This will be 53rd Spanish Grand Prixhe 33rd to be held at the Circuit de Barcelona-Catalunyin. In the 32 previous editions, 29 winners have started from the front row of the starting grid, and only one has won outside the first two rows: Fernando Alonso in 2013 when he started in fifth position. And, in addition, that was the last Asturian victory to date in the World Cup, the 32nd.
1) Ferrari It is the team with the most victories (12), most pole positions (14), fastest laps (14), most podiums (38) and most points (497) in the history of the Spanish GP.
2) Spain This is the Grand Prix where current World Championship leader Max Verstappen (Red Bull) has competed the most times without achieving pole position (8). The Dutchman has been on the podium in six of the seven editions he has run with the Austrian team in Spain (two first, two second and two third), the only exception being an abandonment in 2017.
3) Verstappen led from start to finish in Monaco (78 laps) on Sunday, becoming the seventh driver in Formula 1 history to lead more than 2,000 laps in competition (2,077). If he commands at least 15 at Montmeló, he will overtake Englishman Nigel Mansell (2091) as the sixth driver to have led the most laps in Formula 1.
4) Continuing with Verstappen, the tulip driver is on a streak of 25 consecutive grands prix in the points zone (since Emilia-Romagna 2022), the fourth best streak in the history of Formula 1. Ahead, in third place, Kimi Raikkonen’s 27 between Bahrain 2012 and Hungary 2013.
5) red bull He managed to win the first six races of the year. It is the third-highest historical record in Formula 1 (6 by Mercedes in 2014) and, if it achieves seventh in Spain, it will be one of the second-best marks by a team in the competition. Ahead, 8 from Mercedes in 2019 and 11 from McLaren in 1988.
6) Carlos Sainz (Ferrari) He scored points in each of the eight Spanish Grands Prix he contested, all of them framed between fourth and ninth, with Montmeló being the second Grand Prix in which the Madrid rider has collected the most points (52, behind Monaco’s 62).
7) If Carlos and/or Charles Lecrerc (Ferrari) climb the drawer in Spain, Ferrari will achieve its 800th podium in Formula 1 history, being the first team to reach this figure in the competition.
8) To get the victory in Montmeló, Fernando Alonso (Aston Martin) will sign the longest gap between the first victory and the last in the entire history of Formula 1 (it will be 19 years and 285 days), surpassing Kimi Raikkonen’s 15 years and 212 days between Malaysia 2003 and United States 2018 .
9) Alonso has finished on the podium in five of the first six races this season. In only two of his 20 seasons in Formula 1 did he manage to climb the draw in six of the first seven races of the year: 2005 (6/7) and 2006 (7/7).
10) The Asturian is one podium away from making Spain the Grand Prix where he climbed the drawer the most times (there will be eight as in Brazil). If he does so in third, he will equal the Hungarian Grand Prix where he has won the most points in Formula 1 (it would be 141).
Source: La Verdad
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