REUTERS - Formula One statistics for Sunday's British Grand Prix at Silverstone:-WINSFour drivers (McLaren's Lewis Hamilton and Jenson Button, Red Bull's Sebastian Vettel and Mark Webber) have all won two races each this year. Ferrari's Fernando Alonso has won once.Ferrari have won 211 times while McLaren are the second most successful team with 168 victories. Williams have 113 wins.-PODIUMButton and Hamilton are both chasing their fourth successive podium finish. Button has yet to stand on a British Grand Prix podium, however.-POLE POSITIONHistorically, starting on pole position has not been a big advantage at Silverstone. Only four times in the last 15 races there has the quickest driver in qualifying gone on to win.Webber, Hamilton and Vettel are the only drivers to have won from pole this season.Ferrari have not been on pole since Brazil 2008.Red Bull have been on pole in eight of the last nine races.-FRONT ROWRed Bull have locked out the front row in four of the nine races so far this season.Red Bull have also started the last 13 races with at least one car on the front row. Button has not qualified on the front row since Turkey in June 2009.-POINTSWebber's crash in Valencia ended his status as the only driver to have scored points in every race this season.-QUALIFYINGRenault's Russian rookie Vitaly Petrov is now the only driver yet to out-qualify his team mate this season. Poland's Robert Kubica has a 9-0 record against him.-BRITAINTwelve British drivers have won their home race since 1950: Stirling Moss (1955 and 1957); Tony Brooks (1957); Peter Collins (1958); Jim Clark (1962-5 and 1967); Jackie Stewart (1969 and 1971); James Hunt (1977); John Watson (1981); Nigel Mansell (1986-7 and 1991-2); Damon Hill (1994); Johnny Herbert (1995); David Coulthard (1999, 2000); Lewis Hamilton (2008)The last British driver to win at Silverstone from pole position was Hill in 1994.The last time two Britons finished one-two in Britain was in 1999 with Coulthard and Eddie Irvine.Ferrari have won 15 times in Britain over the years, compared to McLaren's 14 and Williams's 10.-SCHUMACHERMichael Schumacher's 15th place in Valencia was the seven times champion's worst classified finish of his career.(Compiled by Alan Baldwin; Editing by John O'Brien;To query or comment on this story email sportsfeedback@thomsonreuters.com)(For more news on Reuters India, click http://in.reuters.com)News posted by www.newsinfoline.com
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