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Aston Martin Red Bull Racing claim their 60th Formula One win
Max Verstappen's win at the Austrian Grand Prix gave Aston Martin Red Bull Racing their 60th win in F1. To mark the occasion, we've totted up the stats that matter.
Max Verstappen's stunning win at the Austrian Grand Prix was the culmination of a solid season so far and a great reward for team and driver. It also handed Aston Martin Red Bull Racing their 60th victory in Formula One during the team's 14th full season in the sport.
Win number one came in 2009, four years after Red Bull Racing arrived on the grid, with Sebastian Vettel crossing the line ahead of team-mate Mark Webber. They haven't looked back since, notching up a landmark 60 wins in speedy fashion and moving up to sixth in the list of all-time F1 constructors.
For fans of symmetry, Aston Martin Red Bull Racing have also notched 60 pole positions. Add up the stats below and you'll discover how the team reached the big six-zero.
David Coulthard scores Red Bull Racing's first podium, at Monaco in 2006
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2007: Red Bull Racing unveil their Wings For Life car at Silverstone
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2008: Toro Rosso's Sebastian Vettel wins his first F1 race at Monza
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2009: Red Bull Racing claim their first Grand Prix victory in Shanghai
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10 (The number of drivers who've raced for Red Bull Racing)
Aston Martin Red Bull Racing made their Formula One debut in 2005, a year in which three different drivers took the wheel of the Cosworth-powered RB1 machine. David Coulthard was joined by Austria's Christian Klein and Italian Vitantonio Liuzzi.
Since then, Robert Doornbos (Netherlands), Mark Webber (Australia), Sebastian Vettel (Germany), Daniel Ricciardo (Australia), Daniil Kvyat (Russia), Max Verstappen (Netherlands) and Pierre Gasly (France) have all added their names to the team's list of drivers.
Since 2005, two Dutch drivers and two Australians have driven for the team and between them, the two Australian drivers – Webber and Ricciardo – managed to notch up 15 wins.
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+ 2 (The number of fourth-place finishes that David Coulthard took in Red Bull Racing's debut season)
Red Bull Racing's decision to recruit former McLaren and Williams driver David Coulthard for the 2005 season ensured that the F1 rookies had a man at the wheel who not only combined smoothness with speed and experience, but who also knew how to keep pace with the frontrunners.
Coulthard took two impressive fourth places as the team found its feet in the cut-throat world of F1. In fact, the 13-time Grand Prix winner took a superb fourth in Red Bull Racing's very first race in Australia and managed the same result at the European Grand Prix at the Nürburgring in Germany.
David Coulthard at the wheel in 2006
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+ 2 (The number of seasons that Red Bull Racing operated under a British licence)
These days, whenever an Aston Martin Red Bull Racing driver claims the top step of the podium, fans will hear their respective national anthem followed by the Austrian anthem. However, this hasn't always been the case.
For the first two years of Red Bull Racing's existence – 2005 and 2006 – the team raced under a British racing licence and it was God Save The Queen that was lined-up for that podium-topping performance that never came.
The team eventually took out an Austrian licence in 2007 and two years later, F1 fans heard Land der Berge, Land am Strome played when Sebastian Vettel won the 2009 Chinese Grand Prix.
Red Bull Racing's RB2
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+ 18 (Max Verstappen's age when he became the youngest Grand Prix winner)
For eight long years, the youngest-ever race winner in F1 history was Vettel, who made history at the 2008 Italian Grand Prix by winning for Scuderia Toro Rosso at the tender age of 21 years and 74 days. Vettel's win broke Fernando Alonso's 2003 record by 317 days.
Then, along came Max Verstappen. On May 15, 2016, Verstappen won the Spanish Grand Prix on his debut outing for Red Bull Racing at the age of 18 years and 228 days. He'd go on to win again later that season en route to fifth overall in the Drivers' Championship.
+ 7 (The number of points Red Bull Racing scored at their debut Grand Prix)
Red Bull have been involved in F1 since 1995, but it was at the 2005 Australian Grand Prix in Melbourne when the world first saw two Red Bull Racing machines on the F1 grid, with David Coulthard and Christian Klein qualifying an excellent fifth and sixth respectively.
By the end of Red Bull Racing's first-ever Grand Prix, the two drivers had taken strong points-scoring positions, with Klein taking points in seventh and Coulthard finishing fourth, just 16 seconds behind winning driver Giancarlo Fisichella.
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+ 4 (The number of Red Bull Racing's Drivers' and Constructors' titles)
Between 2010 and 2013, Red Bull Racing were simply unstoppable. Sebastian Vettel notched a staggering 38 victories in four championship-winning seasons, while team-mate Mark Webber claimed eight wins. The pair's fierce battles for glory saw Red Bull Racing become the team to beat in F1 and over the course of four years they claimed 2,204 Constructors' points.
When Vettel claimed victory at the 2013 Indian Grand Prix, he joined Michael Schumacher, Alain Prost and Juan Manuel Fangio as a four-time champion – the youngest ever – with his bulletproof RB9 suffering only one retirement, during the British Grand Prix at Silverstone.
Sebastian Vettel and Mark Webber share the podium
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+ 13 (The number of Red Bull Racing wins in 2013)
It was a case of lucky 13 for Red Bull Racing in 2013, as the team took a baker's dozen of Grand Prix wins on the way to that year's Drivers' and Constructors' titles.
Aside from that one retirement, Sebastian Vettel's worst results in 2013 were a brace of fourth-place finishes at the Chinese and Spanish Grands Prix. The Hungarian Grand Prix – nine races before the end of the season – would be the last time the German would fail to win a race.
After three consecutive F1 titles, Vettel dominated that year's racing, claiming a record 13 victories on his way to a fourth title. His performance that year, which included a streak of nine wins in the final nine races of the season, saw him match Michael Schumacher for most wins in a single season.
Sebastian Vettel clinches his fourth world title
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+ 4 (The number of drivers who've won with Red Bull Racing)
Although 10 drivers have strapped themselves into an Aston Martin Red Bull Racing machine, only four of them have tasted glory – Vettel 38 times, Ricciardo seven times, Webber eight times and Verstappen six times following his dramatic victory at the Red Bull Ring.
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