WRC Stat Attack

The narrowest winning margins in Motorsport: Part 1

2021 Italian Grand Prix: Stats Preview

2021 Italian Grand Prix: Stats Breakdown

F1's mid-season driver swaps: Part 1

2021 Dutch Grand Prix: Stats Review

IndyCar Series Stat Attack

F1's mid-season driver swaps: Part 2

The narrowest winning margins in Motorsport: Part 2

2021 Belgian Grand Prix: Stats Preview

2021 Dutch Grand Prix: Stat Preview

2020/21 Formula E Season In Numbers: Part One

Unusual IndyCar Stats: 'Mosts'

2021 London ePrix Stat Breakdown

Scott Dixon now has 123 total career IndyCar Series podiums, the most of any driver in the series. This is an incredible 39 more than the next nearest driver &ndash; Helio Castroneves with 84. Dixon has been in the series since 2003 and been with Chip Ganassi for every single one of those 19 seasons. The six-time champion also has more wins than any other driver, scoring 50 and only having one winless season in 2004. Dixon has won 16.13% of his record total of 310 starts.
A total of 100 different drivers have taken at least one podium in the IndyCar Series since 1996. The most recent addition to the list was Penske&rsquo;s Scott McLaughlin who finished second in the 2021 Genesys 300 at Texas Motor Speedway. An impressive 31 of the 43 different drivers who have competed in the 2021 season have stood on the podium at some stage in their career, 15 of them in 2021 alone. Current championship leader Alex Palou leads the way, with seven total podiums in 2021.
The longest winning streak ever recorded in the IndyCar Series is a streak of three. This has been done on nine different occasions, by six different drivers. Dixon has achieved this feat on three occasions while Will Power is the only other driver to have achieved a &lsquo;three-peat&rsquo; more than once.
Despite Power having more poles than any other driver in series history, 57, he doesn&rsquo;t have the record for most poles in-a-row. That record instead falls to Billy Boat who scored 5-in-a-row during the 1998 season. Boat only won one race that year and finished a distant 13th in the championship despite his record breaking run.
Dixon is only two points away from reaching the 10,000 career points mark. He would be the first driver to achieve this number, Helio Castroneves is his nearest challenger on a current total of 8128 points. Only five other drivers have surpassed 5000 career points so far &ndash; Tony Kanaan (7701), Will Power (6762), Ryan Hunter-Reay (5870), Marco Andretti (5405) and Graham Rahal (5198).
The youngest ever winner in IndyCar Series history remains Colton Herta. The son of Bryan, Herta won the 2019 visit to COTA at the age of 18y, 11m and 22d. Only three teenagers have ever won an IndyCar race, including Herta. The other two are Graham Rahal and Marco Andretti, both whom were the age of 19 when they won for the first time. Coincidentally all three drivers happen to be the sons of former IndyCar race winners.
*all stats taken from 1996-2021

Indy Car Series

Scott Dixon

Marco Andretti

Chip Ganassi Racing

Team Penske

Hélio Castroneves

Will Power

Billy Boat

Colton Herta

Andretti Autosport

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Read on as we take you through some of the most intriguing stats from the IndyCar Series (1996-2021).

