October 5, 2005
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Motor racing-Formula One
2005 World Champion Fernando Alonso celebrates with Renault F1 team members
Motor racing-Formula One statistics for Japanese Grand Prix Wed Oct 5, 5:56 AM ET
Formula One statistics for Sunday’s Japanese Grand Prix:
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CHAMPIONSHIP
Renault’s Fernando Alonso became Formula One’s youngest, and first Spanish, champion in Brazil aged 24 years and 58 days.
Alonso is an unassailable 23 points clear of McLaren’s Kimi Raikkonen with two rounds remaining.
McLaren can win the constructors’ title in Japan if they finish one-two and Renault score no more than one point.
The Mercedes-powered team are two points clear of Renault.
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WINS
Alonso and Raikkonen have both won six races each.
McLaren have won nine races, including the last five in a row, while Renault have had seven victories.
McLaren have led 586 of the season’s 1,071 laps so far, equating to 2,830km out of 5,166km or 54.8 percent of the total distance to date.
Of that, Raikkonen has led 32.7 percent of the total, Alonso 27 percent.
The last time that McLaren won six races in a row was in 1988, the year Brazilian Ayrton Senna and France’s Alain Prost dominated with 11 wins in succession and 15 in total.
McLaren’s one-two finish in Brazil, with Colombian Juan Pablo Montoya leading home Raikkonen, was their first since Austria in August 2000.
Ferrari have just one win in 16 races this season, a hollow victory in a six-car U.S. Grand Prix that the seven Michelin-equipped teams shunned for tyre safety reasons.
That is also the only win of the year for a car on Bridgestone tyres.
The last time Ferrari won so few races was 1995, before Michael Schumacher joined, when they ended the year with just one victory.
Seven-times champion Schumacher has won 84 races, more than any driver in Formula One history.
Ferrari, the only team to have been in the championship since the start in 1950, have won 183 times. McLaren have 147 wins and Williams 113. Renault have 24.
Raikkonen’s victory from seventh place on the grid in Canada makes him the lowest-placed starter to win so far in 2005.
Williams’ last win was in Brazil last year with Montoya.
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JAPAN
Ferrari have won the last five Japanese Grands Prix.
Schumacher has won six times in total at Suzuka, including once with Benetton in 1995.
BAR’s Takuma Sato is the only Japanese in the race.
Schumacher and Brazilian team mate Rubens Barrichello are the only current drivers to have won at Suzuka.
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POINTS
Minardi rookie Robert Doornbos is the only driver yet to score this season.
Toyota need to score 18 points more than Ferrari to oust the Italian team, champions for the past six years, from third place in the standings.
Ferrari have not finished a season outside the top three since 1993, when they were fourth.
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POLES
Michael Schumacher has started 64 races on pole position and needs one more to equal the late Brazilian Ayrton Senna’s record.
Schumacher has been on pole position at least three times in every season since 1994, when he won his first title with Benetton. This year he has had just one.
Eight of the 17 races so far this year have been won by the driver on pole position.
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FINISHES
Portugal’s Tiago Monteiro suffered his first retirement of the season in Brazil. The Jordan driver had racked up 16 successive finishes before that, a record for a rookie.
