A lights-to-flag win in Canada will see Max Verstappen rewrite some F1 history

Refreshed by a Mediterranean break since winning in Spain, defending world champion Max Verstappen will be seeking to continue his dominant run and stretch his title-race lead in this weekend's Canadian Grand Prix.

The Red Bull driver, who won in Montreal last year, has reeled off successive victories in Miami, Monte Carlo and Barcelona to move 53 points clear of nearest rival and teammate Sergio Perez in the drivers' championship.

He has also led every lap since Lap 48 in Florida, a total of 154, the longest unbroken run since 2012 when four-time champion Sebastian Vettel was equally supreme for the Milton Keynes-based team.

Another win, in Sunday's 70-lap contest on the Circuit Gilles Villeneuve, a high-speed semi-street track on the Ile Notre-Dame in the St Lawrence river, would be the team's 100th in Formula 1 - and 24th in 27 outings.

A simply perfect weekend ?? To win here again is absolutely incredible! What a pleasure to drive a car like this! ?? This is down to all the hard work on track and at the factory @redbullracing ??A big thank you to everyone in the team and all the fans for your support ??… pic.twitter.com/xjEBtYkoEv

A feat achieved by few teams

Only four other teams have scored a century of Grands Prix wins - Ferrari, McLaren, Mercedes and Williams - and few individuals have relished such a coincidence of invincibility for man and machine.

Two-time champion Alberto Ascari of Italy led a record 305 laps between the 1952 Belgian Grand Prix and the Dutch event in in 1953, a streak that three-time champion Ayrton Senna in 1988, with 264 consecutive laps in front, tried to match.

Briton Nigel Mansell, champion in 1987, and Vettel, are the only other drivers to have passed 200 laps as leader.

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