Italian Grand Prix Facts & Stats

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Facts and statistics for the Italian Grand Prix, Round 13 of the 2017 Formula 1 World Championship, at Monza.

Facts & Stats

  • Lap distance: 5.793km. Total distance: 306.720km (53 laps)
  • 2016 pole: Lewis Hamilton (Britain) Mercedes One minute 21.135 seconds
  • 2016 winner: Nico Rosberg (Germany) Mercedes
  • Race lap record: Rubens Barrichello (Brazil) Ferrari 2004, 1:21.046
  • Start time: 1200 GMT (1400 local)

Victories

  • Triple world champion Hamilton has 58 career victories and is second in the all-time list behind Michael Schumacher (91). Ferrari’s Sebastian Vettel has 46.
  • Champions Mercedes have won 58 of 71 races since the introduction of the 1.6 litre V6 turbo hybrid power units in 2014, and seven of 12 this season.
  • Ferrari have won 228 races since 1950, McLaren 182, Williams 114, Mercedes 71 and Red Bull 53. Former champions McLaren and Williams have not won since 2012.
  • There have been four different winners this season so far — Hamilton, Vettel, Valtteri Bottas (Mercedes) and Daniel Ricciardo (Red Bull).

Pole Position

  • Hamilton has had 68 career poles, equalling Michael Schumacher’s all-time record in Belgium last weekend.
  • Mercedes have been on pole in 65 of the last 71 races.
  • Four drivers have started on pole this season — Hamilton (seven times), Vettel (twice), Bottas (twice) and Raikkonen.

Podium

  • Hamilton has 111 podiums to date and is second on the all-time list behind Schumacher (155). Vettel has 95, Raikkonen 88.
  • Points
  • Hamilton is seven points behind Vettel.
  • The only drivers yet to score are Renault’s Jolyon Palmer and Sauber’s Marcus Ericsson.
  • Vettel and Hamilton both have 17 scoring finishes in a row.

Italian Grand Prix

  • Hamilton has won at Monza three times in the past five years.
  • The Briton has been on pole for the past three years at ’La Pista Magica’.
  • A win by Vettel on Sunday would make him only the second driver, and first since Britain’s Stirling Moss in the 1950s, to win at Monza with three different teams.
  • He has done so previously with Toro Rosso (2008) and Red Bull (2011 and 2013).
  • The Italian and British Grands Prix are the only ones to have featured every year since the championship started in 1950.
  • The Italian race has always been staged at Monza, with one exception — at Imola in 1980.
  • The race has been won from pole position nine times in the last 12 years, and 13 of the last 18.
  • Michael Schumacher won a record five times at Monza, all with Ferrari — who have 18 wins at the track, more than any other team.

Milestone

  • Ferrari are celebrating their 70th anniversary, with various activities to mark the occasion.
  • Hamilton can set an absolute pole position record at Monza.

Drivers with more than one victory at Spa:

Number of wins Driver Years
5  Michael Schumacher 1996, 1998, 2000, 2003, 2006
4  Nelson Piquet 1980, 1983, 1986, 1987
3  Tazio Nuvolari 1931, 1932, 1938
 Alberto Ascari 1949, 1951, 1952
 Juan Manuel Fangio 1953, 1954, 1955
 Stirling Moss 1956, 1957, 1959
 Ronnie Peterson 1973, 1974, 1976
 Alain Prost 1981, 1985, 1989
 Rubens Barrichello 2002, 2004, 2009
 Sebastian Vettel 2008, 2011, 2013
 Lewis Hamilton 2012, 2014, 2015
2  Luigi Fagioli 1933, 1934
 Rudolf Caracciola 1934, 1937
 Phil Hill 1960, 1961
 John Surtees 1964, 1967
 Jackie Stewart 1965, 1969
 Clay Regazzoni 1970, 1975
 Niki Lauda 1978, 1984
 Ayrton Senna 1990, 1992
 Damon Hill 1993, 1994
 Juan Pablo Montoya 2001, 2005
 Fernando Alonso 2007, 2010

Teams who have won at Spa more than once: 

# of wins Constructor Years won
19  Ferrari 1949, 1951, 1952, 1960, 1961, 1964, 1966, 1970, 1975, 1979, 1988,

1996, 1998, 2000, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2006, 2010

10  McLaren 1968, 1984, 1985, 1989, 1990, 1992, 1997, 2005, 2007, 2012
8  Alfa Romeo 1924, 1925, 1931, 1932, 1933, 1947, 1948, 1950
7  Mercedes 1934, 1937, 1954, 1955, 2014, 2015, 2016
6  Williams 1986, 1987, 1991, 1993, 1994, 2001
5  Lotus 1963, 1972, 1973, 1974, 1977
3  Auto Union 1935, 1936, 1938
 BRM 1962, 1965, 1971
 Brabham 1978, 1980, 1983
2  Fiat 1922, 1923
 Bugatti 1926, 1928
 Maserati 1953, 1956
 Vanwall 1957, 1958
 Renault 1981, 1982
 Red Bull 2011, 2013