Formula 1 in 2014 in numbers - All the stats you need to know
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The title battle between Lewis Hamilton and Nico Rosberg went to the final race
It was a thrilling Formula 1 season in which Lewis Hamilton and Nico Rosberg's title battle went to the final race in Abu Dhabi, with the Briton finally clinching his second world championship with his 11th win of the year.
BBC Sport has compiled all the key numbers for the 2014 season, with a strong focus on Hamilton and Rosberg as well as some interesting numbers on the other drivers on the grid.
Find out who was the best starter, which driver accumulated the most penalties and who completed the most laps.
As well as looking in detail in 2014, we also put Hamilton's achievements in a historical context by seeing how he compares to previous champions.
Lewis Hamilton is the fourth British multiple world champion
LEWIS HAMILTON |
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43: Years since last British multi-world champion (Sir Jackie Stewart, 1969, 1971 and 1973) |
33: Overall race wins, the most by a British driver |
11: Wins this season (only Sebastian Vettel and Michael Schumacher have more in a season, having managed 13 in 2013 and 2004 respectively) |
15: World championships won by British drivers (Mike Hawthorn, 1958; Graham Hill, 1962 and 1968; Jim Clark, 1963 and 1965; John Surtees, 1964; Sir Jackie Stewart, 1969, 1971, 1973; James Hunt, 1976; Nigel Mansell, 1992; Damon Hill, 1996; Lewis Hamilton, 2008 and 2014, Jenson Button, 2009). |
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He is the only driver to win at least one race in his first eight seasons in F1. Alain Prost, Michael Schumacher and Sebastian Vettel all raced for parts of a season before going on a similar run. (Prost took part in 11 races in 1980, before winning every year from 1981-90. Schumacher took part in six races in 1991, before winning every year from 1992-2006. Vettel took part in eight races in 2007, and won at least one race from 2008-13, but failed to claim a victory in 2014. |
He becomes the fourth British multi-F1 champion. The others are: Graham Hill (1962, 1968), Jim Clark (1963, 1965), Sir Jackie Stewart (1969, 1971, 1973). |
He has 33 wins from 148 starts (22.30% success rate). Drivers with a better win percentage: Juan Manuel Fangio, Alberto Ascari, Jim Clark, Michael Schumacher, Sebastian Vettel, Sir Jackie Stewart, Ayrton Senna, Alain Prost, Sir Stirling Moss. |
Only man to finish on the podium in his first nine grands prix. |
Nigel Mansell was 32 when he won his first GP in 1985 and went on to win 31 of them. Hamilton is 29 and has 33 race wins. |
He has one more race win than Fernando Alonso (the Spaniard was aged 32 when he won his last race). The only drivers to have won more grands prix than Hamilton are Schumacher (91), Prost (51), Senna (41) and Vettel (39). |
NICO ROSBERG |
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1: The German missed the chance to become only the second son-of-a-world-champion to win the title himself. His father, Keke, won in 1982. The only father-son pairing to both become world champions remains Graham and Damon Hill. Damon won the title in 1996 with his father, Graham, triumphing in 1962 and 1968. |
11: Pole positions in 2014, the most by any driver |
166: Race starts - only Nigel Mansell and Jenson Button have won their first title after more GP starts |
SEBASTIAN VETTEL |
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1: Laps led in 2014, 683 fewer than 2013 when he won 13 races |
