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Every Canadian Grand Prix winner, measured: 24 races at Montreal, and pole wins exactly half of them
Twenty four Canadian Grands Prix have been held at the Circuit Gilles Villeneuve since 2000, and exactly twelve were won from pole. Lewis Hamilton has won seven, more than anyone has won at any other circuit bar Silverstone. Every winner, grid slot and safety car, measured.
Every Miami Grand Prix winner, measured: five races, and pole has won only one of them
Five Miami Grands Prix have been held since 2022, and only one was won from pole: Kimi Antonelli's in 2026. Max Verstappen won from ninth in 2023, and Lando Norris took his first win there in 2024. Every winner, grid slot and safety car, measured.
Baku 2026 had 43 passes on track, and twelve of them happened in one corner
We counted every on-track pass in the 2026 Azerbaijan Grand Prix from the lap by lap running order. There were 43, but twelve came in a single corner when Oscar Piastri locked up at the restart. Baku ranks seventh of the fifteen races of 2026, which is not what its reputation says.
Azerbaijan GP team radio: the messages that explain Baku, from Russell's lost power to Gasly's lost points
The best team radio from the 2026 Azerbaijan Grand Prix, with the audio and a colour-coded transcript. George Russell explains the last lap that nearly cost him the win, Pierre Gasly reacts to being taken out by his own team mate, and Isack Hadjar takes a podium with a gearbox vibration.
Azerbaijan GP results: Russell wins Baku by 0.196s, and his own radio explains the last lap
George Russell won the 2026 Azerbaijan Grand Prix by 0.196 seconds from Max Verstappen after two safety cars wiped out a 12.5 second lead. On the last lap a double yellow cost him seven tenths, and he said so on the radio. Full results, penalties and retirements.
Every Japanese Grand Prix winner since 2000, measured: a pole-sitter's circuit, and Raikkonen's win from seventeenth
Twenty-five Japanese Grands Prix have been held since 2000, all at Suzuka except two at Fuji. Pole won seventeen, Max Verstappen won four in a row from 2022, and Kimi Raikkonen won from seventeenth in 2005 with a last-lap pass. Every winner, grid slot and safety car, measured.
Every Chinese Grand Prix winner, measured: Hamilton's six, and where Kimi Antonelli won for the first time
Nineteen Chinese Grands Prix have been held in Shanghai since 2004. Lewis Hamilton won six, pole won twelve, and in 2026 Kimi Antonelli took the first win of his career there, at 19, with Hamilton on the podium for Ferrari for the first time. Every winner, grid slot and safety car, measured.
Every Australian Grand Prix winner since 2000, measured: Hamilton's eight poles, and the race that needed three red flags
Twenty-five Australian Grands Prix have been held at Albert Park since 2000. Lewis Hamilton took pole eight times and won twice, David Coulthard won from eleventh, and the 2023 race was stopped three times. Every winner, grid slot, safety car and red flag, measured.
Every Dutch Grand Prix winner since 2021, measured: six races, six wins from pole, and the last one at Zandvoort
Formula 1 returned to Zandvoort in 2021 and left again after the 2026 race, the last on its contract. Every one of the six modern Dutch Grands Prix was won from pole. Max Verstappen won the first three at home. Every winner, grid slot and safety car, measured, and the history before 1985.
Every Belgian Grand Prix winner since 2000, measured: Spa's comebacks, disqualifications and a race with no racing
Twenty-five Belgian Grands Prix have been held at Spa-Francorchamps since 2000. Pole won twelve. Max Verstappen won from fourteenth in 2022, George Russell lost a win to the scales in 2024, and in 2021 the race ran entirely behind the safety car. Every winner, grid slot and safety car, measured.
Every Hungarian Grand Prix winner since 2000, measured: Hamilton's eight, and the first wins it keeps producing
Twenty-seven Hungarian Grands Prix have been held at the Hungaroring since 2000. Lewis Hamilton won eight, pole won only eleven, and the race has produced a remarkable run of first wins, from Alonso in 2003 to Ocon in 2021 and Piastri in 2024. Every winner, grid slot and safety car, measured.
Every Italian Grand Prix winner since 2000, measured: Monza belongs to the front row, except when it does not
Twenty-seven Italian Grands Prix have been held at Monza since 2000, and pole won sixteen. The exceptions are some of the strangest wins of the era: Gasly from tenth in 2020, and Kimi Antonelli from nineteenth at his home race in 2026. Every winner, grid slot, safety car and red flag, measured.