Stat attack: Spain (post-race)

So much for dull racing in Spain

Last weekend's race included 60 overtaking moves - more than the last nine Spanish Grands Prix combined, with the standout drivers being Sauber's Kamui Kobayashi and Renault's Nick Heidfeld, each of them making 10 moves.

There was another significant record broken at Barcelona as Jarno Trulli became the most overtaken driver in the Formula 1 World Championship since 1983. He has been passed 270 times in his career, surpassing the 262 demotions of three-time grand prix winner Thierry Boutsen.

Qualifying notes

• Mark Webber scored his seventh grand prix pole position and the 20th front row start of his career. It also halted a nine-race run of being beaten by his team-mate in qualifying. In 10 Spanish Grand Prix appearances, he has outqualified his team-mate eight times.

• Sebastian Vettel's string of five straight pole positions came to an end, but he did increase his streak of consecutive front row starts to 10. There have only been six longer sequences in F1 history, the longest being Ayrton Senna's run of 24 straight front row starts from the 1988 German Grand Prix to the 1989 Australian race.

• Red Bull scored its 25th grand prix pole position in Spain. It has had had 20 poles from the last 24 races and is currently on a run of 10 consecutive front-row starts.

• Fernando Alonso took his best qualifying position of 2011 in Spain, in fourth. He had started the previous four grands prix from fifth place.

• Vitaly Petrov equalled his career best grid spot in Spain as he qualified sixth. He had previously started there in Australia.

• Pastor Maldonado became the first Venezeulan driver to start a World Championship grand prix inside the top 10, after qualifying ninth in Spain.

• Michael Schumacher's 10th place on the Barcelona grid was his worst starting spot in Spain, after 18 appearances at the event.

• Heikki Kovalainen put a Lotus into Q2 for the third time since the name returned to F1 last year. The previous two occasions were at the 2010 Malaysian and Belgian Grands Prix.

• With Paul di Resta and Adrian Sutil 16th and 17th, Force India recorded its worst collective qualifying result of the season.

• By contrast, Jarno Trulli achieved his best starting spot since Brazil last year by qualifying 18th.

• Nick Heidfeld did not take part in Barcelona qualifying and had to start the race 24th - an all-time career low. His previous worst starting spot was 22nd at the 2000 San Marino Grand Prix.

Vettel just held off Hamilton © LAT

Race notes

• Vettel took his 14th World Championship grand prix victory, tying him for 16th place in the all-time winners list with Graham hill, Jack Brabham and Emerson Fittipaldi. His Spanish victory - the first for any driver that did not start on pole for 10 years - was also his seventh podium finish in a row. He now leads the World Championship by 41 points and had been in front for 76 per cent of the distance run so far in 2011.

• Vettel's 0.630-second advantage over Lewis Hamilton at the end of last Sunda's race was smallest winning margin in Spain since Ayrton Senna beat Nigel Mansell by 0.014s at Jerez in 1986.

• Both McLaren drivers made it onto the podium for the first time in 2011 in Spain. The last time two men from the Woking squad had done likewise was at last year's Abu Dhabi Grand Prix.

• Hamilton led for 10 laps at Barcelona, making it the 300th World Championship Grand Prix to have been led by a McLaren. Ferrari holds the record, having led 385 races.

• Jenson Button scored his 33rd F1 podium in Spain - the same number as Felipe Massa and former world champions Denny Hulme and Jody Scheckter. It was, however, his 20th straight race without a win.

• Alonso's rocket start put him ahead of Vettel for the first time since last year's Singapore Grand Prix (not including pitstop overlaps). However, his fifth place finish marked the first time he came home a lap down since the 2009 British Grand Prix. Ferrari had not had a car lapped in a race since that year's Abu Dhabi Grand Prix.

• Spain provided Felipe Massa with his endured his first mechanically-induced retirement since China in 2009. It was Ferrari's first DNF through unreliability since Malaysian last year.

• Schumacher's sixth place in Spain was his best result since Korea last year, where he finished fourth.

Heidfeld and Perez finished strongly© LAT

• There was a remarkable performance for Heidfeld, who climbed 16 places from his starting position to finish eighth, setting a new record for the number of spots gained during a Spanish Grand Prix at Barcelona. The previous record had been the 14 spots made up by both Lotus driver Alex Zanardi and Simtek's David Brabham in 1994 on their way to ninth and 10th places. Significantly, Heidfeld beat his team-mate Petrov, who had started 18 places ahead of him.

• There was a maiden F1 points finish for Sergio Perez in ninth, the Sauber rookie becoming the first Mexican to do so since Hector Rebaque at the 1981 Dutch Grand Prix.

• For the first time in his career, Kamui Kobayashi has scored points in four consecutive grands prix. Spain also provided Sauber with its first double points haul since Korea last year. The Swiss squad last made the points in four straight races in 2009.

• Force India has now gone three races without a point. The last time that happened was at the end of the 2009 season.