Race Facts: Eifel GP at Nurburgring

The Nurburgring circuit, in Germany, is one of the most traditional in Formula 1, but it has been quite some time since the last visit of the biggest series of motorsport. It was in 2013 and less than half of the current drivers have already competed at this track: Sebastian Vettel, Kimi Raikkonen, Romain Grosjean, Lewis Hamilton, Sergio Pérez, Daniel Ricciardo and Valtteri Bottas.

If we compare the podium of that 2013 German GP, we will see a very different reality, since those involved have minimal chances of repeating the results at this year's Eifel GP. The victory back then was Vettel's, with Raikkonen in second and Grosjean in third place.

The temperature could be an issue for the teams. The average monthly temperature varies from 5.9°C to 12.2°C. The all-time records are 25.2°C and -5.3°C. During the last five races in there, during the spring or summer, the weather remained sunny in 2006, 2009 and 2013. There was light rain in 2011, but a thunderstorm hit the circuit in 2007, at the start of the race.

Lewis Hamilton, the current championship leader, has already won on this track in 2011, but Mercedes has not. Despite the triumph, Nurburgring is not one of the Briton's strongest tracks, taking fifth place in 2013 as the second best result. Vettel has a better record, with a victory and a podium.

In the last F1 race on German soil, Max Verstappen spoiled the 2019 Mercedes party in Hockenheim. But since the beginning of the team's dominance, there have been four events in Germany and Mercedes won three of them: 2014, 2016 and 2017.

Some factors of the current F1 season

Most of the 2020 races had the Safety Car on track: Austria, Styria, Great Britain, Belgium, Italy, Tuscany and Russia, with the two Italian races also having red flags.

Mercedes is the only team in the championship without a retirement. In addition to having reliable equipment, Lewis Hamilton and Valtteri Bottas have a fast car. The Englishman has led 67% of the laps so far, and the team as a whole, 90.4%. Except the Italian GP, the other races had at least one Mercedes in the top three, with the two drivers sharing the podium together in seven of them.