The following are some statistics for Sunday's Italian Grand Prix:
CHAMPIONSHIP McLaren's double world champion Fernando Alonso, rookie team mate Lewis Hamilton, Ferrari's Kimi Raikkonen and Felipe Massa have all won three races this season.
Hamilton, 22, leads Alonso by five points with five races remaining. BMW Sauber's fifth placed Nick Heidfeld is 37 points adrift of Hamilton and is likely to drop out of the mathematical reckoning after this weekend. WINS
Hamilton is only the fourth driver to win three times in his first season. The others are Argentine Juan Manuel Fangio and Italian Giuseppe Farina (both 1950) and Canadian Jacques Villeneuve (1996). McLaren and Ferrari are the only teams to have won this season. Ferrari have won 198 races (out of a total of 752 started since 1950). McLaren have won 154, Williams 113. POINTS
Alonso has scored points in his last 15 races. The Spaniard is the only driver to have scored in every race this year.
Ferrari's retired champion Michael Schumacher holds the record for most successive races in the points -- 24 from 2001 to 2003. ITALY
Ferrari have won four of the last five races at Monza.Briton David Coulthard and Brazilian Rubens Barrichello are the only current drivers to have won at the circuit.
Schumacher won five times at Monza, more than any other driver. Brazilian Nelson Piquet won four times while the late Argentine Juan Manuel Fangio is the only one to win there three times in a row.
The last Italian to win at Monza was Ferrari's Ludovico Scarfiotti in 1966. The last to stand on the podium was Renault's Giancarlo Fisichella, third in 2005.
CHAMPIONSHIP McLaren's double world champion Fernando Alonso, rookie team mate Lewis Hamilton, Ferrari's Kimi Raikkonen and Felipe Massa have all won three races this season.
Hamilton, 22, leads Alonso by five points with five races remaining. BMW Sauber's fifth placed Nick Heidfeld is 37 points adrift of Hamilton and is likely to drop out of the mathematical reckoning after this weekend. WINS
Hamilton is only the fourth driver to win three times in his first season. The others are Argentine Juan Manuel Fangio and Italian Giuseppe Farina (both 1950) and Canadian Jacques Villeneuve (1996). McLaren and Ferrari are the only teams to have won this season. Ferrari have won 198 races (out of a total of 752 started since 1950). McLaren have won 154, Williams 113. POINTS
Alonso has scored points in his last 15 races. The Spaniard is the only driver to have scored in every race this year.
Ferrari's retired champion Michael Schumacher holds the record for most successive races in the points -- 24 from 2001 to 2003. ITALY
Ferrari have won four of the last five races at Monza.Briton David Coulthard and Brazilian Rubens Barrichello are the only current drivers to have won at the circuit.
Schumacher won five times at Monza, more than any other driver. Brazilian Nelson Piquet won four times while the late Argentine Juan Manuel Fangio is the only one to win there three times in a row.
The last Italian to win at Monza was Ferrari's Ludovico Scarfiotti in 1966. The last to stand on the podium was Renault's Giancarlo Fisichella, third in 2005.