Interesting F1 statistics (Least number of GPs to ....)

[Ed]

Hey, Coronado, thank you for the useful information.

Could you enrich us giving the driver names of the ones who took less GPs to:

1) lead a race
2) win a race
3) do a pole
4) do a best lap
5) become world champion

Starting from the sixties (otherwise all question could be answered looking at the first championship statistics).
This is not a tease. I am really curious.
Best
Andre

Interesting question aabc01

From StatsF1

I am including those from the 50's for the sake of completeness

The following drivers led a race on their first GP:
- Luigi Fagioli (Britain 1950)
- Juan Manuel Fangio (Britian 1950)
- Giuseppe Farina (Britain 1950)
- Bill Holland (Indianapolis 1950)
- Johnnie Parsons (Indianapolis 1950)
- Mauri Rose (Indianapolis 1950)
- Bill Holland (Indianapolis 1950)
- Karl Kling (France 1954)
- George Amick (Indianapolis 1958)
- Jacques Villeneuve (Australia 1996)

Current drivers worth a mention (in addition to Villeneuve above): Juan Pablo Montoya led in his 3rd race (Brazil 2001). David Coulthard led in his 6th race (Belgium 1994)

The following drivers won a race on their first GP:
- Giuseppe Farina (Britain 1950)
- Johnnie Parsons (Indianapolis 1950)
- Giancarlo Baghetti (France 1961)

Current drivers worth a mention: Jacques Villeneuve won in his 4th race (Europe 1996). Juan Pablo Montoya won in his 15th race (Italy 2001) and David Coulthard won in his 21st race (Portugal 1995)

The following took pole on their first GP:
- Giuseppe Farina (Britain 1950)
- Walt Faulkner (Indianapolis 1950)
- Duke Nalon (Indianapolis 1951)
- Mario Andretti (USA - Waltkins Glen 1968)
- Carlos Reutemann (Argentina 1972)
- Jacques Villeneuve (Australia 1996)

Current drivers worth a mention (in addition to Villeneuve above): David Coulthard took his 1st pole on his 10th race (Argentina 1995). Juan Pablo Montoya took his 1st pole on his 12th race (Germany 2001) and Fernando Alonso took his 1st pole on his 19th race (Malaysia 2003)

The following drivers took fastest lap on their first GP:
- Giuseppe Farina (Britain 1950)
- Johnnie Parsons (Indianapolis 1950)
- Masahiro Hasemi (Japan 1976)
- Jacques Villeneuve (Australia 1996)

Current drivers worth a mention (in addition to Villeneuve above): David Coulthard took his 1st fastest lap on his 4th race (Germany 1994). Alex Wurz took his 1st fastest lap on his 6th race (Argentina 1998) and Juan Pablo Montoya took his 1st fastest lap on his 9th race (Europe 2001)

The following drivers became world champions in their 1st year:
- Giuseppe Farina (1950)

Current drivers worth a mention: Jacques Villeneuve won his 1st World Title in his second season. Michael Schumacher won his 1st World Title in his 4th season (he only took part in 6 races in his 1st season) and Fernando Alonso won his 1st World Title in his 4th season.

[Kapel]

Nice one ED

[JayVee]

Why did you move to BAR Jacques

[Kapel]

Why did you move to BAR Jacques

Money i guess!!!

Now we hear he would have to take part in the shoot out for his BMW seat next year

[aabc01]

I may be wrong, but I missed Emerson Fittipaldi's name in some of the statistics:

1) he won for the first time at EUA, 1970, his 4th GP giving the title to Jochen Rindt who died 1 month before at Monza

2) he became world champion in 1972, his 3rd season

Fittipaldi opened the way to other Brazilian racers. He is one of the few racers that won the F-1 Championship (72-74) and the F-Indy (89).

Best
Andre

[Ed]

Andre,

The stats above showed those drivers leading, winning pole, winning a race and winning the championship in their first race/season.
I have also listed some records for the current drivers.

You are correct about Emerson Fittipaldi, he won his first race on his 4th GP and won his first title in his 3rd season.
He also led his first race on his 4th GP, had his first Pole position on his 19th GP and had his first fastest lap on his 28th GP.

[Julian Mayo]

Andre,

The stats above showed those drivers leading, winning pole, winning a race and winning the championship in their first race/season.
I have also listed some records for the current drivers.

You are correct about Emerson Fittipaldi, he won his first race on his 4th GP and won his first title in his 3rd season.
He also led his first race on his 4th GP, had his first Pole position on his 19th GP and had his first fastest lap on his 28th GP.

Thanks ED, you just answered a question I had about the same Driver