Useful numbers and info ahead of the Canadian Grand Prix weekend, Round 7 of the 2019 Formula 1 World Championship, at Circuit Gilles Villeneuve on the Île Notre-Dame in Montreal.
Facts & Stats
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- Lap distance: 4.361km. Total distance: 305.27km (70 laps)
- 2018 pole: Sebastian Vettel (Germany) Ferrari
- 2018 winner: Vettel
- Race lap record: One minute 13.622 seconds. Rubens Barrichello (Brazil), Ferrari, 2004.
- Start time: 1810 GMT (1410 local)
Canadian Grand Prix
- This weekend will be the 50th Canadian Grand Prix, and 40th in Montreal.
- Hamilton has won six times in Montreal (in 2007, 2010, 2012, 2015, 2016, 2017), including the first of his career. Another victory will equal Michael Schumacher's record of seven in Canada.
- The Briton can also beat the record he currently shares with Schumacher of six poles in Montreal.
- Daniel Ricciardo (2014), Kimi Raikkonen (2005), Robert Kubica (2008) and Sebastian Vettel (2013, 2018) have also won in Canada. Ricciardo's first win in F1 was in Montreal. Raikkonen shares the record for fastest laps in Canada (four) with Schumacher.
- The circuit is named after late Ferrari great Gilles Villeneuve. Ferrari have won 12 times in Canada, with seven poles and nine fastest laps.
- The rain-hit Canadian Grand Prix of 2011 was Formula One's longest race, lasting four hours, four minutes and 39.537 seconds. The safety car was deployed six times, another record.
- The circuit is particularly tough on brakes.
- Racing Point are Canadian owned and have the only current Canadian F1 race driver in Lance Stroll.
Race Victories
- Hamilton has 77 victories from 235 races and is closing the gap to Schumacher's record 91. He has also won 55 of the 106 races in the V6 turbo hybrid era that started in 2014.
- Vettel, third on the all-time list, has 52.
- Ferrari have won 235 races since 1950, McLaren 182, Williams 114, Mercedes 93 and Red Bull 59. Former champions McLaren and Williams have not won since 2012.
Pole Position
- Hamilton has a record 85 career poles, Vettel 55.
- Two of the six races so far this season have been won from pole - Bottas in Azerbaijan and Hamilton in Monaco.
Podiums
- Hamilton has 140 career podiums and needs to finish in the top three in every race this year to equal Schumacher's record of 155. Vettel has 114.
Milestones
- Mercedes have won the first six races of the season, and the last eight in total.
- The record for most successive wins by a team is 14, by Ferrari in 1952-53. McLaren won 11 in a row in 1988.
FAQs supplied by the official F1 website:
When was the track built?
The man-made Notre Dame Island in the middle of the St Lawrence River was created for the 1967 Expo 67 World's Fair. Once the expo and the ensuing 1976 Montreal Summer Olympics had left town, some clever people decided to make a race track out of the island’s roads. And lo, the Circuit Ile Notre-Dame, as it then was, came to be.
The man-made Notre Dame Island in the middle of the St Lawrence River was created for the 1967 Expo 67 World's Fair. Once the expo and the ensuing 1976 Montreal Summer Olympics had left town, some clever people decided to make a race track out of the island’s roads. And lo, the Circuit Ile Notre-Dame, as it then was, came to be.
When was its first Grand Prix?
With the Canadian Grand Prix having been in search of a permanent home for a number of years in the 1960s and 1970s, the Circuit Ile Notre-Dame first hosted the race in 1978. Fittingly, Gilles Villeneuve claimed his maiden win, at the track that would end up bearing his name.
With the Canadian Grand Prix having been in search of a permanent home for a number of years in the 1960s and 1970s, the Circuit Ile Notre-Dame first hosted the race in 1978. Fittingly, Gilles Villeneuve claimed his maiden win, at the track that would end up bearing his name.
What’s the circuit like?
The fast, low-downforce circuit is one of the drivers’ favourites. The track is quite stop-start, with lots of heavy-braking chicanes and the famous hairpin to get the anchors working hard. Out of the corners, though, the track is quick and flowing, while the most iconic piece of the circuit comes right at the end of the lap: the Wall of Champions, so-called after excursions into it from Damon Hill, Jacques Villeneuve and Michael Schumacher during the 1999 Canadian Grand Prix weekend.
The fast, low-downforce circuit is one of the drivers’ favourites. The track is quite stop-start, with lots of heavy-braking chicanes and the famous hairpin to get the anchors working hard. Out of the corners, though, the track is quick and flowing, while the most iconic piece of the circuit comes right at the end of the lap: the Wall of Champions, so-called after excursions into it from Damon Hill, Jacques Villeneuve and Michael Schumacher during the 1999 Canadian Grand Prix weekend.
Why go?
The Montrealais really embrace their Grand Prix weekend, with the charming city turning into an F1-loving party town in the week leading up to the race. For the Grand Prix itself, the leafy setting makes the Circuit Gilles-Villeneuve one of Formula 1’s most laidback venues.
The Montrealais really embrace their Grand Prix weekend, with the charming city turning into an F1-loving party town in the week leading up to the race. For the Grand Prix itself, the leafy setting makes the Circuit Gilles-Villeneuve one of Formula 1’s most laidback venues.
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