Post-GP Statistical Analysis: Canada

The first for Kubica

Robert Kubica is the first Polish driver to claim a Grand Prix win and a championship lead in the history of Formula One. He is the sixth youngest driver, winning at 23 years, 6 months and 1 day. The age chart is led by Fernando Alonso, who won his first race in Hungary in 2003 at 22 years and 26 days.

Poland is the 20th country to record a win in Formula One.

BMW Sauber's first win

BMW Sauber are the 31st team to win a Grand Prix race and the fifth in history to claim together with the maiden win also a 1-2 finish.

In the past, it happened in the 1950 British Grand Prix, when the first three cars were all Alfa Romeos; in the 1954 French Grand Prix, when Mercedes scored 1-2; in the 1968 Dutch Grand Prix (Matra); and in the 1998 Belgium Grand Prix, with Damon Hill taking the first win for Jordan followed by teammate Ralf Schumacher.

However, since the 1999 European Grand Prix, no new team won a Grand Prix - at the time, the winner was Johnny Herbert on a Stewart/Ford after a chaotic race held at the Nurburgring.

BMW Sauber have also broken the longest winning streak set by two teams (Ferrari and McLaren), which lasted for 24 races, since the 2006 Brazilian Grand Prix.

Another second for Nick

Nick Heidfeld racked up his fifth second place of his F1 career and now leads the chart of the drivers that scored the highest number of second places without a win. He formerly shared this record with Stefan Johansson.

Coulthard's longevity

Claiming his 62nd podium, David Coulthard climbed to the third all-time place in the longest "podium careers" of all times.

David was for the first time on the podium with a second place in the 1994 Portuguese Grand Prix and thus this podium in Canada comes after 13 years, 8 months and 14 days since.

In Formula One, only two drivers were able to record a longer time span between two podiums: the first was Riccardo Patrese - with 15 years, one month and 29 days from the 1978 Swedish Grand Prix to the 1993 Hungarian Grand Prix; and the second was Michael Schumacher, with a podium career of 14 years, 6 months and 9 days - from the 1992 Mexican Grand Prix to the 2006 Chinese Grand Prix.

Coulthard also scored his first points of the season in the race where 14 years ago he gained his first Formula One points with a fifth place.

Seven leaders

The intervention of the safety car, together with strategies split between one and two stops, helped to record seven race leaders in the Canadian Grand Prix: Lewis Hamilton, Nick Heidfeld, Rubens Barrichello, David Coulthard, Jarno Trulli, Timo Glock and winner Robert Kubica.

This is the second all-time number, behind the 1971 Italian Grand Prix, which recorded eight leaders. There were two more races that recorded seven leaders in the past: the 1973 Canadian Grand Prix and the 1975 British Grand Prix.

For Timo Glock, this was the first time he ever led a Formula One race; Rubens Barrichello wasn't in the lead since the 2005 US Grand Prix; Jarno Trulli since the 2006 French Grand Prix; and David Coulthard since the 2007 European Grand Prix.

Qualifying notes

• Eighth pole position for Lewis Hamilton, which goes alongside John Surtees and Riccardo Patrese at the 30th all-time spot.

• Lewis Hamilton was able to put 0.612 seconds between himself and Robert Kubica, a huge gap - the biggest since Brazil 2006, when Felipe Massa claimed pole with 0.619 over Kimi Raikkonen.

• Nico Rosberg didn't qualify this high in grid since Belgium last year.

• If we exclude the qualifying sessions in which Felipe Massa had problems (Hungary 2007, no fuel; Australia 2007, gearbox), the Brazilian didn't qualify this low down the grid since the 2006 Chinese Grand Prix, when he was 20th after a wet qualifying session and an engine change. Going backwards to find a dry session, we have to go to the 2006 Canadian Grand Prix, when Felipe was tenth.

• Worst qualifying performance of the year for Heikki Kovalainen - he was eighth in Malaysia, but only after being demoted from third following a penalty.

• Best qualifying spot for Rubens Barrichello since the 2007 Monaco Grand Prix. It's the first time since then that Rubens was able to achieve a single-digit qualifying slot.

• Jarno Trulli was beaten by his teammate in qualifying for the first time this season. The only drivers still unbeaten in 2008 are Fernando Alonso and Robert Kubica. This is also the worst qualifying performance by Trulli since last year's Monaco Grand Prix.

• Best career qualifying spot for Adrian Sutil.

• Worst qualifying spot for Jenson Button since the 2007 Turkish Grand Prix, when he was 21st.

Race notes

• Kimi Raikkonen, despite his retirement, claimed the fourth straight fastest lap - the third longest sequence of fastest laps in history.

• By leading the first 18 laps of the race, Lewis Hamilton became the 38th driver who in the history of Formula One led at least 2,000 kilometers in the races. The ranking is led by Michael Schumacher, with 24,127 kilometers in the lead.

• Timo Glock recorded his best F1 result ever. His previous best was a seventh, recorded in the 2004 Canadian Grand Prix.

• For the first time in his career, Sebastian Vettel was able to score points in consecutive races.

• For the third straight race, Jenson Button finished 11th.

• It's the first time since the 2006 US Grand Prix that a McLaren car was not classified in the points. At the time, Juan Pablo Montoya rammed then-teammate Kimi Raikkonen at the first turn and both McLarens were out on the first lap.

• The last time two Toyotas were classified in the points was in the 2006 Japanese Grand Prix, with Trulli 6th and Ralf Schumacher 7th.

• The last time neither a Ferrari nor a McLaren was present on the podium was in the 2006 Malaysian Grand Prix, when Renault took a double with Giancarlo Fisichella in front of Alonso, and the third spot was taken by Button in a Honda.