Stats: how Red Bull rates for dominance

Sebastian Vettel dominated the Singapore Grand Prix, posting his third career clean sweep (pole, win, fastest lap, led every lap). He also achieved the feat in the 2011 Indian GP and last year's Japanese race.

One of the most striking aspects of his victory was his final margin over his rivals: 32.627 seconds.

This is rarely seen in modern Formula 1: in the 2008 British Grand Prix, Lewis Hamilton was able to put more than a minute (1m08.577s) over Nick Heidfeld in the wet (pictured above), but in the dry and with a safety car appearance at half distance, this is unprecedented.

To find a bigger margin, you have to go back to the 2005 Hungarian GP, when Kimi Raikkonen beat Michael Schumacher by 35.581s without safety car interventions.

Vettel achieved some more records at Marina Bay:

• For the first time he was able to win the same race for three years on the trot.

• He has spent 2147 laps in the lead, overtaking Nigel Mansell (2089) to claim fourth on the all-time list (Schumacher leads with 5111).

• This was his ninth race in which he led from lights to flag, equalling Nigel Mansell for fifth on the all-time list. Ayrton Senna, leader in this chart, led nineteen races from flag to flag.

• His 20th career fastest lap matches Fernando Alonso.

• This was his 10th season podium, the same number he recorded last year and in 2010. With six races to go, however, he can't match the all-time record of 17, held by himself (from 2011) and Schumacher (2002).

It's interesting to note that after 13 races, Red Bull has already recorded the same number of wins (seven) and podiums (14) as in the entire 2012 season.

A FIRST FOR FORMULA 1

For the third time in a row, Fernando Alonso was second to Sebastian Vettel at the flag.

To find another similar string, we have to go back nine years, when Rubens Barrichello was second to his Ferrari team-mate Michael Schumacher in Europe, Canada and the USA, and it's only the fifth time it has happened in the history of F1.

This is a first for F1 as the previous sequences of three identical one-twos were all recorded by team-mates:

Senna leads Prost during the 1988 Hungarian GP © LAT

1988: Ayrton Senna/Alain Prost (McLaren) in Germany, Hungary and Belgium.
1992: Nigel Mansell/Riccardo Patrese (Williams) in South Africa, Mexico and Brazil.
1997-98: Mika Hakkinen/David Coulthard (McLaren) in Europe 1997, Australia and Brazil 1998.
2004: Michael Schumacher/Rubens Barrichello (Ferrari) in Europe, Canada and USA.

What chance a fourth consecutive one-two for the pair?

RACE

• Fernando Alonso recorded his 94th podium - his 41st with Ferrari, which is the same number he scored for Renault. The remaining 12 were scored with McLaren in 2007.

• Kimi Raikkonen took third from 13th on the grid - the best comeback for a podium spot this season and since Sebastian Vettel finished third from 23rd in last year's Abu Dhabi race.

This year, only the Lotus drivers have been able to score a podium place having started outside the top 10 (Romain Grosjean was third from 11th on the grid in Bahrain). This was the first podium for Kimi in Singapore, at his fourth race here and from his worst starting grid spot (he was 12th on the grid both last year and in 2009).

Now Kimi has climbed onto the podium at almost every track he has raced at, the exceptions being the tracks at which he has competed only once: Austin (sixth), Buddh (seventh) and Yeongam (fifth).

Raikkonen has now taken 28 third places, equalling the all-time record held by Rubens Barrichello. Fernando Alonso is close, as he has finished third 26 times in his career.

• This was the third straight race in which Paul di Resta has retired through an accident - the same number as his entire 2011 and '12 seasons (Canada 2011, Great Britain and Brazil 2012).

• This was the first driver-error retirement for Daniel Ricciardo. His only previous retirement caused by a race accident was in Monaco earlier this year when he was hit by Grosjean.

QUALIFYING

• Mercedes had never previously qualified better than seventh at this track, a result improved on by both drivers this year, with Nico Rosberg in second and Lewis Hamilton in fifth. This was the 25th race with a front-row appearance for a Mercedes.

Raikkonen has gone 60 races without a pole © LAT

• Lewis Hamilton has been outqualified by Nico Rosberg five times this season, the same number of times as his entire 2012 season against Jenson Button at McLaren. This was his worst result here, as previously he had always qualified in the top four.

• Lotus took its best qualifying slot in Singapore, with third for Grosjean, who equalled his best result this season, from Hungary. The team's previous best qualifying result here dates back to 2009 (the Renault years) when Fernando Alonso was fifth.

• Felipe Massa has now managed to beat Fernando Alonso five times in qualifying during a season since they first became team-mates back in 2010. It's also the first time since then that he was able to outqualify him in Singapore. As for Fernando, this was the first time he was outqualified in Singapore - it was his worst grid result here since 2008, when he was 15th and went on to controversially win the race.

• Esteban Gutierrez posted his best career result, getting into Q3 for the first time and beating team-mate Nico Hulkenberg for the first time. At this point of the season, only Sebastian Vettel and Jules Bianchi have a perfect score against their respective team-mates in qualifying.

• Kimi Raikkonen recorded his 60th straight race without pole, missing out on a top-10 grid spot in back-to-back races (he was 11th at Monza) for the first time since France and Great Britain, back in 2005, following an engine-change penalty both times.

To find two other back-to-back races with Kimi outside the top 10 on the grid, excluding mechanical problems or penalties, we have to go back to his maiden season of 2001, when he was 11th at Indianapolis and 12th at Suzuka.

• Sergio Perez is the only McLaren driver to have ever missed out on a top-10 grid spot at this track.

• Pastor Maldonado was second on the Singapore grid last year, but this year he was the slowest driver of the established teams in 18th. Now that Gutierrez has notched up his first Q3 appearance, Maldonado is the only driver among the established teams who has failed to get into Q3 this season.