Indian Grand Prix: Laps statistics

The 2011 drivers’ world champion, Sebastian Vettel, claimed the inaugural win in the land of Bollywood and cricket starting from the pole position. Here, we will have a look at inside numbers from Indian grand prix.

Vettel, the only driver on 2011 grid to run entire race distance of the season so far, maintained his record by finishing allotted 60 laps of the Indian grand prix. Vettel, now has completed 1007 laps proposed this season in 17 races with Force India’s Paul di Resta and Fernando Alonso as closest best race finishers with 980 and 972 laps respectively. Vettel’s team-mate Mark Webber has completed 958 laps and stands at fifth behind McLaren’s Jenson Button with 969 laps.

For the teams tally, Red Bull has completed 1965 laps out of possible 2014 laps in seventeen races and is ahead of Force India with 1912 and Ferrari with 1896 laps.

1186 laps were completed at the Indian grand prix out of possible 1440 laps. Only seven drivers from four teams went on to complete entire race distance by finishing 60 laps at the Indian grand prix – Red Bull, McLaren and Mercedes’ drivers finished proposed laps with Alonso from Ferrari.

No of laps completed by drivers in Indian GP:

Pos	Driver	Laps
1	Sebastian Vettel	60
2	Jenson Button	60
3	Fernando Alonso	60
4	Mark Webber	60
5	Michael Schumacher	60
6	Nico Rosberg	60
7	Lewis Hamilton	60
8	Jaime Alguersuari	59
9	Adrian Sutil	59
10	Sergio Perez	59
11	Vitaly Petrov	59
12	Bruno Senna	59
13	Paul Di Resta	59
14	Heikki Kovalainen	58
15	Rubens Barrichello	58
16	Jerome D’Ambrosio	57
17	Narain Karthikeyan	57
18	Daniel Ricciardo	57
19	Jarno Trulli	55
DNF	Felipe Massa	32
DNF	Sebastien Buemi	24
DNF	Pastor Maldonado	12
DNF	Timo Glock	2
DNF	Kamui Kobayashi	0