Assuming no unforeseen events, Nick Heidfeld will make his 100th GP start in
Melbourne next Sunday. He will become the 55th F1 driver to reach that
milestone. Here are a few stats about those 55.

Listed in chronological order of reaching 100 starts. The "100GP" column
shows how long it took to achieve 100 starts. 100GP and the debut age and age
at 100 GPs are all in years and decimal fractions of years. The last five
columns show the number of wins, podiums, pole positions, fastest laps and
points scored in their first 100 GPs.

Driver GPs 1st GP Age 100th GP Age 100GP W Po PP FL Pts
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J Brabham 126 1955 GBR 29.3 GBR 1968 42.3 13.01 13 25 10 7 212
G Hill 176 1958 MON 29.2 ITA 1968 39.6 10.31 12 32 13 10 219
J Bonnier 103 1956 ITA 26.6 GER 1969 39.5 12.92 1 1 1 0 39

B McLaren 101 1958 GER 20.9 ESP 1970 32.6 11.71 4 27 0 3 188.5
J Surtees 111 1960 MON 26.3 RSA 1971 37.1 10.77 6 24 8 11 177
D Hulme 112 1965 MON 28.9 RSA 1974 37.8 8.83 8 32 1 8 237
J Ickx 116 1966 GER 21.6 FRA 1976 31.5 9.91 8 25 13 14 178
R Peterson 122 1970 MON 26.2 SWE 1977 33.3 7.11 8 19 11 5 152
G Regazzoni 132 1970 NED 30.8 USE 1977 38.1 7.28 4 23 5 13 176
E Fittipaldi 144 1970 GBR 23.6 ARG 1978 31.1 7.50 14 33 6 6 258
C Reutemann 146 1972 ARG 29.8 CDN 1978 36.5 6.71 9 25 4 3 181
N Lauda 170 1971 AUT 22.5 ARG 1979 29.9 7.44 17 39 24 16 288.5

J Scheckter 110 1972 USA 22.7 RSA 1980 30.1 7.40 10 33 3 5 244
M Andretti 128 1968 USA 28.6 USW 1980 40.1 11.48 12 18 17 10 172
J Watson 152 1973 GBR 27.2 FRA 1980 34.2 6.96 1 8 2 2 78
J Lafitte 174 1974 GER 30.7 FRA 1981 37.6 6.92 4 22 7 4 150
J-P Jarier 132 1971 ITA 25.2 GBR 1981 35.0 9.87 0 3 3 3 28.5
J Mass 104 1973 GER 26.8 Det 1982 35.7 8.84 1 8 0 2 71
R Patrese 255 1977 MON 23.1 FRA 1984 30.1 7.00 2 9 2 4 68
N Piquet 203 1978 GER 25.9 FRA 1985 32.9 6.94 13 28 17 12 225
E de Angelis 108 1979 ARG 20.8 ITA 1985 27.4 6.63 2 9 3 0 120
A Jones 116 1975 ESP 28.5 AUS 1985 39.0 10.52 12 24 6 13 195
P Tambay 113 1977 GBR 28.1 BRA 1986 36.7 8.68 2 11 5 2 101
K Rosberg 114 1978 RSA 29.2 ESP 1986 37.4 8.11 5 16 4 3 140.5
R Arnoux 149 1978 RSA 29.7 MON 1986 37.8 8.19 7 22 18 12 169
A Prost 199 1980 ARG 24.9 HUN 1986 31.6 6.57 23 44 16 18 327.5
N Mansell 187 1980 AUT 27.0 AUT 1987 34.0 7.00 11 21 11 9 178
M Alboreto 194 1981 RSM 24.4 ITA 1987 30.7 6.34 5 18 2 4 140.5
A de Cesaris 208 1980 CDN 21.3 POR 1987 28.3 6.98 0 4 1 1 31
E Cheever 132 1978 ARG 20.0 MEX 1987 29.8 9.76 0 7 0 0 58
D Warwick 146 1981 RSM 26.7 BRA 1989 34.6 7.90 0 4 0 2 59
T Boutsen 163 1983 BEL 25.9 BEL 1989 32.1 6.25 1 9 0 0 79

A Senna 161 1984 BRA 24.0 MEX 1990 30.3 6.25 24 47 46 14 374
G Berger 210 1984 AUT 25.0 USA 1991 31.5 6.55 5 37 6 12 161
M Brundle 158 1984 BRA 24.8 RSA 1993 33.8 8.97 0 5 0 0 54
P Alliot 109 1984 BRA 29.7 CDN 1993 38.9 9.22 0 0 0 0 7
P Martini 119 1984 ITA 23.4 CDN 1994 33.1 9.76 0 0 0 0 16
J Alesi 201 1989 FRA 25.1 Pac 1995 31.4 6.29 1 18 1 2 142
J Herbert 161 1989 BRA 24.8 MON 1997 32.9 8.13 2 5 0 0 70
M Schumacher 232 1991 BEL 22.6 JPN 1997 28.8 6.13 27 54 17 28 440
M Häkkinen 160 1991 USA 22.4 RSM 1998 29.6 7.13 3 19 3 3 144
D Hill 116 1992 GBR 31.8 AUS 1999 38.5 6.65 22 42 20 19 353
R Barrichello 217 1993 RSA 20.8 MON 1999 27.0 6.17 0 4 1 0 56

