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For years, Spa Francorchamps was the circuit F1 drivers take longest to complete a lap of. But changes to Singapore means it now takes a second longer than Spa for the F1 cars to lap, despite being almost 2km shorter. 

During this year’s race Adrian Sutil brought Nick Heidfeld’s record of consecutive finishes to a crashing halt. Read on for more facts and stats from the Singapore Grand Prix.

Hamilton on top

Lewis Hamilton won the 11th Grand Prix of his career. That gives him as many wins as Jacques Villeneuve, Felipe Massa and Rubens Barrichello – the latter scoring his 11th win in the preceding race. He now has 16 pole positions, as many as Stirling Moss and Kimi Raikkonen. He needs two more to match the tally of the leading active driver, Fernando Alonso, who has 18.

It was also Hamilton’s 25th career podium finish and he has led more laps than any driver this year apart from Jenson Button. Alonso notched up the 13th fastest lap of his career, giving him as many as Jacky Ickx, Alan Jones and Riccardo Patrese.

Singapore Gets Slower

The changes to the Singapore circuit means it now takes longer to complete a lap of the circuit than any track on the calendar. Alonso’s fastest lap of 1′48.240 was almost a second slower than Sebastian Vettel’s fastest lap of Spa. That’s despite Spa being 1.937km longer.

Alonso’s average speed around a lap of Singapore was 168.73kph (104.84mph), Vettel’s at Spa was 235.07kph (146.06mph). Turns one, ten and 14 were tightened, turn 13 was slightly eased, and the entry to turn 22 was narrowed. Alonso’s fastest lap was 2.6s slower than Raikkonen’s 1′45.599 last year.

Vettel has now scored exactly 100 points in his F1 career.

Timo Glock matched his career best result with second. He was second in the Hungarian Grand Prix last year. Heidfeld’s finishing streak finally ends

Heidfeld’s incredible record of consecutive finishes finally came to an end thanks to Sutil. He was classified for 41 races running and finished 33 in a row.

However Nico Rosberg is going after his record – he has already been finished and classified in the last 26 races in a row. Rosberg also matched his best ever starting position – he also started third in the 2006 Malaysian Grand Prix, the second race of his career.

Kazuki Nakajima finished ninth – just out of the points – for the second time this year. He is the only driver to have started every race this year without scoring.

Button increased his championship lead for the first time since the Hungarian Grand Prix. Only Barrichello and Vettel can beat him to the title now. Mercedes-engined cars have now won ten races this year, matching their best ever tally from 2005. Eight have come with Brawn, two with McLaren.