A total of 80 different rally drivers have won a round of the <a href="https://results.motorsportstats.com/series/world-rally-championship">World Rally Championship</a> from 17 different nationalities. France is the most successful nation with 199 total wins, followed by Finland on 181. This means that between them, France and Finland have won 62.09% of all WRC rallies. &nbsp;Rather remarkably, drivers called <a href="https://results.motorsportstats.com/series/world-rally-championship/records/drivers/wins">Sebastien</a> have won 132 of those 612 rallies. That&rsquo;s 21.56% of ALL rallies have been won by a driver with the same forename.
The numbers for co-drivers is slightly different, Finland coming out on top with 139 wins and France close behind with 118. A total of 21 different nationalities have won rallies in the co-driver seat. The United States, New Zealand, Ivory Coast and South Africa being the extra additions.
Twenty-two different manufacturers have won at least once in the WRC. So far only Citroen have broken the 100 wins barrier &ndash; 102 wins with five different models. From the WRC&rsquo;s current crop of manufacturers, it&rsquo;s Ford who lead the way with 91 wins. Toyota have 67 and Hyundai have won 19 times. The most successful car in the history of the WRC is the Volkswagen Polo R WRC. It won 43 rallies between 2012 and 2017. Three of the top five most successful cars are from Citroen &ndash; the C4 WRC (36), the Xsara WRC (32) and the DS3 WRC (26). The Peugeot 206 WRC rounds out the top five with 24 total wins.
French drivers called Sebastien have won 16 of the last 17 WRC titles. That&rsquo;s a crazy 94.11%. Only Ott Tanak from Estonia has broken the run since 2004, he won the championship in 2019. Only 9 different nationalities have won the WRC title. France has the most for obvious reasons (16), followed by the Finns with 13. Countries with only one champion include Spain (Carlos Sainz x2), Estonia (Ott Tanak), Italy (Miki Biasion x2) and Norway (Petter Solberg).
The record for the youngest ever winner of a WRC round was broken in 2021 by Kalle Rovanpera when he won Rally Estonia at the age of 20 years, 9 months and 17 days. Previously the record had been held by Jari-Matti Latvala since 2008.
On the other hand the oldest winner of a WRC round has remained Bjorn Waldegard since 1990. Waldegard won that year&rsquo;s Safari Rally at the age of 46 years, 5 months and 4 days. This still pales in comparison to the oldest co-driver to have won a WRC rally. This record belongs to John Kennard of New Zealand, who won the 2016 Rally Argentina at the age of 57 years, 2 months and 13 days. Kennard was a full 28 years older than his driver, Hayden Paddon.

World Rally Championship

Carlos Sainz

Sébastien Ogier

Sébastien Loeb

Citroën World Rally Team

M-Sport

Ott Tänak

Björn Waldegård

Petter Solberg

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Read on as we take you through some of the most intriguing stats from the World Rally Championship.

Often in racing there are few things more thrilling than a close finish and not knowing who will win a race until the very last second. Here are some of the closest finishes from various disciplines across motorsport history.
IndyCar &ndash; 0.024s
It was a battle of the American &lsquo;Jrs&rsquo; at Chicagoland in 2002 which produced the IndyCar Series closest ever finish.
Sam Hornish Jr of Penske was defending from IndyCar legend Al Unser Jr in the closing laps of the Delphi Indy 300 by the narrowest of margins. The pair were side-by-side, Hornish having a tiny power advantage on the straighaways which allowed him to cross the line just 0.024s ahead of Unser Jr. Even today the finish gives viewers goosebumps. Hornish Jr went on to win the IndyCar Series title the same year.
Indianapolis 500 &ndash; 0.043s
Often hailed as &lsquo;the greatest spectacle in racing&rsquo;, it would be foolish not to give the Indy 500 its own entry.
Once again Al Unser Jr was involved, only this time his rival was Scott Goodyear and Unser Jr came out the winner. Prior to this duos battle, it had been Michael Andretti who had dominated the race and was a lap ahead of the whole field with just 11 laps to go.
Cruelly a fuel pump failure robber Andretti the chance to emulate his Father Mario and win America&rsquo;s most famous motor race. What had been a scrap for second, suddenly became a scrap to &nbsp;win the Borg Warner trophy.
Goodyear tried to haul Unser Jr in and went for the overtake on the final lap. He would miss out on victory by just 0.043s. Unser Jr went on to add another Indy 500 win to his tally in 1994 while Goodyear, well, let&rsquo;s not mention 1995 and THAT pace car incident.
Indy Lights &ndash; 0.0005s
The main IndyCar Series may have had its fair share of close finishes, however it is the feeder Indy Lights series which has the Guinness World Record for closest margin of victory in motorsport.
Sam Schmidt Motorsport pair Alex Lloyd and Logan Gomez were locked in combat in the 2007 Chicagoland Indy Pro, Gomez holding a small advantage going into the final lap. Lloyd then made his move around the outside, briefly banging wheels with Gomez. Perhaps this touch broke some of Lloyd&rsquo;s momentum, for Gomez hung on to claim victory by 0.0005s. It was Gomez&rsquo;s first win in Indy Lights.
NASCAR Cup Series &ndash; 0.002s
A photo finish in the NASCAR Cup Series isn&rsquo;t exactly a rarity. Frequently fans are treated to a grandstand finish following a late yellow or a bump-draft spectacular. Therefore it seems appropriate that it&rsquo;s not one, but two races which share the record for closest ever winning margin in the series history.
Ricky Craven would hunt down leader Kurt Busch in final laps of a race in 2003. Craven had started down in 31st and with both drivers giving it their all, the pair ultimately crossed the line as one and it was impossible to tell with the naked eye who had the advantage. The timing screens would eventually announce Craven the winner by the smallest of margins.
It was another photo-finish at Talladega in 2011, with a battle of four two-car drafts commencing the final lap with Jeff Gordon in the lead.
Going into Turn 3 Jimmie Johnson attempted to make a move up the inside but initially could not make it through. Gordon then attempted to side-draft Clint Bowyer, leaving the opportunity there for team-mate and prot&eacute;g&eacute; Johnson to get past for the win.

