F1 stats: Abu Dhabi GP

Oct 28 - F1 statistics for Sunday's Abu Dhabi Grand Prix:

Titles:

Jenson Button and his Brawn GP team have already wrapped up both titles with a race to spare.

Button is the 60th F1 world champion, Britain's 10th and England's eighth. With Lewis Hamilton taking the title last year for McLaren, Britain has back to back champions for the first time since 1968/69.

For the second year in a row, the title went to an Englishman who finished fifth in Brazil in a Mercedes-engined car with number 22 on it.

The title was decided at Interlagos for the fifth year in succession.

Brawn have won the constructors' title, the first team to do so in their first full season.

Wins

Mark Webber's Brazilian Grand Prix victory was his second and Red Bull's fifth of the season.

Four teams have triumphed in the 16 races: Brawn (8), Red Bull (5), McLaren (2), Ferrari (1). Brawn have had four 'one-two' finishes.

Ferrari have won 210 times, McLaren 164, Williams 113.

Abu Dhabi

Sunday's race will be the sport's first day-to-night race, and the first to be held in Abu Dhabi. It will also be the second grand prix to be held in the Middle East after Bahrain.

Designed by Hermann Tilke, the anti-clockwise track is 5.55km long.

The estimated lap time is one minute 40 seconds with a maximum speed of 317km/h and an average of 198km/h.

Since 2007, some 14 000 construction workers have laid 720 000 square metres of asphalt and poured 225 000 cubic metres of concrete.

The covered grandstands can seat 50 000 people. Organisers say the race is sold out.

Pole Position

Eight drivers have started on pole this season (Button, Brawn's Rubens Barrichello, Vettel, Webber, Hamilton, Toyota's Jarno Trulli, Renault's Fernando Alonso and Force India's Giancarlo Fisichella).

Nine of the season's 16 races have been won from pole.

Champions Ferrari have yet to be on pole this season. The last time the Italian team went a season without starting on pole was in 1993.

Farewell

Sunday will be BMW's final race before the German manufacturer pulls out of the sport.

It will also be a farewell to Ferrari for Kimi Raikkonen and the last with Renault for Spain's double world champion Alonso.