F1. Three-time Formula 1 world champion Max Verstappen has been named to the 2024 Time 100 list, Time Magazine’s annual selection of the world’s 100 most influential people.
Max Verstappen won 19 out of the 22 races on the 2023 F1 calendar. He clinched his third Formula 1 World Championship title in the process, setting record after record.
His achievements over the past three F1 seasons have thus secured him a spot on this year’s Time 100 list, which includes global leaders, writers, artists, and other global icons across a range of fields.
Verstappen joins a list of athletes who have made their mark this year, such as Kansas City Chiefs quarterback Patrick Mahomes, rugby star Siya Kolisi who led South Africa to victory in the 2023 Rugby World Cup, and Jenni Hermoso, who won the 2023 Women’s World Cup with Spain.
Sean Gregory, Time’s chief sports correspondent, wrote that: Verstappen is so confident behind the wheel that he was able to keep an eye on the screens around the track to follow the battle behind him during at least one race.
The Time 100 officially began in 1999. The selection of members who appear on this year’s list will be invited to a summit on April 24 and a gala on May 15, although it is not known whether Verstappen will attend either event given his busy schedule with the ongoing Formula 1 season.
Among the other results obtained by Verstappen during his F1 career, there are 57 race wins, 36 pole positions, as well as his record for precocity by becoming the youngest F1 driver at the age of 17, when he made his racing debut in 2015 for Toro Rosso.
When Verstappen joined Red Bull in 2016, he won his first race for the Milton Keynes team at the Spanish Grand Prix, then unexpectedly beat Lewis Hamilton for the title in a controversial confrontation for the 2021 championship in Abu Dhabi.
Verstappen is not the only Formula 1 driver to have been on the Time 100 list: Hamilton was included as one of the influential figures by the American magazine in 2020, while the seven-time champion Michael Schumacher was part of the list in 2005.
