F1 saw its 11th different race leader this season in the Russian Grand Prix, the most in any year since the V6 hybrid turbos were introduced.
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McLaren end second-longest wait between wins for an F1 team
2021 Italian Grand Prix stats and facts
Posted onOnly one team in F1 history have gone longer between consecutive wins than McLaren. Here are the stats and facts from the Italian Grand Prix.
Verstappen makes the Netherlands 12th country to produce a home F1 winner
2021 Dutch Grand Prix stats and facts
Posted onMax Verstappen’s victory at Zandvoort was a considerable improvement on the last performance by a Dutch driver at home: Huub Rothengatter qualified last and finished 14 laps down.
F1 breaks 30-year-old record for shortest-ever race
2021 Belgian Grand Prix stats and facts
Posted onFormula 1’s farcical ‘race’ at Spa-Francorchamps yesterday created several unusual new lines in the history book.
Ocon is Formula 1’s third new winner in less than a year
2021 Hungarian Grand Prix stats and facts
Posted onFormula 1 is seeing a spate of new winners: Esteban Ocon, Pierre Gasly and Sergio Perez have all taken their first wins in the past 12 months.
Verstappen is first driver to score points without completing a lap in grand prix
2021 British Grand Prix stats and facts
Posted onThe first sprint qualifying weekend created some bizarre statistics after the British Grand Prix, which also saw Lewis Hamilton’s 99th career win.
Verstappen’s first grand slam drives Hamilton’s points deficit to five-year high
2021 Austrian Grand Prix stats and facts
Posted onAfter Max Verstappen’s Austrian grand slam, the last time Lewis Hamilton was this far behind in the points standings he lost the world championship.
The stats which show how Red Bull are ending Mercedes’ dominance of F1
2021 Styrian Grand Prix stats and facts
Posted onThe Styrian Grand Prix stats show Mercedes’ days of dominance are increasingly behind them as Max Verstappen and Red Bull won again.
Verstappen takes his first sweep of pole, fastest lap and victory
2021 French Grand Prix stats and facts
Posted onMax Verstappen scored his first ‘hat-trick’ of pole position, fastest lap and win in the French Grand Prix. Here are more stats from the race.
Hamilton records his worst finish for 12 years with 15th place
2021 Azerbaijan Grand Prix stats and facts
Posted onLewis Hamilton took his worst finish since 2009, Sergio Perez became the first driver to win with two teams in the hybrid era, and more Azerbaijan Grand Prix stats.
Verstappen leads a championship for the first time since his karting years
2021 Monaco Grand Prix stats and facts
Posted onMax Verstappen took the lead of the world championship last weekend – the first time he has led any series since graduating from go-karts.
Next stop 100 race wins: Hamilton’s hundredth pole position in stats
2021 Spanish Grand Prix stats and facts
Posted onLewis Hamilton’s 100th pole position puts him far ahead of anyone else, though four drivers have higher strike rates of grabbing the top spot on the grid.
Williams’ longest-ever point-less run reaches 30 races in a row
2021 Portuguese Grand Prix stats and facts
Posted onWhile Williams have gone 30 races in a row without scoring a point, McLaren is the only team to have scored with both cars in every race this year.
Two British drivers on the podium for the first time in nine years
2021 Emilia-Romagna Grand Prix stats and facts
Posted onSunday’s Emilia-Romagna Grand Prix was the first time in nine years that two British drivers had appeared on the podium.
Mazepin has shortest grand prix debut of any driver since 2002
2021 Bahrain Grand Prix stats and facts
Posted onNikita Mazepin’s first-lap retirement was the shortest debut for a rookie in F1 for 19 years. Here’s more stats and facts from the 2021 Bahrain Grand Prix.
The remarkable stats of Ferrari’s worst season for 40 years
2020 Abu Dhabi Grand Prix stats and facts
Posted onFerrari failed to lead a lap and never qualified on the front row all year on their way to their worst championship position for four decades.
Perez breaks Webber’s record with 190-race wait for first win
2020 Sakhir Grand Prix stats and facts
Posted onSergio Perez set a new record for the longest wait before winning a race, and became the first Mexican to win in F1 for 50 years. Here’s all the Sakhir Grand Prix stats.
Hamilton equals his best winning streak in F1’s longest race since Brazil 2016
2020 Bahrain Grand Prix stats and facts
Posted onLewis Hamilton scored his fifth consecutive win in the longest Formula 1 race since the rain-drenched 2016 Brazilian Grand Prix.
Why Hamilton’s seventh title was his most dominant yet
2020 Turkish Grand Prix stats and facts
Posted onLewis Hamilton’s seventh world championship victory is his most dominant performance to date. He won the title earlier in the year and with a greater share of points than ever before.
Vettel has gone a full year without a podium finish
2020 Emilia-Romagna Grand Prix stats and facts
Posted onA year since he criticised his Mexican Grand Prix trophy, Sebastian Vettel still hasn’t won another. Meanwhile Mercedes scored their 100th victory of the hybrid era.