In 6 races he drive for Benetton with 2 victories, 3 pole positions, 3 fastes laps and in all races got points. Five races were at Caralunya and one at Jerez. With Ferrari Schumacher had 12 races with 5 victories, 5 pole positins, 5 fastes laps and only in two races did not received points.

In four races he had victory, pole position and fastest lap, first time with Benetton in 1994 at Jerez followed by other 3 while Schumacher was at Ferrari in 2001, 2002 and 2004 all at Catalunya.

First race for Michael Schumacher in Spain was back in 1991 at Catalunya, he start from position 5 and finish on 6. Last race was in 2006 with Ferrari when he starts from 3rd place and finish on second.

Perhaps the worst race (when he finished the race) was on 2000 when Schumacher had the pole position but he finished just n place 5. The best perhaps was in season 1996 when he was 3rd on grid and won the race, but also next season in 1997 when he start from position 7 and finish on 4.

Michael Schumacher past F1 races in Spain :

First task in this weekend for each driver will be the fight for a good place on the grid. Only Hamilton have 2 pole positions at Hungaroring, and one for Barrichello, Raikkonen and Alonso.

Last task is a great position at the end of the race, if posibile on the podium. Kimi Raikkonen have already 4 podiums, Barrichello 3, Heidfeld and Alonso 2 and one for Button, Kovalainen, Hamilton and Glock.

Raikkonen and Barrichello have most points, 35 followed by Alonso with 26.

If we take a look at all time F1 races at Hungaroring, again, Michael Schumacher will rule all the tops.  Just at podiums he is a little behind Senna, both had 7 podiums, the only difference is that Senna in 8 races (87%) while Schumacher from 14 (50%). In all tops Senna is with Schumacher except at fastest laps.  Senna in 8 races have 3 victories, 3 pole positions, 7 podiums, in 7 races finish in points with a total of 53 points, but he never had the fastest lap on Hungaroring.

That was the only race where Sebastien Vettel was ever on pole, and the only race he finished on podium.

Vettel participate in 28 F1 races and finish the race in 18 of them. In 6 races he finish the race in a position bellow from the start.

This season Vettel almost won his second podium, but he had a collision with Kubica at Melbourne. Looks like there are big chances for a podium in 2009 China F1 race for Vettel.

Again Schumacher is the “king” here we have five pole positions. He had the first four pole positions. The other three drivers with pole here will be present in this year Malaysian F1 race : Alonso and Mass twice and one for Fisichella.

Michael Schumacher won the first four pole positions at Sepang, and Felipe Massa the last two. Meanwhile Fernando Alonso and Giancarlo Fisichella had pole position here.

The fastest lap was set in 2004 by Juan Pablo Montoya. In the past races here no one had pole, victory and fastest lap in the same race.

Most experienced driver at Sepang are Trulii, Fisichella and Barichello, all with 10 races. Only Buemi will debut on this track, this will be the second race for him.

Four drivers did not finish the race when started from pole, two of them were involved in a collision in the first lap of the race.  The drivers who finished the race from pole position got points except the 2006 season.

Michael Schumacher and Mika Hakkinen have most poles at Melbourne, both with 3. Jacques Villneuve got the pole position in first and second race here.

Williams got the pole position at first and second race at Melbourne. After it there are three seasons with McLaren pole position, followed by four with Ferrari. In the last four seasons there is a mix of Renault, Honda, Ferrari and McLaren.

Only four drivers have a win at Melbourne : Hamilton, Raikkonen, Alonso and Fisichella. At pole position we have five drivers, all with only one : Hamilton, Raikkonen, Fisichella, Buton and Barrichello. At fastest lap we have Raikkonen with four fastest laps, and 3 drivers with one Kovalainen, Alonso and Barrichello.

Top points gathered at Melbourne : Alonso 37, Raikkonen 31 and Barrichello 30. Those three drivers are in the top of most podiums, all of them in 4 occasions, they finished in points with six occasions, except Raikkonen who finished in points in seven races here.

This year, in case of a victory at Melbourne for Barrichello or Hamilton can be the 10th victory in a Formula1 race.

Bye bye

Anthony Davidson

The British driver left the Formula1 last year when after just four races Super Aguri team retired from F1.

His first race was in 2002 at Hungaroring when he made the debut in F1 driving for Minardi. In 2002 he drive one more race at Spa Francochamp, driving instead of Alex Yoong. The third race was in 2005 at Sepang when he drive for BAR.

