Stats: Vettel and Webber match Senna and Prost

Sebastian Vettel might not have won the 2013 Formula 1 title in Japan, but he still had another record-breaking weekend, and this time his Red Bull team-mate Mark Webber joined in making history.

• For the first time in his career Vettel nailed five wins in a row. There are only three longer winning sequences in F1 history: seven races, recorded by Alberto Ascari (pictured above at Spa) in 1952-53 (Belgium to Argentina), Michael Schumacher in 2004 (Europe to Hungary) and six races, also recorded by Schumacher in 2000-01 (Italy to Malaysia).

• Webber recorded his 12th pole, equalling Gerhard Berger and David Coulthard at the 29th all-time spot. He is the first Australian to start on pole at Suzuka. Red Bull locked out the front row for the third time in the last four years here (2010, '12-13).

• Even if Webber had not scored all year, Red Bull would be leading the constructors' championship on Vettel's points alone, pipping Ferrari on countback as they would share 297 points.

Schumacher didn't really need Barrichello in 2004 © LAT

The last time a driver could have won the constructors' title for his team all by himself was in 2004, when Schumacher's 148 points would have been enough for Ferrari to beat BAR's 119 even without Rubens Barrichello's contribution.

• Vettel celebrated his 90th grand prix for Red Bull by taking his 34th win for the team. His tally of 58 podiums is only one shy of Nigel Mansell at ninth in the all-time records.

• Qualifying brought Vettel's 60th front-row start. Paradoxically, the second place was his worst qualifying result in his five races at Suzuka, as previously he had always started from pole.

• Webber and Vettel's qualifying result was their 21st time on the front row together. That's the same number of shared front rows that Ayrton Senna and Mansell accumulated.

After Korea, AUTOSPORT highlighted the fact that Lewis Hamilton is the driver who has suffered most from this Red Bull qualifying dominance, as he has started second to a Red Bull 16 times. Moving the analysis to the front-row lockouts, Hamilton has also sat third behind Vettel/Webber front rows eight times, compared to seven occasions for Fernando Alonso and two for Jenson Button.

• The result was Vettel and Webber's 14th one-two as team-mates. That's the same as Alain Prost and Senna scored together at McLaren. With Webber retiring at the end of the year, the one-two record of Schumacher and Barrichello, who took 24 for Ferrari, will remain unbeaten for now.

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• For the first time this year, Vettel lost a place at the start and was beaten in qualifying by his team-mate.

Grosjean took France's 300th podium. This was #67: Patrick Depailler second to Ronnie Peterson in the 1978 South African GP © LAT

• Renault engines locked out the podium once more, the fourth time this season and the second straight after Korea.

• Romain Grosjean secured the 300th podium spot for a French driver in F1. For the first time this year he was able to climb on the podium without being third behind his team-mate Kimi Raikkonen.

In this one grand prix he led more laps (26) than in his previous 40 F1 races, when his tally was just 12. This was the first time he had led a race 'properly', as opposed to during pitstop sequences.

• Both Grosjean and Hamilton fell victim to the curse of Suzuka's second row. No one has ever won a GP from there.

• Hamilton's puncture ended a streak of nine races in the points. In his career of 125 races, he has only once scored in 10 consecutive races, from Japan 2010 to Monaco 2011.

• This was the 100th straight race with at least one German driver in the points, an all-time record for F1. The sequence started in the 2008 British GP. As often happens, these statistics are being rewritten due to the adoption of the new points system in 2010. Great Britain is currently on a streak of 78 races in the points, started at the 2009 Italian GP.

• Another stat skewed by the points change: Alonso's fourth place took him ahead of Schumacher to become the highest-scoring F1 driver of all time, with 1571 to Schumacher's 1566.

• This was Alonso's 70th straight race without mechanical problems. The 2010 Malaysian GP engine failure was his last DNF for a technical reason.

• For the first time in his career, Nico Hulkenberg has been able to score points in four consecutive races. His season turnaround can be summed up in his points stats: he scored seven points in the first 11 races and 32 in the last four.

• Sauber's improvement was confirmed by Esteban Gutierrez in seventh. He is the first 2013 rookie to score points this year. Sauber had its first double points finish since last year's Italian Grand Prix.

• Ninth place was Jenson Button's worst result at Suzuka in his 12 races here. His two points were McLaren's only score of the weekend, making this its worst Japanese GP since 1994, when Martin Brundle had a massive crash and Mika Hakkinen finished seventh.

• Sergio Perez, who was 15th after tangling with Nico Rosberg, has now failed to reach the podium in 15 races for McLaren. The only other McLaren driver from the last two decades who didn't get a podium in his first 15 races with the team was Mark Blundell (pictured below) in 1995.

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