multi21

Who is your pick? Will Fernando finally deliver for The Scuderia or will Seb Vettel 4-Pete and be only 1 of 3 drivers to have ever won 4 WDC in a row? Perhaps Kimi will get the Lotus even further up the grid from his 3rd place finishing position in 2012 or will Hamilton or Rosberg surprise with the Mercedes. Can Button win his 2nd WDC as the lead driver at McLaren Or....... is there a dark horse that can take it all? Will this finally be Sato's year...?

Overview: Presenting the 2013 Formula 1 grid

11 March 2013

This week in Melbourne, the lights will go out to signal the start of the season-opening Australian Grand Prix. Statistics about the 22 drivers on the grid.

Red Bull Racing

Chassis: RB9





Sebastian Vettel
Start number: 1
Nationality: German
Date of birth: 3 July 1987 (25)
Grand Prix debut: United States, 2007
Total starts: 101
Total wins: 26
Total podiums: 46
Total pole positions: 36
Total fastest laps: 15
Total points: 1054
World titles: 2010, 2011, 2012
2012 position: Champion with 281 points





Mark Webber
Start number: 2
Nationality: Australian
Date of birth: 27 August 1976 (36)
Grand Prix debut: Australia, 2002
Total starts: 196
Total wins: 9
Total podiums: 34
Total pole positions: 11
Total fastest laps: 14
Total points: 848.5
2012 position: 6th with 179 points

Scuderia Ferrari

Chassis: F2013





Fernando Alonso
Start number: 3
Nationality: Spanish
Date of birth: 29 July 1981 (31)
Grand Prix debut: Australia, 2001
Total starts: 196
Total wins: 30
Total podiums: 86
Total pole positions: 22
Total fastest laps: 19
Total points: 1364
World titles: 2005, 2006
2012 position: 2nd with 278 points





Felipe Massa
Start number: 4
Nationality: Brazilian
Date of birth: 25 April 1981 (31)
Grand Prix debut: Australia, 2002
Total starts: 172
Total wins: 11
Total podiums: 35
Total pole positions: 15
Total fastest laps: 14
Total points: 704
2012 position: 7th with 122 points

Vodafone McLaren Mercedes

Chassis: MP4-28





Jenson Button
Start number: 5
Nationality: British
Date of birth: 19 January 1980 (32)
Grand Prix debut: Australia, 2000
Total starts: 228
Total wins: 15
Total podiums: 49
Total pole positions: 8
Total fastest laps: 8
Total points: 999
World titles: 2009
2012 position: 5th with 188 points





Sergio Pérez
Start number: 6
Nationality: Mexican
Date of birth: 26 January 1990 (23)
Grand Prix debut: Australia, 2011
Total starts: 37
Best result: 2nd
Best qualifying: 4th
Total fastest laps: 1
Total points: 80
2012 position: 10th with 66 points

Lotus F1 Team

Chassis: E21





Kimi Räikkönen
Start number: 7
Nationality: Finnish
Date of birth: 17 October 1979 (32)
Grand Prix debut: Australia, 2001
Total starts: 175
Total wins: 19
Total podiums: 69
Total pole positions: 16
Total fastest laps: 37
Total points: 786
World titles: 2007
2012 position: 3rd with 207 points





Romain Grosjean
Start number: 8
Nationality: French
Date of birth: 17 April 1986 (25)
Grand Prix debut: Europe, 2009
Total starts: 26
Best result: 2nd
Total podiums: 3
Best qualifying: 2nd
Total fastest laps: 1
Total points: 96
2012 position: 8th with 96 points

Mercedes AMG Petronas

Chassis: F1 W04





Nico Rosberg
Start number: 9
Nationality: German
Date of birth: 27 June1985 (27)
Grand Prix debut: Bahrain, 2006
Total starts: 128
Total wins: 1
Total podiums: 7
Total pole positions: 1
Total fastest laps: 4
Total points: 399.5
2012 position: 9th with 93 points





Lewis Hamilton
Start number: 10
Nationality: British
Date of birth: 7 January 1985 (28)
Grand Prix debut: Australia, 2007
Total starts: 110
Total wins: 21
Total podiums: 49
Total pole positions: 26
Total fastest laps: 12
Total points: 913
World titles: 2008
2012 position: 4th with 190 points

Sauber F1 Team

Chassis: C32





Nico Hülkenberg
Start number: 11
Nationality: German
Date of birth: 19 August 1987 (25)
Grand Prix debut: Bahrain, 2010
Total starts: 39
Best result: 4th
Total pole positions: 1
Total fastest laps: 1
Total points: 85
2012 position: 11th with 63 points





Esteban Gutiérrez
Start number: 12
Nationality: Mexican
Date of birth: 5 August 1991 (21)
Grand Prix debut: Australia, 2013
Total starts: 0
Best result: -
Best qualifying: -
Total points: -
2012 position: -