Nascar Cup Series

Sam Hornish Jr.

Al Unser Jr.

Jimmie Johnson

Jeff Gordon

Alex Lloyd

Scott Goodyear

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Laura Leslie investigates the closest finishes in Motorsport history.

Often in racing there are few things more thrilling than a close finish and not knowing who will win a race until the very last second. Here are some of the closest finishes from various disciplines across motorsport history.
F1 &ndash; 0.01s
Even today, the 1971 Italian Grand Prix remains unmatched for its close finish. It was before Monza had chicanes and it came in an era where slipstreaming was the word of the day.
With 10 laps to go Chris Amon was set for the win, Amon had made his way to the front of the field after cars ahead of him dropped out with mechanical failures and driver errors. The ever unlucky Amon too succumbed to a mechanical problem which left Swedish driver Ronnie Peterson in the lead.
Peterson was battling with Francois Cevert, Peter Gethin, Mike Hailwood and Howden Ganley in a slipstreaming masterclass. None of the drivers involved had ever won a grand prix before, so the determination was high and they all pushed their cars to the absolute limit.
On the final lap the quintet entered a straight drag race coming out of the famous Parabolica. They eventually crossed the line within 0.061s of one another, Gethin&rsquo;s BRM coming out on top by just 0.01s from the March of Peterson with an average race speed of 242.615km/h. The race held this average speed record for a whopping 32 years until it was beaten by the 2003 Italian Grand Prix &ndash; won by the Ferrari of Michael Schumacher.
MotoGP &ndash; 0.0s
Thanks to timekeeping only being able to classify riders to within a tenth of a second, the 1975 500cc Dutch TT at Assen remains the only premier class bike race to have finished in a dead heat for first place.
Then 7-time champion Giacomo Agostini finished alongside Barry Sheene who was riding his Suzuki to his first ever 500cc class victor. Agostini would go on to take his 8th and final 500cc world title that same year.
WRC &ndash; 0.2s
It seems absolutely remarkable that a rally could have a winning margin as narrow as 0.2s given the amount of miles covered over the course of a number of days. That&rsquo;s exactly what happened in the 2011 Jordan Rally though.
Initially the rally was due to be held across three days, however cargo docking issues in Syria left the teams running late and so the schedule was condensed down to just two days.
Over the course of day two, Sebastien Ogier had his 18.9 lead whittled down by Jari-Matti Latvala in a thrilling crescendo. Latvala eventually stole the lead by 0.5s as the pair prepared for the powerstage finale. However Ogier fought back to beat Latava by 0,7s on the powerstage and win the entire rally by 0.2s. It was a Hollywood ending for a rally which had begun in utter turmoil.

