(Reuters) – Formula One statistics for Sunday’s Singapore Grand Prix at the Marina Bay circuit, round 18 of the 22 race season:
Lap distance: 4.940km. Total distance: 306.143km (62 laps)
2023 pole position: Carlos Sainz (Spain) Ferrari one minute 30.984 seconds.
2023 winner: Sainz
Race lap record: Lewis Hamilton (Britain) Mercedes 1:35.867 (2023)*
Start time: 1200GMT (2000 local)
*New circuit layout in 2023, reduced from 23 corners to 19.
SINGAPORE
The hot and humid night race is one of the season’s biggest physical challenges. Drivers can lose as much as 5kg of weight during the race through sweating.
The race debuted in 2008 and Sunday’s will be the 15th in Singapore.
Four active drivers have won there — Fernando Alonso (2008, 2010), Hamilton (2009, 2014, 2017, 2018), Sergio Perez (2022) and Sainz (2023).
Mercedes, Red Bull and Ferrari have won four times each.
Hamilton has been on pole four times. The race has been won from pole position nine times.
The lowest winning grid position is 15th for Alonso in a now-notorious 2008 race in which Brazilian teammate Nelson Piquet crashed his Renault deliberately on team orders.
The safety car has been deployed in all 14 editions.
CHAMPIONSHIP STANDINGS
Red Bull’s Max Verstappen leads McLaren’s Lando Norris by 59 points after 17 races.
McLaren are 20 points clear of Red Bull.
WINS
Seven-times world champion Hamilton has a record 105 career victories from 349 starts, Verstappen has 61 from 202.
Four teams — Red Bull, Ferrari, McLaren and Mercedes — have won this season, the most since 2021 when Red Bull, Mercedes, Alpine and McLaren won.
Seven drivers have triumphed, the most in a single season since 2012 when there were eight.
Red Bull, who won all but one race last year, have now gone seven without a win.
Verstappen has won seven times this season. McLaren four, Mercedes and Ferrari three each.
Sainz won in Melbourne, Norris in Miami and the Netherlands, Ferrari’s Charles Leclerc in Monaco and Italy, Mercedes’s George Russell in Spain, Hamilton in Britain and Belgium and McLaren’s Oscar Piastri in Hungary and Azerbaijan.
Ferrari top the all time list with 246 wins, McLaren have 187, Mercedes 128 and Red Bull 120.
POLE POSITION
Verstappen has had eight poles this year. That includes the first seven, equalling Alain Prost’s 1993 record, and eight in a row including the last race of 2023 — equalling Ayrton Senna’s 1988-89 record.
The Dutch driver was last on pole in Austria in June.
Charles Leclerc took pole in Monaco, Belgium and Azerbaijan. Russell was fastest in Canada and Britain. Norris took the top spot in Spain, Hungary, the Netherlands and Italy.
Hamilton has a record 104 poles, his most recent in Hungary in July 2023.
PODIUMS
Verstappen has 108 career podiums, Hamilton a record 201.
Verstappen and Norris have been on the podium 10 times each this season, Leclerc nine, Piastri six and Sainz five.
MILESTONE
McLaren are leading the constructors’ championship for the first time since 2014. Red Bull had led since 2022 — 55 races, or 847 days.
Williams rookie Franco Colapinto, eighth in Baku, is the first Argentine to score in Formula One since Carlos Reutemann in 1982.
Hamilton has raced more than 100,000km in his grand prix career — only Fernando Alonso has done more. He will be starting his 350th race this weekend.
Sainz will be starting his 200th race.
(Reporting by Alan Baldwin in London, editing by Christian Radnedge)
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