10: The German is one of 10 drivers to fail to win a race when defending their world title. The others are: Juan Manuel Fangio (only competed in two races in 1958), Sir Jack Brabham (1961), Phil Hill (1962), John Surtees (1965), Mario Andretti (1979), Jody Scheckter (1980), Nelson Piquet (1988), Damon Hill (1997) and Jacques Villeneuve (1998) NOTE: Mike Hawthorn, the 1958 champion, retired before being killed in a road accident in January 1959. Jochen Rindt, the 1970 champion, was killed in qualifying for the Italian Grand Prix that year. Nigel Mansell (1992 champion) and Alain Prost (1993 champion) did not compete in 1993 and 1994 respectively. |
JENSON BUTTON |
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266: Race starts |
15: Grand prix wins |
50: Grand prix podiums |
8: Pole positions |
20 years and 67 days: Button became the youngest driver to score world championship points when he finished sixth at the 2000 Brazilian Grand Prix. His record has since been broken by Daniil Kvyat, Sebastian Vettel and Jaime Alguersuari. However, they first gained points for finishing ninth, eighth and ninth respectively after points-scoring positions were extended to the top eight in 2003 and top 10 from 2010. Button remains the youngest driver to finish in the top six. |
113: Grand prix starts it took Button to win his first race, at Hungary in 2006 |
Formula 1 2014 season in numbers
MERCEDES |
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59: Years since one of their drivers (Juan Manuel Fangio, 1955) last won the world championship. They did not run a works team from 1956 to 2009. Their engines did power McLaren's Mika Hakkinen to the title in 1998 and 1999, plus Brawn's Jenson Button in 2009. |
11: The number of 1-2s they achieved in 2014 - a new F1 record. |
16: race wins for Mercedes (This is a new record. The previous best had been 15, set by McLaren in 1988 (16-race season), Ferrari in 2002 (17-race season) and Ferrari in 2004 (18-race season) |
18: pole positions for Mercedes (equalling Red Bull's record from 2011, also a 19-race season) |
CONSTRUCTORS |
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Biggest improvement in 2014: Williams won 320 points in 2014 and finished third in the constructors' championship. In 2013 they managed only five points, their worst season in F1. Only Marussia and Caterham, who failed to score, finished behind them in the constructors' championship. |
Biggest drop in 2014: Last year Lotus picked up 315 points and finished fourth in the constructors' championship. In 2014 they only scored only 10 points. |
2014 DRIVER STATS
LEWIS HAMILTON | ||||
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GRAND PRIX | GRID POSITION | RACE RESULT | RACE POINTS | TOTAL POINTS |
Australia | 1 | Retired | 0 | 0 |
Malaysia | 1 | 1 | 25 | 25 |
Bahrain | 2 | 1 | 25 | 50 |
China | 1 | 1 | 25 | 75 |
Spain | 1 | 1 | 25 | 100 |
Monaco | 2 | 2 | 18 | 118 |
Canada | 2 | Retired | 0 | 118 |
Austria | 9 | 2 | 18 | 136 |
Britain | 6 | 1 | 25 | 161 |
Germany | 20 | 3 | 15 | 176 |
Hungary | 22 | 3 | 15 | 191 |
Belgium | 2 | Retired | 0 | 191 |
Italy | 1 | 1 | 25 | 216 |
Singapore | 1 | 1 | 25 | 241 |
Japan | 2 | 1 | 25 | 266 |
Russia | 1 | 1 | 25 | 291 |
United States | 2 | 1 | 25 | 316 |
Brazil | 2 | 2 | 18 | 334 |
Abu Dhabi | 2 | 1 | 50 | 384 |
NICO ROSBERG | ||||
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GRAND PRIX | GRID POSITION | RACE RESULT | RACE POINTS | TOTAL POINTS |
Australia | 3 | 1 | 25 | 25 |
Malaysia | 3 | 2 | 18 | 43 |
Bahrain | 1 | 2 | 18 | 61 |
China | 4 | 2 | 18 | 79 |
Spain | 2 | 2 | 18 | 97 |
Monaco | 1 | 1 | 25 | 122 |
Canada | 1 | 2 | 18 | 140 |
Austria | 3 | 1 | 25 | 165 |
Britain | 1 | Retired | 0 | 165 |
Germany | 1 | 1 | 25 | 190 |
Hungary | 1 | 4 | 12 | 202 |
Belgium | 1 | 2 | 18 | 220 |
Italy | 2 | 2 | 18 | 238 |
Singapore | 2 | Retired | 0 | 238 |
Japan | 1 | 2 | 18 | 256 |
Russia | 2 | 2 | 18 | 274 |
United States | 1 | 2 | 18 | 292 |
Brazil | 1 | 1 | 25 | 317 |
Abu Dhabi | 1 | 14 | 0 | 317 |
DANIEL RICCIARDO | ||||
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GRAND PRIX | GRID POSITION | RACE RESULT | RACE POINTS | TOTAL POINTS |
Australia | 2 | Disqualified | 0 | 0 |