Formula One

MotoGP

Peter Gethin

Ronnie Peterson

Barry Sheene

Giacomo Agostini

Jari-Matti Latvala

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From a sea of orange, Formula 1 is set to be greeted by an ocean of red at its next venue - the Autodromo Nazionale di Monza. A September regular, it&rsquo;s time for the Italian Grand Prix at the land of the tifosi.
The <a href="https://results.motorsportstats.com/venues/autodromo-nazionale-monza/series/formula-one?circuit=circuit-autodromo-nazionale-monza">Italian Grand Prix</a> is the only event, alongside the British Grand Prix, to be held every year since the inception of Formula 1 in 1950. The first-ever Italian Grand Prix took place a century ago in September 1921 at a circuit near Montichiari. The Monza circuit was constructed a year later and was the third purpose-built autodrome in the world after Brooklands in the United Kingdom and Indianapolis in the United States. The race was temporarily shifted to Imola for the 1980 season as Monza underwent a major renovation programme.
Historical circuits have a distinct characteristic about them. Monaco is tight and twisty with an average speed of about 170 kph. Monza, a complete contrast with its long straights and fast flowing corners is all about express pace. The venue is aptly termed the &lsquo;Temple of Speed&rsquo; as 85% of the lap distance is run at full throttle, the highest of any Formula 1 track. Lewis Hamilton smashed the record for the fastest lap in Formula 1 during qualifying <a href="https://results.motorsportstats.com/results/2020-italian-grand-prix/classification/9eed2fcc-530a-4c15-ad95-cc916756ef64">last year</a> with a ripping average speed of 264.362 kph. He surprisingly did so without receiving a tow and without going fastest in two sectors.
The track is 5.793 km long and drivers reach speeds of around 360 kph before braking for the first turn. Over the course of a lap, drivers navigate through eleven corners, the second-lowest amongst all circuits this year after the Red Bull Ring. Monza is a multi-layout circuit and several configurations have been used for the 70 races held here. The infamous Pista di Alta Velocita banking corner that leads to the main straight was last used in 1961. Races in the hybrid era have witnessed an average of 35 overtakes and the effect of the tow is expected to be around 0.7 seconds. Hence, expect drivers to tuck in behind their rivals to gain an advantage, especially during qualifying.
Sprint qualifying returns this weekend and teams will expectedly be better prepared after the format was first tested at the British Grand Prix. Pole-sitters have won 35% of the races here, but that number shoots up to 71% since 2000. Only one driver has won the Italian Grand Prix after starting lower than tenth - Peter Gethin in 1971. That race also witnessed the closest finish in the sport&rsquo;s history, a record that still stands 50 years later. Owing to its late spot on the calendar, eleven drivers&rsquo; champions have been crowned at Monza, the last of which was Jody Scheckter in 1979.
Lewis Hamilton and Michael Schumacher are the most dominant drivers here with five wins apiece. Fittingly, Ferrari have taken more victories (19), poles (21), podiums (69) and fastest laps (19) at Monza than at any other circuit. The only time a Ferrari-powered car won a race for a different constructor other than the Scuderia was coincidentally also at Monza in 2008, when Sebastian Vettel took a shock victory driving a Toro Rosso.
Hamilton could also break the record for the fastest laps at a single circuit this weekend. He&rsquo;s set the fastest lap at Monza on seven previous occasions and is currently tied with Michael Schumacher who set a similar number at Barcelona. The Brit also has 3999.5 career points to his name and is on the brink of becoming the first driver to breach the 4000-points club.
Mercedes have the upper hand here in the hybrid era. They have five wins, five poles and five double podiums at Monza in the last seven years. On the other hand, Red Bull haven&rsquo;t won the Italian Grand Prix since 2013 and Max Verstappen hasn&rsquo;t done better than fifth here. That said, Red Bull have been running rampant off lately and will want to take top honours at this circuit by rewriting the stats books. If the Dutch anthem plays on Sunday, Verstappen will have emerged victorious on three consecutive weekends. He&rsquo;s already done it earlier at France and the Austrian double-headers.
Lastly, the tifosi have been longing to see an Italian winner at this prestigious circuit. The last Italian to win a home race was Riccardo Patrese when he won the 1990 San Marino Grand Prix driving a Williams Renault. Monza hasn&rsquo;t seen a local winner since 1966. But all it takes is a small pinch of chaos to bring out a surprise winner, like in 2020. So, never say never.
 - Sundaram Ramaswami Twitter/Instagram - <a href="https://twitter.com/f1statsguru">@f1statsguru</a>

