Daniel Valente 🏎️

Another crazy milestone to watch 🚨

Max Verstappen could become the first driver in F1 history to win multiple championships while driving for a team that finished 3rd or worse in the constructors’ standings.

Red Bull & Mercedes will remain the only teams in Formula 1 history to win over 15 races in a season 🏆

Red Bull - 21/22 wins (2023)
Mercedes - 19/21 wins (2016)
Red Bull - 17/22 wins (2022)
Mercedes - 16/19 wins (2014)
Mercedes - 16/19 wins (2015)

Charles Leclerc is the only driver who has been on the podium in every Abu Dhabi GP in the ground-effect era 🏆

2022 - P2
2023 - P2
2024 - P3

Can Ferrari keep this streak alive …

There is a possibility that Max Verstappen ends the season with the outright most wins, poles & laps led but won't win the drivers' championship.

The last time that happened was Lewis Hamilton in 2016.

Another horrifying stat 💀

There are only two drivers who have done 170+ races with the same engine manufacturer & not won a championship with that supplier:

• Lance Stroll (Mercedes)
• Charles Leclerc (Ferrari)

🤯 Lewis Hamilton had 8 straight podiums at Abu Dhabi, tied for 3rd most consecutive podiums at a single GP in F1 history.

The wild part? He’s tied with himself & the two longer streaks ahead of him are also his.

He's not just in the record books, he is the record books.

McLaren's best streak of podiums in 2025 is 9 straight races (Australia to Spain).

Max Verstappen equalled that himself with 9 straight podiums from Zandvoort to Qatar.

So if Verstappen is on the podium in Abu Dhabi, he'll have a longer podium streak than any driver OR team 🤯

If you're wondering just how good Max Verstappen has been this season ... 🤯

It's officially confirmed that no Mercedes car of this era will have scored more points OR collected more podiums than the no-sidepods W13

W13 (2022): 515 points | 17 podiums
W16 (2025): 459 points | 12 podiums

Max Verstappen & Kimi Antonelli are 1-2 in points scored over the last three GPs

Verstappen - 75
Antonelli - 53
Russell - 51
Norris - 51
Piastri - 36
Sainz - 26
Leclerc - 20
Hadjar - 12
Alonso - 11
Bearman - 9
Hulkenberg - 8
Lawson - 8
Hamilton - 6
Tsunoda - 5
Gasly - 2
Ocon - 2

👀 Driver No. 4 Lando Norris could become the 4th driver to win their first championship after their 150th GP.

He would join Jenson Button (169), Nigel Mansell (176) & Nico Rosberg (206).

Max Verstappen has an average finishing position of 1.67 & median finishing position of literally 1 since the summer break 🤯

There were 72 podiums in 2024 but only one came from a starting grid spot of P19 or worse...

Charles Leclerc in Abu Dhabi.

There's a chance for a new era to start in Formula 1 👀

Oscar Piastri could become the first drivers' champion to be born in the 2000s.

The comeback of Max "Chucky" Verstappen 💀

📊 There was a change in the standings for most points scored in the ground-effect era after Qatar

1. Max Verstappen - 1862
2. Lando Norris - 1109 ⬆️
3. Charles Leclerc - 1100 ⬇️

Below are the only drivers on the grid who have multiple podiums in each of the last 5 seasons ...

• Max Verstappen
• Carlos Sainz

That Toro Rosso 2015 lineup keeps delivering.

Max Verstappen could become the first driver in Formula 1 history to win 3 world championships in seasons where their team did not win the constructors' title 😳

🤯 The last time the title fight went to Abu Dhabi, a driver in their 7th season won their 1st championship & denied a driver from a 5th straight title (Max Verstappen, 2021).

Lando Norris is in his 7th season, looking for his 1st title & can now deny Max a 5th straight title.

Here's an updated comparison on what Lando Norris, Oscar Piastri & Max Verstappen have done this year 👀

Who's had the best season?

Kimi Antonelli is still the highest-scoring Italian in Formula 1 over the last four GPs 🇮🇹

Kimi Antonelli - 61
Ferrari - 48
Racing Bulls - 20

🛞 Max Verstappen owns the best pole-to-win rate In F1 history among drivers with more than 1 pole again

Max Verstappen - 76.6% (36/47)
Oscar Piastri - 66.7% (4/6)

👀 Charles Leclerc will make history in Abu Dhabi.

Out of all the drivers to make 150+ starts with the same constructor, Leclerc will be the only one who has less than 10 wins with that team.

Max Verstappen is guaranteed to finish the ground-effect era with more wins, poles & podiums than any other driver or constructor

Wins 🥇
Verstappen - 50
McLaren - 20

Poles 🛞
Verstappen - 34
Ferrari - 24

Podiums 🏆
Verstappen - 66
McLaren - 63

Yuki Tsunoda will go down in F1 history as the driver with the 3rd most GPs without ever stepping on the podium ... unless he gets a podium in Abu Dhabi.

One last race for his legacy.

😳 Carlos Sainz now has 10+ points finishes in 10 straight seasons, a streak that also spans five different constructors (Toro Rosso, Renault, McLaren, Ferrari & Williams).

2025 - 10
2024 - 20
2023 - 18
2022 - 16
2021 - 20
2020 - 12
2019 - 13
2018 - 13
2017 - 10
2016 - 10

The difference in age between Fernando Alonso & Arvid Lindblad is basically the equivalent of 1 Lando Norris.

Alonso to Lindblad: 26 years, 10 days
Norris today: 26 years, 20 days old

Arvid Lindblad could break Max Verstappen’s record for youngest winner or podium finisher at next year’s Australian GP or Chinese GP 👀

After those races, Max’s records will be safe again.

🤯 When you realize this is the only version of Michael Schumacher that Arvid Lindblad has seen in his lifetime.

Come 2026, Arvid Lindblad will be the 1st driver on the grid who was not alive to see a Fernando Alonso world championship.

The gap in age between Lindblad & Alonso is old enough to be a veteran on the grid (26 years and 10 days).