There are statistics, and then...

Further to yesterday's post, much has been made of the fact that Sebastian Vettel set a new record for pole positions of 15 this season, thus beating Nigel Mansell's previous record of 14, set back in 1992.  Well certainly 15 beats 14, but this overlooks the fact that when Mansell set his record there were only 16 races in a season, whereas this season there were 19.  So a truer comparison would be to compare where Vettel was in terms of pole positions after 16 races, and at that point he only had 12.  Indeed, on that basis he actually comes in 4th position, behind not only Mansell, but Senna and Prost as well, who each had 13 out of 16.