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😳 Max Verstappen finished 4th in a Toro Rosso at the 2015 US GP in Austin as a rookie. To date, this is still the best finishing result by Red Bull's junior team at COTA. Shows you how much Max thrives at this track.

🤯 The last time Lewis Hamilton won in Austin, Formula 1 cars still didn't have halos. Hamilton has more wins than any other driver in Austin but he hasn't won there since 2017.

🚨 The only drivers that have won in Austin since the start of this decade • Max Verstappen (2021-2023, 2025) • Charles Leclerc (2024) The list ends here.

🚨 MOST WINS IN AUSTIN LEWIS HAMILTON - 5 MERCEDES - 5 RED BULL - 5 FERRARI - 2 MCLAREN - 1

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🚨 Austin's final boss Most wins: Lewis Hamilton Most poles: Lewis Hamilton Most podiums: Lewis Hamilton Most points: Lewis Hamilton Most laps Led: Lewis Hamilton Longest win streak: Lewis Hamilton Longest pole streak: Lewis Hamilton Longest podium streak: Lewis Hamilton

🚨 Max Verstappen has 7 straight podiums in Austin & has never finished a race worse than P4 2025: P1 🥇🏆 2024: P3 🥉🏆 2023: P1 🥇🏆 2022: P1 🥇🏆 2021: P1 🥇🏆 2019: P3 🥉🏆 2018: P2 🥈🏆 2017: P4 2016: DNF 2015: P4 (Toro Rosso) One of his best tracks.

🤯 Only 2 drivers that didn’t start on the front row have ever won in Austin • Charles Leclerc (P4 in 2024) • Max Verstappen (P6 in 2023) That’s the whole group.

😳 Max Verstappen's lap times on the medium tyre in Singapore

Chucky & Chucky II, a film by Max Verstappen

Sergio Perez finished just over 95 seconds ahead of Valtteri Bottas in Singapore. For reference, that's bigger than the gap between Max Verstappen who won the race and P10.

🚨 It's very simple - Kimi Antonelli becomes the youngest drivers' champion ever in Austin if this happens: • Kimi Antonelli wins the race • George Russell finishes P9 or worse • Lewis Hamilton finishes P5 or worse

🚨 Most points scored over the tripleheader Max Verstappen - 76 Charles Leclerc - 48 Kimi Antonelli - 48 Lewis Hamilton - 38 George Russell - 27 Isack Hadjar - 26 Oscar Piastri - 18 Liam Lawson - 16 Lando Norris - 15 a

Mercedes has been the most reliable constructor this year with more laps completed than any other team (1,828) 👍 Kimi Antonelli is 1st in laps completed (956) 👎 George Russell is outside the top 10 in laps completed (872)

🏆 Lando Norris owns the longest active Singapore podium streak & the longest all-time Singapore podium streak by a McLaren driver. 2023 - P2 🥈 2024 - P1 🥇 2025 - P3 🥉

🚨 Every Singapore GP since 2018 has been won by a different driver 2025 - George Russell 2024 - Lando Norris 2023 - Carlos Sainz 2022 - Sergio Perez 2019 - Sebastian Vettel 2018 - Lewis Hamilton Will the streak continue?

How insane the last 10 races have been for Max Verstappen 🤯

Fernando Alonso is the only driver who has won from outside the top 5 in Singapore. He won from P15 in 2008. Must have been a crazy race 😉

👏 Arvid Lindblad has now scored points in 10 of the last 11 races 🇲🇾 - P10 ✅ (after starting P22) 🇦🇿 - P7 ✅ 🇪🇸 - P9 ✅ 🇮🇹 - P8 ✅ 🇳🇱 - P12 ❌ 🇭🇺 - P10 ✅ 🇧🇪 - P9 ✅ 🇬🇧 - P7 ✅ 🇦🇹 - P10 ✅ 🇪🇸 - P9 ✅ 🇲🇨 - P6 ✅

😳 Max Verstappen has outscored Ferrari and McLaren since Monza Max Verstappen - 76 points Ferrari - 67 points McLaren - 51 points The beast has been unleashed.

🚨 The only drivers with a grand slam in Singapore 🇸🇬 • Fernando Alonso (2010) • Sebastian Vettel (2013) Lando Norris was famously close to joining this group in 2024, but missed out on the fastest lap point.

🚨 Max Verstappen will celebrate his 250th GP in Formula 1 this weekend in Singapore. So far, he's never won or taken pole in Singapore. • 0 wins • 0 poles • 3 laps led • 4 podiums • 4 front-row starts

😳 You cannot talk about Singapore without mentioning the aura of Sebastian Vettel 🇸🇬 Most wins: Sebastian Vettel (5) 🇸🇬 Most poles: Sebastian Vettel (4, tied) 🇸🇬 Most podiums: Sebastian Vettel (8) 🇸🇬 Most points: Sebastian Vettel (199) 🇸🇬 Most laps led: Sebastian Vettel (252)

🚨 LAPS LED IN SINGAPORE Antonio Giovinazzi - 4 Max Verstappen - 3 Giovinazzi raced in Singapore once in 2019 and never since by the way.

