On Sunday Charles Leclerc became the 108th different driver to win a round of the world championship.

Leclerc made Monaco the 23rd different country to produce a race-winning driver. The other two countries to produce a winner of a single race are Poland ( Robert Kubica ) and Venezuela (Pastor Maldonado).

Ferrari has now won races with 39 different drivers. Leclerc’s first win came in his 34th start, coincidentally the same number of races contested by his late godfather Jules Bianchi.

The opportunities for new drivers to win races in F1 have become so scarce that only half a dozen first-time winners have appeared in the last 10 years. Leclerc joins Valtteri Bottas, Max Verstappen, Daniel Ricciardo, Pastor Maldonado and Nico Rosberg as the only drivers to have scored a win during that time.

Unless the remaining eight races of the current 10-year period produce at least five new winners, the 2010s will have seen the fewest new drivers of the first seven decade-long periods since the world championship began. This is despite the number of races steadily increasing – the 2020 F1 calendar will feature a record 22 rounds:

*Eight races remaining in this period

Leclerc’s win brings him within 12 points of team mate Sebastian Vettel in the drivers’ championship. Vettel has now gone 12 months since his last victory.

Vettel is 12 points behind Max Verstappen. The Red Bull driver’s 21-race streak of consecutive top five finishes, which began at Spa last year, ended on lap one of this year’s race.

Perhaps his new team mate will pick up where he left off? Alexander Albon impressively rose to finish fifth on his debut for the team. With just 12 prior starts to his name, Albon is Red Bull’s least experienced new driver since Robert Doornbos joined them in 2006 with eight starts to his name (he only made a further three).

Mercedes may not have won, but Lewis Hamilton and Bottas filled the other rostrum places, meaning the team has now scored 200 podium finishes. Hamilton extended his championship lead to 65 points over Bottas, and with 208 points up for grads over the remaining races, only the top six drivers in the championship are still mathematically in contention

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2019 Belgian Grand Prix