Lewis Hamilton

2021 Italian Grand Prix

Ferrari

Charles Leclerc

Michael Schumacher

Autodromo Nazionale Monza

Jody Scheckter

Sebastian Vettel

Red Bull Racing

Max Verstappen

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Sundaram Ramaswami brings you all the stats and numbers to watch out for this weekend.

Always expect the unexpected in Formula One. From ill-timed leg breaks, positive COVID tests, cheques bouncing, and even being stuck in prison, the teams need to keep an eye on the drivers who are available to stand in for another driver at the last minute. Laura Leslie takes a look at some of the driver replacements who worked out and those who perhaps wish they just stayed at home.
<h2>Robert Kubica</h2>
After a string of fantastic free practice performances from Robert Kubica on Fridays throughout 2006, the writing seemed to be on the wall for Jacques Villeneuve at BMW-Sauber. The final straw for the team came after Villeneuve crashed out of the German Grand Prix. The official line was that Villeneuve was injured and unable to compete in the following race. The world knew BMW-Sauber finally had the excuse it needed to ship the former world champion out in favour of Kubica.
Immediately, F1&rsquo;s first Polish driver showed his star quality by finishing in the points in the Hungarian Grand Prix. Only an underweight car prevented him from keeping his seventh place in the final standings. Two races later Kubica would go on to stand on the podium with third place in the Italian Grand Prix. He was the first driver since Alex Wurz in 1997 to stand on the podium within his first three races.
Fast-forward 15 years and Kubica is once again playing the 'super-sub' and again at the same team, albeit with a different name. Kubica replaced Kimi Raikkonen at Alfa Romeo after the Finn had tested positive for COVID on the Saturday morning of the Dutch Grand Prix. Kubica will get a second go in the car for the Italian Grand Prix after Raikkonen was not declared clear to return.
<h2>Mika Salo</h2>
After a tough season with a struggling Arrows team, Mika Salo found himself sidelined at the beginning of the 1999 season. Pedro de la Rosa&rsquo;s Repsol cash had ousted him from Arrows rather last minute, leaving Salo with no options left. His chance came when Ricardo Zonta slammed his BAR Supertec into an armco barrier in Brazil; he broke his foot and badly damaged tendons while he was at it. Salo replaced the Brazilian for three races, narrowly missing out on points on two of those occasions.
His performance was enough to thrust him into the watchful eye of the Ferrari team after Michael Schumacher broken his leg during the British Grand Prix. Salo was drafted in for the following race in Austria. A quiet ninth place finish perhaps cast some doubt over Salo&rsquo;s potential, but he shut the doubters up in superb fashion during a German Grand Prix he very nearly won.
Only team-orders from Ferrari to allow Eddie Irvine through stopped Salo from taking a maiden win; he would finish second, although Irvine would later hand Salo the winner&rsquo;s trophy in a rare moment of gallantry for F1.
One more podium in front of the Ferrari&nbsp;tifosi&nbsp;in Monza ensured Salo would be remembered as a &lsquo;super-sub&rsquo; for years to come.
Gianni Morbidelli/Norberto Fontana
To say Sauber had a nightmare with their number seventeen car in 1997 would be an understatement. Nicola Larini began the season alongside Johnny Herbert at the request of Ferrari, what with him being their test driver and Sauber using Petronas badged Ferrari engines. The relationship between Sauber and Larini turned sour after just five races, and he was replaced by fellow Italian Gianni Morbidelli for the Spanish Grand Prix.
However an nasty shunt during testing at Mangy-Cours left Morbidelli with a badly broken arm. After just two races he himself had to be replaced with tiny Argentinian, Norberto Fontana. A terrible debut in France led to Peter Sauber looking for this third replacement driver of the season. Eventually Fontana was given a second chance, which saw him missing a weigh bridge check during British Grand Prix qualifying and demoted to the back of the grid. He would finish ninth in the race. Another ninth in Germany was enough for the team to bring Morbidelli back for Hungary.
Sadly the arm injury suffered earlier in the season would prove to be enough to end Morbidelli&rsquo;s career in F1. Fontana was draughted back in for the season finale in Jerez.
During the race he ended up infamously blocking the Williams of Jacques Villeneuve in order to help Ferrari and Michael Schumacher. He would never drive a Sauber again.
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Robert Kubica

