Archive for May, 2008

Monte Carlo F1 weekend

Saturday, May 24th, 2008

Felipe Massa got the pole position in 2008 Monte Carlo race. The question is if he will win, after the last race where he got the pole and victory. At Istanbul Ferrari had a perfect weekend, because the other driver, Raikkonen, had the fastest lap. Will Massa have victory and fastest lap?! This year just Raikkonen had all 3 at Catalunya.

If we look back at Monte Carlo in the past he have exactly 10 races where a driver got perfect weekends.

  • 2007 Fernando Alonso
  • 1998 Mika Hakkinen
  • 1994 Michael Schumacher
  • 1990 Ayrton Senna
  • 1986 Alain Prost
  • 1971 Jackie Stewart
  • 1965 Graham Hill
  • 1961 Stirling Moss
  • 1957 Juan Manuel Fangio
  • 1950 Juan Manuel Fangio

Formula1 pole position at Monte Carlo

Friday, May 23rd, 2008

In this top we found Senna at F1 drivers and McLaren at F1 team statistics. From 12 pole for McLaren, four of them were obtained by Senna. Others driver with pole for McLaren are Prost (2), Hakkinen (2), Coulthard (2) andonce by Raikkonen and Alonso

Top F1 driver by pole at Monte Carlo

  1. Ayrton Senna 5
  2. Alain Prost 4
  3. Jackie Stewart 4
  4. Jim Clark 3
  5. Michael Schumacher 3
  6. Niki Lauda 3
  7. Stirling Moss 3
  8. Fernando Alonso 2
  9. Mika Hakkinen 2
  10. Nigel Mansell 2

Top F1 teams pole position

  1. McLaren 12
  2. Ferrar 9
  3. Lotus 8
  4. Williams 6
  5. Renault 4
  6. Brabham 3
  7. Tyrell 2

Monte Carlo team victories

Wednesday, May 21st, 2008

McLaren is leading this statistics. In this top he have F1 teams from past, but the victories remain forever.

  1. McLaren 14
  2. Ferrari 8
  3. Lotus 7
  4. BRM 5
  5. Cooper 3
  6. Tyrell 3
  7. Williams 3
  8. Benneton 2
  9. Brabham 2
  10. Maserati 2
  11. Renault 2

There are 3 other teams with 1 victorie at Monte Carlo and the are : Alfa Romeo, Ligier and Wolf.

Top F1 points at Monte Carlo

Tuesday, May 20th, 2008

Top drivers by points is lead by Schumacher who have 71 points at Monte Carlo.

  1. Michael Schumacher 71
  2. Ayrton Senna 64
  3. Graham HIll 58
  4. Alain Prost 46.5
  5. David Coulthard 36
  6. Jackie Stewart 34
  7. Jody Scheckter 34
  8. Rubens Barrichello 31
  9. Niki Lauda 30
  10. Bruce McLaren 29
  11. Fernando Alonso 29

If Schumacher win all races on Monte Carlo he can get 150 points, in this way he get 47% of the total points. Top 3 driver looking at the % at Monte Carlo are :

  1. Ayrton Senna 68%
  2. Jody Scheckter 53%
  3. Fernando Alonso 48%

View the entire list regarding top drivers on Monte Carlo

Top driver victories on Monte Carlo F1

Monday, May 19th, 2008

Most driver victories statistics on Monte Carlo is lead by Ayrton Senna with 6 victories. In 1987 and between 1989 and 1993 he is the F1 king of Monte Carlo. Senna on Monte Carlo in 10 races have 5 pole positions, 8 podiums, 4 fastest laps and get 64 points.

Top drivers by victories at Monte Carlo

  1. Ayrton Senna 6
  2. Graham Hill 5
  3. Michael Schumacher 5
  4. Alain Prost 4
  5. Jackie Stewart 3
  6. Stirling Moss 3
  7. David Coulthard 2
  8. Fernando Alonso 2
  9. Jody Scheckter 2
  10. Juan Manuel Fangio 2
  11. Maurice Trintignant 2
  12. Niki Lauda 2

From this list only Alonso and Coulthard drive in this season.

Top fastest F1 driver on Monte Carlo

Sunday, May 18th, 2008

In this statistics we found Michael Schumacher in 4 different years. But this stat includes drivers like Nigel Mansell in 1992 and Mika Hakkinen in 2000. This is possible because Monaco is not a fast track.

2004 Michael Schumacher 1:14.439
2003 Kimi Raikkonen 1:14.545
2006 Michael Schumacher 1:15.143
2007 Fernando Alonso 1:15.284
2005 Michael Schumacher 1:15.842
2002 Rubens Barrichello 1:18.023
2001 David Coulthard 1:19.424
1994 Michael Schumacher 1:21.076
2000 Mika Hakkinen 1:21.571
1992 Nigel Mansell 1:21.598

Top F1 teams at Monte Carlo

Wednesday, May 14th, 2008

Top teams in all statistics regarding Monte Carlo F1 race are Ferrari and McLaren

by victory

  1. McLaren 14
  2. Ferrari 8

by pole position

  1. McLaren 12
  2. Ferrari 9

by podium

  1. Ferrari 45
  2. McLaren 24

by fastest lap

  1. Ferrari 14
  2. McLaren 10

by points

  1. Ferrari 306
  2. McLaren 233.5

This two teams are the top in 2008 by victory : Ferrari 4, McLaren 1, by podium : Ferrari 7, McLaren 4, by pole : Ferrari 3, McLaren 1, by fastest lap : McLaren and Ferrari 2

The only statistiscs in 2008 where this two teams are not in top is the points. In this stat we found Ferrari 63 points, BMW 44 points and McLaren 42 points.

Monte Carlo F1 victories

Monday, May 12th, 2008

28 drivers succed to win a F1 race at Monte Carlo. Ayrton Senna won 6 races, and he start in 10 F1 races at Monte Carlo. Looking in the statistics he is the best driver at Monte Carlo. In the first race at Monte Carlo in 1984 Senna start from position 13 and finish in position 2, and had the fastest lap in that race, a race in which will finish 8 drivers from 19 who start this race.

Top drivers by victory on Monte Carlo

  1. Ayrton Senna - 6
  2. Graham Hill - 5
  3. Michael Schumacher -5
  4. Alain Prost - 4
  5. Jackie Stewart - 3
  6.  Stirling Moss - 3
  7. Juan Manuel Fangio - 2
  8. Fernando Alonso - 2
  9. Jody Schecter - 2
  10. Maurice Trintignant -2

David Coulthard, Niki Lauda also won 2 races at Monte Carlo

Monte Carlo F1 - first race

Monday, May 12th, 2008

First official F1 race on Monte Carlo was on 21 may 1950. In that race 19 drivers were on the grid, but the first lap take out from this race 10 driver after an accident. Etancelin retire after 36 laps and Villoresi after 63 laps. In this way just 7 drivers finish the race.

Fangio starts from pole position and won this race, this is the first F1 race he won it after more than 3 hours of driving.

  1. Juan Manuel Fangio - 9pts
  2.  Alberto Ascari - 6pts
  3. Louis Chiron - 4pts
  4. Raymond Sommer - 3pts
  5. Prince Bira - 2pts

Fastest lap 1:51.000 by Juan Manuel Fangio

Anniversary events on Istanbul F1 track

Thursday, May 8th, 2008

In just 3 races on the Istanbul F1 track there were some anniversary events.

21 aug 2005 Istanbul

27 aug 2006

  • first victory for Felipe Massa
  • first pole for Felipe Massa

26 aug 2007