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Hungaroring top 2nd place starts

Wednesday, July 30th, 2008

On Hungaroring there are 14 drivers who start from the 2nd place in the F1 race.

David Coulthard is the leader in this statistics with 4 starts from 2nd place in 1995, 1998, 2000 and 2001. In the races when start from 2nd place on Hungaroing Coulthard finish twice on 2nd place and twice on 3rd place, getting 20 points. Coulthard have 14 races on Hungaroring, 5 podiums, 1 fastest lap, finish in points in 8 races and get 38 points

Hungaroring top 2nd place at start:

  • 4 David Coulthard
  • 3 Damon Hill
  • 2 Nigel Mansell
  • 2 Ricardo Patrese

Once on 2nd place at start :

  • 1986 Nelson Piquet
  • 1989 Ayrton Senna
  • 1997 Jacques Villeneuve
  • 1999 Eddie Ervine
  • 2002 Michael Schumacher
  • 2003 Rald Schumacher
  • 2004 Rubens Barrichello
  • 2005 Juan Pablo Montoya
  • 2006 Felipe Massa
  • 2007 Nick Heidfeld

Just 4 teams have the 2nd pace at start on Hungaroring and Williams lead this stat with 11 races

  • 11 Williams
  • 5 McLaren
  • 4 Ferrari
  • 1 BMW

Top retire on Hungaroring F1

Tuesday, July 29th, 2008

On Hungaroring F1 track, like in any other formula 1 track drivers retire during the race. On Hungaroring Fisichella, Alesi and Frentzen lead this statistics with 6 retires each.

Fischela retire on 6 of 11 races and have 2 points on Hungaroring
Jean Alesi have 13 races, retire in 6 of them and have 6 points.
Frentzen retire in 6 from 9 races, have a fastest lap and have 8 points

Top retire drivers on Hungaroring

  • 6 Giancarlo Fisichella
  • 6 Jean Alesi
  • 6 Pierluigi Martini
  • 5 Heinz-harald Frentzen
  • 5 Michele Akboreto

There are other 7 drivers which retire in 4 races on Hungaroring : Pedro Paulo Diniz, Jacques Villeneuve, Johnny Herbert, Alessandro Nannini, Gerhard Berger, Andreas de Cesaris and Aguri Suzuki.

Experience F1 drivers at Hockenheim

Friday, July 18th, 2008

In 2008 at Hockenheim will start 20 F1 drivers, only 4 of them drive at least 10 races on this track, 8 drivers with less than 10 races and 10 drivers will made the debut at Hockenheim.

Most experienced is Rubens Barrichello with 14 F1 races at Hockenheim, 1 victory, 2 podium, 1 fastest lap and in 4 races finish in points. Drive 4 races with Jordan, 3 with Stewart, 6 with Ferrari and one with Honda.

David Coulthard have 13 races one pole, 4 podiums, 3 fastest laps and 9 races finished in points. Drive 2 races for Williams, 9 for McLaren and 2 for red Bull

Giancarlo Fisichella drive in 10 races and finish in points in 3. Drive for Jordan 3, Benetton 4, Sauber 1 and Renault 2.

Jarno Trullihave 10 races a Hockenheim, with 1 podium and 3 races in points. Drive for Prost 3, Jordan 2, Reanult 3, Toyota 2.

From the 2008 F1 drivers just Barrichello and Fernando Alonso have victories at Hockenheim, Rubens in 200 driving a Ferrari and Alonso in 2005 for Renault.

On the podium we have 7 drivers

  • Coulthard 4 in 1995 with Williams, 1998, 2000 and 2003 with McLaren
  • Alonso 2 - 2004 and 2005 for McLaren
  • Button 2 - 2004 and 2005 with BAR
  • Rubens 2 - 2000 and2001 with Ferrari
  • Raikkonen 1 in 2006 with McLaren
  • Massa 1 in 2006 for Ferrari
  • Trulli 1 in 2003 with Reanult

Fastest lap was set by 3 drivers

David Coulthard in 1994 driving for Williams and in 1998 and 1999 for McLaren
Kimi Raikkonnen driving for Ferrari in 2004 and 2005
Rubens Barrichello in 2000 with Ferrari

In 2008 will be the first at Hockenheim for Kubica, Nelsinho Piquet, Nakajima, Glock, Bourdais, Vettel, Davidson, Sutil, Hamilton and Kovalainen

Magny Cours fastest laps

Monday, June 16th, 2008

In the top drivers with fastest lap at Magny Cours we have just 8 drivers. But I will add other 2 at this top Lewis Hamilton and Milan Baros which are very fast drivers in France

Lewis Hamilton was caught driving with a speed of 196 kph near town Laon last year. But this speed is for kids if we compare to the football player Milan Baros who drive at 271 kph a Ferrari. Now the Czech Republic team is out from EURO 2008, perhaps he will make a demo on this track.

Top fastest lap drivers at Magny Cours

  • 5 Michael Schumacher
  • 5 David Coulthard
  • 2 Nigel Mansell
  • 1 Damon Hill
  • 1 Felipe Massa
  • 1 Jacques Villeneuve
  • 1 Juan Pablo Montoya
  • 1 Kimi Raikkonen

The fastest lap at Magny Cours is set by David Coulthard at 1:15.045

Montreal driver F1 victories

Sunday, June 8th, 2008

We have 19 drivers with victories at Montreal F1 race. 14 drivers won this track only once, the top drivers at Montreal is :

  • 7 Michael Schumacher
  • 3 Nelson Piquet
  • 2 Alan Jones
  • 2 Ayrton Senna

From 2008 F1 drivers just Kimi Raikkonen, Fernando Alonso Lewis Hamilton won this race. With a pole start hamilton have chances to win again, but behind him are a lot of drivers, all of them with hope to win this race.

In the 2007 F1 race when Lewis start from pole on Montreal won the race, will be the same this year?!?!

View the entire list of drivers victories on Montreal

Montreal F1 Pole Positions

Thursday, June 5th, 2008

From the 2008 F1 drivers, 4 of them have a pole position at Montreal : Fernando Alonso, Lewis Hamilton, David Coulthard and Jenson Button. There are 5 drivers who have more than one victory

6 Michael Schumacher
3 Nelson Piquet
3 Ayrton Senna
2 Alain Prost
2 Ralf Schumacher

In this season we have just 4 drivers who have pole position and they are : Kimi (1), Massa (3), Kubica (1) and Hamilton (1).

Kimi have 7 races at Montreal with 1 victory, 2 podiums and 2 fastest laps.
Massa at Montreal in 5 races succeed to be in points in 2 F1 races, on 4 in 2005 and5 in 2006
For Kubica this is the 2nd race at Montreal, last year he retire in lap 26

Montreal Top F1 teams

Wednesday, June 4th, 2008

Last years in F1 were dominated by 3 teams : Ferrari, McLaren and Williams. They are in the top of statistics on Montreal F1 races.

Victories at Montreal :

  1. Ferrari 10
  2. Williams 7
  3. McLaren 6

Pole position

  1. Williams 8
  2. Ferrari 6
  3. McLaren 6

Podiums at Montreal F1

  1. Ferrari 27
  2. Williams 18
  3. McLaren 16

F1 Fastest lap

  1. McLaren 9
  2. Williams 7
  3. Ferrari 5

Points at Montreal

  1. Ferrari 214
  2. Williams 146
  3. McLaren 144

For new F1 teams like Renault will take some time to enter in this statistics, and they have to keep the good results

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