Monaco For the Record

Posted on Monday 19 May 2008 and tagged with monaco, for-the-record.

118.5
The number of points Williams has scored in Monaco. The team has also qualified on the front row 13 times in the Principality.

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Heinz-Harald Frentzen set his only pole position for Williams around the streets of Monaco in 1997.

20
After two wins at Monaco in the 1980s (Carlos Reutemann in 1980 and Keke Rosberg in 1983), Williams had to wait 20 years before the team’s next victory was claimed, by Juan Pablo Montoya in 2003, a year in which he won two Grands Prix.

Fourteen
Williams averages a podium about every other year in Monte Carlo, recording 14 since the team was formed. The team’s most recent podium finish came in the 2005 race, which was also one of the team’s best results at the circuit. That day, Nick Heidfeld and Mark Webber finished second and third, respectively.

poles 7
Seven Williams cars have been on pole seven times in the Principality, most recently in 2002 and 2003, thanks to Juan Pablo Montoya and Ralf Schumacher.

1992
Nigel Mansell’s unique style was ideally suited to the streets of Monte Carlo. In the 1992 Grand Prix, he set the fastest lap for the 25th time in his career.