MADRID, 19 Oct. (EUROPA PRESS) –
Formula 1 returns this Friday, after a week of rest, with the United States Grand Prix, a race in which a Spanish driver has never managed to climb to the first two steps of the podium, and in which Max Verstappen (Red Bull ) could become the 5th in history to reach 50 victories in the history of Formula 1. These are 10 facts about the 2023 United States GP:
1. The United States GP will be held for the 11th consecutive time at the Austin circuit, becoming the second American track with the most races held after Watkins Glen with 15.
2. In the last 12 editions of the United States Grand Prix, the race winner has started from the front row of the grid.
3. If Max Verstappen (Red Bull) wins the race, he will equal the record for most races won in the same year with 15, which he himself holds from the 2022 season.
4. If he wins, Max Vertappen would achieve his 50th victory in Formula 1, a figure that only Lewis Hamilton (103), Michael Schumacher (91), Sebastian Vettel (53) and Alain Prost (51) have achieved. .
5. Charles Leclerc (Ferrari) has been among the top five in five races, something he had not achieved since last season, when he achieved five podiums in a row between the Netherlands GP and the United States GP.
6. Carlos Sainz (Ferrari) achieved pole position in the 2022 United States GP. If he achieves it this year, it would be the first time in his career that he has achieved two consecutive pole positions in the same Grand Prix.
7. Lando Norris (McLaren) has been on the podium in five of the last eight races held, the same as in his previous 69.
8. McLaren has been on the podium seven times this season, its highest tally since the 2012 season, when it achieved 13.
9. Spanish motorsport has only achieved one podium in the United States GP of Formula 1, the third place of Fernando Alonso in 2012, so if Sainz or the Asturian were among the first two of the race they would achieve the best result of a national driver in this race.
10. On race day it will be exactly 17 years since Fernando Alonso won his second Formula 1 world title with Renault during the 2006 Brazilian GP.