sadly for Michael contoversy surrounds many of those records, I suspect if McLaren had done what Benetton did they would've been disq in both.
Records after the Chinese GP 2011, Alonso: Races - 161 Wins - 26 Podiums - 63 Poles - 20 Fastest Laps - 18 Points - 855 Finished in the points - 110 Hamilton: Races - 74 Wins - 15 Podiums - 38 Poles - 18 Fastest Laps - 8 Points - 543 Finished In the points - 55 Vettel: Races - 65 Wins - 12 Podiums - 22 Poles - 18 Fastest Laps - 6 Points - 449 Finished In the points -41 Schumacher: Races - 272 Wins - 91 Podiums - 154 Poles - 68 Fastest Laps - 76 Points - 1447 Finished In the points - 204
Top 5 of those Stats (above) Races Run: 1st 310 Rubens Barrichello 2nd 272 Michael Schumacher 3rd 256 Riccardo Patrese 4th 246 David Coulthard 5th 240 Jarno Trulli ---- 24th 161 Fernando Alonso Race Wins 1st 91 Michael Schumacher 2nd 51 Alain Prost 3rd 41 Ayrton Senna 4th 31 Nigel Mansell 5th 27 Jackie Stewart ---- 6th 26 Fernando Alonso 15th 15 Lewis Hamilton 24th 12 Sebastian Vettel Podiums: 1st 154 Michael Schumacher 2nd 106 Alain Prost 3rd 80 Ayrton Senna 4th 68 Rubens Barrichello 5th 63 Fernando Alonso ---- 16th 38 Lewis Hamilton 43rd 22 Sebastian Vettel Poles: 1st 68 Michael Schumacher 2nd 65 Ayrton Senna 3rd 33 Alain Prost 4th 33 Jim Clark 5th 32 Nigel Mansell ---- 11th 20 Fernando Alonso 12th 18 Lewis Hamilton 15th 18 Sebastian Vettel Fastest Laps: 1st 76 Michael Schumacher 2nd 41 Alain Prost 3rd 35 Kimi Raikkonen 4th 30 Nigel Mansell 5th 28 Jim Clark ---- 15th 18 Fernando Alonso 35th 8 Lewis Hamilton 44th 6 Sebastian Vettel Points: 1st 1447.00 Michael Schumacher 2nd 855.00 Fernando Alonso 3rd 798.50 Alain Prost 4th 654.00 Rubens Barrichello 5th 614.00 Ayrton Senna ---- 8th 543.00 Lewis Hamilton 13th 449.00 Sebastian Vettel Times finished in the points: 1st 204 Michael Schumacher 2nd 138 Rubens Barrichello 3rd 128 Alain Prost 4th 121 David Coulthard 5th 110 Fernando Alonso ---- 31st 55 Lewis Hamilton 46th 41 Sebastian Vettel
Thanks for the comparisons El Bando. If this is something the forum is interested in, perhaps a sticky thread should be set up with someone given responsibility for editing the opening post after each race. Just an idea. If anyone wants to indulge in the futility of statistical driver comparisons, here's the percentages:
I think you should drop Alonso pre Renault, Vettel pre RBR (yes he loses a win) and Schumacher pre Benetton should be excluded, to put more context into the stats, only Hamilton started in a top team so his stats should always look higher percentage wise.
I think the stats are a good indication of a carear against every other driver that has ever raced in F1
Schumacher was a great driver no doubt about it, but his stats (for me) are slightly misleading. Ferrari had an FIA sanctioned technical veto on all other teams for several years (I think during Schumachers dominance). Whilst at Ferrari he was "de facto" no1. He blatently cheated on several occasions. The Scumacher years of dominance represent a sad and dull time in F1 history for me. (sorry manny)
I've mentioned it ever since I was aware of it - which was quite a while ago! (I did not know it had been reported in the press and have not seen the Autosport article you refer to). Of course, the press are often well behind 'reality' until tipped off… Alternatively, one might regard intuition as inexplicable. Let's get this straight, right now in the early days of the intended reign: Vettel is being nurtured/fashioned and fully expects to get all the advantages he saw as going to his countryman predecessor. Sad but true. Sincerely: I'm sorry to say it…