Alfa Romeo

Mika Salo

Gianni Morbidelli

Norberto Fontana

Sauber

BMW Sauber

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Laura Leslie takes a look at some of the driver replacements who worked out and those who perhaps wish they just stayed at home.

<h2>Michael Schumacher</h2>
It's a peculiar coincidence that Michael Schumacher began his F1 career in a car carrying &lsquo;7up&rsquo; as it&rsquo;s primary sponsor. The young German was handed his big chance after Jordan driver Bertrand Gachot took aim at London cab driver with some pepper spray. Some jail time for Gachot and a little white lie from Schumacher&rsquo;s manager Willi Weber about his upstart having driving experience of Spa-Francorchamps ensured him of the drive.
Schumacher took the F1 world by storm with some impressive times during practice and a very together performance for seventh place in qualifying. Unfortunately he burned out his clutch and it failed completely as he exited Eau Rouge for the first time on the first lap.
The talent he possessed was abundantly clear.&nbsp;His Jordan spell didn&rsquo;t last long as he was poached by Benetton boss Flavio Briatore for the very next race in Italy, to replace Roberto Moreno. The rest is history.
<h2>Nigel Mansell</h2>
Following the tragic death of Ayrton Senna in 1994, Williams drafted their former champion Nigel Mansell back in to help settle the team. He competed in four races and even won the season finale in Adelaide. His form was so good, despite a year our to compete in IndyCar, that McLaren pounced on Mansell for 1995. With Mercedes-Benz engines also promised, it appeared that Mansell and McLaren were on the cusp of great things.
Alas it was not to be. It turned out in pre-season testing that Mansell could barely fit in the new MP4-10 chassis. His debut for the Woking squad was put on hold until they could make alterations to the car. Those finally came to fruition for the San Marino race where Mansell had a strong run in the race. He was lying fifth before a collision with Eddie Irvine late on dropped him to tenth.
It proved to be a false dawn for both Mansell and McLaren. In Spain Mansell&rsquo;s pace was awful during the race; he blamed the handling of the car and retired it on lap eighteen of the sixty five lap race. McLaren found nothing wrong with the car, Mansell quit the team, and ultimately the sport.
<h2>Sebastian Vettel</h2>
It&rsquo;s rather easy to forget that Sebastian Vettel didn&rsquo;t make his grand prix debut while driving a Red Bull sponsored F1 car. Instead, he was attired in the blue and white of BMW-Sauber in place of the mildly injured Robert Kubica. He&rsquo;d already had a decent amount of F1 experience for his young age, after taking part in several Friday practice sessions the previous year.
Just like his hero Michael Schumacher, Vettel went on to qualify in seventh place for his debut. A poor start saw him drop a few places off the line but a well-measured and intelligent drive allowed him to come home and collect a solitary point. He became the first teenager ever to score points in a world championship grand prix, and a star was well and truly born.
Read part one here: <a href="https://motorsportstats.com/news/24305b0c-f5b0-4b6c-87bb-ed1caa6be810">F1's mid-season driver swaps: Part 1</a>

