McLaren out to extend Hungarian record

Should Jenson Button or Lewis Hamilton win the Hungarian Grand Prix, it will only increase McLaren's status as the most successful team in the history of the race.

The British outfit has triumphed nine times, beginning with Ayrton Senna in 1988 and culminating in Hamilton's 2009 victory at the Hungaroring. Only Williams, with seven wins, comes close to beating it.

Senna is the team's most successful driver in Hungary with three wins, his consecutive successes in 1991 and 1992 adding to that of 1988. However, Hamilton has two wins to his name since 2007, a figure that ties him with the number of wins achieved at the circuit by double world champion Mika Hakkinen in 1999 and 2000.

McLaren took three wins on the bounce from 2007-2009, thanks to two from Hamilton and one from Heikki Kovalainen. Last year, however, it missed out on a podium for the first time since 2004.

Hungaroring driver notes

• Sebastian Vettel started from pole position in last year's Hungarian Grand Prix and finished third, despite a drive-through penalty that ultimately cost him victory. He was also on the front row in 2009.

• Mark Webber's most recent grand prix win came at the Hungaroring last year, and the circuit has usually been good to the Australian. He was also on the podium in 2009 and has qualified inside the top 10 for the past five years.

• Hamilton is a two-time winner in Hungary, his victories coming in 2007 and 2009. In 2008 he was challenging for victory when he suffered a puncture, while last year a broken gearbox put him out of contention. He has never been outqualified by a team-mate at the Hungaroring.

• Button will become the 11th driver to celebrate his 200th World Championship grand prix start this weekend in Hungary, ironically at the track at which he took his maiden Formula 1 win for Honda in 2006. Aside from that victory, he has never finished on the podium at the Hungaroring and has scored points only five times from his 11 starts at the circuit. During the last five years he has only managed to qualify inside the top 10 on one occasion in 2008, while fourth is the best he has ever managed at the track.

• Like Button, the Hungaroring was the setting for Fernando Alonso's maiden grand prix win back in 2003. He has finished on the podium twice more; in 2004 and 2010 and qualified on pole twice as well.

• Felipe Massa has never finished on the podium in Hungary and has scored points on only two of his eight starts at the Hungaroring. His best result was a fourth place last year on his return to the track for the first time since the qualifying accident that put him out for the second half of the 2009 season. One year earlier he led most of the race only to retire with a dead engine in the closing stages.

Schumacher won the 1994 Hungarian GP for Benetton © LAT

• Michael Schumacher is the most successful driver in Hungarian Grand Prix history with four wins and seven pole positions, numbers that dwarf the achievements of Senna (three wins and four poles). He has not got close to adding to his seven podium places there recently though, the German failing to qualify inside the top 10 for either of his last two appearances in Hungary.

• Nico Rosberg will mark the 100th race of an F1 career that has so far failed to yield a win or pole position this weekend. His best Hungarian race came in 2009 when he qualified fifth and finished fourth for Williams. He has always qualified well there; the 2006 race being the only time he started behind his team-mate.

• Nick Heidfeld has twice finished on the podium in Hungary in 2006 and 2007 - the German starting from the front row alongside Hamilton in the latter season. However, he has failed to net a top 10 grid spot or a point from his last two visits to the race.

• Vitaly Petrov had a sensational Hungarian Grand Prix last year as the Russian outpaced his Renault team-mate Robert Kubica all weekend to take a then career best seventh place on the grid and fifth at the finish.

• Rubens Barrichello won the 2002 Hungarian Grand Prix in a Ferrari and was the runner-up in 2001 and 2004. Recently though he has endured tougher times at the Hungaroring, having scored only one point in the last four years and never making it into the top 10 of the grid in that time.

• Pastor Maldonado made eight starts in GP2 at the Hungaroring. His best season came last year when he won the feature race from fourth on the grid.

• Adrian Sutil has never qualified inside the top 10 or scored a point in Hungary, and has been a retiree for the last three years - covering only 16 laps since 2008. His last finish in the race was a 17th place in 2007.

• Paul di Resta's only experience of the Hungaroring was as Force India's test driver last year.

• Kamui Kobayashi produced a stunning drive last year to finish ninth after he missed the weighbridge in qualifying and was sent back to 23rd on the grid with a penalty.

• Sergio Perez has raed four times in GP2 in Hungary and was third in last year's feature race behind Maldonado and Christian Vietoris.

Buemi started inside the top 10 in 2009 © LAT

• A 12th place last year represented Sebastien Buemi's best finish in Hungary, however he did manage an impressive 10th place on the grid in 2009.

• Jaime Alguersuari became the youngest driver in F1 history when he made his grand prix debut at the Hungaroring in 2009, but has never really made a mark there, having a best grid spot of 17th and a best race finish of only 15th.

• Heikki Kovalainen scored his only grand prix win in Hungary in 2008 after Massa's late retirement. He was a constant points scorer at the Hungaroring during his Renault and McLaren years.

• Jarno Trulli qualified inside the top 10 in Hungary every year from 2001-2008, but never made it onto the podium and has scored only 10 points from his 14 starts at the circuit. He has retired four times due to mechanical problems.

• Daniel Ricciardo last raced at the Hungaroring in Formula Renault 3.5 earlier this month and took a best result of 12th. Last year he was a winner there ahead of Mikhail Aleshin and Sten Pentus.

• Vitantonio Liuzzi has qualified 16th on three occasions at the Hungaroring and last year completed the race distance for the first time in 13th place.

• Timo Glock scored his maiden F1 podium in Hungary in 2008 for Toyota after starting fifth on the grid.

• Jerome d'Ambrosio has raced six times in GP2 in Hungary and averages a retirement every two races. His best result was a sixth place last year. He's got some way to go to repeat the achievement of his countryman Thierry Boutsen in 1990. His victory for Williams was the last time a Belgian driver scored a victory, pole position or podium finish in F1.

Hungaroring team notes

Webber dominated for Red Bull last year © LAT

• Red Bull dominated in Hungary last year, its pole-winning time being 1.2s faster than that of third placed qualifier Alonso. Its one-two finish, however, was spoiled by Vettel's drive-through penalty that dropped him behind the Ferrari driver.

• Ferrari has not won in Hungary since 2004, when Schumacher led Barrichello home in a one-two finish. Since then the Italian team has finished second on four occasions.

• The current Mercedes team has never won in Hungary, although its previous incarnation of Honda (which morphed into Mercedes via the Brawn identity) did achieve a victory via Button in 2006.

• Renault won in Hungary in 2003 as a young Alonso took his maiden F1 win, but it has not made the podium since 2004 - also with the Spaniard.

• Williams won the inaugural Hungarian Grand Prix in 1986 thanks to Nelson Piquet, but has not been on the podium since 2003 with Juan Pablo Montoya. Its best recent results in the country were a fourth place for Rosberg in 2009 and sixth for Nico Hulkenberg last year.

• Force India has never qualified inside the top 10 or scored a point in Hungary. Its best result was Liuzzi's 13th place last year.

• Sauber finished on the podium in 2006 and 2007 (as BMW Sauber) courtesy of Nick Heidfeld and in 1997 thanks to the skills of Johnny Herbert. The Swiss team has scored points for the last five years in Hungary.

• Toro Rosso has never scored a point in Hungary, its best year coming in 2009 when Buemi gave the team its only top 10 grid spot.