MotoGP Mugello: The numbers and statistics of the Italian GP

• It is the thirty-second occasion that Mugello will be the stage for a GP, twenty-seven of these all in a row since 1991.

• The first time a motorcycle Grand Prix was held at Mugello was 1976. The 500cc race was won by Barry Sheene with a lead of just 0.1s over Phil Read. It was the era in which Suzuki riders dominated the premier class and the first rider on a different bike was Warum Borge Nielsen on a Yamaha who finished tenth.

• The layout of the Mugello circuit has remained fundamentally the same since 1976 with the official length of 5.245 km.

• Yamaha is the manufacturer with the highest number of successes on the Tuscan track since the four-stroke era began. For the bikes of the three tuning forks a total of ten victories: five consecutive with Valentino Rossi from 2004 to 2008 and five with Jorge Lorenzo, Tissot ambassador, in 2011, 2012, 2013, 2015 and 2016. The Majorcan finished second in 2009 and 2010 and won the 2006 race in 250 after finishing second the following year.

• Honda has achieved four MotoGP™ successes at Mugello: Valentino Rossi in 2002 and 2003, Dani Pedrosa in 2010 and Marc Marquez in 2014.

• In 2016 Andrea Iannone and Ducati took third place in Tuscany, repeating the podium of the previous season when the rider from Vasto finished second; This was the first podium at Mugello for the Borgo Panigale bike after Casey Stoner's victory in 2009.

• Suzuki's best results at the Italian GP were two fifth places in the premier class achieved by John Hopkins in 2007 and Loris Capirossi in 2009.

• The rider with the most victories at Mugello is Valentino Rossi who climbed to the top step of the podium nine times. The Doctor has won once in 125cc, once in 250cc and seven in MotoGP™.

• In addition to Valentino Rossi, the second and only Italian rider to win on the Tuscan track was Loris Capirossi. It was 2000 and the rider from Castel San Pietro Terme got the better of Rossi and Max Biaggi.

• In the 2004 Mugello GP the premier class race was the shortest in history with only six laps. Interrupted after 17 laps due to rain, it restarted for the remaining six laps.

• Italy, Holland and Great Britain were the only countries to have always hosted a GP since 1949, the year of birth of the MotoGP™ World Championship and then the MotoGP™ World Championship.

• At Mugello in 2015 Andrea Iannone took his first pole in the premier class. A record within the record given that it was the second time that an Italian rider on an Italian motorcycle started from the pole in a home GP. The first was Giacomo Agostini on MV Agusta, at Imola in 1972.

• In the last seven seasons the Italian GP has been won by Spanish drivers. The last driver of a different nationality to establish himself on the Tuscan track was Casey Stoner in 2009.

• Since the introduction of the MotoGP™ class fifteen years ago, only five riders have won at Mugello: Valentino Rossi (7 wins), Jorge Lorenzo (5 wins); Dani Pedrosa, Casey Stoner and Marc Marquez (1 win each).

• In 2016 Lorenzo beat Marquez by just 0,019 seconds, making the Italian GP finale one of the five most uncertain ever.

• All five recent winners at Mugello in the medium category are now in MotoGP™: Andrea Iannone (2010 and 2012), Marc Marquez (2011), Scott Redding (2013), Tissot ambassador Tito Rabat (2014 and 2015) and Johann Zarco (2016). Tom Luthi, also a Tissot rider, finished the 2008 Tuscan race in 250cc third while in 2012 he finished second. A second place for the Swiss also in 2005 in 125cc.

• This season the Moto3™ race at Mugello will be the hundredth on the Tuscan track.

• Jonas Folger is the only rider in the premier class who has scored points in all races since the season opener.

• Dani Pedrosa is currently second in the world championship standings, two positions better than Marc Marquez, his boxing partner. The last time the number 26 was ahead in the general classification than his team colleague was the 2013 Dutch GP.

• In the last three races Pedrosa has reached the podium, which hasn't happened since 2014 (Catalunya GP, Assen TT and German GP).

• On the contrary, Marquez (58 world championship points) is enjoying his worst start since 2013, the year of his debut in MotoGP™.