Monaco Grand Prix facts & statistics

Reuters facts and statistics for the Monaco Grand Prix, Round 6 of the 2016 Formula 1 World Championship, in Monte Carlo.

• Lap distance: 3.337km (78 laps). Total distance: 280.286km
• Race lap record: Daniel Ricciardo (Australia) Red Bull 1:18.063 (2015)
• 2015 pole: Lewis Hamilton (Britain), Mercedes
• 2015 winner: Nico Rosberg (Germany) Mercedes
• Start time: 1200 GMT (1400 local)
• Red Bull’s Dutch driver Max Verstappen became Formula One’s youngest winner, at 18 years and 228 days, at this month’s Spanish Grand Prix.
• His victory ended a run of 10 successive wins for Mercedes, who had both cars retire after a first lap collision. One more win would have equalled McLaren’s 1988 record.
• It also ended championship leader Nico Rosberg’s bid for an eighth win in a row.
• Mercedes have won 36 of the last 43 races.
• Triple world champion Lewis Hamilton has 43 career victories, putting him third in the all-time lists and one win ahead of Ferrari’s four-times world champion Sebastian Vettel.
• Schumacher holds the record of 91, with Alain Prost on 51. McLaren’s Fernando Alonso has 32 wins, Ferrari’s Kimi Raikkonen 20, Rosberg 18 and McLaren’s Jenson Button 15.
• Rosberg has more wins than any other non-champion in the history of the sport.
• Ferrari have won 224 races in total, McLaren 182, Williams 114, Red Bull 51 and Mercedes 49. McLaren have not won for 62 races, a run that dates back to Brazil 2012.
• Mercedes have been on pole in 41 of the last 43 races.
• Hamilton’s pole position in Spain was the 52nd of his career. Vettel has 46.
• Williams are the only team to have scored points with both cars in both races this season.
• Rosberg has won the last three Monaco Grands Prix.
• Only four drivers have ever won three in a row in the principality: Graham Hill, Ayrton Senna, Alain Prost and Rosberg. Senna has a total of six victories at the principality – more than any other driver.
• Ferrari have not won in Monaco since 2001, with Michael Schumacher. They have, however, set the fastest lap in six of the last 12 races.
• The driver on pole has won 10 of the last 15 races in Monaco. In 1996, Frenchman Olivier Panis won from 14th on the starting grid — the lowest winning start position to date.
• Since 1950, only 10 times has the race been won by a driver starting lower than third.
• Six former Monaco winners will be on Sunday’s grid: Rosberg (2013, 2014, 2015), Vettel (2011), Button (2009), Hamilton (2008), Alonso (2006, 2007), Raikkonen (2005)
• Apart from becoming the youngest race winner, Verstappen is also now the youngest driver to have led a race, and youngest podium finisher. He was already the youngest driver to start a grand prix and youngest points scorer.
• Verstappen is also the first Dutch race winner, and only the second to appear on the podium. The other was father Jos.
• Spain was the first double retirement for Mercedes since the 2011 Australian Grand Prix.

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