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Max Verstappen Ties Ayrton Senna for Career F1 Victories

The Dutch driver has dominated so far this season.
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Max Verstappen Ties Ayrton Senna for Career F1 Victories
Max Verstappen Ties Ayrton Senna for Career F1 Victories

In his ascent up Formula One’s all-time wins leaderboard, Max Verstappen has tied one of the sport’s luminaries.

Verstappen won his 41st career race at Sunday’s Canadian Grand Prix, moving the Dutch driver into a tie with Brazil’s Ayrton Senna for fifth-most in the series’ history.

The two racing greats trail Great Britain’s Lewis Hamilton (103 wins from 2007–present), Germany’s Michael Schumacher (91 wins from 1991–2006 and 2010–12), Germany’s Sebastian Vettel (53 wins from 2007–2022), and France’s Alain Prost (51 wins from 1980–91 and ’93).

Senna, an icon of Brazilian sports, won three drivers’ championships in 1988, ’90 and ’91. He was killed in a crash at the San Marino Grand Prix in 1994 at the age of 34.

Verstappen has used a dominant season to tie Senna at the age of 25, winning six of eight races in 2023 and four straight. Amazingly, he has led each of the circuit’s last 250 laps between the Miami, Monaco, Spanish and Canadian Grands Prix.

Verstappen will have an opportunity to pass Senna and move one win closer to Prost at the Austrian Grand Prix on July 2.

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Patrick Andres
PATRICK ANDRES

Patrick Andres is a staff writer on the Breaking and Trending News team at Sports Illustrated. He joined SI in December 2022, having worked for The Blade, Athlon Sports, Fear the Sword and Diamond Digest. Andres has covered everything from zero-attendance Big Ten basketball to a seven-overtime college football game. He is a graduate of Northwestern University's Medill School of Journalism with a double major in history .

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