Pre-GP Stats Analysis: Spain
Michele Merlino digs through the stats database ahead of this weekend's Grand Prix in Barcelona
4x4?
In the first three races we witnessed three different pole-sitters: Lewis Hamilton, Felipe Massa and Robert Kubica. If there will be a fourth different pole-sitter in Spain, it will be the first time since 1983 that the first four races have produced four different drivers on pole. At the time these were Keke Rosberg, Patrick Tambay, Alain Prost and Rene Arnoux.
Ferrari and McLaren
The count of consecutive wins for these two teams, which started at the 2006 Brazilian Grand Prix, needs an update. It reached 21 races in Bahrain, and to find a longer sequence of wins by only two teams we have to go back to 1991-1992, when Williams and McLaren were the only winners between the 1991 Mexican Grand Prix and the 1992 Hungarian Grand Prix - a total of 22 races.
Share Or Save This Story
Stats: Webber's final F1 tally
Stats: Alonso's Interlagos jinx
Stats: only Ascari left to topple
Stats: F1's late-race shootouts
Stats: Modern F1's biggest wins
Stats: Formula 1's pole jinxes
Vettel's Formula 1 success in numbers
Stats: McLaren has had it worse than this
Paddon seals back-to-back ERC titles in Poland
Exclusive: FIA would need ‘to cross a barrier’ to support 25 F1 races
How a world karting champion ended up an F1 team boss
De Vries critical of "domestic-specific" Super Formula penalty
When a generation of drivers learned skills for life from an atypical academy scheme
The enduring power of Prodrive at 40
Inside the archive that keeps motorsport’s most closely-guarded secrets
The choppy waters McLaren has navigated behind the scenes of its F1 success
Subscribe and access Autosport.com with your ad-blocker.
From Formula 1 to MotoGP we report straight from the paddock because we love our sport, just like you. In order to keep delivering our expert journalism, our website uses advertising. Still, we want to give you the opportunity to enjoy an ad-free and tracker-free website and to continue using your adblocker.
