Grand Prix of Emilia-Romagna: curious statistics

Some interesting statistical compilations of the results of the Grand Prix of Emilia-Romagna …

Qualification

Max Verstappen won qualifying at Imola with his first pole of the season and 14th of his career, equaling Alberto Ascari, James Hunt, Ronnie Peterson and Rubens Barrichello.

Verstappen’s pole position was the 75th in Red Bull Racing history, the team is fifth in this indicator and lost 32 poles to Lotus. On the first line of Ferrari – 232 posts.

Charles Leclerc qualified second. This year he was first or second in all qualifiers.

Lando Norris qualified third, the best result for McLaren this season.

Kevin Magnussen’s fourth-place finish is the best in Haas F1 history and the Dane’s third-best in his career, after finishing fourth in Australia and Germany in 2014 with McLaren.

Sergio Perez’s seventh place is his worst result of the season.

Both Mercedes drivers failed to qualify for the final qualifying – the last time was 187 Grand Prix ago – in Japan’12.

Mick Schumacher qualified 12th and repeated his best career result shown in Bahrain this year.

For the third qualifying round in a row, both Williams drivers were eliminated in the first session.

For the first time since the introduction of the current qualifying format in 2006, she stopped with red flags five times.

race

By winning the Emilia-Romagna Grand Prix, Max Verstappen took the second win of the season and the 22nd in his career, equaling Damon Hill in this indicator.

This year, Verstappen will retire or win the race. Both races in which he retired were won by Charles Leclerc, who now has two wins each season.

Starting from pole, leading from start to finish, setting the best lap time and winning, Verstappen won the Grand Slam for the second time in his career (the last was in Austria’21). In the final race, the Grand Slam was won by Charles Leclerc. For the first time in Formula 1 history, the Grand Slam was won in two races in a row by representatives of different teams.

Sergio Perez finished second for the 17th time in his career and climbed to the podium – the same number were Alberto Ascari and Keke Rosberg. For the first time since Malaysia’16, Red Bull Racing achieved a double win – only the second double since the switch to turbo hybrid engines and the 18th in history.

Sergio Perez has completed 1200 laps of racing. Of the current drivers, he is fourth in this indicator, behind Alonso, Hamilton and Vettel.

Lando Norris finished third, finishing on the podium for the sixth time in his career and repeating his result from last year at Imola.

George Russell finished fourth and was the only driver this year to finish all races in the top five.

Valtteri Bottas’ fifth place is Alfa Romeo’s best result since Brazil’19, with Räikkönen fourth and Giovinazzi fifth.

Ferrari’s best result was Charles Leclerc’s sixth place – since 2006, the Scuderia had no podium finishes at Imola. This is the 70th race in which the Monegask crossed the finish line, and the 60th with points earned.

Stage at Imola was the 800th for Ferrari engines, in which they earned points.

Eighth place Sebastian Vettel and tenth Lance Stroll gave Aston Martin its first points of the season.

Esteban Ocon finished 14th, breaking a run of seven straight races.

For the first time since 2018, all ten teams have earned points in the first four Grand Prix.