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They've gradually taken the challenges away over the years - removing barriers from the first corner and the swimming pool chicane, and ruining the entry to Rascasse - but it's still Monaco.

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WINS

Ferrari's Fernando Alonso has 32 career wins, Red Bull's Sebastian Vettel 28, Mercedes's Lewis Hamilton 21, Lotus's Kimi Raikkonen 20 and McLaren's Jenson Button 15.

One more win for Raikkonen would make him the most successful Finnish driver in terms of race wins. He is currently tied with two times champion Mika Hakkinen.

Ferrari have won 221 races since the championship started in 1950, McLaren 182, Williams 114 and Red Bull 36.

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POLE

Mercedes have been on pole for the last three races. They have never before managed four in a row.

Vettel has 38 poles to his credit, putting him third in the all-time list (Michael Schumacher had 68 and Ayrton Senna 65). Hamilton has 27 and Alonso 22.

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POINTS

Caterham and Marussia have yet to score a point after three seasons in Formula One.

None of the five 2013 rookies have scored points so far.

Kimi Raikkonen has now finished 22 successive races in the points for Lotus, two short of Schumacher's 2001/02/03 record with Ferrari.

Former champions Williams have yet to score a point this season and for six races in a row.

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MONACO

Red Bull have won the last three Monaco Grands Prix (Mark Webber 2010 and 2012, Sebastian Vettel 2011).

Ferrari have not won in Monaco since 2001, with Schumacher. They have, however, set the fastest lap in five of the last nine races. Mexican Sergio Perez had the fastest race lap for Sauber last year.

The driver on pole has won eight of the last 12 races in Monaco. In 1996 Frenchman Olivier Panis won from 14th on the starting grid, the lowest winning start position to date.

Since 1950, only 10 times has the race been won by a driver starting lower than third.

McLaren have won 15 times in the last 29 years. Ferrari have won eight times.

Six former Monaco winners will be on Sunday's starting grid: Vettel, Webber, Button, Hamilton, Alonso, Raikkonen.

If Alonso wins on Sunday, he will become the first driver to win in Monaco for three different teams. His two previous wins were with Renault and McLaren.

Monaco is the race with the lowest average speed on the calendar, just 160kph.

Williams' Valtteri Bottas is the only current rookie not to have raced in Monaco in single seaters. (Reporting by Alan Baldwin; Editing by John O'Brien)

Has anyone else seen Alonso's helmet for this weekend? It is quite self-absorbing, to say the least.

Monaco's architecture has long been fairly disgusting though ... they're just trying to cram as many buildings onto that short stretch of coast as possible and most of them look rubbish and tacky, in my opinion. The old stone work, arches and balustrades were much nicer ... now it's little more than a rich Newport. Once again, the invention of concrete is to blame ...

It's Indy Sunday, nobody cares about Monaco. I don't understand why they insist on holding these 2 races on the same day so often. Choose different dates you idiots, you're stealing each others spotlight.

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At least Vettel's helmet designer has taste. WTF is wrong with these drivers?

When I think of Monaco and the wet, I think of that race in 1996 when no-one seemed to want to go the whole race

That and 1997, where for some inexplicable reason they decided to start both Williams cars on dry tyres with the track totally wet.

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Well, in Belgium even the Indy 500 is not shown. Nobody knows here in my country that this race is due this weekend. Only the really die hardcore racing fans know and will look for a stream to see the race.

But like some said, unless something spectacular happens it will not even mentioned on the news who won the race...