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AMAZING STATISTICS ! 2013 F1 SEASON !

If you’re reviewing the 2013 season statistically, there’s no better place to start than with F1 racing’s current king of stats, Red Bull’s Sebastian Vettel. Already a prodigious record breaker, 2013 will be remembered as the year in which the German went into overdrive. Vettel won 13 races to tie Michael Schumacher’s 2004 record, two of which (in Singapore and Korea) were ‘grand slams’ (pole, fastest lap, victory, led every lap). He also eclipsed Schumacher’s mark of seven consecutive Grand Prix victories in a single season by winning all nine races from Belgium in September to Brazil in November. In total, Vettel led 684 laps in 2013. To put that in perspective, the rest of the field combined led a total of 447 laps.

• Red Bull won their fourth consecutive constructors’ championship in 2013, tying McLaren’s run from 1988 to 1991. Only Ferrari have won more constructors’ crowns consecutively (six from 1999 to 2004). Additionally, Red Bull’s total of 596 points is second only to their total of 650 from 2011.

• 13 drivers led at least one lap in 2013 - Vettel (684), Rosberg (104), Alonso (89), Webber (69), Lewis Hamilton (66), Kimi Raikkonen (41), Romain Grosjean (36), Adrian Sutil (11), Felipe Massa (10), Jenson Button (8), Nico Hulkenberg (8), Paul di Resta (2) and Esteban Gutierrez (2).

• In Japan, Fernando Alonso surpassed Michael Schumacher as the leading points scorer in Formula One history. He finished the season on 1,606 career points. The Spaniard also made his 200th Grand Prix start in 2013, ending the year on 215 starts (tied with Mark Webber for the eighth most in history).

• The 2013 season saw Kimi Raikkonen set a new record for scoring points in consecutive races. The Finn’s record run began in Bahrain in 2012 and ended an astonishing 27 races later with a DNF in Belgium. He surpassed Michael Schumacher’s previous record of 24 consecutive points-scoring races by finishing fifth in Britain in July.

• Speaking of long runs, old rivals McLaren and Ferrari fought over the longest points-scoring streak for a manufacturer in 2013. McLaren’s record-setting 64-race run ended in Canada in June, at which point Ferrari were on 55 races in the points. The Scuderia continued their run until the very last race of the season meaning they’ve gone 67 consecutive races with at least one car in the top ten. Will the streak continue in Australia in March!