Jordan

Nigel Mansell

Williams

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The 2020/21 Formula E season is now over and it&rsquo;s safe to safe it was a chaotic one! It was perhaps one of the most unpredictable and open world championships we&rsquo;ve seen in modern times. Laura Leslie takes you through some of the big numbers below.
99 &ndash; That&rsquo;s how many points new world champion Nyck de Vries finished the season on. In Formula E&rsquo;s seven seasons so far that is the lowest winning total for a champion and marks the first time the champion has scored less than 100 points on the way to the title. De Vries won by just 7 points from Edoardo Mortara and only had a 10 point gap between himself and Robin Frijns in 5th place.
11 &ndash; We saw 11 different drivers win a race and set a pole position in 2020/21. No driver would score more than 2 race victories &ndash; the 4 double winners being Jake Dennis, Lucas Di Grassi, De Vries and Sam Bird. Only 1 driver would secure a hat-trick of poles &ndash; Stoffel Vandoorne. 11 different winning drivers and pole sitters in a single season is a new record for Formula E.
20 &ndash; Of the 25 drivers who started a race in the 2020/21 season, an incredible 20 ended up with at least 1 podium finish by the end of the year. That&rsquo;s a whopping 80% of the grid tasting champagne at some stage! Mitch Evans sipped the bubbles most frequently &ndash; 5 podium appearances and all in 3rd place.
0 &ndash; Perhaps one of the most surprising statistics of the year was that 2015/16 champion Sebastian Buemi would fail not only to win a race, but also stand on the podium at all. Buemi endured a torrid season and only scored points in 3 races to finish a disappointing 21st in the championship. Buemi&rsquo;s best race finish was a 5th place in the 1st Rome ePrix.
2 &ndash; The number of points champion De Vries scored in a 6 race run mid-season. Only Sergio Sette Camara, Oliver Turvey and Tom Blomqvist endured worst streaks throughout the season and those drivers would finish in 22nd, 23rd and 24th in the championship respectively.
13 &ndash; The number of cars disqualified throughout the season, a new record for Formula E. In comparison Formula One has had just 11 disqualifications in the past 11 seasons. In 2020/21 Formula E was averaging a disqualification every 0.8 races. Nissan e.dams felt the wrath of the stewards most often with 5 total disqualifications, including 2 double DSQs in Puebla and London.
4 &ndash; The number of drivers who scored their maiden wins in 2020/21 - De Vries, Dennis, Alex Lynn and Norman Nato. For both Dennis and Nato this was their debut season in the series and indeed Dennis would go on to win 2 races and become the equal best performing rookie in the series history by the end of the season &ndash; 3rd in the championship just like Felix Rosenqvist back in 2016/17.

Formula E

Mercedes-Benz EQ Formula E Team

Nyck de Vries

Jake Dennis

Jaguar

Sam Bird

Sébastien Buemi

Nissan

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Perhaps one of the most unpredictable and open world championships we’ve seen in modern times, Laura Leslie takes you through some of the big numbers below.

Most starts in a single season:
<ul>
<li>Bill Holland started a whopping 41 AAA sanctioned races during the 1946 calendar year. Holland had a best end of season finish of 2nd in the 1947 AAA championship and he won a total of 3 races during his AAA Championship career. Holland even has an F1 podium finish to his name after coming 2nd in the 1950 Indy 500, a Formula One World Championship event at the time.</li>
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Most 2nd place finishes in a single season without a win:
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<li>Tom Sneva managed to score 6 2nd place finishes in the 1978 season, however a win would elude him. This didn&rsquo;t stop the American driver from sealing the USAC National Championship, what would be his 2nd title of an eventual 4 in his career. Danny Ongais would win the most number of races in the 1978 season, 5, however inconsistent results throughout the season meant he would only finish the year in 8th</li>
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Most starts in a single season without recording a top 10 finish:
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<li>Brazilian driver Luiz Garcia Jr started 19 races in the 2000 CART season, not once did he record a top 10 finish. Garcia Jr&rsquo;s best finish was an 11th place in Michigan and in 11 of his 19 starts he would finish outside the top 15. Garcia Jr would only start 2 more CART races in his career, neither of them saw him finish inside the top 25.</li>
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Most starts without a win:
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<li>Raul Boesel was an ever-present figure on the American open-wheel racing circuit for nearly 2 decades. In total the Brazilian driver would start 199 races, however he would never stand on the top step of the podium in any of those races. Boesel scored a total of 5 2nd place finishes, including 3 in 1993 alone.</li>
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Most starts without a top 5 finish:
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<li>&ldquo;King Hiro&rdquo; was what Emerson Fittipaldi coined as a nickname for Japanese driver Hiro Matsushita. Unfortunately it wasn&rsquo;t meant as a compliment as Matsushita often had a habit of getting in the way of the leaders as they came up to lap him, causing Fittipaldi to scream an obscenity over the radio which sounded &ldquo;King Hero&rdquo;. Matsushita did have one record to his name though, he started 117 races without scoring a single top 5 finish. The highlight of his career was a 6th place finish in the 1995 Michigan 500.</li>
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Tom Sneva

