Pre-GP Stats Analysis: Australia
If you want to know which driver on the grid at Albert Park has owned the greatest number of cats, Michele Merlino probably can't help you. But he has stats for everything else related to this weekend's race...
Back-to-back wins
Kimi Raikkonen is attempting to achieve something that has been done 17 times in the history of Formula One: winning the last race of a season and the first of the following one.
This is the list of back-to-back winners so far:
250 and 500
The Australian Grand Prix will be the stage for two significant milestones.
Rubens Barrichello will celebrate his 250th Grand Prix start in Melbourne. The Brazilian is only seven races short of reaching Riccardo Patrese at the all-time top spot.
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