Stats: Webber's final F1 tally

FAREWELL MARK WEBBER

As Mark Webber waves goodbye to Formula 1 and heads back to sportscars, here is where his final grand prix placed him in the record books:

• He finished his F1 career with his 42nd podium finish, matching Damon Hill at 18th on the all-time spot.

• Although twice a winner at Interlagos, his second place this year meant his F1 stint ended with a 30-race winless streak, since Silverstone 2012.

• Qualifying fourth was a hint that Webber wouldn't win; all his victories have come from front-row starts.

• This year Webber took five second places but no wins. The record for podiums without victories in a single season is Francois Cevert's six in 1973. Patrick Depailler matched Webber's tally of five in 1976.

The 11th fastest race lap of Webber's career was Spa 2011; for Moss it was Nurburgring 1958 © LAT

• Webber scored his 19th fastest race lap, the same tally as Stirling Moss, Ayrton Senna and Damon Hill, putting him equal 13th in the all-time rankings.

• Webber is the only driver on nine race wins in the F1 record books. That's the 33rd highest win tally of all time, slotting in behind James Hunt, Ronnie Peterson, Jody Scheckter and Gerhard Berger's 10 victories, and ahead of Jacky Ickx and Denny Hulme on eight.

ANOTHER RACE, ANOTHER BATCH OF VETTEL RECORDS

Another race with pole, victory and leading every lap (across the line at least) means another set of records for Vettel:

• A 13th win of the year, equalling Michael Schumacher in 2004 for the most victories in a single year.

• A ninth straight win in a single year, a record all-time winning streak.

• Vettel's sequence of wins began in Belgium. Since then he has racked up 444 laps in the lead. His rivals have only led 64 between them in that time.

• An 11th straight podium matched his run from Brazil 2010 to Britain 2011, the third-longest podium streak of all-time.

Stewart has the longest streak of consecutive races led in F1 career. This is race #7 of his 17-GP run: Zandvoort 1969 © LAT

• It was the 13th straight race that Vettel had led, which matches his string from Japan 2010 to Britain 2011. The only longer streaks of races led are Jackie Stewart's 17 from the 1968 United States GP to the 1970 Belgian GP, and Michael Schumacher's run of 15 from Australia to Italy in 2004.

• The win was Vettel's 62nd podium finish, equalling David Coulthard for seventh in the all-time list.

• Vettel's 397 points were enough to give Red Bull the constructors' championship crown even if Webber hadn't scored anything, as runner-up Mercedes finished the year on 360. The last time the champion driver scored more points than the constructors' runner-up was in 2004, when Michael Schumacher took 148 points and BAR scored 119 to take second behind Ferrari in the teams' standings.

Some other big numbers from Vettel's dominant year:

• He finished in the top four at every race bar Silverstone, where he retired from the lead late on.

• He qualified in the top three for every race bar Shanghai, where he didn't run in Q3 and started ninth.

• He reached Q3 for every grand prix, just as he did in 2010 and '11. Vettel has only dropped out of qualifying early four times since the start of 2009.

• The only race that Vettel didn't lead this year was Monaco.

• Vettel won 10 of the 11 races that followed Pirelli's change of tyre structure for Hungary. Prior to that, his tally was three wins in eight races.

• Vettel was only overtaken on track four times all year, the last occurrence being in Spain in May.

• The Spanish GP was also the last time championship runner-up Fernando Alonso finished in front of Vettel in a race.

McLaren had a poor qualifying record in 1983 too, but that didn't stop John Watson coming from 22nd on the grid to win on the Long Beach streets © LAT

McLAREN HIGHS AND LOWS

McLaren had little to celebrate in 2013, and it was only Jenson Button's result in the final race that prevented this being the team's first season without a top-four finish since its debut year in 1966.

But it was still McLaren's first season without a win since 2006, its first without a podium since 1980, and its first without qualifying in the top five since 1983.

On the plus side, McLaren became the first team in history to have both its cars classified at every race during the season.

The two Woking cars completed 99.17 per cent of the possible race distance (11488kms out of 11584), which was also a new record, beating BMW Sauber's 2008 tally of covering 98.3 per cent of the season's racing laps.

The only times McLaren didn't complete all the laps in 2013 were...

Last-gasp retirements: Button stopped with a vibration three laps from the end in Malaysia; Sergio Perez had a brake issue six laps from the end in Monaco and Perez stopped due to a puncture six laps from home in Britain. In all three cases, the cars had completed enough distance to still be classified in the official results.

Alfa Romeo was particularly bad at finishing races in 1985. Eddie Cheever lasted just 10 laps in Monaco © LAT

Getting lapped: Both cars were lapped in Canada, Perez was lapped in Hungary and Japan, and Button was lapped in India.

McLaren's long-time major rival Williams also had a dismal year and didn't get on the podium.

That made 2013 the first year since 1971 to feature neither a McLaren or Williams podium finish.

OTHER INTERLAGOS STATS SNIPPETS

• Alonso extended his record of podiums without victories at Interlagos to eight, as he secured his 95th top-three finish in F1.

• Alonso is also the only one of the top six drivers in this year's championship to not qualify on the front row. His only other season without a front-row start was his rookie year with Minardi in 2001, when his best grid slot was 17th.

Sutil risks breaking Martini's podium-free record © LAT

• Adrian Sutil is now on 109 races without a podium finish. That puts him behind only Minardi stalwart Pierluigi Martini, whose podium-less career stretched to 119 races.

• Max Chilton may have finished all the races, but his 1103 racing laps completed trailed Button (1126), Vettel (1120) and Perez (1116).

• Chilton also equalled Heikki Kovalainen's record 2012 run of 19 consecutive race finishes without scoring.

• Interlagos remains an unhappy venue for Romain Grosjean (pictured below). His lap-three engine failure this year followed last season's lap-five spin and 2009's 13th position.

• Hamilton was outqualified by Nico Rosberg for an eighth time, the most he has ever been outpaced by a team-mate in qualifying in a single season. Seven defeats by Alonso in 2007 and Button in '11 are his previous lows.