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It's safe to say Mercedes have been downplaying their title credentials ahead of this weekend's Canadian Grand Prix.

After falling behind Ferrari in both championships, team boss Toto Wolff has already described the defending champions as the "underdog" and, following his bad weekend in Monaco, Lewis Hamilton believes the Scuderia are simply "better".

Yet what the Brackley team seem to have forgotten is, prior to their blip on the streets of Monte Carlo, they had won the two races before in Russia and Barcelona. Yes, they did it by overcoming strong challenges by Sebastian Vettel, but nonetheless, the gap between the two teams at most circuits remains very small.

Looking ahead to Montreal and the Circuit Gilles Villeneuve, while it is wall-lined and will share the same three tyre compounds as Monaco, it is a very different proposition to those tight and twisty streets and offer plenty for Mercedes to be hopeful about.

This is a power circuit first and foremost and that has remained the big strength of the W08 this year. If you look back across the different circuits, you'll see that every sector where the longest straights are located Mercedes usually has the edge over Ferrari.

Canada has four significant straights split by a number of chicanes and the famous hairpin, this means a lower downforce configuration is required than at most tracks and that should help in other areas.

The big concern for Mercedes is the tyres, particularly the ultrasoft compound. Yet the tarmac is more abrasive at the Circuit Gilles Villeneuve and the less downforce undoubtedly means more sliding all of which generate more temperature.

If Mercedes can avoid overheating the Pirellis, which it should as they cool down the straights then it may allow them to better manage the tyres, whether that means extracting more performance we'll have to wait and see.

If they can't, then all of the above may be pretty irrelevant as Ferrari will likely make up for any time lost down the straights in the chicanes and twisty Sector 1. It's also worth remembering who won at the last circuit similar to Montreal, Sebastian Vettel in Bahrain.

Behind the top two, Red Bull has also been playing down their expectations due to their underpowered TAG-Heuer branded Renault power unit. However, the team was quite competitive in Bahrain before falling back during the race and the RB13 has been designed to be slipperier through the air than many of their rivals.

It's doubtful that this will mean they can compete for the victory but Daniel Ricciardo and Max Verstappen should have enough performance to remain clear of the midfield as the third fastest team.

In the midfield, Williams, who have a good recent record in Canada, should be back challenging Force India for the final places in the top 10 with Haas also in the mix. These teams should an advantage over Toro Rosso and Renault, but a strong performance by Carlos Sainz and Nico Hulkenberg particularly can't be ruled out.

It may well be a much more difficult weekend for Sauber, with their old Ferrari units, and McLaren, using the Honda engine but all these midfield teams can't rule out any result out at a circuit known for unpredictable races.

The wider cars may well make the final chicane particularly more difficult and with several areas where judgement against the exit wall is crucial, more incidents than in previous years can't be ruled out. It all should make for a very eventful Canadian Grand Prix weekend.

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The Spanish Grand Prix is a Formula One race currently held at the Circuit de Barcelona-Catalunya in Barcelona. The race is one of the oldest in the world still contested, celebrating its centenary in 2013.

The race had modest beginnings as a production car race. Interrupted by the First World War, the race waited a decade for its second running before becoming a staple of the European calendar. It was promoted to the European Championship in 1935 before the Spanish Civil War brought an end to racing. The race was successfully revived in 1967 and has been a regular part of the Formula One World Championship since 1968 at a variety of venues.

Spanish Prix, Round five of the 2017 Formula 1 season

Circuit Name: Circuit de Barcelona - Catalunya

Race Laps: 66

Circuit Length: 4.655 km (2.892 mi)

Race Length: 307.104 km (190.825 mi)

Number of corners: 16 (9 Right, 7 Left)

DRS Zone: Two Zones (Zone 1 between turns 9 and 10, Zone 2 Start/Finish Line Between Turn 16 and 1)

Circuit Direction: Clockwise

Pole Position 2016: Lewis Hamilton - Mercedes 1:22.000

Track Record (During the race): 1:21.670 Kimi Raikkonen – Ferrari 2008

Barcelona Circuit

 

Pirelli used compounds

For the first 5 round of the 2017 Formula 1 season, Pirelli will supply all teams with the same sets of compounds, following the introduction on the new wider and bigger tires.

Compounds sets will be as follows:

7 of the softest (P Zero Yellow Soft here)

5 of the middle (Zero White Medium here)

2 of the Hardest (P Zero Orange Hard here)

Tyres that must be available (one of them to be used) at some point in the race:

One set of P Zero Orange Hard

One set of P Zero Yellow soft

Tyres assigned for Q3 in qualifying:                     

One set of P Zero Red Super-Soft

THE CIRCUIT FROM A TYRE POINT OF VIEW:

 

MARIO ISOLA - HEAD OF CAR RACING

“This is the last race where allocations are fixed for every team: as of Monaco, drivers are making their own choices about the quantities of each compound they would like to nominate. While Barcelona is a well-known venue, aerodynamic evolution of the cars, enhanced by the latest upgrade packages brought to Spain, mean that performance is increased but degradation levels could also be higher compared to testing. We can additionally expect weather conditions considerably warmer than February.”

 

BARCELONA MINIMUM STARTING PRESSURES (SLICKS)

 

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Spanish Grand Prix Winners 1951 – 2016

 

