Stat Attack: Britain

Britain personal scorecard

• Sebastian Vettel scored a hat-trick of win, pole position and fastest lap at Silverstone in 2009, but last year his pole came to nothing when a first corner tangle with Lewis Hamilton punctured a tyre and left him to fight back to seventh. He has never been outqualified by his team-mate in Britain.

• Mark Webber triumphed for Red Bull last year as he led from start to finish, following up a second place in 2009. Prior to that he had scored just one point at Silverstone in 2004 for Jaguar, despite qualifying inside the top 10 a total of four times. His victory in 2010 made him the eighth different winner from the last eight British Grands Prix, joining Rubens Barrichello, Michael Schumacher, Juan Pablo Montoya, Fernando Alonso, Kimi Raikkonen, Hamilton and Vettel. The last driver to win back-to-back British Grands Prix was David Coulthard in 1999 and 2000.

• Lewis Hamilton has been on the podium in all but one of his British Grands Prix. That rogue result came in 2009 when he was 16th in a dismally slow McLaren and was a year after he recorded a famous win by over a minute from Nick Heidfeld in torrential rain. Unusually, his qualifying record at Silverstone is not great, Heikki Kovalainen twice starting ahead of him while they were McLaren team-mates.

• Silverstone is one of Jenson Button's worst circuits historically as the Briton has never finished on the podium or led a lap of his home grand prix. He has qualified in the top 10 only four times in 11 years. Perhaps as a result, he has never finished higher than fourth, those results coming in 2004 and 2010.

• Fernando Alonso finished on the podium at Silverstone three years in a row from 2005-2007 and took a victory from pole with the fastest lap during the middle year.

• Felipe Massa has a terrible record in Britain with only three points finishes and three top 10 starts to speak of. The last two years have provided his best and worst Silverstone finishes with his fourth place in 2009 and his 15th spot in 2010 each coming for Ferrari. Despite his poor record, the Brazilian has never failed to finish the British Grand Prix.

• Michael Schumacher's Silverstone record was extremely poor before he joined Ferrari, the German managing a solitary podium finish in 1993 during his Benetton days prior to winning three times for the Italian squad. He has scored points whenever he has finished, a ninth place last year being his worst finish in Britain. He has never qualified outside the top 10 either, just scraping into 10th on the grid in 2010.

• Nico Rosberg scored his first British Grand Prix podium last year, and has not finished in the top three since then. Despite finishing in each of his starts at Silverstone, it is only in the last two years that he has qualified inside the top 10 with seventh and fifth positions.

• Nick Heidfeld's best British Grand Prix finish was second in 2008 for BMW Sauber - albeit a minute behind winner Hamilton. He has qualified in the top 10 in three of his last four appearances at Silverstone.

• Vitaly Petrov qualified only 15th last year race and finished down in 13th after sustaining a puncture during the race.

Barrichello was sensational on his way to victory in 2003 © LAT

• Rubens Barrichello recorded a hat-trick of win, pole and fastest lap in 2003 and has been on the podium six times at Silverstone - a figure that only Michael Schumacher's seven can beat. He has missed out on a top 10 grid spot only five times in 18 years and was on pole for the 2000 and 2003 races.

• Pastor Maldonado has won twice at Silverstone in GP2, the Venezuelan taking the sprint race in 2009 and the feature event last year.

• Adrian Sutil has never qualified inside the top 10 at Silverstone, but did take his first points finish in Britain with eighth for Force India last year.

• His F3 Euro Series and DTM commitments in recent years means that Paul di Resta has not raced at Silverstone since 2004. On that occasion he finished second in the first of two Formula Renault UK races after starting from pole and was then taken out of the lead of the second encounter.

• Kamui Kobayashi was sixth last year after starting 12th.

• Sergio Perez won last year's GP2 sprint race at Silverstone and finished in the top 10 in each of his other three starts in the series. His standout drive came in the 2009 feature race as he finished fourth from 26th on the grid.

• Sebastien Buemi has never started or finished in the top 10 at Silverstone, having started his first British Grand Prix in 2009.

• Jaime Alguersuari has not has much luck in Britain either, a brake problem putting him out of last year's race while 11th.

• Silverstone was the scene of Heikki Kovalainen's only F1 pole position in 2008, and the Finn converted it into a fifth place in the race, which remains his best British Grand Prix result. It is also the last time he has scored points or started from the top 10 at the track. He has never been outqualified by a team-mate at the circuit.

• Jarno Trulli has managed just eight points from his 14 British Grand Prix starts, despite qualifying in the top 10 on seven occasions. Sixth places in 2000 for Jordan and 2003 for Renault remain his best results.

Daniel Ricciardo Toro Rosso 2011 © LAT

• Daniel Ricciardo last raced at Silverstone in September 2010 in Formula Renault 3.5, retiring from the first race before finishing second to Esteban Guerrieri later on by just 0.5s. If he qualifies, Silverstone will mark the first time two Australians have started a World Championship F1 race since the 1977 Austrian Grand Prix. On that occasion the drivers were Alan Jones - who took his maiden F1 win there - and Vern Schuppan.

• Vitantonio Liuzzi has competed in three British Grand Prix and has never started or finished in the top 10. Last year's 11th place from 20th on the grid provided his best result.

• Timo Glock has finished every British Grand Prix he's started, but never scored a point.

• Jerome d'Ambrosio started six times at Silverstone during his GP2 career, but only managed a single top 10 finish with ninth in the 2008 feature race.

Britain teams' scorecard

• Red Bull has won the last two British Grands Prix from pole position, and scored a one-two finish with Vettel and Webber in 2009. Prior to that result, a Red Bull had never finished inside the top 10 at Silverstone.

• McLaren and Ferrari share the record for F1 World Championship wins at Silverstone. The British team's last victory here came with Lewis Hamilton in 2008.

• Since Kimi Raikkonen's win in 2007, Ferrari has not had a podium at the British Grand Prix and last year it failed to score a point for the first time since 1997. The Italian manufacturer, which took its first pole and win in the Formula 1 World Championship at Silverstone in 1951, has not had a pole at Silverstone since 2003 or a front-row start since 2007.

• The Brackley-based Mercedes team has achieved a third place for the last three years at Silverstone, its 2009 and 2008 podiums coming under the team's previous guises of Brawn and Honda.

• Renault has not scored at point at Silverstone since 2008 and has not won there since Alonso's 2006 victory.

Regazzoni gave Williams its first GP win at Silverstone in 1979 © LAT

• Silverstone is a special circuit for Williams as its where Clay Regazzoni gave the squad its first World Championship race win in 1979 (Alan Jones had taken the team's first pole the day before). Jacques Villeneuve's 1997 victory was also the 100th for the outfit.

• Force India has never had a top 10 grid spot at Silverstone, although Sutil did give the squad its first points in the race with eighth spot last year.

• Sauber (including the BMW Sauber days) has scored points and qualified inside the top 10 with at least one car in four of the last five years. The only year it did not manage to do so was in 2009.

• Toro Rosso has something of a curse on Silverstone having never recorded a top 10 finish. Sebastien Bourdais' 11th spot in 2008 remains the team's best result, although Vettel did manage its lone top 10 grid spot with eighth the same year.

Don't expect a surprise

Silverstone is not a track for surprise winners. Nobody has won from lower than fourth on the grid since Johnny Herbert, who started fifth before winning in 1995. The lowest starting spot anybody has won from at the track is seventh, achieved by Emerson Fittipaldi in 1975.

The last three British Grands Prix have been dominated by their winners as Hamilton (2008), Vettel (2009) and Webber (2010) all led at least 90 per cent of the race distance on their way to victories.