Motor racing-Formula One statistics for Monaco Grand Prix

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 May 21 (Reuters) - Some Formula One statistics ahead of
Sunday's Monaco Grand Prix:
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 WINS
 Felipe Massa's win in Turkey was Ferrari's fourth in a row
this season and the Brazilian's third in succession at the
Istanbul track.
 The Italian team have now won 205 races (from 763 starts),
McLaren 157 and Williams 113.
 The last time Ferrari won five races in succession was in
2004 with Germany's Michael Schumacher and Brazilian Rubens
Barrichello.
 Schumacher was also the last driver before Massa to win the
same grand prix three times or more in succession.
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 POINTS
 Renault's Fernando Alonso needs one more point to become
only the sixth driver to score 500 points in Formula One whereas
Ferrari's Kimi Raikkonen (currently on 491) needs to win in
Monaco.
 Schumacher holds the record of 1,369.
 Raikkonen has finished his last 12 races in the points,
making him the most consistent driver on the starting grid.
 His predecessor Schumacher holds the record of 24 successive
races in the points from 2001 to 2003.
 -
 QUALIFYING
 BMW Sauber's Robert Kubica, Renault's Fernando Alonso,
Toyota's Jarno Trulli and Force India's Giancarlo Fisichella are
the only drivers to have outqualified their team mates in every
race so far.
 Massa has outqualified Raikkonen 4-1 yet still trails the
Finn by seven points.
 -
 SEQUENCE
 Ferrari and McLaren have between them won every race since
Renault's Alonso triumphed at the Japanese Grand Prix of October
2006, a run of 23 in a row.
 -
 MONACO
 Ferrari have not triumphed in Monaco since Michael
Schumacher in 2001. The team have won more recently than that at
every other race on the current calendar.
 McLaren have by far the best record of any team in the
principality over the last 20 years. They have won 11 times to
Ferrari's three.
 Alonso can become the first driver since the late Brazilian
Ayrton Senna to win three years in a row in Monaco.
 Monaco is the shortest grand prix circuit on the calendar at
3.340km and shortest overall distance of 260.520km.
 -
 MILESTONES
 Honda's Rubens Barrichello set a record for most race starts
(257) in Turkey. The Brazilian has still not scored a point
since 2006.
 Italy's Giancarlo Fisichella, a race winner with Jordan and
Renault and now with Force India, chalks up 200 starts on
Sunday.
 That places him ninth in the all-time list, one ahead of
Frenchman Alain Prost and one behind France's Jean Alesi.
 Williams founder Frank Williams will be marking his 600th
grand prix as a Formula One entrant this weekend. Frank Williams
Racing made its debut with Briton Piers Courage driving a
Brabham BT26A at the 1969 Spanish Grand Prix.
 (Reporting by Alan Baldwin; Editing by Neil Maidment)





 

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