Formula One statistics for the Canadian Grand Prix

Wed Jun 6, 2007 7:56am EDT
 
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(Reuters) - Formula One statistics for Sunday's Canadian Grand Prix:

WINS

Fernando Alonso's Monaco victory was the 17th grand prix win of his career and McLaren's 150th in Formula One.

Alonso is now 12th in Formula One's all-time race winner rankings, one ahead of Britain's Stirling Moss and three off the tally of double world champion Mika Hakkinen. Michael Schumacher holds the record of 91 race wins.

Ferrari have won 195 races and Williams 113. Renault have won 33.

McLaren have already had as many podium finishes this season (nine) as in all of 2006.

Monaco was McLaren's second one-two finish in five races. The last time they celebrated two one-twos in a single season was in 2000.

LEWIS HAMILTON

The 22-year-old Briton has led every grand prix he has started and finished his first five races on the podium -- unprecedented for a rookie.

If he finishes in the points in Montreal, he will join compatriot and triple champion Jackie Stewart and American Richie Ginther as the only drivers to have scored in all of their first six races.

The last driver to win a race in his debut season was Colombian Juan Pablo Montoya with Williams in Italy in 2001.

CANADA

Ferrari won the first race in Montreal in 1978 with Gilles Villeneuve and have by far the best record at the circuit named after the late Canadian.

This year's race is the 29th in Montreal and 39th in Canada. It is also the 25th anniversary of Villeneuve's death in practice for the 1982 Belgian Grand Prix at Zolder.

The Italian team have won 10 times in Montreal, compared to McLaren's five and Williams' seven.

Villeneuve remains the only Canadian to have won his home race. Following the departure of his son Jacques last year, there is no home driver in Sunday's grand prix.

Austrian Alexander Wurz (Williams) made his grand prix debut in Montreal in 1997. His Benetton failed to finish.

 

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