Over the last 60 years, there has only been 1 driver that has had back-to-back grand slams. Sebastian Vettel (2013 🇸🇬 - 🇰🇷)

🚨Max Verstappen will do 7 straight weekends of racing 😳 Sept. 26 - F1 Azerbaijan GP 🇦🇿 Oct. 4 - F1 Bahrain GP in Malaysia 🇲🇾 Oct. 11 - F1 Singapore GP 🇸🇬 Oct. 18 - GT World Challenge 🇵🇹 Oct. 25 - F1 US GP 🇺🇸 Nov. 1 - F1 Mexico GP 🇲🇽 Nov. 8 - F1 Sao Paulo GP 🇧🇷

Isack Hadjar on the events that happened during his time off recovering from a wrist injury 😂 “I think I did a very good job on the couch because I got a podium (from Monaco) on the couch & I got a contract (for 2027).”

What Isack Hadjar said about Max Verstappen on Beyond The Grid

😳 Lewis Hamilton's only victory in Malaysia came during his second season with a team he joined, which is identical to the situation he's in now with Ferrari. By the way, that win was a grand slam 👀

🇫🇷 The most recent win by a French driver in F1 belongs to Esteban Ocon at Hungary in 2021

REMINDER - No driver in F1 history had more career wins by their 29th birthday than Verstappen Max Verstappen - 71 wins Sebastian Vettel - 42 wins Michael Schumacher - 27 wins Fernando Alonso - 23 wins Lewis Hamilton - 22 wins

🚨 The accolades & records Max Verstappen holds as he turns 29 🤯

🚨 The only non-Mercedes drivers with an average finishing position under 4.00 this season 1) Max Verstappen - 3.64 2) Lando Norris - 3.82 END OF LIST.

🚨 Mercedes is now the second team in F1 history to have multiple drivers record a grand slam in the same season: • 2026 Mercedes (Kimi Antonelli/George Russell) • 1976 Ferrari (Clay Regazzoni/Niki Lauda) It's been 50 years since the only & last time this happened 😳

🚨 These drivers were not born yet when Fernando Alonso took his maiden pole & podium in Malaysia in 2003 • Kimi Antonelli • Ollie Bearman • Gabriel Bortoleto • Franco Colapinto • Isack Hadjar • Arvid Lindblad That means over 25% of the grid were not alive yet for this.

🤯 Here’s a wild stat - By the end of 2027, Fernando Alonso will have driven in 39.5% of all Formula 1 races held since the championship began in 1950. *Assuming no cancelled GPs*

🚨 By the end of 2027, Lando Norris & Oscar Piastri will hold the record for most GPs together as teammates. In second place will be Fernando Alonso & Lance Stroll 😳

🚨 Fernando Alonso will drive for Aston Martin in 2027 in what will be his 24th season in Formula 1. He will be 46 years old. This is the driver that Father Time forgot about.

🚨 British drivers with a grand slam during the 2020s 🇬🇧 • George Russell (Baku 2026) END OF LIST.

🚨 Malaysia will have FOUR STRAIGHT MODE ZONES

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😳 The last time F1 raced in Malaysia, Max Verstappen got his first victory of the season there. 🤯 The last time Max Verstappen was winless this late into a season, he won in Malaysia.

🤯 Ferrari's last wet-weather win came in Malaysia ... 14 years ago in 2012 from Fernando Alonso. By the time Sunday's race in Malaysia starts, it will have been 5306 days since Ferrari's last wet-weather win.

🚨 Lewis Hamilton's race results in Malaysia • 5 poles • 1 win • 1 DNF that essentially set his title hopes up in smoke

It’s been a while since F1 raced in Malaysia

🚨 Saturday's GP in Baku was the first race since 2016 Singapore to have a smaller winning margin than pole gap in a non-safety car finish. Both races had a Mercedes driver (Nico Rosberg/George Russell) narrowly beat a Red Bull driver using #3 (Daniel Ricciardo/Max Verstappen) 🤯

😳 The last time Red Bull got a double podium, Lando Norris won the next race

😳 George Russell & Max Verstappen put on a show at the end of Baku’s race. This was a real shootout with almost nothing between their times. Pure cinema.

Max Verstappen by himself has outscored Ferrari & McLaren over the last 3 GPs Verstappen - 51 points McLaren - 41 points Ferrari - 40 points