Formula One statistics for the Spanish Grand Prix

(Corrects Sainz's team to Williams)

Formula One statistics for the Spanish Grand Prix at Barcelona's Circuit de Catalunya, the ninth round of the 24-race championship:

Lap distance: 4.657 km. Total distance: 307.236 km (66 laps)

2024 pole position: Lando Norris (Britain) McLaren One minute 11.383 seconds

2024 race winner: Max Verstappen (Netherlands) Red Bull

Start time: 1300 GMT (1500 local)

Race lap record: Verstappen 1:16.330 (2023)

SPAIN

The high-downforce Circuit de Catalunya is hosting what will be the 55th world championship Spanish GP, and the last of a 'triple header' of three races on successive weekends.

Lewis Hamilton has won the Spanish GP six times (2014, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020, 2021), a record he shares with Michael Schumacher.

Verstappen has won four times (2016, 2022, 2023, 2024), and finished on the podium in the last seven Spanish Grands Prix, with Fernando Alonso winning twice (2006, 2013).

Verstappen took his first F1 win in Spain.

The winner at the Circuit de Catalunya, which has a mix of fast and slow corners with two long straights and a smooth surface, has started on pole 24 times in 34 races there.

Overtaking is not easy: the only drivers to win in Barcelona and not start on the front row were Schumacher (third on the grid in 1996), Alonso (from fifth in 2013) and Verstappen (fourth in 2016).

Alonso and Williams's Carlos Sainz are the only Spanish drivers in the race.

Ferrari are the most successful team at the Circuit de Catalunya with eight wins. Since 1951, the Italian team have won 12 times in Spain.

CHAMPIONSHIP

McLaren's Oscar Piastri leads the drivers' championship by three points from team mate Norris. Verstappen is 22 points behind Norris.

Leaders and champions McLaren are 172 points clear of Mercedes,