Motor racing-Formula One statistics for the Abu Dhabi Grand Prix

Mercedes' Lewis Hamilton is sure of third place overall but is facing his second successive season without a win. WINS Verstappen has won a record 18 of 21 races, ensuring a record win percentage for a season, and has 53 wins from 183 starts, putting him third equal with Sebastian Vettel on the all-time list. Red Bull have won a record 20 races, one more than Mercedes in 2016, with Ferrari's Carlos Sainz winning in Singapore.

Statistics for Formula One's season-ending Abu Dhabi Grand Prix at Yas Marina on Sunday, round 22 of the championship: Lap distance: 5.281km. Total distance: 306.183km (58 laps)

2022 pole position: Max Verstappen (Netherlands) Red Bull One minute 23.824 seconds. 2022 winner: Verstappen

Race lap record: Verstappen 1:26.103, Red Bull 2021. (The Circuit was modified after the 2020 race) Start time: 1300 GMT (1700 local)

ABU DHABI Sunday will be the 15th Abu Dhabi Grand Prix, and 12th season-ender at Yas Marina's anti-clockwise track.

Three current drivers have won there, with five-times winner Lewis Hamilton (2011, 2014, 2016, 2018, 2019) the most successful. Verstappen won in 2020, 2021 and 2022 and Valtteri Bottas in 2017. Hamilton has been on pole five times.

Only once has the winner not started on the front row: Kimi Raikkonen from fourth in 2012 with Lotus. CHAMPIONSHIP

Red Bull and Verstappen have won both championships already, Verstappen his third and Red Bull their sixth. The team are also assured of first and second place in the drivers' standings for the first time thanks to Sergio Perez. Mercedes' Lewis Hamilton is sure of third place overall but is facing his second successive season without a win.

WINS Verstappen has won a record 18 of 21 races, ensuring a record win percentage for a season, and has 53 wins from 183 starts, putting him third equal with Sebastian Vettel on the all-time list.

Red Bull have won a record 20 races, one more than Mercedes in 2016, with Ferrari's Carlos Sainz winning in Singapore. Red Bull have also had a team record six one-two finishes in 2023. Hamilton has a record 103 victories from 331 starts but has not won since Saudi Arabia in December 2021. Aston Martin's Fernando Alonso has 32 wins, most recently in Spain in 2013 with Ferrari, from a record 376 starts.

POLE POSITION Hamilton has a record 104 poles.

Red Bull have been on pole 13 times this season. Ferrari's Charles Leclerc took the top slot in Azerbaijan, Belgium, Austin, Mexico and Las Vegas, Hamilton in Hungary and Sainz in Italy and Singapore. Verstappen has 11 poles for 2023 and has converted all of them into wins.

Leclerc is one pole short of equalling Rene Arnoux's 1979-82 record of 13 successive poles without winning any of them. PODIUM

Six teams and 11 drivers have made a podium appearance this season: Red Bull, Alpine, Aston Martin, McLaren, Mercedes and Ferrari. Verstappen has been off the podium only once since Brazil last November.

Verstappen holds the record for most podiums in a season -- 20 this year. Michael Schumacher remains the only driver to have stood on the podium in every race of a season (2002). POINTS

Verstappen leads team mate Sergio Perez by 276 points and is set to end the season with a record margin as well as a record haul, although scoring systems have changed over the years. The gap between Verstappen and Perez is greater than the amount of points Perez has scored (273). The previous record margin was 155 between Vettel and Fernando Alonso in 2013.

MILESTONE Verstappen's win in Las Vegas made him the first driver to win three races in one country in a single season.

The Red Bull driver has now led a record 75.06% of all laps in the season and is sure to finish the season beating the previous record of 71.47% set by Jim Clark in 1963.