Piastri could become the first Australian to take four wins in a row since 1966, Red Bull could equal Lotus on the all-time pole list and Antonelli could become the first driver to take their maiden win at home in 30 years. Here are the milestones and records which could be broken at the 2025 Emilia Romagna Grand Prix!
THE 2025 EMILIA ROMAGNA GRAND PRIX MILESTONES
The 2025 Emilia Romagna Grand Prix will be the 1,132nd World Championship event in Formula 1 history.
The 2025 Emilia Romagna Grand Prix will be the 108th time that Formula 1 has raced in Italy. Italy is the only country to have hosted more than 100 rounds of the World Championship, with Imola having hosted the country’s 100th race back in 2020.
This will be the 32nd Grand Prix held at Imola since F1 first visited the track for a round of the World Championship at the 1980 Italian Grand Prix. This will be the fifth Emilia Romagna Grand Prix since the event was first held in 2020.
The 2025 Emilia Romagna Grand Prix marks the 400th Grand Prix start for Red Bull. The team made their first appearance at the 2005 Australian Grand Prix and have started every race since then except the 2005 United States Grand Prix.
This will be the 800th race in which a Brazilian driver has competed.
The 2025 Emilia Romagna Grand Prix will be the sixth F1 race to take place on May 18. The Swiss Grand Prix took place on this date in 1952, as did the Austrian Grand Prix in 2003. The Monaco Grand Prix has taken place on this day three times: in 1958, 1969 and 1980.
Lap 4 of the 2025 Emilia Romagna Grand Prix will be the 1,900th racing lap at Imola in the circuit’s history on the F1 calendar.
THE FORMULA 1 RECORDS WHICH COULD BE BROKEN
A win for Oscar Piastri or Lando Norris at the 2025 Emilia Romagna Grand Prix would make this McLaren’s longest winning streak in nearly 20 years. The last time the team had a streak of as many as four wins was when they won all six races between the 2005 Hungarian and Japanese Grands Prix. It would be only the seventh time in the team’s history that they’ve secured four wins in a row.
A victory for Oscar Piastri at the 2025 Emilia Romagna Grand Prix would make him the first McLaren driver to secure four wins in a row since Ayrton Senna at the start of 1991. Senna is the only McLaren driver to have previously achieved the feat.
Piastri can become the second Australian driver to have won as many as four races in a row – and the first to do so since 1966. Jack Brabham is the only other Australian to have won as many as four consecutive Grands Prix. He did so twice in his career, winning five in a row from the 1960 Dutch Grand Prix to the 1960 Portuguese Grand Prix and securing four wins in a row between the 1966 French and German Grands Prix.
If Kimi Antonelli wins the 2025 Emilia Romagna Grand Prix, he will become the first driver to take his maiden F1 victory on home soil since Johnny Herbert at the 1995 British Grand Prix.
A victory for Lewis Hamilton at the 2025 Emilia Romagna Grand Prix would make Italy the third country – after Britain and Hungary – in which he has won on eight occasions. Only Hamilton and Michael Schumacher have taken as many as eight wins in a single country.
Max Verstappen could take a fourth consecutive win at Imola in 2025. If he does so, this would be the 12th time that a driver has taken four consecutive wins at a track. It would equal Verstappen’s longest winning streak at a circuit, having previously won four races in a row at Yas Marina Circuit from 2020 to 2023 and at Suzuka from 2022 to 2025.
A win for Max Verstappen at the 2025 Emilia Romagna Grand Prix would see Italy equal the United States as the country in which Verstappen has taken the most wins during his career. It would be his sixth win in the country.
A win for Oscar Piastri this weekend would make Australia the seventh nation to have won as many as 50 Grands Prix.
Oscar Piastri has finished every race since the 2023 Mexico City Grand Prix. If he finishes again at the 2025 Emilia Romagna Grand Prix, it will be the 35th consecutive race which he has finished, overtaking the third-longest finishing streak in F1 history, set by Daniel Ricciardo.
