Verstappen reacts to breaking F1 season win record
Max Verstappen put Red Bull's off-track dramas to one side to win the Mexican Grand Prix on Sunday, breaking the record for most victories in a Formula One season in the process.
Forty-eight hours after Red Bull were fined US$ 7 million for breaking the sport's financial rules Verstappen claimed his 14th win of the year.
Michael Schumacher won 13 of the 18 races staged in 2004 and Sebastian Vettel recorded the same number of wins from 19 rounds in 2013.
However, Verstappen now stands alone as the driver with the most wins in a single campaign.
"Yeah. It was an amazing race again. Probably a little bit better than expected with tyre wear. But yeah, once we stayed ahead into turn one, we could look after our tyres. Of course, on the soft (compound), it's always a bit more critical in that first stint, but once we put the medium tyres on, it seemed very competitive." Said Verstappen
"Naturally, we couldn't keep up with these guys. Probably didn't have the strategy maybe quite right today, but nonetheless, to be this close, to have to '2nds' back to back, I'm so, so proud and so grateful to the team. I think the race pace generally quite good. It was just we were just off a set of tyres most of the time."
Lewis Hamilton had hoped a different tyre strategy to Verstappen would propel him to his first win of the year for Mercedes.
But he had to be content with second place after crossing the finish line 15.1 seconds behind Verstappen.
Sergio Perez brought the second Red Bull home in third.
Hamilton's teammate George Russell was fourth, with former Mercedes man Valtteri Bottas sixth, sandwiched between the two Ferraris of Carlos Sainz Jr. and Charles Leclerc.
