The Numbers game

81% of pole positions in two consecutive seasons: Ayrton Senna - 1988/1989, 26 poles in 32 races (13 poles each season)
81% of pole positions in one season: Alain Prost in 1993 with 13 poles in 16 races
81: the number of points it was possible for one person to score when Juan Manuel Fangio won the championship with a bizarrely calculated 54.14 points. Points were awarded thus: 8 for the win, 6 for 2nd, 4 for 3rd, 3 for 4th and 2 for 5th. 1 point was awarded for the fastest lap. However, in '54 drivers were allowed to share drives so points were divided between the drivers sharing a drive and there it got complicated ...
 
84 - the year 1984: Niki Lauda clinches WDC and (with team-mate Alain Prost) the constructors championship for McLaren. A bad season for Tyrrell. A technical infringement at the Detroit GP led to disqualification from the races to date and a ban for the rest of the season. Drivers Brundle and Bellof lost all of their points into the bargain.
 
87:
1987 - Ayrton Senna takes the first of his 6 Monaco GP wins
1987 - Nigel Mansell starts 14 races out of 15 on the front row
87 = Total number of Ayrton Senna's F1 career front row starts
 
90 wins for Michael Schumacher before he started the 2006 Chinese Grand Prix!
90 Entries for Adrian Sutil
22 years and 90 days when Hamilton became 7th youngest man to set the fastest lap in a GP session (Malaysia 07)
90 points for Senna in 88, out of 99
 
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