Stats: Britain’s 12th podium sweep gives it the most of any country – RaceFans

Lewis Hamilton’s first grand prix victory as a Ferrari driver got here in a race wealthy in noteworthy statistics.

As famous earlier, he’s the sixteenth driver in historical past to win races for 3 completely different groups. He’s additionally the oldest race-winner since 1970 and the seventh-oldest of all time.

Being stricter with the terminology, Hamilton is definitely the fourth-oldest driver to win a Formulation 1 world championship race outright. Three of those that scored their solely victories at an older age than he did don’t meet this standards: Luigi Fagioli shared his solely win with one other driver, Piero Taruffi’s solely win got here when the sequence ran to Formulation 2 guidelines and Sam Hanks’ sole triumph got here within the Indianapolis 500 when it counted in the direction of the world championship.

Hamilton gave Ferrari engines their 250th grand prix triumph. All bar a kind of had been scored by the works staff – the opposite got here courtesy of Sebastian Vettel when he received the 2008 Italian Grand Prix in his Ferrari-powered Toro Rosso.

France was the final nation to lock out the rostrum

Till then, Mercedes appeared on target to catch them, and nonetheless would possibly. Mercedes-powered automobiles have received 245 grands prix – each spherical this yr other than final weekend’s. They’ve drawn stage with Ferrari when it comes to pole positions, the 2 producers now tied on 256 every.

Hamilton shared the rostrum with two different British drivers: George Russell and Lando Norris. This was the twelfth all-British podium in historical past, although none of them are anyplace close to sufficiently old to recollect the final one, when Jackie Stewart received america Grand Prix at Watkins Glen forward of Graham Hill and John Surtees. The latter shared the rostrum together with his fellow Britons seven occasions, probably the most of any driver.

It was the primary time in 43 years that three drivers of the identical nationality shared the rostrum locations. France swept the rostrum on the 1983 San Marino Grand Prix when Patrick Tambay received forward of Alain Prost and Rene Arnoux. That each one-French podium sweep was secured when Italian racer Riccardo Patrese spun out of second place with six laps to go, whereas final Sunday’s all-British sweep happened as a result of Italian racer Andrea Kimi Antonelli retired from second place with 5 laps to go.

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British drivers have now swept the rostrum extra occasions than drivers from every other nation. The one different nations to realize the feat are France (3 times), Italy (six) and the USA. The 11 podium sweeps by the latter all got here within the 11 editions of the Indianapolis 500 which counted in the direction of the world championship between 1950 and 1960.

Lance Stroll, Aston Martin, Circuit de Catalunya, 2026 — Stroll ended his 42-race shedding streak in qualifying

This was Hamilton’s seventh win on the Circuit de Catalunya although not his seventh Spanish Grand Prix triumph, as that title now belongs to the upcoming new race in Madrid. He’s the primary driver to win the Barcelona-Catalunya Grand Prix.

Hamilton now has extra wins at this monitor than any driver, shifting one forward of Michael Schumacher. His newest win will increase his document tally to 106, placing him 15 forward of Schumacher. The pair each took their first wins as Ferrari drivers on the Catalunya circuit, Schumacher having performed so 30 years earlier.

Russell marked his one hundredth grand prix for Mercedes together with his eleventh pole place (although FOM insist it’s his tenth) and Norris reached the rostrum for McLaren of their 1,000th grand prix (although the staff depend is as their 1,001st).

Qualifying noticed one other notable achievement as Lance Stroll lastly out-qualified his staff mate for a grand prix for the primary time in virtually two years. He had didn’t beat Fernando Alonso within the previous 42 rounds.

Andrea Kimi Antonelli’s retirement ended his run of ending on the rostrum in each race this yr. It additionally leaves solely Hamilton and Pierre Gasly as the one drivers to have scored factors at each spherical.

For the reason that final version of Stats and Details, Gasly has additionally claimed his sixth podium end, whereas Isack Hadjar has misplaced his. Although it stays to be seen whether or not that can be reversed by McLaren’s Monaco Grand Prix attraction.

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