Canadian GP Facts, Stats & Memoirs

Nick Heidfeld's pole position at the Nurburgring makes him the twelfth driver on the grid with one or more pole positions. That's the highest number since the end of 1986, when the retirements of Alan Jones, Patrick Tambay and Keke Rosberg meant going from twelve to nine. That Heidfeld didn't convert his maiden pole into a win is hardly surprising. Of the current field only Michael Schumacher and Jarno Trulli have went on to win the first race they started from pole.

For Ferrari there doesn't seem to come an end to the misery. The team's now win-less for eight races, their longest drought since Michael Schumacher's first win for the team in the Spanish Grand Prix of 1996. McLaren are a completely different story at the moment. While Kimi Raikkonen lost his win right at the end of the European Grand Prix, Juan Pablo Montoya finished in the points to make it twelve consecutive races with points for the Woking team.