Formula 1 equals 43-year-old record after Sainz wins in Mexico

The Mexican Grand Prix has quietly entered the history of the Formula 1, Sunday. Not for the antics of Max Verstappen face Lando Norris or for the possible last performance of Sergio Perez at home, none of that. It is the victory of Carlos Sainz which interests us here. On the Autódromo Hermanos Rodríguez, the Spaniard won his fourth career victory but above all, his second victory of the year.

With this success, he becomes the sixth driver to have won at least two Grands Prix this season and joins the club of multiple winners in 2024. A club that is not so closed since in addition to Carlos Sainz, it includes Max Verstappen (7 victories), Lando Norris (3 victories), Charles Leclerc (3 victories), Oscar piastri (2 victories) and Lewis Hamilton (2 wins). Which means that 30% of the drivers on the grid have won multiple Grands Prix during this 2024 campaign!

An incredible and extremely rare statistic, since in 75 editions of the Formula 1 World Championship, this had only happened once. To find traces of such diversity, we must go back to the 1981 season when six drivers also won at least two Grands Prix, with the champion at the time Nelson Piquet (3 victories), Alain Prost (3 wins), Carlos Reutemann (3 wins), Gilles Villeneuve (2 wins), Jacques Laffite (2 wins) and Alan Jones (2 wins).

At the time, the feat was even more resounding as there had only been 15 Grands Prix in 1981, while the 2024 Mexican Grand Prix marked the 20th round of the current season. While the 2024 season has equalled that 43-year-old record, it can still be beaten over the remaining four races as George Russell already has a win to his name this year.

If the Briton wins again by the end of the championship (Brazil, Las Vegas, Qatar and Abu Dhabi), then he will become the seventh multiple Grand Prix winner in 2024 and the record would thus be broken. That's good, the next meeting is at Interlagos, the scene of his very first Formula 1 victory, in 2022!

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