Max Verstappen has now started 199 world championship grands prix – the same number as Alain Prost – won three Formula 1 titles and taken 61 victories. He’s third on the wins list and seems well on his way to a fourth world crown, so where does he sit in the pantheon of all-time greats?
Verstappen’s victory strike rate is currently 31%, behind just Juan Manuel Fangio, Alberto Ascari and Jim Clark, and very similar to Lewis Hamilton, Michael Schumacher and Jackie Stewart. Prost and Ayrton Senna, whose careers overlapped considerably, both had strike rates of just over 25%. Verstappen is thus very much worthy of comparison with F1’s best.
