(Reuters) – Formula One statistics for Sunday’s Italian Grand Prix at Monza, round 16 of the 24-race championship:
Lap distance: 5.793km. Total distance: 306.720km (53 laps)
2023 pole position: Carlos Sainz (Spain) Ferrari one minute 20.294 seconds
2023 race winner: Max Verstappen (Netherlands) Red Bull
Race lap record: One minute 21.046 seconds, Rubens Barrichello (Brazil), Ferrari 2004.
Start time: 1300GMT (1500 local)
ITALY
The race will be the 75th Italian Grand Prix since the championship started in 1950, and 74th at Monza.
Built in 1922, Monza’s ‘Temple of Speed’ has long straights and 11 corners with 76% of lap time at full throttle and top speeds of more than 350kph.
The track has been completely resurfaced for the first time since 1922, with new kerbs installed. The race can be one of the shortest of the year in total time, due to the high speeds.
Seven-times world champions Lewis Hamilton and Michael Schumacher share the record of five wins each at Monza.
Other past winners are Verstappen, Fernando Alonso, Charles Leclerc, Daniel Ricciardo and Pierre Gasly.
Hamilton has started on pole seven times at Monza and set Formula One’s fastest ever lap in 2020 qualifying at an average speed of 264.362kph.
The Italian and British Grands Prix are the only ones to have been on the calendar in every year since 1950. In 1980 the Italian round was held at Imola.
Ferrari have won 19 times at Monza, more than anyone else.
CHAMPIONSHIP STANDINGS
Verstappen leads McLaren’s Lando Norris by 70 points after 15 races.
Red Bull are 30 ahead of McLaren in the constructors’ championship.
WINS
Seven times world champion Hamilton has a record 105 career victories from 347 starts, Verstappen has 61 from 200.
Four teams — Red Bull, Ferrari, McLaren and Mercedes — have won this season, the most since 2021 when Red Bull, Mercedes, Alpine and McLaren won.
Seven different drivers have triumphed, the most in a single season since 2012 when there were eight.
Red Bull have gone five races without a win — Verstappen’s longest losing streak since 2020.
Mercedes and McLaren have both won three times.
Verstappen has won seven of 15, with Ferrari’s Sainz triumphant in Melbourne, Norris in Miami and the Netherlands, Leclerc in Monaco, Mercedes’s George Russell in Spain, Hamilton in Britain and Belgium and McLaren’s Oscar Piastri in Hungary.
Red Bull have won 120 races and are fourth in the all-time list. Ferrari lead with 245, McLaren have 186 and Mercedes 128.
POLE POSITION
Hamilton has a record 104 career poles, his most recent in Hungary in July 2023.
Verstappen has had eight poles so far this year. That includes the first seven of the season, equalling Alain Prost’s 1993 record, and eight in a row including the last race of 2023 — equalling Ayrton Senna’s 1988-89 record.
The Dutch driver was last on pole in Austria in June.
Leclerc took pole in Monaco and Belgium, Russell was fastest in Canada and Britain. Norris took the top spot in Spain, Hungary and the Netherlands.
PODIUMS
Verstappen has 108 career podiums, Hamilton a record 201.
Verstappen has been on the podium 10 times this season, Norris nine, Leclerc seven and Sainz five.
MILESTONE
The Dutch Grand Prix last weekend was the first time Norris had won from pole position.
Ferrari’s Sainz turns 30 on race day.
Argentina, with Franco Colapinto making his race debut at Williams, will have a driver on the starting grid for the first time since Gaston Mazzacane in 2001.
Italian 18-year-old Kimi Antonelli will make his F1 race weekend debut in first Friday practice with Mercedes.
(Reporting by Alan Baldwin, editing by Toby Davis)
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