After each grand prix of the 2022 Formula 1 season, we at Motorsport.com offer you a compilation of the best statistics. These are the most interesting and important data and figures that the Spanish GP has left us, the sixth round of the course.
The grand prix and the drivers
– This has been the 52nd edition of the Spanish Grand Prix, which is the seventh event with the most participations in the history of F1.
– The Circuit de Barcelona-Catalunya has hosted a World Championship event for the 32nd time, placing it alone in tenth place among the most visited circuits since 1950. Zandvoort and Suzuka will equal this figure at the end of the year.
– Fernando Alonso made his 340th F1 start, putting him just ten races shy of Kimi Raikkonen’s record of 350 Grand Prix starts.
The classification
– Charles Leclerc has achieved the 13th pole position of his career, as many as Graham Hill, Jack Brabham and Jacques Villeneuve have achieved.
– Leclerc’s thirteen pole positions have been achieved with Ferrari, equaling Alberto Ascari, who achieved 13 of his top 14 positions with the Prancing Horse .
– This is the 234th pole position for the Ferrari team and the 235th for a Scuderia engine. These are two absolute records.
– Ferrari had not achieved pole position at the Spanish GP since the 2008 season, led by Kimi Raikkonen.
– By contrast, Mercedes had a run of nine consecutive pole positions in Barcelona, from 2013 to 2021.
– You need to go back to 2012 to find Lewis Hamilton outside the front row of the grid at the Spanish GP, when he was disqualified for not having enough fuel in the tank of his McLaren after setting the fastest qualifying time.
– For the first time in his career, Mick Schumacher reached Q3 in qualifying. However, it was not the first time that he started from tenth position on the grid, since at Imola he finished tenth in the sprint race, which established the starting order for Sunday.
– Haas got both cars through to Q3 for the first time since Brazil 2019.
– It is the first time that Fernando Alonso has been eliminated in Q1 at Barcelona since this qualifying format was adopted.
The race
– Max Verstappen got his 24th victory in Formula 1, equaling Juan Manuel Fangio. It was his second win in Barcelona, following his debut on the top step of the podium in 2016.
– The Dutchman maintains his streak of winning all the races that ends in 2022 (four wins, two retirements).
– This is Red Bull’s 79th victory as a manufacturer and 4th as an engine supplier.
– Max Verstappen got his 64th podium in F1, Sergio Pérez the 18th (as many as Mike Hawthorn and Heinz-Harald Frentzen) and George Russell the 3rd.
– This is Red Bull’s 19th one-two finish in F1, and the second of the season after the one they achieved at Imola.
– Sergio Pérez has achieved his 7th fastest lap in the race, as many as Jacques Laffite and Charles Leclerc.
– George Russell remains the only driver to have finished in the top five in every grand prix this season. His streak so far has been 4th, 5th, 3rd, 4th, 5th, 3rd.
– Despite his poor start, Carlos Sainz achieved the best result of his career at home with a fourth place, while at the same time maintaining his streak of always finishing in the points at his local grand prix.
– The fifth classified, Lewis Hamilton, had achieved five consecutive victories in Barcelona. The last time he didn’t win was in 2016, when he and teammate Nico Rosberg collided on the opening lap of the race.
– Esteban Ocon, who was seventh, finished ahead of his team-mate for the sixth time in six grands prix this season (Fernando Alonso finished ninth after starting 20th due to a power unit change).
– Two weeks ago, Lando Norris’ 15-race streak ended in Miami. This time Leclerc’s (of 16 events, since Hungary 2021) is over, having to retire when he was leading the grand prix.
