Constructor Records: Ferrari on Top
Ferrari have lived up to its racing legend name, with the highest stats in just about everything when it comes to Formula 1. Lets have a look at what the oldest Formula One team has achieved in the past 802 races they have taken part in. this first of all, compared to the 674 races from McLaren and 555 from Williams makes them the team to have partaken in the most amount of races.
The record for the most number of wins in a single season is held by McLaren when they clinched 15 out of 16 or 94% races in 1988. Ferrari is placed second as they won 15 of their 17 races in 2002 and 15 of 18 races in 2004. The record for most consecutive wins is also held by McLaren, having won all 11 races from Brazilian to Belgian GP on the trot in 1988 season. In 2002 Ferrari won 10 consecutive races from Canadian GP to Japanese GP. As far as most wins in a particular grand prix are concerned, Ferrari leads the pack with 19 victories in the German Grand Prix. The record number of wins for Italian and French GP is also held by Ferrari with 17 victories each. McLaren’s best is 15 wins in a GP which happens to be Monaco.
Ferrari win 26.3% of all their races, having won 211 out of 802. McLaren with 168 wins out of 674 are placed second which means they have won 24.9% of their races so far, and Williams with 113 victories in 555 starts has won 20.36% of all their races.
The most experienced team in the sport, Ferrari, has achieved 633 podium finishes so far, which happens to be the highest. Ferrari are followed by McLaren with 446 and Williams with 296 podiums. Between 1999 Malaysian Gran Prix and 2002 Japanese Grand Prix, Ferrari won 53 consecutive podium finishes. This number for successive podiums for McLaren is 19 between 2007 Australian Grand Prix and 2008 Malaysian Grand Prix.
To date Ferrari has won a record 203 pole positions ahead of McLaren’s 146 and Williams’ 125 pole positions. The highest number of pole positions in a season is 15 when in 1988, McLaren, with the exception of one grand prix, claimed pole positions for all the races of the season. The next year McLaren equaled their own record after 15 out of 16 pole positions again. Williams touched the record twice with the same numbers in 1992 and 1993. Ferrari also hold the record for fastest laps with a count of 220 to date. McLaren have 140 and Williams have 130 fastest laps in Formula One so far.
Ferrari have also secured the most triples. A triple is when a car secures pole position, sets the fastest lap of the race and wins the race eventually. Ferrari have achieved the feat 55 times since 1950. McLaren has 23 and Williams have 19 triples to its name so far.
Even though the points system keeps changing over time in Formula One, Ferrari have achieved 4258.5 points since 1950, McLaren have 3629.5 points to their name while Williams have scored 2620 points so far. The highest number of points in a season has been 262, scored by Ferrari in 2004 in 18 races at an average of 14.27 points per race. The current season will soon surpass this record with its new point system, as the highest number of points scored thus far in 2010 by McLaren is already 248 in 9 races at an average of 27.55 points per race.
Ferrari have also won a record 16 constructors’ championships followed by Williams with 9 and McLaren with 8 titles. The last constructors’ title was won by both McLaren and Williams more than a decade ago. Ferrari has won 6 consecutive championships from 1999 to 2004 while McLaren has 4 consecutive titles from 1988 to 1991.
So far 24 drivers have died on the track both in races and in qualifying. Ferrari have sadly suffered the most in this regard as 5 of their drivers died on the track. 4 Lotus drivers and 2 March drivers have also died in their cars. Fortunately no driver has died in the last 16 years.
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