I have updated the first post to reflect the situation after the 2011 Korean Grand Prix.
Changes in the 'Vettel's hunt for the records' after the Korean Grand PrixAt the 2011 Korean Grand Prix, Sebastian Vettel added 1 front row start, 53 laps in the lead, 1 victory, 1 podium finish, 1 fastest lap and 25 world championship points to his racing record.
When Vettel missed out on pole position, he also missed the chance to tie this year with Ayrton Senna for the record of most consecutive pole positions, which was 8 in between the 1988 Spanish and 1989 United States Grand Prix. By winning, he will still be able to equal Schumacher's season record of 13 race wins in 2002. While the Japanese Grand Prix put a dent in his chances for catching the record for most lap led in a season, and highest percentage of laps led in the season, the 53 laps he led the Korean Grand Prix put him back in the run. He needs just 43 more laps in the lead to beat the overall record of Nigel Mansell in 1992. To beat Jim Clark's 'percentage laps led in a season' record, he will need to get busy though: he must lead all but 27 laps in the next 3 races to beat that record.
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2011 KOREAN GRAND PRIX STATISTICS- This is Sebastian Vettel's 20th win, 34th podium finish and 8th fastest lap. With 20 wins, he is now ranked 12th in all time driver wins, tied with Mika Häkkinen, while his 8th fastest lap is the same amount as James Hunt, Gilles Villeneuve and Ralf Schumacher scored in their careers.
- Lewis Hamilton scored his 19th pole position and his 40th podium finish, with which he has now caught up to Jenson Button. His 19th pole position ranks him 13th on the all-time pole position list.
- Mark Webber scored his 29th podium finish, clearing him from Ralf Schumacher and now having the same amount of podiums as Clay Regazzoni.
- In 1992, Nigel Mansell scored a by then unbelievable 9 race wins in one season, which was equaled only by Michael Schumacher 3 years later in 1995. Only Ayrton Senna came close before that, with 8 wins in 1988. Of course we all remember what Schumacher did in 2002 (11 wins) and 2004 (13 wins). With Vettel's 10th season victory, there are now only two drivers in Formula One history to have scored more than 9 wins in one season, and both are German.
- Leading for all but two of the laps in Korea, Sebastian Vettel has now led 651 of the 947 laps in the 2011 season. This is 5 more than Michael Schumacher in the complete 1994 season (which had 1046 laps), and creeps him up to Nigel Mansells 694 laps led record in 1992.
- With Red Bull winning their second constructor's championship, they have become 8th team in history to win more than 1 constructor's title, having the same amount of titles as Cooper, Brabham and Renault.
- Finishing in seventh, Jaime Alguersuari equalled his career best result. With team mate Sebastien Buemi finishing two places behind him in ninth, this is the best team result of Toro Rosso since the Australian Grand Prix in 2009, where Buemi finished seventh and Sebastien Bourdais finished eigth.
- McLaren celebrated their team's 700th Grand Prix start in Korea. Only Ferrari has been arond for longer, with 828 Grand Prix starts.
- In those 700 Grand Prix's, McLaren won 174 races (24.9%), set 147 pole positions (21.0%), set 148 fastest laps (21.1%) and finished on the podium with at least one car in 376 races (53.7%).
- With all the calculators in Maranello being used to design a championship-winning car for next year, Ferrari decided to celebrate what they thought was Felipe Massa's 150th Grand Prix start, in the wrong race. Felipe packed his helmet for 151 Grand Prix (entries), but only started 149 of them, not starting the 2005 United States Grand Prix in his Michelin Sauber, or in the 2009 Hungarian Grand Prix after losing a game of dare with a spring coming from Rubens Barrichello's Brawn car.
- Lewis Hamilton scored his first pole position since last year's Canadian Grand Prix, being the first non-Red Bull driver since Nico Hülkenberg in last year's Brazilian Grand Prix to train on pole position.
- This ended Red Bull's streak of 16 consecutive pole positions, the third longest streak of consecutive pole positions by a team in history, after Williams' 24 poles from the 1992 French Grand Prix to the 1993 Japanese Grand Prix, and McLaren's 17 poles from the 1988 German Grand Prix to the 1989 German Grand Prix.
Please stay on this forum forever! I love reading these stats.
Max! What is this?? You pooped on the rug again?! 
