Italian GP statistics
2010-09-09 08:10
Sept 8 - F1 statistics for Sunday's Italian Grand Prix at Monza:
Wins
Red Bull's Australian Mark Webber has won four races this season, McLaren's Lewis Hamilton three. Ferrari's Fernando Alonso, McLaren's Jenson Button and Red Bull's Sebastian Vettel have two victories each.
Ferrari have won a total of 212 times (from 806 races contested) while McLaren are the second most successful team with 169 victories. Williams have 113 wins. Red Bull have 12.
Hamilton's win at Spa was the 14th of the Briton's career, lifting him alongside his late compatriot Graham Hill, Brazilian Emerson Fittpaldi and Australian Jack Brabham in the all-time lists.
Only 14 drivers have won more races than Hamilton. Michael Schumacher, now at Mercedes, holds the record of 91 wins.
Pole position
Webber, Hamilton and Vettel are the only drivers to have won from pole this season. Only four of the 13 races have been won by drivers starting on pole.
Vettel is chasing his eighth pole of the season while Red Bull are after their 13th in 14 races.
Belgium was the team's 17th pole, one more than now-departed champions Benetton managed.
Only two teams have ever managed more than 12 poles in a single season - McLaren with 15 in 1988 and 1989 and Williams with 15 in 1992 and 1993. Williams hold the record for successive poles, with 24 in a row in 1992/93.
Ferrari were last on pole in Brazil in 2008, 30 races ago.
Front row
Red Bull have locked out the front row in six races this season. They have also started the last 17 races with at least one car on the front row.
World champion Button has not qualified on the front row since Turkey in June last year.
Monza
Ferrari have won five of the last 10 Italian Grand Prix at Monza.
The driver on pole position has won seven of the last 10 races at the Milanese circuit.
Michael Schumacher (with Ferrari in 2000 and 2003) is the only driver in the last 19 seasons to win at Monza and go on to take the championship that year.
The last Italian driver to win at Monza was Ludovico Scarfiotti with Ferrari in 1966. The last to win in Italy was Riccardo Patrese at Imola in 1990.
Milestones
Sunday will be Fernando Alonso's first Italian Grand Prix as a Ferrari driver.
Heikki Kovalainen's 13th place on the starting grid for Lotus at the previous Belgian Grand Prix was the highest slot by a driver for a new team this season.
Sauber's Japanese driver Kamui Kobayashi celebrates his 24th birthday on the Monday after the race.
Sunday will be Bridgestone's last F1 race in Europe before quitting as tyre supplier at the end of the season.
