FACTS AND STATS: Verstappen hits a hat trick of Sprint weekend doubles

After his Sprint triumph on Saturday, World champion Max Verstappen was not to be denied in Shanghai on Sunday, winning a Grand Prix at the venue for the first time in his career to secure the Red Bull star a victory double for a third successive Sprint weekend. But Verstappen wasn’t the only driver racking up some interesting numbers. Here’s our takeaways from the Chinese Grand Prix…

• Verstappen’s victory today was his 21st win in the last 23 Grands Prix (Carlos Sainz has won the other two).

• Verstappen has now won on 26 different circuits, only five behind Lewis Hamilton’s all-time record.

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• This weekend saw Verstappen win the Sprint and the Grand Prix on the same weekend for the third successive Sprint weekend.

• Verstappen has only been beaten in a Grand Prix twice in the last 357 days (both times by Sainz).

• Thanks to Lando Norris taking P2 for McLaren, today was the first time this season that one constructor has not finished one-two in a Grand Prix.

• It was Norris’ 15th career podium finish without winning, tying Patrick Depailler, Jean Alesi, Mika Hakkinen and Eddie Irvine, all of whom scored 15 podium finishes before their first win.

• It was also the eighth second place in his F1 career, seven of which have come in the last 18 Grands Prix.

• P2 was McLaren’s highest finish in Shanghai since Jenson Button finished second in 2012.

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• Oscar Piastri was P8, meaning both McLarens have scored in every Grand Prix and every Sprint this year.

• With Sergio Perez in P3, both Red Bulls were on the podium in Shanghai for the first time since 2011.

• Perez had never previously finished higher than eighth in Shanghai in his F1 career.

• Today was his fourth podium finish in the first five Grands Prix this year (he only scored two podium finishes in the final 10 Grands Prix last year).

• Charles Leclerc took P4 for Ferrari and is the only driver to have finished in the top four at every race in 2024.

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• Leclerc has finished fourth in three of the first five races in 2024.

• It was Leclerc’s 14th consecutive point-scoring weekend when including Sprints.

• Ferrari team mate Carlos Sainz was P5 – the first time he has finished off the podium when he has started a Grand Prix this year.

• It was Sainz’s first-ever top-six finish in Shanghai.

• With George Russell their lead finisher in P6, Mercedes do not have a top-four finish in the opening five races for the first time since 2011.

• Mercedes had never finished outside of the top five in Shanghai before.

• Coming home in P7, Aston Martin’s Fernando Alonso finished lower than he started for the fourth time in five Grands Prix this year.

• Alonso finishes in the same position as he did in his last Chinese Grand Prix start, for McLaren in 2018.

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• Hamilton finished in P9 in the second Mercedes after he started 18th on the grid.

• It was the third time he has finished ninth in the last four Grands Prix.

• With P10 for Haas, Nico Hulkenberg scored points for the third time in the last four Grands Prix (he only scored in one Grand Prix in the entire 2023 season).

• Hulkenberg is now tied with Andrea de Cesaris on 208 F1 starts without a win.

• Esteban Ocon’s P11 result was Alpine’s best finish of the 2024 season.