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Who has made the list of Winners and Losers on a day of wildly shifting fortunes in Mexico City as yet another record fell to Max Verstappen and his team-mate stared into the abyss.
There is a pattern among legendary Formula 1 drivers where they often end their careers with a total number of wins that ends in #1, corresponding to their race numbers. For example, Michael Schumacher ended with 91 wins, Alain Prost with 51, Ayrton Senna with 41, and Nigel Mansell with 31. Only three drivers with more than 30 wins currently deviate from this pattern: Lewis Hamilton with 103 wins, Sebastian Vettel with 53, and Fernando Alonso with 32. Max Verstappen now has 51 wins to his name, matching Mansell’s career tally in 187 starts. In the 41 races of the ground effects era, Verstappen has won 31 of them. With 10 wins in 2021, he has equaled Senna’s tally of wins in three seasons. Despite Verstappen’s remarkable performance, the focus of the 2023 Mexico City Grand Prix is on Daniel Ricciardo’s impressive debut race for AlphaTauri, solidifying his chance for a return to the Red Bull seat. Sergio Perez’s mistake in attempting a move at Turn 1 may have further diminished his chances of staying at Red Bull, as he now seems broken as a driver. It has been nearly two years since Hamilton’s last Grand Prix win, but his motivation remains intact as he still aims to add win #104 to his record.
Source: RacingNews 365
