Formula One Supporters Club: PREVIEW: Spanish GP 2018

With this years Spanish GP coming up this weekend, let's look back at last year's race as a bit of a preview, and also all the statistics you need to know about.

Lewis Hamilton is looking to join a small list of F1 legends to win at this circuit for a third time. Should he triumph on Sunday, he'll be on the same number of wins as Mika Hakkinen and three behind Michael Schumacher.
The Briton, who won from pole here in 2014 and 2017, certainly enjoys coming to Spain. He hasn’t been off the front row here since his final year for McLaren in 2012, when he took top spot in qualifying only to be excluded for having insufficient fuel.
Despite leading the drivers' standings, the four-time world champion has been suffering somewhat of a qualifying drought recently. He took pole in Australia, but has been out-qualified by team mate Valtteri Bottas in four of the last six races.
Sebastian Vettel has surprisingly never been on pole in Catalunya. But the Ferrari man has been in superb qualifying form this season, topping the time-sheet at the last three races.
Baku ended Kimi Raikkonen's longest run of front-row starts (3) since Spain-Monaco-Europe in 2005, but he still finished on the podium for the sixth time in the last eight races.
The Finn has set the theoretical best lap of qualifying at the last two races (adding up the three best sectors from any lap), without having taken pole at either of them. Consistency in Barcelona could see the Ferrari man take P1.

Two years ago, Max Verstappen's triumph saw him become F1's youngest-ever winner at 18 years 227 days, become the first Dutchman to win in F1 and the first man to win on a mid-season debut for a team since Juan-Manuel Fangio for Mercedes in 1954.
Force India will be hoping to spring another surprise. Sergio Perez finished fourth in Barcelona last year, his and team's best-ever finish on this track. The Mexican is attempting to score back-to-back podium finishes for the first time in his and his team's history this weekend.
Nico Hulkenberg has not been eliminated in Q1 since the 2015 Spanish GP, and this is the only circuit at which the German has never qualified higher than 10th in his F1 career (seven previous visits).
It's safe to say Pierre Gasly has endured an action-packed start to his first full season in F1. And there's no reason he cannot replicate his fourth-placed finish in Bahrain this weekend. He has scored more podium finishes in Catalunya than on any other circuit in his GP2 career, with three podiums in four starts in 2015-16.
Not including retirements, Nico Rosberg - who started the 2013 race in P1 - is the only pole-sitter to finish outside the top-5 in a Spanish Grand Prix – regardless of venue – in the history of Formula 1.

I'm sure you all are looking forward to this weekends Race