Statistical anomalies in motorsports.

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Due to Michael Schumacher's disqualification from 1st place for excessive plank wear at the 1994 Belgian Grand Prix, is Damon Hill the only driver to win a race having never led a lap of that race? Schumacher led every lap of the race except lap 29 which Coulthard led.
 
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Due to Michael Schumacher's disqualification from 1st place for excessive plank wear at the 1994 Belgian Grand Prix, is Damon Hill the only driver to win a race having never led a lap of that race? Schumacher led every lap of the race except lap 29 which Coulthard led.
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That was the 7th and so far last occasion it happened.

Statistics Drivers - Wins - Win without led • STATS F1

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Liquid
Thanks. I couldn't think of a time since then and wasn't sure about before.
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I had to double-check because I wasn't sure about Belgium 2008, but Massa did lead 4 laps non-consecutively as Hamilton and Raikkonen did their pitstops earlier.
 
In 1994, the year with 46 drivers, driver changes were so frequent that the British Grand Prix followed by the German Grand Prix were the only two races that year to have the exact same entrants. Every other race that year had a unique entry list.

Notwithstanding 46 different drivers:

JJ Lehto, Andrea de Cesaris, Philippe Alliot and Eric Bernard drove for two different teams.
Johnny Herbert drove for three teams.
Alex Zanardi and JJ Lehto drove both numbered cars of a team; Zanardi the 11 and 12 Lotus, Lehto the 5 and 6 Benetton.

All this brings us to a total of fifty-four different driver entrants in 1994.

Fifty-nine if you want to count Martini and Alboreto driving the Minardi M193B and M194; Zanardi and Herbert driving the Lotus 107C and the Lotus 109 in addition to Zanardi driving the 107C as number 11 and 12
 
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Johnny Herbert drove for three teams
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In 3 consecutive races, no less. Other drivers have driven for 3 different teams in a season but I don't know of any who did so over 3 consecutive races weekends.
 
The last two versions of the Singapore Marina Bay circuit for F1 have had their race lap records set by cars that finished the race in 18th place
Kevin Magnussen at the 2018 Singapore GP (1:41.905)
Daniel Ricciardo at the 2024 Singapore GP (1:34.486)
 
Jimlaad43
The last two versions of the Singapore Marina Bay circuit for F1 have had their race lap records set by cars that finished the race in 18th place
Kevin Magnussen at the 2018 Singapore GP (1:41.905)
Daniel Ricciardo at the 2024 Singapore GP (1:34.486)
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That's quite the coincidence!
 
Not so much an anomaly but, since Jake Hill has just won the 2024 BTCC title in car #24, can anyone think of any other instances of drivers winning titles in cars with race numbers matching the year they won the title?

(Aside the obvious, like Schumacher in '01, for instance)
 
I know Gil de Ferran won the CART championship in 2001 in the #1 car, but I am not sure if that was due to a chosen number or a renumbering to follow F1 rules.

(It was a renumbering so this can be disregarded.)

Joey Logano won the Cup Championship in 2022 in car #22.
Bobby Hamilton won the Truck Championship in 2004 in truck #4.
 
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Ferrari started 2002 with last year's F2001 car until the F2002 was ready. At the 2002 Brazilian Grand Prix, Ferrari's Michael Schumacher drove an all-new F2002 but Rubens Barrichello drove an F2001. Strange for two teammates to be running different cars in the modern era.
 
That had me wondering, the last team (barring 2021) to use last year's car at the start of the season was Manor Marussia with the MR03 in 2015.
 
By my reckoning, Jari-Matti Latvala is the only team principal at the top level of motorsport, who has raced his own teams car competitively whilst being the team principal of that team.

He replaced Tommi Makinen in 2021 as the Team Principal of Toyota Gazoo Racing, and in 2023 took the wheel of a Toyota GR WRT Yaris Rally1 in the WRC at Rally Finland, finishing 5th overall and took a power stage point, classifying him as 18th overall in that seasons final WRC standings.

He then entered the 2024 Rally Finland at the wheel of the new Rally2 Toyota GR Yaris, taking it all the way to 2nd in class behind Oliver Solberg and 6th overall, with 4 stage wins. 🤯
 
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The 1987 World Touring Car Championship certainly counts as anomolous in terms of "top-tier" motorsports but Andy Rouse drove for his own team that year.

Edit: I tried thinking about other WTCC and TCR years but that's beyond my capacity.
 
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There were a lot of driver/constructors in F1 in the past. I guess this question is more about modern times though.
 
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The 1987 World Touring Car Championship certainly counts as anomolous in terms of "top-tier" motorsports but Andy Rouse drove for his own team that year.

Edit: I tried thinking about other WTCC and TCR years but that's beyond my capacity.
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So did 1987 Round 1 winner Allan Moffat, and Tom Walkinshaw in his Commodore at Silverstone, later that same year.

I could go on to list many more than took part in the later Rounds at Bathurst (including those that didn't make the grid post qualifying) & Calder Park.
 

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