Collecting the classics – Hamilton's ultimate set

Lewis Hamilton has now arguably won all the 'classic' races on the current Formula 1 calendar following his commanding victory in Sunday's Italian Grand Prix.

If we consider the seven circuits on the schedule that have hosted 30 grands prix or more, Lewis has won everywhere: Hockenheim/Nurburgring, Monte Carlo, Montreal, Monza, Silverstone and Spa.

Among the current crop of drivers, only Michael Schumacher can boast a similar tally. Of the others, Fernando Alonso hasn't won at Spa yet, Kimi Raikkonen at Hockenheim, Monza or the Nurburgring, and Sebastian Vettel has yet to stand on the top step at Hockeneheim, Nurburgring and Montreal. Jenson Button, meanwhile, has won at just three of them: Monte Carlo, Montreal and Spa.

Of his 20 victories so far, Lewis has also now won on 15 different circuits. And his Monza triumph puts him alongside Mika Hakkinen at 13th on the all-time win list.

Lewis also matched Gerhard Berger's 48 career podiums, which puts him equal 12th on the all-time list; for McLaren it was the team's 480th podium (Ferrari leads at 660).

Monza provided McLaren with its 180th victory and its 10th in the royal park. It was also the third straight win for McLaren - and that hasn't happened since the British-Hungarian Grands Prix run in 2008.

Perez comeback

Sergio Perez enjoyed an astonishing comeback through the field during the Italian Grand Prix, finishing second to record his equal best result, having started from 12th on the grid. And statistically speaking, that's a particularly tough task at Monza.

It's only the 10th time that a driver starting so low down the grid has been able to climb onto the podium at Monza. These are all the occurrences:

Fernando Alonso staged a remarkable comeback, finishing third from 10th. In his case, the task was not easy either: in the past only 17 drivers have climbed onto the podium starting 10th or lower at Monza. Before Alonso, the last driver to achieve it was Robert Kubica, who went from 11th to third in the wet 2008 race. The last person to do it in a dry race was Heinz-Harald Frentzen, in 1995, when he went from 10th to third. Peter Gethin won the 1971 race from 11th on the grid.

Rotation

There were seven winners from seven races at the start of the season. Since then the trend of alternating on the top step of the podium has continued through the 13th race on the calendar.

The inconsistency trend is quite marked; not only has no winner been able to repeat the trick in the following race this year, but four times an accident has marred the race of the previous winner and once, at Monza, that driver was stopped because of a mechanical problem.

This year only Fernando Alonso has been able to follow up a win with a podium, at Valencia and Silverstone.

Race

• Fernando Alonso took his 80th career podium at Monza - the same number as Ayrton Senna - which is third in the all-time list.

• Felipe Massa equalled his best result of the season with fourth, which was also his best result since his last podium, at Korea in 2010 (34 races ago).

Jerome d'Ambrosio finished 13th at Monza © LAT

• Jerome d'Ambrosio scored his best career result. However, his 13th place is only one position better than his best finishes with Virgin last year, in Australia and Canada.

• Italy provided the first double retirement for Red Bull since the 2010 Korean Grand Prix, which was also the last time the team failed to score points.

• Monza usually marks the first retirement of the season for Mark Webber, and so it was the case this year when he flat-spotted his tyres with a spin. It was the same last year, when he went off at Parabolica with a damaged front wing, and it was also the case in 2009 when he had an accident with Kubica on the opening lap.

• Nico Hulkenberg retired in the final stages with brake failure. It's the first terminal mechanical glitch for a Force India car in a year (in 2011 Adrian Sutil stopped at Monza because of a hydraulic failure). Now the only team which hasn't endured a race-ending mechanical failure this season is Ferrari, whose last car breakage was in India last year following a rough ride by Felipe Massa over high kerbs.

• Jenson Button suffered his third mechanical failure of the year. He stopped at Monza with a fuel feed issue, got a puncture in Monaco and had a differential problem in Bahrain. This makes 2012 his unluckiest season since 2007, when he retired five times with mechanical problems.

Qualifying

• Lewis Hamilton took his 23rd career pole position. It was the third consecutive pole for the McLaren team, which hasn't recorded that kind of streak since the 2008 British to Hungarian Grands Prix.

Juan-Pablo Montoya was on pole for Williams' last front-row lockout at Hockenheim in 2003 © LAT

• McLaren locked out the front row for the third time this year, having also done so in Melbourne and Sepang. It's the 61st time the Woking team has done this, which means it now equals Williams at the top of the list. The last front-row lockout for Sir Frank's team dates back to the 2003 German Grand Prix.

• Before last weekend, Felipe Massa hadn't qualified in the top three since the 2011 Canadian Grand Prix (24 races) and was able to beat Alonso (albeit benefiting from the Spaniard's mechanical problem) for the first time since the 2011 Korean GP (15 races). It's 50 races since Massa was last on the front row...

• Kamui Kobayashi was able to get a Sauber into the top 10 at Monza for the first time since 2008.

• Paul di Resta lost his career-best qualifying position because of a gearbox penalty - he was fourth at the end of qualifying, his previous best being sixth. In the end he was demoted to ninth.

• Saturday was one to forget for Fernando Alonso, who recorded his worst grid spot at Monza since 2006, when he was also 10th after Ferrari lodged an appeal against him blocking Massa.

• Mark Webber was out of the top 10 at Monza for the first time since 2007.

• Lotus stand-in Jerome d'Ambrosio scored the best qualifying result of his F1 career: 15th. It was the first time he'd reached the second qualifying stint.