Max the Man: Staggering stats show that Max Verstappen has the highest pole to win ratio amongst all the active F1 racers of today


Max the Man: Staggering stats show that Max Verstappen has the highest pole to win ratio amongst all the active F1 racers of today

Max Verstappen

2021 World Champion Max Verstappen successfully defended his title in the current season with four races still left in the schedule. Even after experiencing some troubles at the start of this year, due to which he had to retire from a few races, Max managed to turn the table on his rivals and surpass them with Red Bull‘s consistent efforts to improve his RB-18 so that the Dutchman did not face any reliability issues that initially plagued him.

The efforts of the entire team and of Verstappen himself were rewarded as they managed to achieve the groundbreaking feat of winning the Championship prematurely while quite a few races are still left to be held. Last time a driver won the WDC title this early in the season was in 2011 when Sebastian Vettel got the trophy for Red Bull. And now, fans are digging even more amazing statistics about Max Verstappen’s victory that make the #1 racer seem almost invincible in the face of his competitors.

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According to a recent post on Reddit, Max Verstappen has the highest pole to win ratio when compared to the other racers who are currently seen on the F1 grid. This means that, in 72.22% of the cases, Max Verstappen has successfully converted his pole position into a race win while Charles Leclerc, who has got the highest number of pole wins this year, could only convert 22.22% of those pole starts into GP wins.

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Max Verstappen has been in a thunderous form throughout 2022 despite those initial setbacks

Max Verstappen
Max Verstappen

When the year started, Red Bull’s RB-18 had some reliability issues that caused both Max Verstappen and his teammate Sergio Perez to retire from the Bahrain Grand Prix. Again, a similar incident happened in Australia for Max. But then the Dutchman got the hang of it and scored successive race wins to finally establish a gap of over 100 points from the rest of the drivers in the Championship table.

Pole to win ratios of active drivers.
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To further prove the point of Max Verstappen’s prowess on race days, a fan pointed out that in 44.44% of the cases, Max Verstappen has won the races in which Charles Leclerc got pole position while the Monegasque could only get wins in 22.22% of the races where he was the pole-sitter.

In other news, although Max Verstappen has taken away the Championship title for this year, the fight is still on between Sergio Perez and Charles Leclerc for the second position. The two racers are separated by only one point, and they will both get ample chances to improve their advantages in the upcoming races in the US, Brazil, Mexico, and finally Abu Dhabi.

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