANPx/xxANPx x442172658x
What Max Verstappen is doing in Formula 1 today will go down in history as unprecedented. It seems like no record is unbreakable for the Red Bull maestro. And his numbers are just going from strength to strength. This season alone has seen Verstappen not finish lower than 2nd! However, during the Canadian GP weekend, even though Verstappen drove, as usual, to get yet another win under his belt, he did accomplish something really special.
Yesterday, after yet another commanding drive, the Dutch lion stepped onto the top step of the podium at Circuit Gilles Villeneuve. That being said, as he crossed the finish line in his RB19, he didn’t win just another race. He reached an epic milestone for his Milton-Keynes-based team.
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Kelly Piquet showers adoration on Max Verstappen after Red Bull century
Verstappen crossed the finish line yesterday to register Red Bull’s 100th victory in the sport. That’s right, since China 2009, the Bulls have now gone on to win a whopping 100 Grands Prix. And in his moment of glory, Kelly Piquet, his girlfriend was beaming with pride.
"A hundred wins, that’s 27% of all the races we’ve entered we’ve won" 🤯
Christian Horner 'hails' @redbullracing for their incredible 100 race wins achievement 💫#CanadianGP #F1 https://t.co/DtvdcM2hsz
— Formula 1 (@F1) June 19, 2023
Verstappen took to his Instagram account to share, “To take the 100th Grand Prix victory for our team is absolutely fantastic and an amazing achievement by everyone! Very proud to be part of this, @redbullracing. Let’s keep this going.”
Brazilian model, Piquet took to the comments section to shower him with hearts. A total of five! The 2x champion really has his lioness on his side.
But it wasn’t the 100th win for Red Bull that was the only record Verstappen earned.
Verstappen achieves F1 immortality
There’s never been a driver like Ayrton Senna, and there probably never will be. But he will always be the benchmark for any driver who competes in this sport. In a career that got tragically cut short, he amassed a whopping 41 wins.
Max Verstappen draws level with the legendary Ayrton Senna for race wins in F1 🤝🏆 pic.twitter.com/9lCN1oBzaq
— ESPN F1 (@ESPNF1) June 18, 2023
After the Canadian GP win, Max Verstappen has equaled that record. But he knows the relevance of comparison. He said, “I never really look at the number, people always have different kinds of careers, maybe some drivers, they get into a race-winning car sooner than others, nowadays we have more races than back in the day,” while addressing this achievement.
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