Malaysia | 5 | Retired | 0 | 0 |
Bahrain | 13 | 4 | 12 | 12 |
China | 2 | 4 | 12 | 24 |
Spain | 3 | 3 | 15 | 39 |
Monaco | 3 | 3 | 15 | 54 |
Canada | 6 | 1 | 25 | 79 |
Austria | 5 | 8 | 4 | 83 |
Britain | 8 | 3 | 15 | 98 |
Germany | 5 | 6 | 8 | 106 |
Hungary | 4 | 1 | 25 | 131 |
Belgium | 5 | 1 | 25 | 156 |
Italy | 9 | 5 | 10 | 166 |
Singapore | 3 | 3 | 15 | 181 |
Japan | 6 | 4 | 12 | 193 |
Russia | 6 | 7 | 6 | 199 |
United States | 5 | 3 | 15 | 214 |
Brazil | 9 | Retired | 0 | 214 |
Abu Dhabi | 20 | 4 | 24 | 238 |
Rosberg, Hamilton and Ricciardo were the only drivers to stand on the top step of the podium in 2014
WINS | |
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Lewis Hamilton | 11 |
Nico Rosberg | 5 |
Daniel Ricciardo | 3 |
POLE POSITIONS | |
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Lewis Hamilton | 7 |
Nico Rosberg | 11 |
Felipe Massa | 1 |
FASTEST LAPS | |
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Lewis Hamilton | 7 |
Nico Rosberg | 5 |
Sebastian Vettel | 2 |
Kimi Raikkonen | 1 |
Felipe Massa | 1 |
Sergio Perez | 1 |
Valtteri Bottas | 1 |
Daniel Ricciardo | 1 |
Jenson Button's McLaren could not win any races but the Briton completed the most laps in 2014
LAPS COMPLETED | |
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Jenson Button | 1120 |
Kevin Magnussen | 1111 |
Valtteri Bottas | 1110 |
Daniel Ricciardo | 1095 |
Kimi Raikkonen | 1076 |
Fernando Alonso | 1066 |
Nico Rosberg | 1063 |
Lewis Hamilton | 1048 |
Nico Hulkenberg | 1036 |
Jean-Eric Vergne | 971 |
Sebastian Vettel | 970 |
Romain Grosjean | 953 |
Felipe Massa | 954 |
Esteban Gutierrez | 933 |
Daniil Kvyat | 924 |
Sergio Perez | 891 |
Adrian Sutil | 858 |
Pastor Maldonado | 847 |
Max Chilton | 769 |
Jules Bianchi | 754 |
Marcus Ericsson | 714 |
Kamui Kobayashi | 663 |
Will Stevens | 54 |
Andre Lotterer | 1 |
LAPS LED (1,134 raced in 2014): | |
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Lewis Hamilton | 495 (43.65%) |
Nico Rosberg | 483 (42.59%) |
Daniel Ricciardo | 72 (6.35%) |
Fernando Alonso | 32 (2.82%) |
Felipe Massa | 30 (2.65%) |
Sergio Perez | 11 (0.97%) |
Nico Hulkenberg | 5 (0.44%) |
Valtteri Bottas | 4 (0.35%) |
Jenson Button | 1 (0.09%) |
Sebastian Vettel | 1 (0.09%) |
*Vettel led 684 laps in 2013 (60.84%) | |
Sauber did not score a point in 2014, but Esteban Gutierrez gained an average of 1.89 positions at race starts - the best on the grid
PLACES GAINED / LOST ON LAP ONE IN TOTAL ACROSS 2014 | ||
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TOTAL PLACES | RACE AVERAGE | |
Esteban Gutierrez | 38 | 1.89 |
Nico Hulkenberg | 33 | 1.74 |
Pastor Maldonado | 24 | 1.33 |
Marcus Ericsson | 23 | 1.44 |
Kamui Kobayashi | 22 | 1.57 |
Max Chilton | 16 | 1.07 |
Felipe Massa | 14 | 0.88 |
Fernando Alonso | 13 | 0.68 |
Kimi Raikkonen | 12 | 0.67 |
Lewis Hamilton | 7 | 0.37 |
Jenson Button | 7 | 0.37 |
Sebastian Vettel | 6 | 0.32 |
Andre Lotterer | 3 | 3 |
Sergio Perez | 2 | 0.12 |
Jules Bianchi | 1 | 0.07 |
Valtteri Bottas | 1 | 0.05 |
Will Stevens | -3 | -3 |
Adrian Sutil | -8 | -0.44 |
Kevin Magnussen | -13 | -0.68 |
Daniil Kvyat | -15 | -0.79 |
Romain Grosjean | -15 | -0.79 |
Nico Rosberg | -24 | -1.26 |
Jean-Eric Vergne | -25 | -1.32 |
Daniel Ricciardo | -25 | -1.32 |
PENALTIES | |
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Pastor Maldonado | 10 |
Esteban Gutierrez | 8 |
Jean-Eric Vergne | 8 |
Romain Grosjaen | 6 |
Max Chilton | 4 |
Jules Bianchi | 4 |
Daniil Kvyat | 3 |
Kevin Magnussen | 3 |
Sebastian Vettel | 2 |
Daniel Ricciardo | 2 |
Adrian Sutil | 2 |
Sergio Perez | 2 |
Fernando Alonso | 2 |
Nico Hulkenberg | 2 |
Valtteri Bottas | 1 |
Kamui Kobayashi | 1 |
Marcus Ericsson | 1 |
Lewis Hamilton | 1 |
Jenson Button | 1 |
Felipe Massa | 1 |
Nico Rosberg | 0 |
Kimi Raikkonen | 0 |
Andre Lotterer | 0 |
Will Stevens | 0 |
RETIREMENTS | |||||||
