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Max Verstappen wins again, closes in on another Formula One record

AP photo by Geert Vanden Wijngaert / Red Bull driver Max Verstappen celebrates after winning Formula One's Belgian Grand Prix on Sunday at the Spa-Francorchamps circuit. Verstappen won for the eighth straight race, one shy of the F1 record for consecutive victories.
AP photo by Geert Vanden Wijngaert / Red Bull driver Max Verstappen celebrates after winning Formula One's Belgian Grand Prix on Sunday at the Spa-Francorchamps circuit. Verstappen won for the eighth straight race, one shy of the F1 record for consecutive victories. AP photo by Geert Vanden Wijngaert / Red Bull driver Max Verstappen celebrates after winning Formula One's Belgian Grand Prix on Sunday at the Spa-Francorchamps circuit. Verstappen won for the eighth straight race, one shy of the F1 record for consecutive victories.

By The Associated Press 5 min read

SPA-FRANCORCHAMPS, Belgium — Max Verstappen enters Formula One’s annual midseason break in seemingly unstoppable form as he seeks a third straight series championship.

The 29-year-old star won the Belgian Grand Prix on Sunday in emphatic fashion for his eighth straight victory and 10th overall of a crushingly dominant season to this point.

Despite starting sixth on the grid, he finished 22.3 seconds ahead of teammate Sergio Perez to give Red Bull an easy 1-2 showing. It moved Verstappen ever closer to his own F1 record of 15 wins from last year and a title run that could be even more impressive than the first two.

Verstappen is 125 points ahead of Perez after just 12 races, and his next target is matching Sebastian Vettel’s F1 record of nine straight wins with a victory at the Dutch GP when the season resumes Aug. 27.

“I just want to have a nice time now, have a bit of time with family and friends,” said Verstappen, who was born in Belgium but competes under the flag of the Netherlands.