Formula One statistics for Sunday's Japanese Grand Prix:

TITLES McLaren's decision not to appeal against their loss of 2007 constructors' points and $100 million fine, imposed after a spying controversy, has handed the constructors' title to Ferrari.

Ferrari have now won a record 15 constructors'championships since their first in 1961. Williams have won nine and McLaren eight.

The drivers' title, with McLaren's British rookie Lewis Hamilton two points clear of double world champion team mate Fernando Alonso and three races remaining, cannot be decided this weekend. Hamilton has led the standings since Bahrain, the third race of the season, in April.

WINS If Kimi Raikkonen or Felipe Massa win in Fuji, it will be Ferrari's 200th grand prix victory since Argentine Froilan Gonzalez opened the account at Silverstone in 1951.

Raikkonen's victory in the previous Belgian Grand Prix was the Finn's 13th,lifting him level with Briton David Coulthard as the second most successful driver still active in the sport(behind Alonso on 19 wins).

One more win for Alonso would enable the 26-year-old to equal Mika Hakkinen's career tally of 20 and join Raikkonen's compatriot in equal 11th place in the all-time table of winners. Alonso and Raikkonen have each won four races this year,Hamilton and Massa three apiece.

POINTS Alonso has scored points in his last 17 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 -- but Alonso can equal his own career best of 18 for Renault between 2005 and 2006.

POLE Raikkonen won in Belgium from pole position. Ten of the 14 races so far this year have been won by the driver who started from the top slot. Raikkonen is the only driver this season to have won from a position off the front row of the starting grid (in France when he started third).

JAPAN Alonso, Raikkonen and Brazilian Rubens Barrichello are the only active drivers to have won in Japan.

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