The 2018 FIA Formula 1 World Championship season continues this weekend with the prestigious Monaco Grand Prix at the 3.337-kilometer (2.074-mile) Circuit de Monaco.
Here’s a look at some interesting statistics and tidbits heading into race day.
Monaco Grand Prix – Track/Event (Overall)
- The 2018 race is the 76th running of the Monaco Grand Prix – the first race came in 1929 – and the 65th overall and 64th consecutive as part of the Formula 1 World Championship circuit. The race was first part of the F1 calendar in 1950. The race wasn’t held in 1951 or from 1953-1954, and was a non-championship round in 1952; the race has been on the F1 schedule every year since 1955.
- British driver William Grover-Williams won the inaugural race in 1929, while Juan Manuel Fangio won the first Monaco Grand Prix as part of the F1 schedule in 1950.
- Sebastien Vettel is the defending Monaco Grand Prix race winner.
- The 3.337-kilometer street circuit is the shortest on the 2018 schedule, comprised of 21 races. It is also the shortest race on the schedule – at 78 laps, the race is only 260.286 kilometers (161.734 miles), 45 kilometers short of the 305-kilometer minimum distance required by the FIA for other grand prix.
Monaco Grand Prix – As Part of the Formula 1 World Championship
- The Monaco Grand Prix is the sixth race of the 2018 F1 schedule and was the sixth round of the 2017 F1 calendar. The race has mostly been held anywhere from the second to the fourth weekend of the month of May.
- Ayrton Senna has the most victories in the Monaco Grand Prix with six, including five straight from 1989 to 1993 (won his first in 1987). Graham Hill and Michael Schumacher each earned five wins overall at the street circuit.
- Overall, a total of 33 drivers of 15 different nationalities have won the Monaco Grand Prix as part of the Formula 1 World Championship, with 16 drivers accomplishing the feat multiple times.
- As a constructor, McLaren owns a record 15 victories in the Monaco Grand Prix, most recently in 2008.
- Sebastian Vettel won the 2017 Monaco Grand Prix from the second starting position. Eighteen of the last 22 races have been won from the front row, and each of those 22 races has been won by a driver from the top three starting positions. Olivier Panis won the race from the 14th position in 1996, marking the furthest back any driver has won the race in the F1 era (Maurice Trintignant, 1955, ninth, and Jochen Rindt, 1970, eighth, are the only other drivers to win from worse than the fifth starting position).
- Overall, the Monaco Grand Prix has been won from the pole position 28 times, though none since the 2014 race, when Nico Rosberg scored the second of his three wins at the track.
- Sebastian Vettel average 149.105 kph in the 2017 race in a race that featured one caution for seven laps. Each of the last three Monaco Grand Prix has featured at least one safety car period.
- Fernando Alonso averaged a race-record 155.552 kph in his 2007 victory.
- Drivers to win the Monaco Grand Prix and the Indianapolis 500 are Graham Hill (1963-1965, 1968-1969) and Juan Pablo Montoya (2003). Other Monaco Grand Prix winners to compete in the 500 are Jack Brabham, Jackie Stewart, Denny Hulme, Jochen Rindt and most recently, Fernando Alonso.
Monaco Grand Prix – 2018 Entry List
- Fourteen countries/nationalities are represented in this weekend’s race: France (4), Germany (2), Spain (2), Finland (2), Great Britain (1), Australia (1), Netherlands (1), Mexico (1), Canada (1), Russia (1), New Zealand (1), Denmark (1), Belgium (1) and Sweden (1).
- Charles Leclerc becomes the first F1 driver from Monaco to compete in the Monaco Grand Prix since Olivier Beretta in 1994 (finished eighth).
Formula 1 Random Statistics – Current Drivers
- Lewis Hamilton is the most recent driver to win back-to-back in Formula 1 competition, having won the last two races – the Azerbaijan and Spanish Grand Prix.
- The Mercedes AMG Petronas Motorsport team is the only team to lead laps in each of the last seven Formula 1 grand prix.
- Max Verstappen is the last driver to lead every lap of an F1 grand prix, doing so in the 2017 Grand Prix of Mexico at Autodromo Hermanos Rodriguez.
Upcoming Milestones
- Fernando Alonso is four races away from 300 Formula 1 grand prix and three podiums away from 100.
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