Year

Driver

Constructor

Circuit

2016

Max Vertappen

Red Bull-TAG Heur

Catalunya

2015

Nico Rosberg

Mercedes

2014

Lewis Hamilton

Mercedes

2013

Fernando Alonso

Ferrari

2012

Pastor Maldonado

Williams–Renault

2011

Sebastian Vettel

Red Bull–Renault

2010

Mark Webber

Red Bull–Renault

2009

Jenson Button

Brawn–Mercedes

2008

Kimi Raikkonen

Ferrari

2007

Felipe Massa

Ferrari

2006

Fernando Alonso

Renault

2005

Kimi Raikkonen

McLaren–Mercedes

2004

Michael Schumacher

Ferrari

2003

Michael Schumacher

Ferrari

2002

Michael Schumacher

Ferrari

2001

Michael Schumacher

Ferrari

2000

Mika Hakkinen

McLaren–Mercedes

1999

Mika Hakkinen

McLaren–Mercedes

1998

Mika Hakkinen

McLaren–Mercedes

1997

Jacques Villeneuve

Williams–Renault

1996

Michael Schumacher

Ferrari

1995

Michael Schumacher

Benetton–Renault

1994

Damon Hill

Williams–Renault

1993

Alain Prost

Williams–Renault

1992

Nigel Mansell

Williams–Renault

1991

Nigel Mansell

Williams–Renault

1990

Alain Prost

Ferrari

Jerez

1989

Ayrton Senna

McLaren–Honda

1988

Alain Prost

McLaren–Honda

1987

Nigel Mansell

Williams–Honda

1986

Ayrton Senna

Lotus–Renault

1985

Not held

1982

1981

Gilles Villeneuve

Ferrari

Jarama

1979

Patrick Depailler

Ligier–Ford

1978

Mario Andretti

Lotus–Ford

1977

Mario Andretti

Lotus–Ford

1976

James Hunt

McLaren–Ford

1975

Jochen Mass

McLaren–Ford

Montjuïc

1974

Niki Lauda

Ferrari

Jarama

1973

Emerson Fittipaldi

Lotus–Ford

Montjuïc

1972

Emerson Fittipaldi

Lotus–Ford

Jarama

1971

Jackie Stewart

Tyrrell–Ford

Montjuïc

1970

Jackie Stewart

March–Ford

Jarama

1969

Jackie Stewart

Matra–Ford

Montjuïc

1968

Graham Hill

Lotus–Ford

Jarama

1966

Not held

1955

1954

Mike Hawthorn

Ferrari

Pedralbes

1953

Not held

1952

1951

Juan Manuel Fangio

Alfa Romeo

Pedralbes

 

Multiple Winners (Drivers)

 

# Wins

Driver

Years won

6

 Michael Schumacher

1995, 1996, 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004

3

Jackie Stewart

1969, 1970, 1971

Nigel Mansell

1987, 1991, 1992

Alain Prost

1988, 1990, 1993

Mika Häkkinen

1998, 1999, 2000

2

Emerson Fittipaldi

1972, 1973

Mario Andretti

1977, 1978

Ayrton Senna

1986, 1989

Kimi Raikkonen

2005, 2008

Fernando Alonso

2006, 2013

 

 

Multiple Winners (Constructors)

 

# Wins

Constructor

Years won

12

 Ferrari

1954, 1974, 1981, 1990, 1996, 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2007, 2008, 2013

8

 McLaren

1975, 1976, 1988, 1989, 1998, 1999, 2000, 2005

7

 Williams

1987, 1991, 1992, 1993, 1994, 1997, 2012

6

 Lotus

1968, 1972, 1973, 1977, 1978, 1986

4

 Mercedes

1934, 1935, 2014, 2015

3

 Red Bull

2010, 2011, 2016

 

 

Numbers and Facts

 

Most wins (driver) 6 Michael Schumacher 1995 – 1996 – 2001 – 2002 –2003 – 2004

Most wins (constructor) 12 Ferrari 1954 – 74 – 81 – 90 – 96 – 2001 – 02 – 03 – 04 – 07 – 08 – 13

Wins from pole position 25, Recent 2015

Lowest grid for past winner 11 Jochen Mass – 1975

Most recent 1-2 finish 2015 Mercedes (Nico Rosberg- Lewis Hamilton)

Most emphatic win 2 laps 1969 – Jackie Stewart-Bruce McLaren (Montjuic Park)

Closest winning margin 0.014 1986 – Ayrton Senna-Nigel Mansell (Jerez)

Rain-affected races 3 1972 – 1992 – 1996

Safety Car-affected races 5 2003 – 2005 – 2008 – 2009 – 2016

Red Flag (and result declared) races 1, 1975

2-hour rule shortened races 0

Fastest race 2006, 66 laps @1hr 26m 21.759s

Slowest race 1954, 80 laps@ 3hr 13m 52.1s (Pedrables)

Most pole positions (driver) 7 Michael Schumacher 1994 – 1995 – 2000 – 2001 – 2002 – 2003 – 2004

Most pole positions (constructor) 13 Ferrari 1951 – 68 – 71 – 72 – 74 – 75 – 2000 – 01 – 02 – 03 – 04 – 07 – 08

 

What Happened last race here?

Nico Rosberg was the defending race winner and entered the round with a 43 point lead over teammate Lewis Hamilton in the Drivers' Championship.

Hamilton took pole position during qualifying, ahead of teammate Rosberg and Red Bull's Daniel Ricciardo.

 

Max Verstappen won the race upon his debut for his new team Red Bull, having swapped his Toro Rosso seat with Daniil Kvyat ahead of the event.

At the age of 18 years and 228 days, Verstappen became the youngest ever winner, the youngest driver to score a podium finish and the youngest ever to lead a lap of a Formula 1 race, breaking the previous records held by Sebastian Vettel.

In the process, he also became the first Dutchman to win a Grand Prix and the first Grand Prix winner born in the 1990s.

Both Mercedes drivers retired from the race following a collision with each other on the first lap, thus marking the first Mercedes double retirement since the 2011 Australian Grand Prix and the first time the team had not scored a point since the 2012 United States Grand Prix.

 

2016 Race Classification

Pos.

Driver

Constructor

Time/Retired

Grid

1

Max Verstappen

Red Bull Racing-TAG Heuer

1:41:40.017

4

2

Kimi Roikkonen

Ferrari

+0.616

5

3

Sebastian Vettel

Ferrari

+5.581

6

4

Daniel Ricciardo

Red Bull Racing-TAG Heuer

+43.95

3

5

Valtteri Bottas

Williams-Mercedes

+45.271

7

6

Carlos Sainz Jr.

Toro Rosso-Ferrari

+1:01.395

8

7

Sergio Pérez

Force India-Mercedes

+1:19.538

9

8

Felipe Massa

Williams-Mercedes

+1:20.707

18

9

Jenson Button

McLaren-Honda

+1 Lap

12

10

Daniil Kvyat

Toro Rosso-Ferrari

+1 Lap

13

11

Esteban Gutiérrez

Haas-Ferrari

+1 Lap

16

12

Marcus Ericsson

Sauber-Ferrari

+1 Lap

19

13

Jolyon Palmer

Renault

+1 Lap

17

14

Felipe Nasr

Sauber-Ferrari

+1 Lap

20

15

Kevin Magnussen

Renault

+1 Lap

15

16

Pascal Wehrlein

MRT-Mercedes

+1 Lap

21

17

Rio Haryanto

MRT-Mercedes

+1 Lap

22

Ret

Romain Grosjean

Haas-Ferrari

Brakes

14

Ret

Fernando Alonso

McLaren-Honda

Power unit

10

Ret

Nico Hulkenberg

Force India-Mercedes

Oil leak

11

Ret

Lewis Hamilton

Mercedes

Collision

1

Ret

Nico Rosberg

Mercedes

Collision

2

 

Did you know?

