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F1 stats: Hungarian Grand Prix

July 28 - F1 statistics for Sunday's Hungarian Grand Prix in Budapest:

Wins

Ferrari's Fernando Alonso, McLaren's Jenson Button and Lewis Hamilton and Red Bull's Sebastian Vettel have won two races each this season. Red Bull's Australian Mark Webber has won three.

Ferrari have won 212 times (from 804 races contested) while McLaren are the second most successful team with 168 victories. Williams have 113 wins. Red Bull have 11.

Alonso's win at Hockenheim was the 23rd of his career, equalling the tally of Brazilian Nelson Piquet senior. One more win would put him level with Argentina's late five times champion Juan Manuel Fangio in the all-time lists.

Pole position

Webber, Hamilton and Vettel are the only drivers to have won from pole this season. Seven of the 11 races have been won by drivers not on pole.

Vettel's pole at Hockenheim was the 11th of his career, sixth of the season and third in a row.

The German's margin of 0.002 was the closest since the 2006 Italian Grand Prix, when Kimi Raikkonen also took pole by two thousandths of a second.

The closest ever was the 1997 European Grand Prix in Jerez when Jacques Villeneuve, Michael Schumacher and Heinz-Harald Frentzen all clocked exactly the same time.

Ferrari were last on pole in Brazil in 2008, 28 races ago.

Red Bull have been on pole in all but one race this season. The team have now had 15 poles in F1, one more than Tyrrell managed.

Qualifying

Red Bull have locked out the front row in five races this season. They have also started the last 15 races with at least one car on the front row.

World champion 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 an 11-0 record against him.

Hungary

The Hungaroring hosts its 25th Grand Prix this weekend.

McLaren have won the last three Hungarian Grands Prix and six of the last 11. Despite the circuit's reputation as a difficult one to overtake on, only one of the last five races there has been won from pole.

Only twice in the last 10 years has the winner in Hungary gone on to win the title that year (Michael Schumacher 2004, 2001).

Schumacher has won in Hungary more often than any other driver (four times). McLaren's Lewis Hamilton has won it twice in three years.

There are no Hungarian drivers. Zsolt Baumgartner remains the only Hungarian to have competed in F1.

Both Jenson Button and Fernando Alonso took their first Formula One wins in Hungary (2006 and 2003 respectively). Poland's Robert Kubica made his race debut there in 2006.

Milestone

Alonso celebrates his 29th birthday on Thursday. Germany was his 100th scoring finish and it came in his 150th race.

Former champions Williams have now gone 100 race weekends without winning. Their last was in Brazil in 2004.


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