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San Marino GP: facts & figures
Check out Schumi's lap records and other facts about Imola circuit.
Facts and figures for Sunday's San Marino Formula One Grand Prix:
Venue: Imola (Autodromo Enzo e Dino Ferrari). 4.933 km (3.065 miles). Race to be held over 62 laps. Total distance 305.609 km (189.897 miles).
GMT start time: 1200
Race lap record: Michael Schumacher (Germany) Ferrari one minute 20.411 seconds (2004).
2004 pole time: Jenson Button (Britain) BAR 1:19.753
Resume of last five races at Imola:
2004 - Michael Schumacher (Germany) Ferrari
Schumacher chalked up his fourth successive win of the season after forcing Juan Pablo Montoya's Williams onto the grass at the third corner. BAR's Jenson Button started on pole for the first time and finished second ahead of third-placed Montoya.
2003 - Michael Schumacher, Ferrari
Schumacher's fourth win in five years at Imola, and career fifth success there, came only hours after the death of his mother Elisabeth. He and brother Ralf had flown back to Germany the previous evening to be with her. They then lined up on the front row together. There was no champagne sprayed on the podium. Raikkonen was second and Barrichello third.
2002 - Michael Schumacher, Ferrari
Ferrari's first one-two finish at their home circuit since 1982, with Schumacher leading Barrichello in a processional race with just one overtaking manoeuvre.
2001 - Ralf Schumacher (Germany) Williams
Ralf's first win, in his 70th race, and Williams' first since 1997. Ralf seized the lead from Coulthard on pole at the first corner and stayed ahead to the finish.
2000 - Michael Schumacher, Ferrari
Schumacher made a poor start but took his third win in a row for the season thanks to fine Ferrari strategy. Mika Hakkinen was second ahead of McLaren team mate Coulthard.
The circuit:
Imola, in Ferrari's heartland, hosted its first Formula One event in 1963 when Briton Jim Clark won a non-championship race.
In 1980, it hosted the Italian Grand Prix, but the race was moved back to Monza the following year and Imola has remained on the calendar since then as the San Marino Grand Prix.
In 1988, after his death, the circuit was renamed to include Enzo Ferrari's name as well as that of his late son Dino.
The circuit is, with Interlagos and Turkey, one of three in the championship to run anti-clockwise and was redesigned in 1995 following the deaths the previous year of Brazilian world champion Ayrton Senna and Austrian Roland Ratzenberger.
