FORMULA 1 DATA LAB
Verified Formula 1 records, trends and comparisons that put the numbers behind the race into context.
Nine Baku races. No back-to-back winner.
Nine Baku Grands Prix through 2025, seven different winners, and no back-to-back victories. Defending winner Max Verstappen could break that pattern in 2026.
Sergio Pérez’s Baku record started before Red Bull
Sergio Pérez’s five Baku Grand Prix podiums remain unmatched through 2025. His first two came with Force India, before Red Bull gave him a car capable of winning.
RED BULL: 5 BAKU WINS - FERRARI: 0
Red Bull won five of Baku’s nine Grands Prix through 2025. Ferrari took five poles but no victories. Here’s how those contrasting records developed.
BAKU IS THE LAST TIE IN VERSTAPPEN’S QUALIFYING RECORD
Through September 13, 2026, Max Verstappen led his career qualifying comparison against teammates at 32 of 33 F1 venues. Baku alone was tied at 4–4.
14 GPS. ZERO LEAD-LAP FINISHES FOR LANCE STROLL.
Across Lance Stroll’s first 14 Grands Prix of 2026, he recorded nine retirements, four lapped classified finishes and one separate NC—without completing a race on the winner’s lap.
ONLY FIVE ITALIANS HAVE WON 2+ F1 RACES IN ONE SEASON
At the 2026 Italian Grand Prix, Kimi Antonelli’s seventh victory through 13 rounds moved him past Alberto Ascari’s six-win 1952 benchmark and established a new Italian single-season Formula 1 record.
POLE HAS WON ONLY ONE OF THE LAST SEVEN ITALIAN GRANDS PRIX
Only one of the last seven Italian Grands Prix has been won from pole position—and Kimi Antonelli’s 2026 victory from 19th dropped the average winning grid position across the run to P6.4.
FERRARI LEADS MONZA ALL-TIME—BUT TRAILS MERCEDES AND RED BULL OVER THE LAST 20
Ferrari owns a record 20 Monza victories, but Mercedes and Red Bull have each won there more often than the Scuderia across the circuit’s last 20 races.
MONZA OWNS F1’S TWO ULTIMATE SPEED RECORDS
Max Verstappen set Formula 1’s fastest average-speed lap at Monza in 2025, then won the fastest World Championship Grand Prix the following day.
THE 2026 GRID INCLUDES F1’S TWO MOST EXPERIENCED DRIVERS EVER
Fernando Alonso and Lewis Hamilton rank first and second in all-time Formula 1 Grand Prix entries, while two more 2026 drivers sit inside the historical top 10.
SIX RACES. SIX WINS FROM POLE.
Lando Norris won Zandvoort’s final Grand Prix from pole, completing a six-race pole-to-win streak and claiming back-to-back victories after Hungary.
CAN KIMI OR GEORGE END MERCEDES’ 71-YEAR WAIT?
Mercedes has taken eight wins and 10 poles in 2026, but its works team has not won the Dutch Grand Prix since Juan Manuel Fangio led a 1–2 in 1955.