H-H Frentzen 159 1994 BRA 26.9 RSM 2000 32.9 6.04 3 16 2 6 166
E Irvine 147 1993 JPN 28.0 GBR 2000 34.4 6.50 4 24 0 1 173
D Coulthard 195 1994 ESP 23.2 AUT 2000 29.3 6.13 9 37 9 13 271
O Panis 154 1994 BRA 27.6 FRA 2001 34.8 7.26 1 5 0 0 61
J Villeneuve 154 1996 AUS 24.9 AUS 2002 30.9 5.98 11 23 13 9 209
M Salo 109 1994 JPN 27.9 CDN 2002 35.5 7.59 0 2 0 0 33
G Fisichella 161 1996 AUS 23.2 Eur 2002 29.4 6.29 0 9 1 1 79
R Schumacher 147 1997 AUS 21.7 JPN 2002 27.3 5.60 4 20 1 5 177
J Trulli 148 1997 AUS 22.6 RSM 2003 29.0 6.11 0 1 0 0 47
J Verstappen 105 1994 BRA 22.1 FRA 2003 31.3 9.28 0 2 0 0 17
J Button 102 2000 AUS 20.1 CHN 2005 25.7 5.60 0 13 2 0 167

N Heidfeld 99 2000 AUS 23.0 AUS 2006 29.1 6.06 0 4 1 0 56


JPM should also reach 100 starts in China (assuming he doesn't miss any races
in the interim). He would become the driver to reach 100 starts in the shortest
time - a record currently shared by Ralf & Button.

The other four below are the only other current drivers with 50 or more starts.

JP Montoya 86 2001 AUS 25.4 CHN 2006 31.0 5.58 7 28 13 13 290
M Webber 70 2002 AUS 25.5 2007 0 1 0 0 65
F Alonso 71 2001 AUS 19.6 2007 9 25 9 4 265
F Massa 54 2002 AUS 20.8 2008 0 0 0 0 31
T Sato 53 2002 AUS 25.1 2008 0 1 0 0 40

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Brian Lawrence
Brian_W_Lawrence (AT) msn (DOT) com
Wantage, Oxfordshire, UK

On Sun, 26 Mar 2006 14:40:03 +0100, "Brian Lawrence"
<Brian_W_LawrenceREMTHIS (AT) msn (DOT) com> wrote:

Didn't he reach his 100th GP in Bahrain??????

"Sepa" <MAKNIsepa (AT) kset (DOT) org> wrote:

His debut was in Melbourne 2000, which was GP #647. Sepang was GP #752 which
indicates 106 races during his career. However, he missed the last five races
of 2005 meaning that Sepang was his 101st GP. But, in those 101 GPs he failed
to start twice meaning that Sepang was his 99th start.

He didn't start the 2000 European GP after failing a weight check during
practice, and last year he failed to start at Indianapolis.

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Brian

Le Sun, 26 Mar 2006 22:25:17 +0100, Sepa <MAKNIsepa (AT) kset (DOT) org> a écrit*:

Non, Nick has not started two GP :

- Europe 2000.
- United States 2005.

<http://www.genindre.org/cgi-bin/f1palmpil.cgi?pilote=HEID>

Brian Lawrence wrote:
Didn't Kimi start at the same time as Heidfeld? Also, he's not in your
50-or-more list, but the McLaren website credits him with 89 starts.
Finally, I'd thought that JPM did a bit more starts, but your
statistics are probably much more reliable than my brain.

Carel

"Carel" <carel (AT) xs4all (DOT) nl> wrote:

I have no explanation why he's not in my list, although I think he has 88
starts - his only non-start being at Indy last year. 88 starts means he
will reach 100 before JPM - and will be quicker too.

Well apparently not - but I believe JPM is on 86.

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Brian

"Brian Lawrence" <Brian_W_LawrenceREMTHIS (AT) msn (DOT) com> wrote:

A couple of minor corrections and stats for Kimi:



Somehow I omitted Kimi, who has 88 starts and should reach 100 in Turkey, which
will be quicker than JPM can manage.

K Räikkönen 88 2001 AUS 21.4 TUR 2006 26.9 5.48 9 31 8 16 287

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Brian Lawrence
Brian_W_Lawrence (AT) msn (DOT) com
Wantage, Oxfordshire, UK