DRIVERS

Sebastian Vettel is looking to take pole two events running for the first time since he took pole for both the 2013 US and Brazilian Grand Prix while at Red Bull

Vettel has still not won back-to-back Grand Prix since he won the 2013 Brazilian Grand Prix. That race ended a 9-race run of victories that started in Belgium, (BEL, ITA, SIN, KOR, JAP, IND, ABU, USA, BRA)

Lewis Hamilton remains just 5 pole positions from equalling Michael Schumacher’s all-time record of 68 F1 GP pole positions. Since he has been at Mercedes he has

taken pole 37 times already. That is over 40% of all races he’s started for the team (37/ 80 = 46.3%). He is also just 2 behind Ayrton Senna’s (second-best) career total of

65 pp’s

Hamilton in Bahrain scored his 107th F1 podium to beat Alain Prost’s 106 F1 podiums. Only Michael Schumacher has achieved more F1 podiums (155)

Hamilton has won (54) 28.1% of all GP he’s started (192) and is in the top 10 drivers races to win ratio of all-time. This is how he compares:-

  1. Fangio 47.0%, 2. Ascari 40.6%, 3. Clark 34.7%, 4. M. Schumacher 29.7%, 5. Hamilton 28.1%, 6. Ja. Stewart 27.2%, 7. Prost 25.6%, 8. A. Senna 25.5%,

9= Vettel 24.2% (44/ 182), 9= S. Moss 24.2%

Hamilton has now led 102 different F1 Grand Prix races. Only Michael Schumacher has led more (142)

Valtteri Bottas’s race win in Russia also marked the 50th Grand Prix in which he has finished in the top 10 and scored points. To date, he has started 81 Grand Prix

Bottas’s 12th F1 podium beat Chris Amon’s 11. It was also his first win, something that unfortunately eluded Amon who is widely recognised as being the best F1 driver

never to win a F1 World Championship-qualifying Grand Prix (World Championship-qualifying is important for context here because Amon did win the F1 nonchampionship

Argentinian Grand Prix in 1971)

The race marks the first anniversary of Max Verstappen’s first Grand Prix win. He has until the Singapore Grand Prix in September to win a second while still a teenager.

(20th birthday on September 30th 2017). He is of course, so far the only teenager in F1 history to win a F1 World Championship Grand Prix and could still become the only

teenager to take pole position too for a F1 World Championship Grand Prix. Max and Ricardo Rodriguez who started the 1961 Italian Grand Prix from P2 in his Ferrari

when aged 19 years and 208 days are the only teenage drivers to date to have started a Grand Prix from the front row (Max the youngest, at the 2016 Belgian Grand Prix

where he started P2 he was aged18 years and 333 days

Sergio Perez needs just 1 more podium to become the Mexican driver with the most F1 podiums (currently =1 with Pedro Rodriguez on 7)

Fernando Alonso is the only driver this season yet to be around for the waving of the chequered flag. If he fails to finish the race in Spain his next opportunity to try and

do so will be in Canada on June 11thORS’

 

CONSTRUCTORS

✪ Mercedes in Spain will be aiming to lockout the front row for the 49th time. The all-time record is 62 and is jointly held by McLaren and Williams

✪ Mercedes’s next fastest lap of the race will be the marque’s 50th as a F1 World Championship constructor

✪ Last year’s race here was only the second time since Mercedes’s return to F1 in 2010 that both cars entered have failed to finish and Mercedes has not posted a double race retirement since, indeed the only non finish being in Malaysia late last year when a blown engine side-lined Hamilton. The first two-car race retirement of the

marque’s modern era came in Australia in 2011 when both cars were eliminated in (separate) collisions. If you want to be really clever, you could say that Spain 2016 and Australia 2011 are the only occasions in which all the Mercedes cars that started a World Championship Grand Prix failed to be classified as having finished the race.

✪ Ferrari last season was the only team to score championship points at all 21 events

✪ Ferrari will be looking to score consecutive pole positions for the first time since Fernando Alonso took pole for the Scuderia at the 2012 British and German Grand Prix

and score a consecutive front row lock-out for the first time since Michael Schumacher and Felipe Massa lock-out the front row for the 2006 US and French Grand Prix

✪ Red Bull has achieved a podium result for at least one of their drivers podium in 100 different F1 Grand Prix

✪ The current Williams team traces its origins back to the setting up of Williams Grand Prix Engineering by Frank Williams and Patrick Head in 1977. This year the team will

be celebrating its 40th anniversary. The team began by running a March for Belgian Patrick Neve who sadly died earlier is year and later in 1978, became a constructor

running a single FW06 car for Alan Jones. In 1979 the team expanded to 2 cars with Clay Regazzoni joining Jones. Regazzoni won Williams’s first Grand Prix, at Silversone

in 1979 while Jones claimed Williams’s first driver’s and first constructor’s titles in 1980. Frank Williams had made his first forays into F1 in 1969, running a Brabham for

Piers Courage. Campaigns with De Tomaso, private March’s, with his own cars and ex-works Heskeths latterly in conjunction with Canadian-Austrian entrepreneur Walter

Wolf followed but it wasn’t until Williams teamed up with Head and started a new team all over again that Williams’s F1 fortunes really took off

✪ Williams has not led a Grand Prix since leading the British Grand Prix 18 months ago

✪ Mercedes, Ferrari and Force India are the only constructors to have finished both cars in each of the 4 Grand Prix so far this season

 

SPANISH GRAND PRIX

✪ Mercedes with pole can equal Ferrari’s all-time record of 5 consecutive Spanish Grand Prix pole positions. Ferrari has the most Spanish Grand Prix poles (13) and also the most at the Circuit De Catalunya (7). The next most here is 5 by Williams and the 4 by both McLaren and Mercedes

✪ The race is likely to be the 75th Grand Prix contested by Fernando Alonso since he last won (Spain 2013) and the 50th Grand Prix since he led a race or scored a podium

result (Hungary 2014)

 

Driver’s Championship standing

POS

DRIVER

Constructor

POINTS

1

Sebastian Vettel

Ferrari

86

2

Lewis Hamilton

Mercedes

73

3

Valtteri Bottas

Mercedes

63

4

Kimi Raikkonen

Ferrari

49

5

Max Verstappen

Red Bull/Renault

35

6

Daniel Ricciardo

Red Bull/Renault

22

7

Sergio Perez

Force India/Mercedes

22

8

Felipe Massa

Williams/Mercedes

18

9

Carlos Sainz

Toro Rosso/Renault

11

10

Esteban Ocon

Force India/Mercedes

9

11

Nico Hulkenberg

Renault

6

12

Romain Grosjean

Haas/Ferrari

4

13

Kevin Magnussen

Haas/Ferrari

4

14

Daniil Kvyat

Toro Rosso/Renault

2

15

Pascal Wehrlein

Sauber/Ferrari

0

16

Lance Stroll

Williams/Mercedes

0

17

Antonio Giovinazzi

Sauber/Ferrari

0

18

Jolyon Palmer

Renault

0

19

Stoffel Vandoorne

McLaren/Honda

0

20

Fernando Alonso

McLaren/Honda

0

21

Marcus Ericsson

Sauber/Ferrari

0

 Constructor’s Championship standing

POS

CONSTRUCTOR

POINTS

1

Mercedes

136

2

Ferrari

135

3

Red Bull/Renault

57

4

Force India/Mercedes

31

5

Williams/Mercedes

18

6

Toro Rosso/Renault

13

7

Haas/Ferrari

8

8

Renault

6

9

Sauber/Ferrari

0

10

McLaren/Honda

0

 

