Turkish Grand Prix: Statistics

Eurosport - Wed, 07 May 23:08:00 2008

Facts and figures for Sunday's Turkish Grand Prix.

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WINS

Kimi Raikkonen's win in Spain was the 17th of the Ferrari world champion's Formula One career. Only 12 drivers have won more races than the Finn since 1950. Renault's Fernando Alonso has the most wins of any active driver (19), while Red Bull's David Coulthard has 13. Ferrari have won 204 races (from 762 starts), McLaren 157 and Williams 113. Ferrari have won the last three races with two one-two finishes so far this season. They last won four races in a row in 2004 with Germany's Michael Schumacher and Brazilian Rubens Barrichello.

PODIUMS/POINTS

Raikkonen's win in Spain brought the Finn his 51st career podium, equalling the tally racked up by compatriot and double world champion Mika Hakkinen in his entire career. Only eight drivers have stood on the podium more times. Raikkonen is chasing his fourth podium in a row and has also finished his last 11 races in the points, making him the most consistent driver on the starting grid. His predecessor Michael Schumacher holds the record of 24 successive races in the points from 2001 to 2003. Germany's Sebastian Vettel, at Toro Rosso, is the only driver who has yet to finish a race this season.

SEASON START

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 22 in a row.

TURKEY

Massa and Raikkonen are the only drivers to have won in Turkey since the first race in Istanbul in 2005. The winner in Turkey has to date always started on pole position. However, the winner has never set the fastest lap. Turkey has yet to produce a Formula One driver.

SUPER AGURI

The collapse of the Super Aguri team has left Formula One with 10 teams for the first time since 2005.

MILESTONE

Honda's Brazilian Rubens Barrichello will break Italian Riccardo Patrese's Formula One record of 256 starts this weekend. The Brazilian has not scored a point since 2006.

PREVIOUS RACES

2007 - Felipe Massa won from pole position for the second year in a row while Lewis Hamilton suffered a puncture 15 laps from the end that dropped him from third to fifth. Raikkonen was runner-up in Ferrari's second one-two of the season.

2006 - Massa followed up his first Formula One pole position with his first grand prix victory. Renault's Alonso beat Ferrari's Michael Schumacher to second place by barely half a car's length after a nose-to-tail duel over the closing laps.

2005 - Raikkonen won from pole position while Alonso finished second, leaving the Spaniard 24 points clear of the Finn with five races to go. He was helped by McLaren's Juan Pablo Montoya, who spun on the penultimate lap while his team were heading fortheir first one-two finish in five years.

CIRCUIT DETAILS

The undulating layout is one of two anti-clockwise tracks in the championship (the other being Interlagos in Brazil). Likened to Spa in Belgium, it has 14 turns -- six of them right-handers -- and four straights. About 67 percent of each lap is spent at full throttle. The left-handed triple apex turn eight is a real test, taken at around 250kph and generating some of the highest G-forces of any circuit. The Hermann Tilke-designed circuit is on the Asian side of Istanbul. Track temperatures can reach 55 Celsius (131 Fahrenheit).

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