A pole position for Red Bull this weekend would be their 107th pole, equalling Lotus for fifth on the list of most pole positions for a team in Formula 1.
Pole position for Max Verstappen at the 2025 Emilia Romagna Grand Prix would be his 44th pole with Red Bull, equalling Sebastian Vettel as the driver who has taken the most poles with the team. It would also see him equal Vettel for fourth on the list of most poles with a single team.
A podium finish for Max Verstappen at the 2025 Emilia Romagna Grand Prix would see him equal Michael Schumacher for second on the list of most podium finishes with a single constructor. Schumacher took 116 top three finishes with Ferrari in his career, while Verstappen has taken 115 podiums to date with Red Bull.
A top ten finish for Max Verstappen this weekend will see him overtake Kimi Raikkonen for the fourth-longest scoring streak in Formula 1 history. Meanwhile, Oscar Piastri can overtake Michael Schumacher for the sixth longest scoring streak in F1.
Should Fernando Alonso fail to score a point at Imola, it would be the seventh consecutive race in which he has failed to score. It would be the first time he has failed to score in as many as seven consecutive races which he has entered since his final six races with McLaren in 2018 and his first with Alpine in 2021. It would be his longest point-less streak in a single season since finishing outside of the top ten at all of the last nine races of the 2015 season.
A pole position for Lando Norris would be his 11th with McLaren, overtaking Alain Prost and equalling Kimi Raikkonen for fifth place on the list of most poles with the team.
Should Max Verstappen lead five laps of the 2025 Emilia Romagna Grand Prix, he will overtake Sebastian Vettel for third place on the list of most Grand Prix laps led in F1.
A podium finish for Charles Leclerc would be his 45th with Ferrari. That would see him overtake Fernando Alonso for fifth place on the list of most top three finishes with the team in F1 history.
A pole position at any Grand Prix in 2025 for Kimi Antonelli, Ollie Bearman, Gabriel Bortoleto or Isack Hadjar would make them the youngest Grand Prix polesitter in F1 history.
Max Verstappen holds the record for wins from the most different grid positions in Formula 1. He’ll become the first driver to win from 11 different grid slots this weekend should he win from 5th, 8th, 11th, 12th, 13th, 15th, 16th, 18th, 19th or 20th on the grid.
If Max Verstappen leads the race from start to finish, he will equal Sebastian Vettel for third on the list of most F1 races led from start to finish. Verstappen has led 14 Grands Prix from start to end so far in his career.
A Grand Slam for Max Verstappen – winning from pole position having led every lap and set the fastest lap – would be his sixth Grand Slam. That would see him equal Lewis Hamilton for second on the list of most Grand Slams in F1, behind only Jim Clark.
Red Bull are one fastest lap short of becoming the fifth team to record a century of fastest laps in Formula 1. A fastest lap for a Red Bull driver would make 2025 the 17th consecutive season in which the team has recorded the fastest lap in a Grand Prix. That would equal Ferrari’s record of 17 successive years with a fastest lap, set between 1995 and 2011.
A win for Lewis Hamilton would make him the 16th driver to have won Grands Prix with as many as three different teams.
A win for Ferrari would make 2025 the 60th season in which they’ve won a Grand Prix.
A victory for a Ferrari-powered car this weekend would make Ferrari the first engine manufacturer to have powered 250 victories in Formula 1. Of the 249 previous victories, Sebastian Vettel’s with Toro Rosso at the 2008 Italian Grand Prix is the only one which was not taken in a Ferrari chassis.
THE EMILIA ROMAGNA GRAND PRIX RECORDS ON OFFER
Max Verstappen has won the last three races at Imola. A win at the 2025 Emilia Romagna Grand Prix would make Verstappen the first driver to have won four successive races here. He currently shares the consecutive win record at the track with Michael Schumacher, who won all three races at Imola from 2002 to 2004.
Williams and Ferrari are currently tied as the teams with the most wins at Imola. A victory for either team at the 2025 Emilia Romagna Grand Prix would see them extend the record to nine wins at the track.
