In last 3 races on Melbourne we have different winners, McLaren 2008, Ferrari 2007 and Renault in 2006. At pole position same situation except in 2006 when a Honda car was on the pole position. From the top teams only McLaren finish on podium in all last 3 races with a victory in 2008 , place 2 and 3 in 2007 and 3 in 2006. In 2008 and 2006 McLaren set the fastest lap at Melbourne.

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.

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