Facts and figures for Sunday's Canadian Formula One Grand Prix: Venue: Circuit Gilles Villeneuve, Montreal. Race distance: 70 laps (total 305.270 km/189.694 miles) each lap is 4.361 km/2.709 miles. GMT start time: 1700 (1300 local). 1900 Malta time Race lap record: Rubens Barrichello (Brazil) one minute 13.622 seconds (Ferrari, 2004). 2006 pole: Fernando Alonso (Spain) Renault 1:14.942 Summary of recent races in Montreal: 2006 (Fernando Alonso, Renault) Alonso's fourth win in a row and sixth in nine races stretched his lead over Ferrari's Michael Schumacher to 25 points at the halfway stage in the championship. Alonso started from pole for the fifth race in a row. 2005 (Kimi Raikkonen, McLaren) Raikkonen won after Alonso's only retirement of the season. Renault's Giancarlo Fisichella led for almost half the race before an hydraulics problem. Alonso led for six laps but hit the wall on the 39th of 70 laps. 2004 (Michael Schumacher, Ferrari) Schumacher became the first driver to win the same race seven times. Ferrari were handed a one-two when Williams' Ralf Schumacher, who had finished second, was disqualified for oversized brake ducts. 2003 (Schumacher, Ferrari) Schumacher, struggling with brake problems, led brother Ralf in a family one-two to regain the championship lead from McLaren's Raikkonen, who started from the pitlane. 2002 (Schumacher, Ferrari) Schumacher celebrated Ferrari's 150th win. Juan Pablo Montoya started on pole and retired after an engine failure while second with 13 laps remaining. The circuit The track is on the Ile de Notre Dame, a man-made island on the St Lawrence seaway that was built for the 1976 EXPO exhibition and has hosted the race since 1978. Because the circuit is infrequently used, it can be very dusty on Friday. The circuit puts a heavy burden on brakes and gearbox, with frequent switches from tight chicanes to long high-speed straights and up to 2,000 gearchanges required over the 70 laps.