Raul Boesel

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Laura Leslie brings you some unusual 'mosts' from IndyCar history

Formula E was its&rsquo; predictable bonkers self as it returned to London for the first time in 5 years. Laura Leslie runs through the most interesting stats to emerge from the weekend.
So far in 2020/21 we&rsquo;ve had 13 races, 10 different winners, 10 different pole sitters and an unbelievable 19 different drivers on the podium. Championship leader Nyck de Vries has a 6 point advantage over Robin Frijns despite only having 6 top 10 finishes in the 13 races so far. De Vries left London with a brace of 2nd place finishes, ending Mercedes-EQ&rsquo;s 6 race podium drought, which thrust him from 10th in the championship, to the lead as he took advantage of a double no-score for former leader Sam Bird.
Alex Lynn scored his 1st win in the series in R2 in London and came away with 44 points, more than any other driver, to move from 17th in the standings to 6th and just 17 points off de Vries. Indeed the gap between 12th placed Jean-Eric Vergne and de Vries is just 28 points. With 30 on offer from each race at the double header finale in Berlin, it means any one of 12 drivers could be leading the championship ahead of the final race. 18 drivers are still in with a mathematical shot of winning the championship.
A total of 3 cars were disqualified from each of the races across the weekend. Nissan suffered a double disqualification in R1 after overusing its&rsquo; energy allocation, the team&rsquo;s 2nd double disqualification of the year after suffering the same fate in R1 at Puebla. Lucas di Grassi was the other casualty of disqualification, after becoming the 1st driver in series history to be shown the black flag thanks to Audi Sport&rsquo;s safety car pitlane gamble.
Di Grassi&rsquo;s disqualification meant Lynn won despite not leading a single lap of R2. This is the 5th time such an incident has happened in the 7 years the series has run. A remarkable number when you compare it to Formula One which has only had 7 such incidents across 72 years.
In London R1 it was Jake Dennis who claimed victory, his 2nd of the year and he became just the 3rd driver to win more than 1 race in 2020/21. The win moved BMW i Andretti into title contention as it sits 5th in the standings just 22 points behind leaders Envision Virgin Racing.
Envision Virgin finds itself in a peculiar position of leading the championship with 2 races to go despite not actually winning a race the entire year so far. The team has had 4 2nd place finishes and 13 top 10 finishes so far this season.
Following Joel Eriksson&rsquo;s 10th place finish in London R2, all 25 drivers who have entered a Formula E race in 2020/21 have now scored at least a point. Eriksson&rsquo;s point helped end Dragon / Penske Autosport&rsquo;s 7 race drought and moved it further away from NIO 333 at the bottom of the standings. NIO have not scored a point since Oliver Turvey finished 8th in R2 at Valencia 7 races ago.

Alex Lynn

2021 London ePrix

Envision Virgin Racing

Lucas di Grassi

Audi Sport

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A crazy Formula E season continued to entertain as the series returned to London at the weekend. Read on as Laura Leslie runs down the best stats.

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