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DRIVER | ACCIDENT | TECHNICAL FAILURE | NOT CLASSIFIED | DQ | DNQ | DNS | WITHDRAWN |
Sebastian Vettel | 0 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Daniel Ricciardo | 0 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Lewis Hamilton | 0 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Nico Rosberg | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Fernando Alonso | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Kimi Raikkonen | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Romain Grosjean | 1 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Pastor Maldonado | 0 | 6 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Jenson Button | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Kevin Magnussen | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Nico Hulkenberg | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Sergio Perez | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 |
Adrian Sutil | 4 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Esteban Gutierrez | 3 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Jean-Eric Vergne | 0 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Daniil Kvyat | 0 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Felipe Massa | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Valtteri Bottas | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Jules Bianchi | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Max Chilton | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Kamui Kobayashi | 1 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 |
Marcus Ericsson | 1 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Andre Lotterer | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Will Stevens | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Hamilton and Rosberg were on the front row in 15 of the 19 races
HAMILTON v ROSBERG | ||
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HAMILTON | ROSBERG | |
Wins | 11 | 5 |
Podiums | 16 | 15 |
Poles | 7 | 11 |
Front rows | 15 | 15 |
Fastest laps | 7 | 5 |
Retirements | 3 | 2 |
Starting positions | 1, 1, 2, 1, 1, 2, 2, 9, 6, 20, 22, 2, 1, 1, 2, 1, 2, 2, 2 | 3, 3, 1, 4, 2, 1, 1, 3, 1, 1, 1, 1, 2, 2, 1, 2, 1, 1, 1 |
QUALIFYING GAPS PER RACE | |
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Australia | Hamilton .364 faster |
Malaysia | Hamilton .619 faster |
Bahrain | Rosberg .279 faster |
China | Hamilton 1.283 faster |
Spain | Hamilton .168 faster |
Monaco | Rosberg .059 faster |
Canada | Rosberg .079 faster |
Austria | Hamilton recorded no time in Q3 |
Great Britain | Rosberg 3.466 faster |
Germany | Hamilton fails to reach Q2 |
Hungary | Hamilton records no time |
Belgium | Rosberg .228 faster |
Italy | Hamilton .274 faster |
Singapore | Hamilton .007 faster |
Japan | Rosberg .197 faster |
Russia | Hamilton .200 faster |
United States | Rosberg .376 faster |
Brazil | Rosberg .033 faster |
Abu Dhabi | Rosberg .386 faster |
RACE GAPS AT CHEQUERED FLAG | |
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Australia | Hamilton retired after 2 laps |
Malaysia | Hamilton won by 17.3 seconds |
Bahrain | Hamilton won by 1.0 seconds |
China | Hamilton won by 18.0 seconds |
Spain | Hamilton won by 0.6 seconds |
Monaco | Rosberg won by 9.2 seconds |
Canada | Hamilton retires after 46 laps |
Austria | Rosberg won by 1.9 seconds |
Great Britain | Rosberg retired after 28 laps |
Germany | Rosberg finished 22.5 seconds ahead of Hamilton |
Hungary | Hamilton finished 0.5 seconds ahead of Rosberg |
Belgium | Hamilton retired after 38 laps |
Italy | Hamilton won by 3.2 seconds |
Singapore | Rosberg retired after 13 laps |
Japan | Hamilton won by 9.2 seconds |
Russia | Hamilton won by 13.7 seconds |
United States | Hamilton won by 4.3 seconds |
Brazil | Rosberg won by 1.5 seconds |
Abu Dhabi | Rosberg 1 lap behind |
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