The Chinese Grand Prix may not have been the spectacular that the marketing campaign around its status as Formula 1’s 1000th world championship race had promised, but it added to Lewis Hamilton’s trophy haul and supplied a nice round number to give his career statistics some context.

Hamilton’s 6.552 second victory over Mercedes team-mate Valtteri Bottas was his 75th, meaning he’s close to a one-in-three record for wins against races started. In the entire history of F1 it means he’s won 7.5% of all world championship races, or the equivalent of every single race from 1950 to ‘58.

It was also his 137th podium, meaning he could match Michael Schumacher’s tally of 155 this season if he stays on the podium in every remaining race. One measure he has overtaken Schumacher in is points, and his tally of 3086 is greater than the combined tally of 673 of the other 773 drivers to have raced in the championship.

After passing poleman Bottas on lap one, Hamilton kept the lead through to the chequered flag, marking the 15th time he has led every single lap of a race. Only Ayrton Senna has more, one of just two record the Brazilian still holds in F1.

The World Touring Car Cup prohibits the direct participation of works teams, but the influence and interest of the car makers remains palpable.

Teams have signed big-name drivers, with 14 FIA world titles and 29 other major titles accumulated across the 26-car grid. This talent has to be spread out; four cars are allowed for each marque, split between teams of two. With Balance of Performance regulations, the cars should also theoretically all be equal.

At Hyundai, Lynk & Co and Volkswagen, all four cars are actually run by the same operation, although this approach is no guarantee of equivalent performance, with one of the two VW teams run by Sebastien Loeb Racing coming away pointless in the 2019 season opener in Morocco last weekend. Munnich Motorsport was the only team to get both of its drivers on the podium for Honda in the first of three races at the Circuit Moulay El Hassan.

A crash that took out three frontrunners in race three skewed the team standings after the weekend, and also handed reigning TCR Europe champion, Mikel Azcona, (PWR Racing) a maiden podium. The Spaniard scored 74% of the points for the Spanish SEAT-based Cupra car in Marrakech, a similar record to countryman Pepe Oriola’s 81% tally across the 2018 season.

10 years ago today, Jenson Button won the storm-hit Malaysian Grand Prix in 55m30.622s, completing just 55% of the scheduled distance and earning himself half-points for victory.

It became only the fourth world championship race to last less than an hour, and remains the 21st century’s shortest race.

F1’s shortest race record is held by the 1991 Australian GP, which lasted 24m34.899s and initially 16 laps. The organisers then decided to take the classification from two laps before, handing Ayrton Senna a 1.259 second win over Nigel Mansell.

The 1975 Austrian GP was also halted by rain, ending after 57m56.690s, but that year’s Spanish GP was shortened for rather more grim reasons. Held at Montjuic in Barcelona, the race came to a halt four laps after the rear wing of Rolf Stommelen’s Hill car detached itself, precipitating a crash that resulted in five spectator deaths. F1 never returned to the circuit.

In 2003, the Italian GP broke the record for the fastest F1 race of all time with Michael Schumacher’s average winning speed being 153.842 mph. This meant he completed the race in 1hr14m19.838s, the shortest ever race to run its full scheduled distance.