With his first world title in 2021, Max Verstappen shot up vertically in many a record list. The F1 winter break is an ideal time to dive into the statistics and see what the number of podiums the Dutchman achieved in 2021 actually says. Verstappen at the top of the list No less than eighteen times Verstappen was on the podium in 2021. That is a record in seventy years of F1. The Dutchman is thus beating his rival Lewis Hamilton, but also the living legend Michael Schumacher. Schumacher managed to get on the podium seventeen times in one season. Hamilton managed to do so no less than five times and Sebastian Vettel also managed to do it once. An important note to this statistics list is...
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