After each Grand Prix of the 2022 season, Motorsport.com brings you a compilation of the most important statistics from the event. These are the most interesting figures and data that the seventh round of the campaign has left us, the Monaco GP.
The statistics of the 2022 Monaco GP and the drivers
– This has been the 68th edition of the Monaco Grand Prix, which is the third most disputed round of the World Championship, after Great Britain and Italy. In addition, it is the 68th time that the Monte Carlo street circuit has hosted Formula 1, a figure only surpassed by Monza (71).
– Fernando Alonso made his 341st start in F1, which places him just nine short of the record for most grand prix races held by Kimi Raikkonen (350).
The statistics of the classification of the Monaco GP of the F1 2022
– Charles Leclerc achieved the 14th pole of his career. He equals Max Verstappen, but also Alberto Ascari, James Hunt, Ronnie Peterson and Rubens Barrichello.
– Leclerc has achieved his 14 pole positions with Ferrari, and only Michael Schumacher (58), Niki Lauda (23) and Felipe Massa (15) have done better with the Prancing Horse .
– This is the 235th pole position for the Ferrari team and the 236th for a Scuderia engine. These are two absolute records.
– Leclerc made his 17th appearance on the front row of the grid, as many as Mike Hawthorn. For Carlos Sainz, it was his third time, a total identical to that of François Cevert and Jean-Pierre Jarier.
– It was the seventh consecutive first row for Leclerc. He is the first to achieve it since Lewis Hamilton (12 between Styria 2020 and Emilia Romagna 2020). The record is 20, also from Hamilton, between Belgium 2014 and Italy 2015.
– After achieving eighth position on the grid, Lewis Hamilton has chained four qualifying sessions outside the top five (13th, 6th, 6th, 8th), something unprecedented since the events of Spain, Monaco, Turkey and Great Britain in 2009 (14th , 16th, 16th, 19th).
– Sebastian Vettel equaled Aston Martin’s best result this year, 9th (as at Imola).
– Pierre Gasly was eliminated in Q1 for the second time this season, after Imola. This had never happened to him in the previous 30 grands prix.
– Guanyu Zhou qualified last, something that has not happened for Alfa Romeo since the 2021 Azerbaijan Grand Prix (where Antonio Giovinazzi failed to set a lap time) or, under normal conditions, since Imola 2020 (Giovinazzi was last).
The 2022 F1 Monaco Grand Prix race stats
– Sergio Pérez got his third victory in Formula 1, as many as Mike Hawthorn, Phil Hill, Didier Pironi, Heinz-Harald Frentzen or Giancarlo Fisichella. He has become the most successful Mexican driver in the category, surpassing Pedro Rodríguez (two wins).
– This is Red Bull’s 80th win as a team, more than Team Lotus (79). It is also his fifth victory as an engine manufacturer.
– In the last ten years, Red Bull has won the Monaco Grand Prix with (officially) four different engine manufacturers: Renault, TAG Heuer, Honda and Red Bull Powertrains.
– Sergio Pérez got his 19th podium finish in F1, equaling Patrick Depailler, Mario Andretti and Giancarlo Fisichella. Carlos Sainz achieved his tenth podium finish, as did Maurice Trintignant, Tony Brooks and Romain Grosjean. Max Verstappen remains tenth in the historical table, with 65 podiums to his credit.
– Carlos Sainz is now in the unenviable top five of drivers with the most podium finishes without a win, alongside Nick Heidfeld (13), Stefan Johansson (12), Chris Amon (11) and Romain Grosjean (10).
– Of these riders, Sainz is the only one who has stayed within a second and a half of victory twice. On the other hand, he is only 22nd in the ranking of laps led without victory (23).
– Max Verstappen finished a race outside the top 2 for the first time since the 2021 Hungarian Grand Prix (9th).
– Lando Norris set his fourth fastest lap in the race, matching Frenchmen Jean-Pierre Beltoise, Patrick Depailler and Jean Alesi.
– Charles Leclerc finished a race in Monaco for the first time in his career, including Formula 2, after four retirements and one non-start.
– However, Leclerc was only fourth at the finish and now has the worst conversion rate of poles to wins on the current grid: his 14 poles have only led to four wins (29%) for another eight top-four finishes , a withdrawal and a no exit.
– Valtteri Bottas has a similar record (20 poles for six wins, 30%). Historically, among the drivers who have achieved more than five pole positions, René Arnoux stands out in this statistic (two wins in his 18 pole positions, half of which were followed by retirement).
– Leclerc has completed exactly 500 laps in the lead in his career, closing in on René Arnoux (507) and Keke Rosberg (512).
– No driver has won after setting the fastest time in FP1 this season: Gasly retired in Bahrain, Leclerc was 2nd in Jeddah, Sainz retired in Melbourne, then Leclerc finished 6th in Imola, 2nd in Miami, had to retire in Barcelona and was 4th in Monaco.
– George Russell remains the only driver to have finished in the top five in every grand prix this season, consistently between third and fifth. In addition, he is the only one who has scored points in all the races.
– The eternal best of the rest? Russell has spent 186 laps in fifth this season (43% of his laps completed), and only Leclerc has more in the same position (213 laps in the lead, or 54%). Nicholas Latifi is the only driver who has not completed a lap in the top ten.
– Lewis Hamilton, who was 8th, has gone six consecutive races without being on the podium, and it is the first time this has happened since the last eight Grands Prix of the 2013 season.
– Despite being the third driver with the highest number of grand prix wins in history, with 53, Sebastian Vettel has just completed his 50th consecutive race without climbing to the top step of the podium.
– Yuki Tsunoda finished last for the first time in his F1 career.
– Due to his retirement, Alexander Albon is no longer the driver with the lowest DNF rate on the grid (previously 4/44 or 9.09%, now 5/45 or 11.11%). This title returns to the hands of Lewis Hamilton (27/295 or 9.15%).
– With Kevin Magnussen’s engine problem and Mick Schumacher’s accident, Haas suffered his eighth double retirement, the first since the 2021 Saudi Arabian Grand Prix.
