Max Verstappen described his 2022 season as “incredible” after winning his 14th race of the year in Mexico, setting a new record.
Having clinched the world championship with four races to spare and helped the team to the constructors championship in Austin last week, Verstappen, beat Lewis Hamilton to win the Mexican Grand Prix by 15 seconds. It was the Red Bull driver’s 14th win of the season in 20 races, breaking the record jointly held by Sebastian Vettel and Michael Schumacher.
With two more races of the season remaining in Brazil and Abu Dhabi, Verstappen says he is aiming to add even more to his impressive tally of wins for the season.
“It’s been an incredible year so far,” Verstappen said. “We are definitely enjoying it and we’ll try to go for more.”
Verstappen held off a challenge from George Russell on the run to turn one at the start and then used medium tyres for a long second stint to establish a healthy lead over Hamilton behind him. He hailed his start as being important to being able to remain ahead of the chasing Mercedes.
“That helped me out a lot for the rest of the race, to stay in the lead after turn one,” Verstappen said.
“Of course, you’re also on a different strategy to the cars around us. But again, an incredible result. The pace of the car was again really nice. We had to look after our tyres because it was a very long stint on the medium, but we made it work.
Verstappen has won 14 of the 18 races he has finished in 2022 with only two retirements coming in the opening race in Bahrain and the third round in Australia. Of the races he has finished, he has only missed the podium twice in Silverstone and Singapore, where he finished seventh both times.
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