Sahara Force India

Chassis: VJM06





Paul di Resta
Start number: 14
Nationality: British
Date of birth: 16 April 1986 (25)
Grand Prix debut: Australia, 2011
Total starts: 39
Best result: 4th
Best qualifying: 6th
Total points: 73
2012 position: 14th with 46 points





Adrian Sutil
Start number: 15
Nationality: German
Date of birth: 11 January 1983 (30)
Grand Prix debut: Australia, 2007
Total starts: 90
Best result: 4th
Best qualifying: 2nd
Total fastest laps: 1
Total points: 95
2012 position: -

Williams F1 Team

Chassis: FW35





Pastor Maldonado
Start number: 16
Nationality: Venezuelan
Date of birth: 10 March1985 (27)
Grand Prix debut: Australia, 2011
Total starts: 39
Total wins: 1
Total podiums: 1
Total pole positions: 1
Total points: 46
2012 position: 15th with 45 points





Valtteri Bottas
Start number: 17
Nationality: Finnish
Date of birth: 28 August 1989 (23)
Grand Prix debut: Australia, 2013
Total starts: 0
Best result: -
Best qualifying: -
Total points: -
2012 position: -

Scuderia Toro Rosso

Chassis: STR8





Jean-Éric Vergne
Start number: 18
Nationality: France
Date of birth: 25 April 1990 (22)
Grand Prix debut: Australia, 2012
Total starts: 20
Best result: 8th
Best qualifying: 11th
Total points: 16
2012 position: 17th with 16 points





Daniel Ricciardo
Start number: 19
Nationality: Australian
Date of birth: 1 July 1989 (23)
Grand Prix debut: Great Britain, 2011
Total starts: 31
Best result: 9th
Best qualifying: 6th
Total points: 10
2012 position: 18th with 10 points

Caterham F1 Team

Chassis: CT02





Charles Pic
Start number: 20
Nationality: French
Date of birth: 15 February 1990 (22)
Grand Prix debut: Australia, 2012
Total starts: 20
Best result: 12th
Best qualifying: 19th
Total points: 0
2012 position: -





Giedo van der Garde
Start number: 21
Nationality: Dutch
Date of birth: 25 April 1985 (27)
Grand Prix debut: Australia, 2013
Total starts: 0
Best result: -
Best qualifying: -
Total points: -
2012 position: -

Marussia Racing

Chassis: MR02





Jules Bianchi
Start number: 22
Nationality: French
Date of birth: 3 August 1989 (23)
Grand Prix debut: Australia, 2013
Total starts: 0
Best result: -
Best qualifying: -
Total points:
2012 position: -





Max Chilton
Start number: 23
Nationality: British
Date of birth: 21 April 1991 (21)
Grand Prix debut: Australia, 2013
Total starts: 0
Best result: -
Best qualifying: -
Total points: -
2012 position: -

ltc

Alonso

ltc

How I miss the Sir A.Wayne F1 pre-season, in-season, mid-season, post-season "predictions" ...

Pete, you should close this poll before the end of Friday free practice, just to be fair.

BTW, Danica? Really?

multi21

yea...., I was tryng to sway Ray S to vote. Remember the old days when Ray would want to see how the first 5 races of a season would go before he made a prediction on who would win the title that year? It would drive A Wayne totally NUTS!!! I don't think that seeing Friday practice before a 19 race season is going to sway anyone's opinion.

RE Danica, hey, there has been so much bandwidth written about her, why not include her and Sato together?

Ray S

The point still stands. You have an idea of driver skill, before they begin the season, but almost no idea on how strong any of the cars are going to be (they all play their cards pretty tight during testing). You really need to see a race or two before you can make any educated predictions.

Trying to predict the eventual winner without even seeing one race is little more than a SWAG.

Finally, poll fail for not making votes public........

Couldn't help but notice you are absent from the 2013 Rennlist F1 Championship Pete........

ltc

Where are the Alonso Athletic Supporters?

I would imagine they are giddy, given the fact that Ferrari has given DV a car that is only a few tenths off the favorites.

Clearly that should be good enough for the best to win.

This is DEFINITELY the year for Alonso, Luca and Santander to finally win

perfectlap

Vettel 72.9%*
Webber 0%
Alonso 10%
Massa 0%
Hamilton 5%
Rossberg 5%
Button 5%
McLaren pay driver 0%
Kimi 2.0%
Gross jeans 0.10%

*Reduce to 5% if Adrian Newey screwed up the car. If not he still beats the Ferrari, again.

morganabowen

Fernando Alonso

multi21

Can a mod please make the poll public. Thank you.

Ferrari typically don't sugar coat their position and last year they definitely said the car was not good out of the box. Their comments this year have been that they are light years ahead of where they were last year based on pre-season testing and I tend to believe them.

As ltc said, this has GOT to be Alonso's year. So why not, FA for the title.