How Is Max Verstappen’s Record At The Dutch GP?

Drivers like Max Verstappen come along once in ages. Besides asking legions of Dutch fans for whom F1 is a shot of the adrenaline, one could quiz even the great Sir Lewis Hamilton on the same. Attacking, determined, and resilient in equal measure, Max Verstappen has ruled Formula 1 in a little over the last three years in an iron-fisted manner.

He has won all around the world, and if not at every single racing venue, then at most of the venues out there, with the exception of a Singapore, for instance.

As a matter of fact, just last year, when Max Verstappen put his Red Bull right on top at Ferrari’s home race event at Monza with Sergio Pérez and Carlos Sainz in hot pursuit for the win, the famous Dutchman secured a tenth consecutive win on the trot.

Winning Grands Prix races every now and then, seems to have become, an inveterate habit for the man with the Milton Keynes-based outfit.

And it is with that steely resolve and fierce determination that Max Verstappen would now like to bounce back to clinch, what might become, should he win it, an eighth victory in the year 2024.

And this is what makes it even interesting for the Hasselt-born Red Bull driver. Even as it is now sufficiently evident that 2024 hasn’t been the year where Max has clinched victories with a sense of enormous consistency, like what was evident much of the last year, he still has seven wins in fourteen races as on date.

If anyone wanted to understand just how good a driver the 26-year-old is, then probably noting the fact that he has emerged victorious in half of the races held this year serves an interesting reminder about his prowess.

Does it not?

But speaking of prowess and victories, it’s perhaps just the thing that Verstappen’s rivals would be wary of as another Grand Prix comes close.

As F1 resumes this season after having unfurled several breathtaking races, the man in focus is Max Verstappen.

Which brings us to how good is Max Verstappen at the Dutch GP?

As on date, it ought to be remembered that Max Verstappen has won 61 Formula 1 Grands Prix. That, by the way, also includes, famous wins at a track that happens to be his home race.

It’s none other than the Dutch Grand Prix and with the 2024 Dutch GP about to begin in a week’s time, it’s fitting to note that the driver of the roaring Red Bull would be hoping to clinch a fourth win.

Thus far, Max Verstappen has actually secured a hat-trick of wins at the Dutch Grand Prix, having won a race each in 2021, 2022 and 2023.

The big question now is whether a fourth consecutive race win is on the cards for the man whose most recent 2024 win came at Spain?

Surely, the likes of Lando Norris, Oscar Piastri and Sir Lewis Hamilton, who have four wins this year between them, would do all they can to contain the Max’imum’ assault on behalf of Verstappen at Zandvoort?

On top of that, Ferrari, both of whose drivers have won at least one race this year too, would like to dictate terms at the forthcoming Dutch Grand Prix.

That certainly does not mean that George Russell, disgruntled and disenchanted in equal measure upon the completion of the 2024 Belgian GP that led to his eventual disqualification, wouldn’t like to bounce back?

Truth be told, there’s a lot going to be on the cards as Zandvoort nears. You listening, Mr. Verstappen?