FACTS AND STATS: Ferrari ends a 45-race winless streak in Bahrain, with Zhou scoring on his debut.

  • March 22, 2022, 12:02 p.m.

With its sweeping new technical regulations, we knew 2022 could see a fresh F1 dawn – and so it proved in Bahrain – with a whole host of unexpected stats thrown up over a fascinating 57 laps in Sakhir. Here’s just a handful of the best ones... •

The winner of the opening race of the season has finished the championship as runner-up in every season since 2017.

• Prior to today, Ferrari were winless in their last 45 races – the second-longest winless streak in Ferrari history, after 59 in a row from Spain in 1990 to Germany in 1994.

• The last Ferrari win was also a 1-2 finish (Singapore 2019 with Sebastian Vettel and Charles Leclerc).

• Leclerc is the first Monegasque driver to lead the World Championship.

• It is his 3rd win in 81 career starts. A podium was more than Hamilton had expected after Mercedes' Saturday showing.

• The last time Ferrari led every lap of a grand prix was in Belgium in 2018.

• With P2 in the second Ferrari, Carlos Sainz tied his career best result (previously achieved at Italy 2020 and Monaco 2021).

• Lewis Hamilton’s P3 was a better result than he scored in the opening race of 2020 when he won his most recent World Championship (he finished 4th in the 2020 Austrian Grand Prix).

• Hamilton only ran five laps in a podium position all race.

• Kevin Magnussen was P5 – only the 5th time a Haas has ever finished in the top five, and it comes after scoring zero points in 2021 and 3 points in 2020.

• Valtteri Bottas’ P6 was the best result for Alfa Romeo since Brazil 2019, when Kimi Raikkonen was P4, with teammate Antonio Giovinazzi P5.

Of the top six cars, four were powered by Ferrari engines.

Zhou couldn't have asked for a better start to his F1 racing career.

• With P7, Alpine’s Esteban Ocon scored points for a fifth consecutive race, including at the end of last season.

• And with Fernando Alonso in P9, Alpine scored with both cars for the fourth time in the last five races. •

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• His P10 finish made Alfa Romeo rookie Zhou Guanyu the 66th driver to score a point on his F1 debut.

• With P8, AlphaTauri’s Yuki Tsunoda scored points in Bahrain for a second consecutive season. •

Mick Schumacher’s P11 for Haas was his career-best result.

Author : Rajdhani Delhi Representative

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