ATLAS F1   Volume 6, Issue 37
		History in the Making Schumacher's Drive to the Top of the Stats
		by Barry Kalb, Hong Kong

The five achievement columns - number of wins, poles, podiums, points and fastest laps - are straightforward. Achievements-per-race show the percentage of starts in which a driver achieved a specific result. For example, Fangio won 47.06% of the championship races he started. Points scored means just that: the actual number of points a driver has racked up during his career, whether or not all those points eventually counted towards the championship. (In some years, only a certain number of races counted, the rest were discarded.) "Theoretical points" show approximately what the top drivers would have scored had the scoring system always been as it is now: 10 points for first place, 1 point for sixth place, no points for fastest lap. (A fuller explanation is below.) Note: These tables rely on many sources, primarily the exhaustive statistics found on FORIX. Different sources often differ on the statistics of individual drivers, and in such cases, every effort has been made to determine the the correct figure. TABLE 1: THE RECORD HOLDERS Rank Name, country   Total   Most starts     1st Riccardo Patrese, Italy   256 2nd Gerhard Berger, Austria   210 3rd Andrea de Cesaris, Italy   208 4th Nelson Piquet, Brazil   204 5th Alain Prost, France   199 6th Michele Alboreto, Italy   194 7th Nigel Mansell, England   187 8th Jean Alesi, France   181 9th Graham Hill, England   176 9th Jacques Lafitte, France   176   Most wins     1st Prost     51 2nd Ayrton Senna, Brazil   41 2nd Michael Schumacher, Germany 41 4th Mansell     31 5th Jackie Stewart, Scotland   27 6th Jim Clark, Scotland   25 6th Lauda     25 8th Juan Fangio, Argentina   24 9th Piquet     23 10th Damon Hill, England   22   Most poles     1st Senna     65 2nd Clark     33 2nd Prost     33 4th Mansell     32 5th Fangio     29 5th M. Schumacher   29 7th Mika Hakkinen   26 8th Piquet     24 8th Lauda     24 10th D. Hill     20   Most podium finishes     1st Prost     106 2nd Senna     80 2nd M. Schumacher   80 4th Piquet     60 5th Mansell     59 6th Lauda     54 7th Berger     48 8th Hakkinen     47 9th Carlos Reutemann, Argentina   45 10th Stewart     43   Most points scored     1st Prost     798.5 2nd M. Schumacher   648 3rd Senna     614 4th Piquet     485.5 5th Mansell     482 6th Lauda     420.5 7th Berger     385 8th Hakkinen     372 9th Stewart     360 9th D. Hill     360   Most theoretical points scored *   1st Prost     842.5 2nd M. Schumacher   648 3rd Senna     640 4th Piquet     507.5 5th Mansell     498 6th Lauda     446 7th Berger     393 8th Stewart     387 9th Hakkinen     372 10th D. Hill     360   Most fastest laps     1st Prost     41 1st M. Schumacher   41 3rd Mansell     30 4th Clark     28 5th Lauda     24 6th Fangio     23 6th Piquet     23 8th Berger     21 9th Hakkinen     20 10th Senna     19 10th D. Hill     19   Most wins per start     1st Juan Fangio, Argentina   47.06% 2nd Alberto Ascari, Italy   40.60% 3rd Clark     34.72% 4th M. Schumacher   29.29% 5th Stewart     27.27% 6th Prost     25.63% 7th Senna     25.47% 8th Moss     24.24% 9th D.Hill     19.13% 10th Mansell     16.58%   Most poles per start     1st Fangio     56.86% 2nd Clark     45.83% 3rd Ascari     45.16% 4th Senna     40.37% 5th Moss     24.24% 6th M. Schumacher   20.71% 7th Hakkinen     18.31% 8th D. Hill     17.39% 9th Stewart     17.17% 10th Mansell     17.11%   Most podiums per start     1st Fangio     68.63% 2nd Giuseppe Farina, Italy   60.61% 3rd M. Schumacher   57.14% 4th Ascari     54.84% 5th Prost     53.27% 6th Senna     49.69% 7th Clark     44.44% 8th Stewart     43.43% 9th Mike Hawthorn   40.00% 10th David Coulthard   37.50%   Most points per start     1st Fangio     5.44 2nd M. Schumacher   4.63 3rd Ascari     4.52 4th Prost     4.01 5th Farina     3.86 6th Senna     3.814 7th Clark     3.806 8th Stewart     3.64 9th D. Hill     3.13 10th Mike Hawthorn, England   2.84   Most theoretical points per start   1st Fangio     5.95 2nd Ascari     5.03 3rd M. Schumacher   4.63 4th Prost     4.23 5th Clark     4.15 6th Farina     4.04 7th Senna     3.98 8th Stewart     3.91 9th D. Hill     3.13 10th Moss     3.02   Most fastest laps per start   1st Fangio     45.10% 2nd Clark     38.89% 3rd Ascari     38.71% 4th M. Schumacher   29.29% 5th Moss     27.27% 6th Prost     20.60% 7th D. Hill     16.52% 8th Mansell     16.04% 9th Stewart     15.15% 9th Farina     15.15%

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Barry Kalb is a veteran journalist of 20 years' experience (the Washington Star, CBS News, Time Magazine) and a motor racing fan - especially Formula One - for almost 40 years. He currently resides in Hong Kong.