Driver’s penalty points:

Driver

Penalty points

Jolyon Palmer

7

Sebastian Vettel

6

Daniil Kvyat

5

Carlos Sainz

5

Kevin Magnussen

5

Nico Hulkenberg

4

Pascal Wehrlein

4

Esteban Ocon

4

Sergio Perez

3

Romain Grosjean

3

Valtteri Bottas

2

Kimi Raikkonen

2

Marcus Erricson

2

Felipe Massa

2

Lewis Hamilton

2

Max Verstappen

1

Stoffel Vandoorne

1

 

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The Monaco Grand Prix is a Formula One motor race held each year on the Circuit de Monaco. Run since 1929  and joined the FIA Formula One world Championship 1950, it is widely considered to be one of the most important and prestigious automobile races in the world and, with the Indianapolis 500 and the 24 Hours of Le Mans, forms the Triple Crown of Motorsport. The circuit has been called "an exceptional location of glamour and prestige".

The race is held on a narrow course laid out in the streets of Monaco, with many elevation changes and tight corners as well as a tunnel, making it one of the most demanding tracks in Formula One. It is the only Grand Prix that does not adhere to the FIA's mandated 305-kilometre (190-mile) minimum race distance.

Monaco Grand Prix, Round 6 of the 2017 Formula 1 season

Circuit Name: Circuit de Monaco

Race Laps: 78

Circuit Length: 3.337 km (2.074 mi)

Race Length: 260.286 km (161.734 mi)

Number of corners: 19 (11 Right, 8 Left)

DRS Zone: One Zones (Start/Finish Line Between Turns 19 and 1)

Circuit Direction: Clockwise

Pole Position 2016: Daniel Ricciardo Red Bull Racing-TAG Heuer 1:13.622

Track Record (During the race): 1:14.439 Michael Schumacher – Ferrari 2004

Circuit de Monaco

 

Pirelli used compounds

Tyres that must be available (one of them to be used) at some point in the race:

One set of P Zero Yellow soft

One set of P Zero Red Super-Soft

Tyres assigned for Q3 in qualifying:                     

One set of P Zero Purple Ultra-Soft

Teams/Drivers compounds choice

Driver

Soft

Super-Soft

Ultra-Soft

Lewis Hamilton

1

3

9

Valtteri Bottas

1

3

9

Daniel Ricciardo

1

1

11

Max Verstappen

1

1

11

Sebastian Vettel

1

2

10

Kimi Raikkonen

1

2

10

Sergio Perez

1

2

10

Esteban Ocon

1

2

10

Lance Stroll

1

1

11

Felipe Massa

1

1

11

Stoffel Vandoorne

1

2

10

Jenson Button

2

1

10

Daniil Kvyat

1

3

9

Carlos Sainz

1

3

9

Romain Grosjean

1

2

10

Kevin Magnussen

1

2

10

Nico Hulkenberg

1

1

11

Jolyon Palmer

1

1

11

Marcus Ericsson

1

2

10

Pascal Wehrlein

1

2

10

 

THE CIRCUIT FROM A TYRE POINT OF VIEW:

 

MARIO ISOLA - HEAD OF CAR RACING

“The three softest compounds are the obvious choice for Monaco, but there is still plenty of scope for strategic variation, because wear and degradation is so low that the teams can more or less choose whenever they would like to make their single pit stop from ultrasoft to supersoft, which should be the standard choice for the race. This is the first grand prix that the drivers have been able to select their own tyre allocations, and as expected the nominations have overwhelmingly favoured the ultrasoft. This is the tyre that will be used the most in both qualifying and the race.”

MONACO MINIMUM STARTING PRESSURES (SLICKS)

 

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 Monaco Grand Prix Winners 1950 – 2016

# Wins

Driver

Years Won

2016

Lewis Hamilton

Mercedes

2015

Nico Rosberg

Mercedes

2014

Nico Rosberg

Mercedes

2013

Nico Rosberg

Mercedes

2012

Mark Webber

Red Bull-Renault

2011

Sebastian Vettel

Red Bull-Renault

2010

Mark Webber

Red Bull-Renault

2009

Jenson Button

Brawn-Mercedes

2008

Lewis Hamilton

McLaren-Mercedes

2007

Fernando Alonso

McLaren-Mercedes

2006

Fernando Alonso

Renault

2005

Kimi Raikkonen

McLaren-Mercedes

2004

Jarno Trulli

Renault

2003

Juan Pablo Montoya

Williams-BMW

2002

David Coulthard

McLaren-Mercedes

2001

Michael Schumacher

Ferrari

2000

David Coulthard

McLaren-Mercedes

1999

Michael Schumacher

Ferrari

1998

Mika Hakkinen

McLaren-Mercedes

1997

Michael Schumacher

Ferrari

1996

Olivier Panis

Ligier-Mugen-Honda

1995

Michael Schumacher

Benetton-Renault

1994

Michael Schumacher

Benetton-Ford

1993

Ayrton Senna

McLaren-Ford

1992

Ayrton Senna

McLaren-Honda

1991

Ayrton Senna

McLaren-Honda

1990

Ayrton Senna

McLaren-Honda

1989

Ayrton Senna

McLaren-Honda

1988

Alain Prost

McLaren-Honda

1987

Ayrton Senna

Lotus-Honda

1986

Alain Prost

McLaren-TAG

1985

Alain Prost

McLaren-TAG

1984

Alain Prost

McLaren-TAG

1983

Keke Rosberg

Williams-Ford

1982

Riccardo Patrese

Brabham-Ford

1981

Gilles Villeneuve

Ferrari

1980

Carlos Reutemann

Williams-Ford

1979

Jody Scheckter

Ferrari

1978

Patrick Depailler

Tyrrell-Ford

1977

Jody Scheckter

Wolf-Ford

1976

Niki Lauda

Ferrari

1975

Niki Lauda

Ferrari

1974

Ronnie Peterson

Lotus-Ford

1973

Jackie Stewart

Tyrrell-Ford

1972

Jean-Pierre Beltoise

BRM

1971

Jackie Stewart

Tyrrell-Ford

1970

 Jochen Rindt

Lotus-Ford

1969

 Graham Hill

Lotus-Ford

1968

 Graham Hill

Lotus-Ford

1967

 Denny Hulme

Brabham-Repco

1966

 Jackie Stewart

BRM

1965

Graham Hill

BRM

1964

Graham Hill

BRM

1963

Graham Hill

BRM

1962

Bruce McLaren

Cooper-Climax

1961

Stirling Moss

Lotus-Climax

1960

Stirling Moss

Lotus-Climax

1959

Jack Brabham

Cooper-Climax

1958

Maurice Trintignant

Cooper-Climax

1957

Juan Manuel Fangio

Maserati

1956

Stirling Moss

Maserati

1955

Maurice Trintignant

Ferrari

1954

Not held

1951

1950

Juan Manuel Fangio

Alfa Romeo

 

