Formula One statistics for Belgian Grand Prix

• Lap distance: 7.004km (44 laps). • Total distance: 308.052km • Race lap record: Sebastian Vettel

(Germany) Red Bull, 1 min 47.263 sec (2009) • 2015 pole: Lewis Hamilton (Britain)

Mercedes One minute 47.197 seconds • 2015 winner: Hamilton • Start time: 1200 GMT

Wins

Champion Mercedes has won 43 of the last 50 races and 11 of this season’s 12.

Triple world champion Lewis Hamilton has won six and Mercedes teammate Nico Rosberg five. Red Bull’s Max Verstappen is the other winner this season.

Hamilton has 49 career victories. The Briton is third on the all-time list behind Michael Schumacher (91) and Alain Prost (51), and seven ahead of Ferrari’s four-time champion Sebastian Vettel.

McLaren’s Fernando Alonso has 32 wins, Ferrari’s Kimi Raikkonen 20, Rosberg 19 and McLaren’s Jenson Button 15.

Rosberg has more victories than any non-champion in the history of the sport.

Ferrari has won 224 races in total, McLaren 182, Williams 114, Mercedes 56, Red Bull 51. McLaren last won in 2012.

Pole position

Mercedes has been on the pole in 47 of the last 50 races and all but one of this season’s grands prix.

Hamilton has 55 career poles and is third on the all-time list behind Schumacher (68) and Ayrton Senna (65). Vettel has 46, Rosberg 27.

Points

Sauber (Marcus Ericsson and Felipe Nasr) is the only team yet to score a point in 2016.

Renault’s Jolyon Palmer and Haas’ Esteban Gutierrez have yet to open their accounts.

French driver Esteban Ocon is making his debut with Manor this weekend.

Belgian Grand Prix

Spa is the longest lap of the season and one of the fastest, with an average speed of around 140 mph. Cars are flat out for about 70 percent of the time.

The circuit has hosted 48 of the 60 Belgian GPs to date, and Schumacher won six times at Spa, more than any driver. Raikkonen has four wins there.

Two Belgian drivers have won Formula One races (Jacky Ickx and Thierry Boutsen) but there are none at present, although Dutch teenager Verstappen was born in Belgium, has a Belgian mother and lives there.

Ferrari and McLaren have both won 12 times at Spa. Red Bull have won three of the last five races there.

Six of the last 14 races at Spa have been won from pole position.

Six of the current drivers have won at Spa: Button (2012), Vettel (2011, 2013), Hamilton (2010, 2015), Raikkonen (2004, 2005, 2007 and 2009), Massa (2008) and Daniel Ricciardo (2014).

Milestones

Hamilton can become only the third driver to win 50 races this weekend.

A pole for Hamilton at Spa would equal Juan Manuel Fangio and Senna’s record of four at the circuit.