Daniel Valente 🏎️

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Largest margin of victory by year '26: Lewis Hamilton - 19.561s (🇪🇸) '25: Lando Norris - 30.324s (🇲🇽) '24: Lando Norris - 22.896s (🇳🇱) '23: Max Verstappen - 33.731s (🇭🇺) '22: Max Verstappen - 27.066s (🇯🇵) '21: Lewis Hamilton - 53.271s (🇷🇺) '20: Lewis Hamilton - 31.633s (🇹🇷)

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Remember what the drivers' standings looked like after the Dutch GP last year ... A 104-point gap was flipped last year from P1 to P3. Right now you could fit a 104-point gap between Kimi Antonelli and Lando Norris, who is P5 in the standings.

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Max Verstappen still has the most wins since the 2024 Miami GP Max Verstappen - 13 Lando Norris - 12 Oscar Piastri - 9 Kimi Antonelli - 6 George Russell - 6 Charles Leclerc - 4 Lewis Hamilton - 3 Carlos Sainz - 1 Man vs. machinery.

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😳 Every race since June has had either Lewis Hamilton, Charles Leclerc or Max Verstappen on the front row 🇲🇨 - Max Verstappen 🇪🇸 - Lewis Hamilton 🇦🇹 - Charles Leclerc 🇬🇧 - Charles Leclerc 🇧🇪 - Max Verstappen 🇭🇺 - Charles Leclerc The big 3 against the Mercedes power unit

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🚨 Lando Norris is undefeated in qualifying H2H vs. teammates 🟢 2019: 11-10 vs Sainz 🟢 2020: 9-8 vs Sainz 🟢 2021: 15-7 vs Ricciardo 🟢 2022: 20-2 vs Ricciardo 🟢 2023: 15-7 vs Piastri 🟢 2024: 20-4 vs Piastri 🟢 2025: 13-11 vs Piastri 🟢 2026: 7-4 vs Piastri 🟢 Total: 110-53

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🚨 Drivers who have won races by over 30s since 2020 Lewis Hamilton - 53.271s (🇷🇺 2021) Max Verstappen - 35.743s (🇦🇹 2021) Max Verstappen - 33.731s (🇭🇺 2023) Lewis Hamilton - 31.633s (🇹🇷 2020) Lando Norris - 30.324s (🇲🇽 2025) END OF LIST.

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🤯 Another wild coincidence - Both Lando Norris & Lewis Hamilton's first win as a champion was their 10th race start with the #1 on their car. That's on top of the fact that both were for McLaren in Hungary on the same day (July 26). Lando's DNS in China happened for a reason.

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🤯 Most Wins Each Year Since 2014 '26: Kimi Antonelli '25: Max Verstappen '24: Max Verstappen '23: Max Verstappen '22: Max Verstappen '21: Max Verstappen '20: Lewis Hamilton '19: Lewis Hamilton '18: Lewis Hamilton '17: Lewis Hamilton '16: Lewis Hamilton '15: Lewis Hamilton '14: Lewis Hamilton

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🚨 Emerson Fittipaldi on what he's looking out for after the summer break "I really hope Lewis (Hamilton) challenges for the championship." "It’d be extremely good to see Lewis and Ferrari running stronger, to dice with Mercedes. I hope so."

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🚨 Active streaks of consecutive years with a podium Max Verstappen: 11 (2016-2026) Charles Leclerc: 8 (2019-2026) Lando Norris: 7 (2020-2026) George Russell: 6 (2021-2026) Oscar Piastri: 4 (2023-2026) Kimi Antonelli: 2 (2025-2026) Lewis Hamilton: 1 (2026) Pierre Gasly: 1 (2026)

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🚨 ONLY DRIVERS IN F1 HISTORY TO LEAD 10 STRAIGHT RACES Lewis Hamilton Jackie Stewart Michael Schumacher Max Verstappen Sebastian Vettel Ayrton Senna Fernando Alonso Jim Clark Alain Prost Kimi Antonelli At the age of 19, Kimi has already joined an exclusive club of champions.

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So in Hungary, Lando Norris took his 17th pole & was responsible for the 17th pole converted to victory in the circuit's history In Zandvoort, Lando could take his 18th pole & be responsible for the 18th pole converted to victory in the circuit's history History could repeat

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🚨 Pirelli has picked tyre compounds for the next 3 races, including the first ever race at the Madring 🇳🇱 Zandvoort: C2-C3-C4 🇮🇹 Monza: C3-C4-C5 🇪🇸 Madrid: C2-C3-C4 Pirelli says its analysis of Madrid indicates the load on tyres is similar to Silverstone & Spa 👀

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