Multiple Winners (Drivers)

 

# Wins

Driver

Years Won

6

Ayrton Senna

1987, 1989, 1990, 1991, 1992, 1993

5

Graham Hill

1963, 1964, 1965, 1968, 1969

Michael Schumacher

1994, 1995, 1997, 1999, 2001

4

Alain Prost

1984, 1985, 1986, 1988

3

Stirling Moss

1956, 1960, 1961

Jackie Stewart

1966, 1971, 1973

Nico Rosberg

2013, 2014, 2015

2

Juan Manuel Fangio

1950, 1957

Maurice Trintignant

1955, 1958

Niki Lauda

1975, 1976

Jody Scheckter

1977, 1979

David Coulthard

2000, 2002

Fernando Alonso

2006, 2007

Lewis Hamilton

2008, 2016

Mark Webber

2010, 2012

 

 

Multiple Winners (Constructors)

 

#Wins

Constructor

Years

15

 McLaren

1984, 1985, 1986, 1988, 1989, 1990, 1991, 1992, 1993, 1998,2000, 2002, 2005, 2007, 2008

8

 Ferrari

1955, 1975, 1976, 1979, 1981, 1997, 1999, 2001

7

 Lotus

1960, 1961, 1968, 1969, 1970, 1974, 1987

5

 BRM

1963, 1964, 1965, 1966, 1972

4

 Mercedes

2013, 2014, 2015, 2016

3

 Cooper

1958, 1959, 1962

 Tyrrell

1971, 1973, 1978

 Williams

1980, 1983, 2003

 Red Bull

2010, 2011, 2012

2

 Maserati

1956, 1957

 Brabham

1967, 1982

 Benetton

1994, 1995

 Renault

2004, 2006

 

 

Numbers and Facts

Most wins (driver) 6 Ayrton Senna 1987 – 1989 – 1990 – 1991 – 1992 – 1993

Most wins (constructor) 15 McLaren 1984 – 85 – 86 – 88 – 89 – 90 – 91 – 92 – 93 – 98 – 2000 – 02 – 05 – 07 – 08

Wins from pole position 27 Most recent 2014 (Nico Rosberg)

Lowest grid for past winner 14 1996 (Olivier Panis – only winner to start outside the top 10)

Most recent 1-2 finish 2014 Mercedes (Nico Rosberg-Lewis Hamilton)

Most emphatic win 1 lap 1950 – 1964 – 1967 – 1982

Closest winning margin 0.215s 1992 Ayrton Senna-Nigel Mansell

Rain-affected races 10, 1960 – 1972 – 1975 – 1982 – 1987 – 1996 – 1997 – 2008 – 2012 – 2016

Safety Car-affected races 12, 2003 – 2004 – 2005 – 2006 – 2008 – 2010 – 2011 – 2012 – 2013 – 2014 – 2015 – 2016

Red Flag (and result declared) races 1, 1984

2-hour rule shortened races 4 1975 – 1996 – 1997 – 2008

Fastest race 2007 78 laps @ 1hr 40m 29.329s (1984 red flag race finished at 31 laps in 1hr 01m 07.740s)

Slowest race (here) 1950 100 laps @3hrs 13m 18.7s

Most pole positions (driver) 5 Ayrton Senna 1985 – 1988 – 1989 – 1990 – 1991

Most pole positions (constructor) 11 McLaren 1984 – 86 – 88 – 89 – 90 – 91 – 98 – 99 – 2001 – 05 – 07

 

What Happened last race here?

Lewis Hamilton won the eventful Monaco Grand Prix from Daniel Ricciardo, while Serigo Perez took third in hangeable conditions saw plenty of action.

Sebastian Vettel was fourth for Ferrari, followed by Fernando Alonso’s McLaren, while Nico Hulkenberg snatched sixth from Nico Rosberg on the run to the line.

With heavy rain hit track prior to the start, the FIA announced that the race would begin under Safety Car conditions.

The race begun properly at the start of lap eight. Ricciardo made a strong getaway, pulling out a second over Nico Rosberg.

Later on, Jolyon Palmer lost control of his Renault over the start/finish straight, slamming into the outside barriers and spearing into the wall. And the Virtual Safety Car was called.

When the race resumed, Kimi Raikkonen understeered into the barriers at the Hotel Hairpin, breaking his front wing before colliding with Romain Grosjean at Portier, putting the Ferrari out of the race.

After a mix of strategies, Ricciardo attempted to use his speed to jump Hamilton in the pits, but when he arrived in his pit box there were no tyres to be found with the Red Bull mechanics in a costly error saw Hamilton resume into the lead.

Hamilton had to resist heavy pressure from the chasing Red Bull, but despite Ricciardo’s best efforts, the Red Bull driver was unable to find a way past the Mercedes and Hamilton duly held on to claim his first victory of the season. 

2016 Race Classification

Pos.

Driver

Constructor

Time/Retired

Grid

1

Lewis Hamilton

Mercedes

1:59:29.133

3

2

Daniel Ricciardo

Red Bull Racing-TAG Heuer

+7.252

1

3

Sergio Perez

Force India-Mercedes

+13.825

7

4

Sebastian Vettel

Ferrari

15.846

4

5

Fernando Alonso

McLaren-Honda

+1:25.076

9

6

Nico Hulkenberg

Force India-Mercedes

+1:32.999

5

7

Nico Rosberg

Mercedes

+1:33.290

2

8

Carlos Sainz

Toro Rosso-Ferrari

+1 Lap

6

9

Jenson Button

McLaren-Honda

+1 Lap

13

10

Felipe Massa

Williams-Mercedes

+1 Lap

14

11

Esteban Gutierrez

Haas-Ferrari

+1 Lap

12

12

Valtteri Bottas

Williams-Mercedes

+1 Lap

10

13

Romain Grosjean

Haas-Ferrari

+2 Laps

15

14

Pascal Wehrlein

MRT-Mercedes

+2 Laps

20

15

Rio Haryanto

MRT-Mercedes

+4 Laps

19

Ret

Marcus Ericsson

Sauber-Ferrari

Collision damage

17

Ret

Felipe Nasr

Sauber-Ferrari

Collision damage

PL

Ret

Max Verstappen

Red Bull Racing-TAG Heuer

Accident

PL

Ret

Kevin Magnussen

Renault

Collision damage

16

Ret

Daniil Kvyat

Toro Rosso-Ferrari

Collision/Electrical

8

Ret

Kimi Räikkönen

Ferrari

Accident damage

11

Ret

Jolyon Palmer

Renault

Accident

18

 

Did you know?

