STATISTIC CORNER: Hamilton and Schumacher are the most successful at the Spanish Grand Prix

Formula One’s two seven-time F1 champions Michael Schumacher and Lewis Hamilton are the most successful drivers in the history of the Spanish Grand Prix.

This year’s event is the 55th Spanish Grand Prix. Before making the Barcelona-Catalunya Circuit its home, four other tracks have hosted this race, including two street circuits within the Catalan city: Pedralbes which staged it in 1951 and 1954 and Montjuic Park, where the race was held on the odd-numbered years from 1969 to 1975.

The event was also held at the Jarama circuit on the outskirts of Madrid in 1968, 1970, 1972, from 1976 to 1979 and 1981 and in Jerez de la Frontera in Andalusia from 1986 to 1990. Spain also hosted seven European Grands Prix: two in Jerez (1994 and 1997) and five on the Valencia street circuit from 2008 to 2012.

Michael Schumacher and Lewis Hamilton both have the most number of wins on six apiece in the Spanish Grand Prix and with a further European GP win in Jerez in 1994, the German has the most wins on Spanish soil.

Schumacher has the most poles (7) followed by Hamilton on 6 and they both top the list of podium finishes with 12. Of the teams, Ferrari has 12 Spanish GP wins to its name, as well as two European victories in Valencia. The Maranello team also has the most pole positions and podium finishes, 14 and 38 respectively.

Four drivers took their maiden win at the Spanish Grand Prix: Niki Lauda (1974), Jochen Mass (1975), Pastor Maldonado (2012) and Max Verstappen 2016).