Formula One statistics for the Australian Grand Prix

Melbourne, March 29 (US): Formula 1 stats for Sunday’s Australian Grand Prix in Melbourne, round three of the 23-race season:

Lap distance: 5.278 km. Total distance: 306.124 km (58 laps)

Pole position in 2022: Charles Leclerc (Monaco) Ferrari, 1 minute 17.868 seconds.

2022 winner: Leclerc

Race lap record: Leclerc (2022) 1:20.260

There was no Grand Prix at Albert Park in 2020 and 2021. The circuit was shortened by 28 metres, with two removed and seven corners modified, for last year’s race and is now considered a new layout from 2019, Reuters reports.

A fourth DRS region has been added for this year.

Start time: 0500 GMT (1500 local time)

Australia

McLaren rookie Oscar Piastri is the only Australian in Sunday’s race.

No Australian driver has ever won a home race.

There have been 14 Australian drivers in Formula 1 since 1950 and two world champions – Jack Brabham and Alan Jones.

This year’s race will be the 26th to be held at Albert Park, and the 37th Australian Grand Prix. The race was held in Adelaide, as the final race of the year, between 1985 and 1995.

Four current drivers have previously won in Melbourne: Fernando Alonso (2006), Lewis Hamilton (2008, 2015), Valtteri Bottas (2019) and Leclerc (2022).

Ferrari legend Michael Schumacher has won four times in Australia.

Hamilton has been on pole in Melbourne a record eight times (2008, 2012, 2014-2019).

McLaren has won a record 11 times in Australia, with Ferrari 10 times.

Britain’s Eddie Irvine was the 11th pole finisher in 1999 with Ferrari. Sixteen of Melbourne’s 25 races have been won from the front row.

Last year Leclerc took his first ever “major championship” in Melbourne – pole, lead every lap, win, fastest lap.

The race wins

Hamilton has a record 103 wins out of 312 matches, but the last one was in Saudi Arabia in December 2021.

Max Verstappen, the two-time world champion at Red Bull, has 36 wins from 165 starts.

Red Bull has won 12 of the last 13 races and 18 of the 21 since the 2022 Australian Grand Prix.

Aston Martin’s Alonso has 32 victories, his last at his home Spanish Grand Prix in 2013 with Ferrari, from a record 357.

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Hamilton holds a record 103 poles.

The pole scored by Sergio Perez for Red Bull in Saudi Arabia was the Mexican’s second in Formula 1. The first, last year, was also in Jeddah.

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Alonso is the only driver other than the two Red Bulls to have led the race this season.

Podium

Alonso is chasing his third podium finish in a row. The last time the Spaniard did that was in 2013 (Belgium, Italy, Singapore) with Ferrari.

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Verstappen leads Perez by one point after two races.

Aman car

The safety car has appeared in three of the last five dry races in Melbourne. It was published twice last year.

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This week will be the 350th Grand Prix for Red Bull. The team made its debut in Melbourne in 2005. They are aiming for a third-place finish, something they have never achieved before.

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