DRIVERS

Sebastian Vettel Vettel has not won back-to-back Grand Prix since he won the 2013 Brazilian Grand Prix. That race ended a 9-race run of victories that started in

Belgium, (BEL, ITA, SIN, KOR, JAP, IND, ABU, USA, BRA)

Vettel will be looking for a 75th F1 front row this weekend

Lewis Hamilton is just 4 pole positions from equalling Michael Schumacher’s all-time record of 68 F1 GP pole positions. Since he has been at Mercedes he has taken

pole 38 times already. That is over 40% of all races he’s started for the team (38/ 81 = 46.9%). He is also just 1 behind Ayrton Senna’s (second-best) career total of 65 pole

positions. Clearly he could equal Senna’s total on Saturday

Hamilton in Spain beat Jim Clark’s career total of 11 F1 hat-tricks (pole, win and fastest lap). Only Michael Schumacher with 22 F1 hat-tricks has now scored more than

Hamilton (12)

Hamilton has won (55) 28.5% of all GP he’s started (193) and is in the top 10 drivers races to win ratio of all-time. This is how he compares:-

  1. Fangio 47.0%, 2. Ascari 40.6%, 3. Clark 34.7%, 4. M. Schumacher 29.7%, 5. Hamilton 28.5%, 6. Ja. Stewart 27.2%, 7. Prost 25.6%, 8. A. Senna 25.5%,
  2. S. Moss 24.2% 10. Vettel 24.0% (44/ 183),

Hamilton has now led 103 different F1 Grand Prix races. Only Michael Schumacher has led more (142)

Valtteri Bottas has led 378 km of F1 race laps. It is the same distance led by Jean-Pierre Beltoise who scored his one and only F1 victory here 45 years ago driving a

BRM. The very wet race proved to be BRM’s final F1 race win

Bottas has yet to record a top 10 finish in Monaco in 4 starts to date. His best result here is 12th in 2013 and again last year

The Spanish Grand Prix marked the first anniversary of Max Verstappen’s first Grand Prix win. He has until the Singapore Grand Prix in September to win a second

while still a teenager. (20th birthday on September 30th 2017). He is of course, so far the only teenager in F1 history to win a F1 World Championship Grand Prix and could

still become the only teenager to take pole position too for a F1 World Championship Grand Prix. Max and Ricardo Rodriguez who started the 1961 Italian Grand Prix

from P2 in his Ferrari when aged 19 years and 208 days are the only teenage drivers to date to have started a Grand Prix from the front row (Max the youngest, at the

2016 Belgian Grand Prix where he started P2 he was aged18 years and 333 days

Sergio Perez needs just 1 more podium to become the Mexican driver with the most F1 podiums (currently =1 with Pedro Rodriguez on 7)

Fernando Alonso in Spain finally ensured that every 2017 driver who entered a race to that point had been around for the waving of the chequered flag for at least 1

Grand Prix. Jenson Button now needs to be circulating when the Monaco Grand Prix finishes to keep that record going

On his return to F1 Button is scheduled to equal Michael Schumacher’s 306 F1 Grand Prix starts. Only Rubens Barrichello has started more (326)

 

CONSTRUCTORS

Mercedes in Monaco will be aiming to lockout the front row for the 49th time. The all-time record is 62 and is jointly held by McLaren and Williams

Mercedes’s fastest lap of the race in Spain courtesy of Lewis Hamilton was the marque’s 50th as a F1 World Championship constructor

Ferrari last season was the only team to score championship points at all 21 events

Ferrari has still not scored consecutive pole positions since Fernando Alonso took pole for the Scuderia at the 2012 British and German Grand Prix and has still not scored a consecutive front row lock-out since Michael Schumacher and Felipe Massa lock-out the front row for the 2006 US and French Grand Prix

Red Bull has achieved a podium result for at least one of their drivers podium in 101 different F1 Grand Prix

The current Williams team traces its origins back to the setting up of Williams Grand Prix Engineering by Frank Williams and Patrick Head in 1977. This year the team will

be celebrating its 40th anniversary. The team began by running a March for Belgian Patrick Neve who sadly died earlier is year and later in 1978, became a constructor

running a single FW06 car for Alan Jones. In 1979 the team expanded to 2 cars with Clay Regazzoni joining Jones. Regazzoni won Williams’s first Grand Prix, at Silversone

in 1979 while Jones claimed Williams’s first driver’s and first constructor’s titles in 1980. Frank Williams had made his first forays into F1 in 1969, running a Brabham for

Piers Courage. Campaigns with De Tomaso, private March’s, with his own cars and ex-works Heskeths latterly in conjunction with Canadian-Austrian entrepreneur Walter

Wolf followed but it wasn’t until Williams teamed up with Head and started a new team all over again that Williams’s F1 fortunes really took off

Force India is the only constructors to have finished both cars in each of the 5 Grand Prix so far this season

 

MONACO GRAND PRIX

This year is the 75th Monaco Grand Prix (the figure includes pre-WWII races and sportscar-only Grand Prix)

At least 1 Safety Car intervention has interrupted the Monaco Grand Prix in each of the last 7 races. All told, since 2003 12 Monaco Grand Prix have featured a Safety Car

intervention at some point during the race ie 12 of last 14 races (86%)

Olivier Panis who won here in 1996 is still the only driver to win the Monaco Grand Prix and to have started the race he won from a grid start outside of the top 10. Panis’s

win remains also the most recent F1 race win by a French driver

Both of Lewis Hamilton’s Monaco Grand Prix wins have come off a P3 grid start

Mercedes is chasing a 5th Monaco grand Prix win in a row. The record is 6 in a row by McLaren between 1988 and 1993 and they are the only constructor in the World

Championship history of the event to have won more than 4 in succession. Mercedes and BRM (1963 to 1966) have both won 4 in a row

 

Driver’s Championship standing

POS

DRIVER

POINTS

1

Sebastian Vettel

104

2

Lewis Hamilton

98

3

Valtteri Bottas

63

4

Kimi Raikkonen

49

5

Daniel Ricciardo

37

6

Max Verstappen

35

7

Sergio Perez

34

8

Esteban Ocon

19

9

Felipe Massa

18

10

Carlos Sainz

17

11

Nico Hulkenberg

14

12

Romain Grosjean

5

13

Pascal Wehrlein

4

14

Kevin Magnussen

4

15

Daniil Kvyat

4

16

Marcus Ericsson

0

17

Lance Stroll

0

18

Fernando Alonso

0

19

Antonio Giovinazzi

0

20

Jolyon Palmer

0

21

Marcus Ericsson

0

 

