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F1 stats: German Grand Prix

July 21 - F1 statistics for Sunday's German Grand Prix at Hockenheim:

Wins

Australian Mark Webber has won more races than any driver this season, chalking up his third for Red Bull at the British Grand Prix.

McLaren's Lewis Hamilton and Jenson Button and Red Bull's Sebastian Vettel have won two each while Ferrari's Fernando Alonso has one victory.

Ferrari have won 211 times while McLaren are the second most successful team with 168 victories. Williams have 113 wins. Red Bull have 11.

Podium

Hamilton has now racked up four podium finishes in a row, the first time he has done that since his debut season in 2007 when he had nine in succession.

Pole position

Webber, Hamilton and Vettel are the only drivers to have won from pole this season. Six of the 10 races have been won by drivers not on pole.

Vettel's pole at Silverstone was the 10th of his career.

Ferrari have not been on pole since Brazil 2008.

Red Bull have been on pole in nine of the last 10 races. Vettel has taken five of them.

Qualifying

Red Bull have locked out the front row in five of the 10 races so far this season.

Red Bull have also started the last 14 races with at least one car on the front row. Button has not qualified on the front row since Turkey in June 2009.

Four races this season have been won by drivers who did not start on the front row.

Renault's Russian rookie Vitaly Petrov is the only driver yet to out-qualify his team mate this season. Poland's Robert Kubica has a 10-0 record against him.

Points

Ferrari failed to score at Silverstone, their first race without a point since the 2009 season-ender in Abu Dhabi.

Germany

The last German to win his home Grand Prix was Michael Schumacher with Ferrari in 2006 at Hockenheim.

Sunday will be the seven times world champion's first appearance at Hockenheim for Mercedes.

Six German drivers will be competing on Sunday but Schumacher and Vettel are the only ones to have won a race and only Schumacher has won at home. The others are Adrian Sutil (Force India), Nico Rosberg (Mercedes), Timo Glock (Virgin), Nico Hulkenberg (Williams).

Milestone

Sauber are celebrating the 40th anniversary of Sauber Motorsport, which started out with founder Peter Sauber building racing cars in the cellar of his parents' house. The C29 cars will carry a message to highlight the fact.


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