At the 2023 Singapore Grand Prix, Red Bull Racing’s record streak of 15 consecutive F1 victories finally came to a halt. Not that it mattered, because by then, they had also breached the 100-race mark for the total number of wins, and are now rapidly closing in on the next-placed Williams team, which has recorded 112 triumphs since 1975.
Not bad for an energy-drink outfit that started only in 2005 and was initially derided in the paddock for partying hard rather than pursuing pole positions.
Five years later, Sebastian Vettel swept to a quartet of successive drivers’ crowns for the Austro-British squad, which was interrupted only by the advent of the turbo hybrid era in 2014. After the seven years of Mercedes dominance that followed, more title-bearing silverware found its way to crush the corporate trophy cabinet by the hands of Max Verstappen in 2021, 2022 and, most ruthlessly, in 2023.
Today, F1’s lardy 798 kg cars appear almost unrecognisable next to their infinitely