Constructor’s Championship standing

POS

CONSTRUCTOR

POINTS

1

Mercedes

161

2

Ferrari

153

3

Red Bull/Renault

72

4

Force India/Mercedes

53

5

Toro Rosso/Renault

21

6

Williams/Mercedes

18

7

Renault

14

8

Haas/Ferrari

9

9

Sauber/Ferrari

4

10

McLaren/Honda

0

 

Driver’s penalty points:

Driver

Penalty points

Jolyon Palmer

7

Sebastian Vettel

6

Pascal Wehrlein

6

Daniil Kvyat

5

Carlos Sainz

5

Kevin Magnussen

5

Nico Hulkenberg

4

Esteban Ocon

4

Sergio Perez

3

Romain Grosjean

 3

Stoffel Vandoorne

3

Valtteri Bottas

2

Kimi Raikkonen

2

Marcus Erricson

2

Felipe Massa

2

Lewis Hamilton

2

Max Verstappen

1

 

 

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The Russian Grand Prix is an annual Formula 1 race held at Sochi Autodrom. A street circuit built around Olympic Park in Sochi. The plans were made to host a Formula 1 event in Moscow for the 1983 season as the Grand Prix of the Soviet Union, these plans fell through. In 2010, it was officially announced that the Russian city of Sochi, which was also preparing to host the 2014 Winter Olympics, will host a new event on the F1 schedule beginning in the 2014 Formula 1 season under a seven-year deal.

Russian Prix, Round four of the 2017 Formula 1 season

Circuit Name: Sochi Autodrom – Street Circuit

Race Laps: 53

Circuit Length: 5.848 km (3.634 mi)

Race Length: 309.732 km (192.459 mi)

Number of corners: 18 (12 Right, 6 Left)

DRS Zone: Two Zones (Zone 1 Between Turn 1 and 2, zone 2 Between turn 10 and 13)

Circuit Direction: Anti Clockwise

Pole Position 2016: Nico Rosberg - Mercedes 1:35.417

Race Lap Record: 1:39.094 Nico Rosberg – Mercedes 2016

 

Pirelli used compounds

For the first 5 round of the 2017 Formula 1 season, Pirelli will supply all teams with the same sets of compounds, following the introduction on the new wider and bigger tires.

Compounds sets will be as follows:

7 of the softest (P Zero Purple ultra-soft here)

5 of the middle (P Zero Red supersoft here)

2 of the Hardest (P Zero Yellow Soft here)

 

Tyres that must be available (one of them to be used) at some point in the race:

One set of P Zero Yellow soft
One set of P Zero Red supersoft

There are the tyres assigned for Q3 in qualifying:                     
One set of P Zero Purple ultrasoft

 

MARIO ISOLA - HEAD OF CAR RACING

“The race follows a two-day test in Bahrain, so it will be interesting to see how the lessons learned there translate into on-track performance and tyre management in Russia. On the face of it, with Sochi being a low-severity circuit and more durable tyres this year, it should be a relatively straightforward one-stop race. However, this is the first time we are going there with the ultrasoft tyre, so the effect that it has together with the new generation of cars remains to be seen. The performance gap between the softest compounds is relatively small, so all three choices are potential race tyres in Sochi.”

 

 

Numbers and Facts

Most wins (driver) 2 HAMILTON

Most wins (constructor) 3 MERCEDES

Wins from pole position 2 2014 – 2016

Lowest grid for past winner 2 2015

Most recent 1-2 finish 2016 HAMILTON-ROSBERG for MERCEDES

Most emphatic win (here) 25.022 2016

Closest winning margin 5.953 2015

Safety Car-affected races 2 2015 – 2016

Fastest race (here) 2014 53L @1:31’50.744

Slowest race (here) 2015 53L @1:37’11.024

Most pole positions (driver) 2 ROSBERG

Most pole positions (constructor) 3 MERCEDES

 

What Happened last race here?

Nico Rosberg won the race from pole position, ahead of his teammate Lewis Hamilton, with Kimi Raikkonen completing the podium for Ferrari.

Sebastian Vettel retired from the race on the first lap, after contact with Red Bull's Daniil Kvyat.

By securing pole position, winning the race, setting the fastest lap and leading every lap, Nico Rosberg achieved the first grand slam of his career.

2016 Race Classification

Pos.

Driver

Constructor

Time/Retired

Grid

1

Nico Rosberg

Mercedes

1:32:41.997

1

2

Lewis Hamilton

Mercedes

+25.022

10

3

Kimi Raikkonen

Ferrari

+31.998

3

4

Valtteri Bottas

Williams-Mercedes

+50.217

2

5

Felipe Massa

Williams-Mercedes

+1:14.527

4

6

Fernando Alonso

McLaren-Honda

+1 Lap

14

7

Kevin Magnussen

Renault

+1 Lap

17

8

Romain Grosjean

Haas-Ferrari

+1 Lap

15

9

Sergio Perez

Force India-Mercedes

+1 Lap

6

10

Jenson Button

McLaren-Honda

+1 Lap

12

11

Daniel Ricciardo

Red Bull Racing-TAG Heuer

+1 Lap

5

12

Carlos Sainz Jr.

Toro Rosso-Ferrari

+1 Lap

11

13

Jolyon Palmer

Renault

+1 Lap

18

14

Marcus Ericsson

Sauber-Ferrari

+1 Lap

22

15

Daniil Kvyat

Red Bull Racing-TAG Heuer

+1 Lap

8

16

Felipe Nasr

Sauber-Ferrari

+1 Lap

19

17

Esteban Gutiérrez

Haas-Ferrari

+1 Lap

16

18

Pascal Wehrlein

MRT-Mercedes

+2 Laps

20

Ret

Max Verstappen

Toro Rosso-Ferrari

Power unit

9

Ret

Sebastian Vettel

Ferrari

Collision

7

Ret

Nico Hulkenberg

Force India-Mercedes

Collision

13

Ret

Rio Haryanto

MRT-Mercedes

Collision

21

 

Did you know?

DRIVERS

Sebastian Vettel has only taken pole once for Ferrari, in Singapore 2015

Vettel has still not won back-to-back Grand Prix since he won the 2013 Brazilian Grand Prix. That race ended a 9-race run of victories that started in Belgium, (BEL, ITA,SIN, KOR, JAP, IND, ABU, USA, BRA)

Lewis Hamilton is just 5 pole positions from equalling Michael Schumacher’s all-time record of 68 F1 GP pole positions. Since he has been at Mercedes he has taken

pole 37 times already. That is over 40% of all races he’s started for the team (37/ 80 = 46.3%). He is also just 2 behind Ayrton Senna’s (second-best) career total of 65 pp’s

Hamilton in Bahrain scored his 107th F1 podium to beat Alain Prost’s 106 F1 podiums. Only Michael Schumacher has achieved more F1 podiums (155)

Hamilton has won (54) 28.3% of all GP he’s started (191) and is in the top 10 drivers races to win ratio of all-time. This is how he compares:-

  1. Fangio 47.0%, 2. Ascari 40.6%, 3. Clark 34.7%, 4. M. Schumacher 29.7%, 5. Hamilton 28.3%, 6. Ja. Stewart 27.2%, 7. Prost 25.6%, 8. A. Senna 25.5%,
  2. Vettel 24.3% (44/ 181), 10. S. Moss 24.2% 10.

