After graduating in 2015 with a First Class honours degree in English Language and Literature, Nicky Haldenby, a lifelong fan of Formula 1, founded the Lights Out F1 Blog in 2016. Now in its sixth season, the blog has become a firm fan-favourite, delving deep into the sport's history books and lifting the cover on unusual F1 statistics. Nicky also writes at F1Destinations and GPDestinations. In 2017 and 2018, he wrote for Badger GP. Nicky is also the host of the F1 Rewind Podcast and can be heard as the resident stats man on the 2 Soft Compounds Podcast.
Leclerc becomes Monaco’s first home polesitter in 85 years, Verstappen leads the championship for the first time and Hamilton and Raikkonen extend the record for most Monaco finishes.Read More →
Verstappen takes the first Honda-powered victory in Monaco in almost 30 years, Vettel records Aston Martin’s best ever race result and Giovinazzi is the first Alfa Romeo driver to score in Monaco since 1983.Read More →
How closely were you watching the events of the 2021 Monaco Grand Prix? Test your knowledge of the race weekend in the Lights Out quiz!Read More →
How many of your pre-race predictions for the 2021 Monaco Grand Prix were correct? Find out here!Read More →
As Leclerc records the first home pole for a Monegasque driver in 85 years, Aston Martin record their best qualifying result since 1959 and Gasly equals his team’s best ever Monaco qualifying result.Read More →
23rd May is the day on which F1 celebrated its 200th World Championship race in 1971, the day that only five cars reached the chequered flag at the 1982 Monaco Grand Prix and the day on which Jarno Trulli took his only F1 win.Read More →
As Williams celebrate their 750th race, Bottas could equal Piquet for tenth in the list of all-time podiums and could this be the first time there is an identical podium for a third race in a row?Read More →
While the polesitter has won two of the last five Monaco races, only three wins have been taken from outside of the top five on the grid.Read More →
Three different teams have won the last three Monaco races. Here’s everything you need to know about each team’s history at the Monaco Grand Prix!Read More →
Hamilton won the most recent race in Monte Carlo, while Vettel has finished on the podium in the last three races here. Here’s everything you need to know about each driver’s history at the Monaco Grand Prix!Read More →
Here are all the facts and statistics you need to know about the Circuit de Monaco ahead of the 2021 Monaco Grand Prix!Read More →
How well can you remember the events of the 2021 Spanish Grand Prix weekend? Test your knowledge in the Lights Out quiz!Read More →
Hamilton takes a fifth consecutive Catalunya win, Bottas and Verstappen move up the all-time podium list and Tsunoda encounters the curse of the sixteenth grid slot. Here’s a statistic from each driver’s 2021 Spanish Grand Prix weekend!Read More →
Hamilton takes his 98th win, the podium is identical to last week and Vettel sets the longest point-less streak of his career. Here are the facts and statistics from the 2021 Spanish Grand Prix!Read More →
How many of your pre-race predictions for the 2021 Spanish Grand Prix were correct? Find out here!Read More →
Hamilton records his 100th pole position, Red Bull qualify on the front row at Catalunya for the first time since 2011 and Alonso is out-qualified for a third race in a row. Here are the facts and statistics from qualifying at the 2021 Spanish Grand Prix!Read More →
Lewis Hamilton is the first driver in Formula 1 to record 100 pole positions. We take a look at the statistics behind Hamilton’s first 100 pole positions!Read More →
9th May is the day on which Prost, Senna and Schumacher shared the podium for the only time, and the day that Jimmy Jump interrupted the start of the 2004 Spanish Grand Prix. Read More →