Peak Dominance & Difficulty of Era

Verstappen's 2023 (19 wins, 10 straight) is the most dominant single season ever — but Fangio's ~47% win rate sets the era-adjusted bar.

The top 3

  1. Verstappen 2023: 19 of 22: Most wins and most consecutive wins (10) in a single season; Red Bull took 21 of the 22 races that year.
  2. Fangio's win rate: ~47%: 24 wins in 51 starts and 5 titles in the deadly 1950s — the era-adjusted GOAT pick the counting stats miss.
  3. Wet masters: Senna & Schumacher: Senna's 1993 Donington charge and Schumacher's rain-soaked routs define the racecraft raw numbers can't capture.

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