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by Agency Staff
2016-03-17 05:00:00.0
MELBOURNE — Statistics for Sunday’s Australian Formula One Grand Prix:
Lap distance: 5.303km; Total distance: 307.574km (58 laps); Race lap record: Michael Schumacher (Germany) 1:24.125 (Ferrari, 2004) 2015 pole: Lewis Hamilton (Britain) Mercedes 1:26.327; 2015 winner: Hamilton; Start time: 7am SA time; Wins: Mercedes won 16 of the 19 races last season, with a record 12 one-two finishes. Ferrari won the other three.
Hamilton, now a triple world champion, won 11 races in 2014 and 10 last year. His German teammate Nico Rosberg ended the year with three wins in a row. Hamilton has 43 career victories, putting him third in the all-time lists and pushing Ferrari’s four times world champion Sebastian Vettel down to fourth with 42. Schumacher holds the record of 91, with Alain Prost on 51. McLaren’s Fernando Alonso has 32 wins, Ferrari’s Kimi Raikkonen 20 and McLaren’s Jenson Button 15.
Ferrari have won 224 races, McLaren 182, Williams 114 and Red Bull 50. Mercedes have won 45. McLaren have not won for 57 races, a run that dates back to Brazil 2012; Pole Position: Rosberg has been on pole for the past six races. Hamilton was on pole 11 times last season, Rosberg seven and Vettel once. Hamilton has 49 career poles and Rosberg 22. Vettel has 46. Only two drivers have had 50 poles or more: Schumacher (68) and the late Brazilian Ayrton Senna (65); Podium: Ten drivers from six teams were on the podium in 2015: Hamilton, Rosberg, Vettel, Raikkonen, Valtteri Bottas, Felipe Massa (both Williams), Daniil Kvyat and Daniel Ricciardo (both Red Bull), Romain Grosjean (Lotus) and Sergio Perez (Force India). Hamilton, Rosberg and Vettel shared the podium in nine races. Vettel had 13 podium finishes last year, more than in his title-winning 2010 and 2013 seasons; Australia: No Australian has ever won his home race. There have been 13 Australian Formula one drivers since 1950 and two world champions — Jack Brabham and Alan Jones. Daniel Ricciardo is the only Australian in Sunday’s race.
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HUSTLE: Ferrari’s Sebastian Vettel drives ahead of Nico Rosberg of Mercedes at the Circuit de Catalunya this week. Formula One boss Bernie Ecclestone says the influence Ferrari and Mercedes has on the sport is similar to that of an ‘illegal cartel’. Picture: AFP PHOTO/JOSE JORDAN
MELBOURNE — Statistics for Sunday’s Australian Formula One Grand Prix:
Lap distance: 5.303km; Total distance: 307.574km (58 laps); Race lap record: Michael Schumacher (Germany) 1:24.125 (Ferrari, 2004) 2015 pole: Lewis Hamilton (Britain) Mercedes 1:26.327; 2015 winner: Hamilton; Start time: 7am SA time; Wins: Mercedes won 16 of the 19 races last season, with a record 12 one-two finishes. Ferrari won the other three.
Hamilton, now a triple world champion, won 11 races in 2014 and 10 last year. His German teammate Nico Rosberg ended the year with three wins in a row. Hamilton has 43 career victories, putting him third in the all-time lists and pushing Ferrari’s four times world champion Sebastian Vettel down to fourth with 42. Schumacher holds the record of 91, with Alain Prost on 51. McLaren’s Fernando Alonso has 32 wins, Ferrari’s Kimi Raikkonen 20 and McLaren’s Jenson Button 15.
Ferrari have won 224 races, McLaren 182, Williams 114 and Red Bull 50. Mercedes have won 45. McLaren have not won for 57 races, a run that dates back to Brazil 2012; Pole Position: Rosberg has been on pole for the past six races. Hamilton was on pole 11 times last season, Rosberg seven and Vettel once. Hamilton has 49 career poles and Rosberg 22. Vettel has 46. Only two drivers have had 50 poles or more: Schumacher (68) and the late Brazilian Ayrton Senna (65); Podium: Ten drivers from six teams were on the podium in 2015: Hamilton, Rosberg, Vettel, Raikkonen, Valtteri Bottas, Felipe Massa (both Williams), Daniil Kvyat and Daniel Ricciardo (both Red Bull), Romain Grosjean (Lotus) and Sergio Perez (Force India). Hamilton, Rosberg and Vettel shared the podium in nine races. Vettel had 13 podium finishes last year, more than in his title-winning 2010 and 2013 seasons; Australia: No Australian has ever won his home race. There have been 13 Australian Formula one drivers since 1950 and two world champions — Jack Brabham and Alan Jones. Daniel Ricciardo is the only Australian in Sunday’s race.
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