San Marino GP Facts & Figures

By Andrew Hooper
April 12 2003

	Facts & Figures
	* The Autodromo Enzo e Dino Ferrari in Imola is steeped in history and first staged a Formula One race eleven years after opening in 1952. It was dedicated to Dino Ferrari in 1970, and Enzo's name was added to its official name after his subsequent death in 1988. * The town of Imola in Italy's Emilia-Romagna region forms part of the province of Bologna and has 63,300 inhabitants. * Together with the Interlagos circuit in Brazil, Imola is the second Grand Prix circuit in the calendar in which the race direction is anti-clockwise. * The track length is 3.066 miles (4.933 km) and the race distance will be 62 laps or 189.937 miles (305.609 km). * The Grand Prix commences at 1400hrs local on Sunday, April 20. * Rubens Barrichello in his Ferrari holds the lap record of 1m24.170s set in 2002. * Pole position was taken in 2002 by Michael Schumacher (Ferrari/1m21.091s). He was also the winner of last year's San Marino Grand Prix. * In 2002, the BMW WilliamsF1 Team had a respectable race, finishing in the team's qualifying positions. Ralf Schumacher was third and Juan Pablo Montoya fourth. * The previous year, the San Marino Grand Prix on 15th April 2001 marked the maiden F1 victory for WilliamsF1-BMW partnership, scored by Ralf Schumacher * In total WilliamsF1 has recorded eight victories in Imola since 1987.