Motor racing-Monaco Grand Prix facts and figures

May 21 (Reuters) - Facts and figures for Sunday's Monaco
Formula One Grand Prix:

Venue: Monte Carlo.

Race distance: 78 laps (total distance 260.520 km/161.887
miles). Each lap is 3.340 km/2.075 miles.

GMT start time: 1200

Race lap record: Michael Schumacher (Germany) one minute
14.439 seconds (average speed 161.528 kph/100.369 mph). Ferrari,
2004.

2007 pole position: Fernando Alonso (Spain) McLaren 1:15.726

Recent records of leading drivers in Monaco:

07 06 05 04 03 02 01 00 99 98 97 96 95 94 93
Kimi Raikkonen 8 R 1 R 2 R 10 - - - - - - - -
Felipe Massa 3 9 9 5 - R - - - - - - - - -
Lewis Hamilton 2 - - - - - - - - - - - - - -
Robert Kubica 5 - - - - - - - - - - - - - -
Nick Heidfeld 6 7 2 7 11 8 R 8 - - - - - - -
Heikki Kovalainen 13 - - - - - - - - - - - - - -
Mark Webber R R 3 R R 11 - - - - - - - - -
Jarno Trulli 15 17 10 1 6 4 R R 7 R R - - - -
Fernando Alonso 1 1 4 R 5 - R - - - - - - - -
Nico Rosberg 12 R - - - - - - - - - - - - -
Jenson Button 11 11 S 2 NS R 7 R - - - - - - -
David Coulthard 14 3 R R 7 1 5 1 R R R 2 R - -
G'carlo Fisichella 4 6 12 R 10 5 R 3 5 2 6 R - - -
Rubens Barrichello 10 4 8 3 8 7 2 2 9 R 2 R R R 9
Adrian Sutil R - - - - - - - - - - - - - -

R=Retired, S=suspended, NS=did not start

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Resume of last five races in Monaco:

2007 - Fernando Alonso (Spain) McLaren

Alonso won for the second year in a row, with team mate
Hamilton completing a dominant McLaren one-two. Alonso started
on pole and set the fastest lap, but Hamilton was unhappy and
suggested he had been forced by his team into a supporting role.
"I have the number two on my car, and I am the number two
driver," he said.

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2006 - Alonso, Renault

Alonso won but Ferrari's Michael Schumacher provided the
main talking point after qualifying. The German was branded a
cheat by some and sent from pole position to last for
deliberately obstructing rivals. He finished fifth. There was no
champagne sprayed on the podium as a mark of respect to tyre
boss Edouard Michelin, who drowned in a sailing accident on the
Friday before the race.

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2005 - Kimi Raikkonen (Finland) McLaren

Raikkonen's second win in a row, and second from pole
position, lifted him to second in the championship. Alonso
limped home fourth with his tyres almost gone.

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2004 - Jarno Trulli (Italy), Renault

Trulli's first and only grand prix win, from pole position,
ending Ferrari's run of eight in a row and Schumacher's hopes of
a sixth in succession. Schumacher retired after colliding with
Juan Pablo Montoya's Williams in the tunnel behind the safety
car. Button was second for BAR.

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2003 - Juan Pablo Montoya (Colombia), Williams

Ralf Schumacher started on pole but team mate Montoya got
ahead of him after the first pitstops and went on to give
Williams their first Monaco win for 20 years.

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THE CIRCUIT

Qualifying is crucial as overtaking is very difficult. The
world's most famous street circuit offers no margin for error
and the crash barriers are unforgiving.

Overall speeds are relatively low, with the maximum of about
290 kph through the tunnel section, and the track is tight and
twisty. In the old days, drivers would end up with blistered
hands after making about 50 gear changes a lap.
(Compiled by Alan Baldwin, editing by Neil Maidment)