The weekend in Monaco brought a heart-pounding qualifying and a race that moved with the arrival of the rain. As always, however, in the end Verstappen won on both days, with Ocon as the surprise of the weekend. So let's go find out all the more curious statistics of the Monaco GP.
Red Bull: Verstappen becomes the most successful ever
- With last Sunday's victory, Max Verstappen has become the Red Bull driver with the most victories of history. Passed Sebastian Hag (38 victories at 39), while completing the podium Webber with only 9 successes.
- Verstappen he was the seventh rider in the last 8 Monaco GPs to finish both races in the lead FP2 that the qualifications. The only exception is the 2017, with Sebastian Hag the fastest on Friday but Kimi Raikkonen on pole on Saturday.
- With 78s in the lead on Sunday, Verstappen has exceeded altitude 2000 rpm in command in career. Only Lewis Hamilton, among active drivers, has more than him: 5447.
- A fact that does not reassure rival teams: Red Bull has closed every race with a minimum lead of 20 seconds on the next team. An exception is the Australian GP, which finished under the safety car.
- Verstappen conquest points in every race since the 2022 Emilia Romagna GP: they are 25 races which take him to fourth place overall, ahead of Alonso (24 races between 2001 and 2003).
- Verstappen e Or with they shared the podium for the first time in Formula 1. It's been 3150 days since the last time, in 2014 in Formula 3.
- La Red Bull it is only the third team in the history to win the first 6 races of the season. Ferrari is out of this exclusive classification, while the Mercedes figure 2 times (2014 e 2019) and the McLaren was the first (1988).
Ferrari: Sainz constant
- With fifth place on Saturday, Carlos Sainz has become the only one pilot a qualify always in top 5.
- Finishing eighth in the race, Sainz he equaled Jenson's record Button for the greatest number of eighth places in career (20).
- After 6 races, Leclerc has collected minus points of the nightmare season 2020: 45 then, 42 Now. After 6 races, last year there were 104 points.
Aston Martin: eternal Alonso in Monaco, Stroll in trouble
- Second both in qualifying and in the race, Fernando Alonso is back in front row in Munich for the first time since 2007, when he took pole ahead of a very young Lewis Hamilton.
- With second place on Sunday, Alonso reached Kimi Raikkonen in fifth place for the most career podiums (103). Next on the list is Alain Cheers (106).
- Stroll is not mai managed to enter in Q3 in Monaco in career.
- Il training camp by Stroll al 54st lap it's the first retreat later in history of the Monaco GP: beat teammate Alonso, who retired on lap 53 in 2018.
General curiosities: Monaco race more eventful than usual
- In the race they registered 22 overtakings: was from 2011 that Munich did not see so many (27). From 2017 to 2021, then, overtaking never went into double figures, with the 2021 edition even closing dry.
- For the fourth time in the history of the Monaco GP, the top 3 on the grid it was also the 3 riders who climbed on the podium. The previous 3 were 2007 (Alonso, Hamilton, Massa), 2014 (Rosberg, Hamilton, Ricciardo) e 2018 (Ricciardo, Vettel, Hamilton).