Hamilton has now led 102 different F1 Grand Prix races. Only Michael Schumacher has led more (142)

Before Valtteri Bottas Hamilton has had 4 different teammates in F1. Fernando Alonso, Heikki Kovalainen, Jenson Button and Nico Rosberg. Of the 4 Alonso is now the only one left racing in F1

Bottas’s next points finish will mark the 50th Grand Prix in which he has finished in the top 10 and scored points. To date, he has started 80 Grand Prix

Felipe Massa was 36 on April 25th

Sergio Perez needs just 1 more podium to become the Mexican driver with the most F1 podiums (currently =1 with Pedro Rodriguez on 7)

Romain Grosjean was 31 on April 17th

Daniil Kvyat was 23 on 26th April

Russia is likely to be the 75th Grand Prix contested by Fernando Alonso since he last won (Spain 2013) and the 50th Grand Prix since he led a race or scored a podium

result (Hungary 2014)

Even though Alonso has yet to be around for the waving of the chequered flag, Lance Stroll is in fact now the only driver without a classified race finish so far this season.

Alonso’s McLaren was retired to the garage with 3 laps to go in Bahrain but was officially classified as a race finisher in 14th place

 

CONSRTUCTORSCONSTRUCTORS’

Ferrari last season was the only team to score championship points at all 21 events

Bahrain was Ferrari’s 150th Grand Prix start on Pirelli tyres. It is 30 more races on the Italian-made rubber than any other constructor

Mercedes in Russia will be aiming to lockout the front row for the 49th time. The all-time record is 62 and is jointly held by McLaren and Williams

Mercedes’s next fastest lap of the race will be the marque’s 50th as a F1 World Championship constructor

Red Bull has achieved a podium result for at least one of their drivers podium in 100 different F1 Grand Prix

The current Williams team traces its origins back to the setting up of Williams Grand Prix Engineering by Frank Williams and Patrick Head in 1977. This year the team will

be celebrating its 40th anniversary. The team began by running a March for Belgian Patrick Neve who sadly died earlier is year and later in 1978, became a constructor

running a single FW06 car for Alan Jones. In 1979 the team expanded to 2 cars with Clay Regazzoni joining Jones. Regazzoni won Williams’s first Grand Prix, at Silversone

in 1979 while Jones claimed Williams’s first driver’s and first constructor’s titles in 1980. Frank Williams had made his first forays into F1 in 1969, running a Brabham for

Piers Courage. Campaigns with De Tomaso, private March’s, with his own cars and ex-works Heskeths latterly in conjunction with Canadian-Austrian entrepreneur Walter

Wolf followed but it wasn’t until Williams teamed up with Head and started a new team all over again that Williams’s F1 fortunes really took off

Williams has not led a Grand Prix since leading the British Grand Prix 18 months ago

Have F1 cars suddenly become less reliable? In the first 3 races last year, 66 cars left the garage for the grid and 8 returned earlier than scheduled with mechanical failure.

So far in 2017, after 3 races 60 cars have left the garage for the grid and 14 have returned before the end of the race following mechanical failure. The mechanical failure

percentages are, 12.1% in 2016 compared with 23.3% in 2017, almost double. That said, only 1 car the McLaren-Honda of Stoffel Vandoorne has been prevented from

even starting a race (Bahrain). Last season in the first 3 events, 3 cars were prevented from making race starts due to mechanical failure

 

RUSSIAN GRAND PRIX

Lewis Hamilton is the only former winner of the Russian Grand Prix racing here this weekend. Hamilton has won 2 of the 3 Russian Grand Prix to date. 2016 F1 World

Champion Nico Rosberg won the other (in 2016). Hamilton has led exactly 100 race laps in Russia to date, 53 laps in 2014 and 47 laps in 2015

Mercedes is the only constructor to date to have taken a pole, won a race and led a race lap in Russia

Valtteri Bottas has qualified for each of the 3 Russian Grand Prix to date in the top 3. Only Nico Rosberg betters Bottas’s record having started from the front row here in 2014, 2015 and 2016 including twice from pole.

 

Driver’s Championship standing

POS

DRIVER

Constructor

POINTS

1

Sebastian Vettel

Ferrari

68

2

Lewis Hamilton

Mercedes

61

3

Valtteri Bottas

Mercedes

38

4

Kimi Raikkonen

Ferrari

34

5

Max Verstappen

Red Bull Racing-Tag Heuer

25

6

Daniel Ricciardo

Red Bull Racing-Tag Heuer

22

7

Felipe Massa

Williams-Mercedes

16

8

Sergio Perez

Force India-Mercedes

14

9

Carlos Sainz

Toro Rosso

10

10

Romain Grosjean

Haas-Ferrari

4

11

Kevin Magnussen

Haas-Ferrari

4

12

Esteban Ocon

Force India-Mercedes

3

13

Nico Hulkenberg

Renault

2

14

Daniil Kvyat

Toro Rosso

2

15

Pascal Wehrlein

Sauber-Ferrari

0

16

Antonio Giovinazzi

Sauber-Ferrari

0

17

Jolyon Palmer

Renault

0

18

Stoffel Vandoorne

McLaren-Honda

0

19

Fernando Alonso

McLaren-Honda

0

20

Marcus Ericsson

Sauber-Ferrari

0

 

Constructor’s Championship standing

POS

CONSTRUCTOR

POINTS

1

Ferrari

102

2

Mercedes

99

3

Red Bull/Renault

47

4

Force India/Mercedes

17

5

Williams/Mercedes

16

6

Toro Rosso/Renault

12

7

Haas/Ferrari

8

8

Renault

2

9

Sauber/Ferrari

0

10

McLaren/Honda

0

 

Driver’s penalty points:

Driver

Penalty points

Daniil Kvyat

8

Jolyon Palmer

7

Carlos Sainz

7

Sebastian Vettel

6

Nico Hulkenberg

4

Pascal Wehrlein

4

Kevin Magnussen

4

Esteban Ocon

4

Sergio Perez

3

Romain Grosjean

3

Valtteri Bottas

2

Kimi Raikkonen

2

Marcus Erricson

2

Felipe Massa

2

Lewis Hamilton

2

Max Verstappen

1

 

 

 

         

 

 

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