Motorsport Week takes a look at some of the statistics of Formula 1 since Robert Kubica was last on the entry list as a race driver.
Robert Kubica is set to line-up on the Formula 1 grid in 2019 following confirmation of his promotion to a Williams race seat – by which time it will be over eight-and-a-half years since his previous start.
That equates to a period in which 158 Grands Prix will have taken place – 157 plus the upcoming Abu Dhabi Grand Prix.
In that 157-race period Lewis Hamilton has taken 58 victories, Sebastian Vettel 42, with the now-retired Nico Rosberg third on the list with 23.
Daniel Ricciardo (7), Jenson Button and Fernando Alonso (both 6), Max Verstappen (5), Kimi Raikkonen, Mark Webber and Valtteri Bottas (all 3) and Pastor Maldonado (1) have also triumphed.
Hamilton has scored 65 poles, Vettel 40, Rosberg 30, with Webber on 7, Bottas 6, Ricciardo 3, Alonso 2, and Maldonado, Button, Raikkonen and Felipe Massa all on 1.
Mercedes, meanwhile, has scooped 77 victories, Red Bull 45, Ferrari 19, McLaren 14, Lotus/Renault 2 and the Williams team for which Kubica will race were victorious once.
Formula 1’s calendar has expanded to 21 Grands Prix with the addition of events in Azerbaijan and Russia, while France, Austria, Mexico and the United States – at the newly built venue COTA – have returned.
Grands Prix in Malaysia, Turkey, Korea and Valencia have been discontinued, while India came and went.
From his 2010 opponents only Lewis Hamilton, Sebastian Vettel and Nico Hulkenberg will still be on the grid in 2019, albeit all with different teams from which they competed back then.
Kubica also raced Kimi Raikkonen and Romain Grosjean in Formula 1, though neither lined up on the grid in 2010.
Eight of his 2019 contemporaries, including team-mate George Russell, were still of school age.
Three teams have collapsed (Hispania/HRT, Lotus/Caterham, Marussia/Manor) while the team with which he started his previous Grand Prix – Renault – morphed into Lotus before its re-acquisition by the French manufacturer. One, meanwhile, has joined, in the form of Haas.
The final 2010 event was the last to be held using Bridgestone tyres, with Pirelli taking over the contract thereafter, while Formula 1's regulations have undergone several changes, most prominently the introduction of 1.6 litre V6 hybrids in place of V8 engines.
It means 3,045 days will have elapsed between Grands Prix starts for Robert Kubica – but that is not a Formula 1 record.
Jan Lammers went 3,767 days between Grands Prix entries, a run that began at the 1982 Dutch Grand Prix and ended at the 1992 Japanese Grand Prix.
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