If a Red Bull driver wins this weekend, Red Bull would become the first team to take four wins in a row at Imola. They’re currently tied with Williams (1995-1997) and Ferrari (2002-2004) for the longest winning streak at the track.
Renault and Ferrari are tied as the most successful engine manufacturers at Imola, with eight wins apiece. Either manufacturer could set a new record in the 2025 Emilia Romagna Grand Prix.
A fastest lap for Lewis Hamilton in the 2025 Emilia Romagna Grand Prix would make him the third driver – after Alain Prost and Michael Schumacher – to record as many as three fastest laps at Imola.
If Max Verstappen leads 54 laps of the 2025 Emilia Romagna Grand Prix, he will overtake Ayrton Senna for the second-most laps led at Imola. Only Michael Schumacher sits ahead of Senna on the all-time list.
If Lando Norris and Oscar Piastri lead 22 laps of the 2025 Emilia Romagna Grand Prix between them, McLaren will become the first team to have led 500 laps at Imola. Williams could achieve the milestone, if their drivers lead 35 laps of the race.
Charles Leclerc, Lando Norris and Oscar Piastri all hold 100% points rates at Imola. If they score this weekend, they will become the first drivers to pick up points on all of their first five appearances at the track.
Along with Leclerc and Norris, Lance Stroll and Lewis Hamilton can extend the record for most appearances at Imola without a DNF to five in the 2025 Emilia Romagna Grand Prix.
2025 EMILIA ROMAGNA GRAND PRIX: QUALIFYING RECORDS
McLaren could become the first team to record ten pole positions at Imola this weekend. It would be the 14th time that a team has taken ten poles at a single circuit – and the sixth time that McLaren have done so.
A Q3 appearance for Max Verstappen, Lando Norris or Charles Leclerc would make them the first driver to record five Q3 appearances at Imola. Oscar Piastri and Nico Hulkenberg are the other drivers hoping to keep their 100% Q3 appearance rates at the track alive.
George Russell and Lance Stroll are currently tied for the most Q2 eliminations at Imola, with three apiece. Either driver could set a new record this weekend, while the existing record can be equalled by Esteban Ocon.
Yuki Tsunoda is the only current driver with multiple Q1 exits at Imola. He could be joined in that group by Fernando Alonso, Pierre Gasly, Esteban Ocon and Alex Albon. A Q1 exit for Tsunoda would make him the first driver to record three Q1 eliminations at Imola.
LONGEVITY RECORDS ON OFFER FOR HAMILTON AND ALONSO
A win for Lewis Hamilton this year would see him move into the top ten of Formula 1’s oldest Grand Prix winners. Meanwhile, a victory for Fernando Alonso would make him the sport’s sixth oldest winner – and the oldest since Jack Brabham at the 1970 South African Grand Prix. Only nine drivers have won races at the age of over 40. The most recent driver to do so was Nigel Mansell, at the 1994 Australian Grand Prix.
A pole position for Lewis Hamilton in 2025 would make him the first driver in his 40s to take pole position since Nigel Mansell at the 1994 Australian Grand Prix. He would be the sixth driver to take a pole position above the age of 40.
Lewis Hamilton is currently tied with Michael Schumacher as the driver who has set the fastest lap of a Grand Prix in the most consecutive seasons. Schumacher set a fastest lap in at least one race in all 15 seasons between 1992 and 2006, while Hamilton has set a fastest lap in every season since 2010. A fastest lap for Hamilton this year would see him become the first driver to take a fastest lap in 16 consecutive seasons.
A win for Fernando Alonso at any race in 2025 would see him set a new record for the longest gap between two Formula 1 victories, with his last having come at the 2013 Spanish Grand Prix. The current record is 6 years, 6 months and 28 days, set by Riccardo Patrese.
A pole position for Fernando Alonso in 2025 would make him the sport’s fourth-oldest polesitter. He would be the oldest polesitter since Jack Brabham at the 1970 Spanish Grand Prix.
