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A look ahead to the Spanish Grand Prix

BARCELONA, Spain -- Some Formula One statistics previewing Sunday's Spanish Grand Prix at Barcelona.

Winning
Ralf Schumacher's win for Williams at Imola on April 15 was the first by a team other than Ferrari or McLaren since the European Grand prix in September 1999.

That race at the Nuerbrugring was also the last one in which neither of those two teams had a driver on the podium.

Ferrari's Michael Schumacher has 46 career wins, five short of Alain Prost's all time record of 51.

There have been 30 previous Spanish Grands prix, but only 10 of them at the Circuit de Catalunya, which opened in 1991.

McLaren's Mika Hakkinen has won the last three.

Of the last 10 grands prix, Williams have won five, McLaren three, Ferrari and Benetton one each.

Three active drivers have won in Barcelona: Michael Schumacher (1995 and 1996), Jacques Villeneuve (1997) and Hakkinen.

Pole position
McLaren's David Coulthard broke world champion Michael Schumacher's run of seven successive pole positions for Ferrari at the last San Marino Grand Prix.

But Ferrari and McLaren drivers have now been on pole for the past 23 races.

The last time a driver from another team took pole position was Germany's Heinz-Harald Ferntzen in a Jordan at the Nuerburgring in 1999.

Germany's Ralf Schumacher, Frenchman Olivier Panis and Briton Eddie Irvine are all grand prix winners who have yet to take a pole position. Italy's Giancarlo Fisichella has been on pole (Austria, 1998) but has yet to win a race.

Still pointless
Five drivers have still to score in Formula One:

Fernando Alonso (Spain) Minardi
Enrique Bernoldi (Brazil) Arrows
Luciano Burti (Brazil) Jaguar
Tarso Marques, Minardi
Juan Pablo Montoya (Colombia) Williams

Montoya is the only one who has yet to finish a race after four grands prix.

Minardi and Prost have not scored since 1999.

Six of the 11 teams have yet to win a race -- BAR, Arrows, Sauber, Jaguar, Prost and Minardi. Arrows hold the record of 358
grands prix entered without a win.

Spanish drivers
No Spaniard has ever scored a point in his home race.

The country's most successful driver, in terms of the highest-placed finish, was Alfonso de Portago who raced only five times before his death in the 1957 Mille Miglia. He came second in the 1956 British Grand Prix in a Ferrari.

Pedro de la Rosa will become the most experienced Spanish driver in Formula One when he competes in his first race for Jaguar and the 34th of his career in Barcelona.

At the moment he and Williams test driver Marc Gene are level on 33 races each.

Francesco Godia, in a Maserati, is Spain's highest points scorer with six in the 1956 season.

Only five Spanish drivers have scored points -- De Portago, Gene, De la Rosa, Luis Perez Sala and Godia.