In 2007 he drive all 17 races for Super Aguri. All teams were Anthony Davidson drove are no longer part in F1.

Takuma Sato

After seven seasons of driving Takuma Sato will not participate this season. His first race was on 2002 at Melbourne, and made the debut in F1 along drivers like Webber, Massa and Allan McNish, in that race were Raikkonen had the first podium.

The most important race for Sato was at Indianapolis in 2004 when he succeed to get a podium for the third place with BAR. In season 2004 he obtained the most points in a season, 34.

At home, at Suzuka, he finished in points in 3 seasons 2002, 2003 and 2004. In 2004 he was close to the podium when he finished the races on the 4th place. At Suzuka he gathered 10 points.

In his career he finished most often on position 8, with 16 occasions.

Super Aguri

After 3 seasons Super Aguri team left the F1 and now at start we will have again 20 cars. The financial problems force them to retire last season after only four races.

They succeed to get 4 points in two races. The man who brought this points was Takuma Sato both in season 2007, 1 at Catalunya and 3 at Montreal.

Honda

A great name, retired one more time. They joined the world of Formula1 in 1964 and retired for the first time in 1968.

First victory and first podium for Honda was in 1965 at Mexico City with Richie Ginther. They succeeded another victory in 1967 at Monza with John Surtees.

Honda came back in style in 2006 and win their third and last race at Hungaroring. In 2006 the team gathered most points in a season : 86.

First driver for Honda was Ronnie Buckman at Nurburgring in 1964. Other six drivers have raced for Honda : Richie Ginther, John Surtees, David Jobs, Jo Schlesser, Jenson Button and Rubens Barrichello

Welcome

Brawn

Brawn is the only new appearance this season in Formula1. Honda pass to Ross Brawn the team and Honda development. An important change this season is the engine, they will use Mercedes.

Sebastien Buemi

The Swiss driver will join to Toro Rosso team. In 2008 he was reserve driver for Red Bull

If we take a look back in history we found McLaren and Ferrari at all tops on Melbourne

Top Victory

Ferrari won 5 races at Melbourne 1999, 2000, 2001, 2002, 2004 and 2007. McLaren won 4 races in 1997, 1998, 2003 and 2008. the top continues with Renault in 2005 and 2006 and Williams in 1996

Pole position

Ferrari have 5 pole positions (from 2001 until 2004 and 2007), McLaren 4 (from 1998 until 2000 and 2008), Williams 2 (1996 and 1997), and one for Honda 2006 and Renault 2005

Fastest laps

Ferrari and McLaren lead this top with 5 victories for both teams, Williams 2 and one for Reanault.

Perfect Weekend

Only to drivers succeed to win the race, the pole and to have fastest lap n the same season on Melbourne. In 2001 (Schumacher), 2004 (Schumacher) and 2007 (Raikkonen) Ferrari won the race, the pole and had a fastest lap with the same car. McLaren (Hakkinen) succed this to in 1998.

But this topic is about teams. And there are another situation with the team won all this 3 tasks, with different cars.

• 1996 Hill wins the races and Villneuv got the pole and the fastest lap for Williams.
• 2005 Fisichella won the race and pole for Williams while Alonso was the fastest driver in the race.
• 2007 McLaren won the race and pole with Hamilton and the fastes car drived by Kovalainen

Top podiums

Ferrari and Williams had both a podium with 12 ocasions, Williams 8, Renault 4 and once by BMW, Jordan and Toyota

Top Points

Ferrari is the leader of points on Melbourne with 108 points, 99 for McLaren 69 Williams and 53 Renault.

Last 6 races had distinct winners: 2008 Hamilton, 2007 Raikkonen. 2006 Alonso, 2005 Fisichela, 2004 Michael Schumacher, 2003 Coulthard.

Top most wins at Melbourne is lead by Michael Schumacher with 4 victories in 11 races. David Coulthard have 2 victories in 13 races. There are another 7 drivers with one victory: Hill, Irvine, Alonso, Fisichella, Raikkonen, Hamilton and Hakkinen.

On last 5 F1 races at Melbourne we have distinct driver on pole position : 2008 Hamilton, 2007 Raikkonen, 2006 Button, 2005 Fisichella and 2004 Schumacher.

On the pole position statistics we have Schumacher and Hakkinen, both with 3 poles and Jaques Villeneuve with 2.

In 6 races the driver from pole position won the race : 2008 Hamilton, 2007 Raikkonen, 2005 Fisichella, 2004 and 2001 Schumacher and Hakkinen in 1998.