Bruce McLaren is the only driver to have won twice before he was Raikkonen's age, and Troy Ruttman was the only other driver to have won a race at all.

Another McLaren driver has a less pleasant memory of the Spanish Grand Prix. On February 3rd 1995 McLaren announced their number one driver for the upcoming season would be none other than Nigel Mansell. However, it took a while before Mansell finally boarded the car.

As the car was designed before Mansell joined the team in the first place, it soon became clear that the Briton could not sit in the car comfortably. The result was that the team had to design a chassis to fit Mansell and that Mark Blundell would drive the first two races of the season. Mansell made his debut with the team at Imola, finishing the race in tenth place after requiring two pitstops within a few laps of each other while running fifth.

The Spanish Grand Prix was a different story, though. On Friday Mansell was outqualified by his teammate Mika Hakkinen by a massive 1.8 seconds. According to the Briton, his car suffered from major over- and understeer. On Saturday things went better, with Mansell only just behind Hakkinen, but ninth and tenth on the grid wasn't really what the team had hoped for.

On Sunday, Mansell had quite a horrible start as he dropped from tenth to 15th. However, 'Lionheart' still had his fighting spirit and soon made his way past Olivier Panis and Ukyo Katayama. The first stop went on as scheduled, but after that the car suddenly became undriveable. After 18 laps, Mansell steered into the pits and that was it for the World Champion's Formula One career.

Nine days after the Spanish Grand Prix it was announced that Mansell and McLaren would part ways. McLaren boss Ron Dennis commented: "The performance of the 1995 Formula One car, MP4/10, has not met the expectations of both parties so far this year. Nigel has not felt confident within the car, and this has affected his ability to commit fully to the programme. In these circumstances, I believe that we have determined the most appropriate course of action. The relationship has been short, and has obviously not achieved the results anticipated by either party."

Meanwhile, Mansell said: "I am obviously disappointed that the relationship with McLaren and Mercedes, which could have achieved so much, has been concluded early. At this stage of my career I had expected, on joining McLaren, that the total package would have given me the possibility to be competitive with the other top teams." It was Mansell's final goodbye from Formula One.

While on the subject of temperamental drivers, there's one who does particularly well in Spain: Juan Pablo Montoya. In his two races in Barcelona he came second to Michael Schumacher, the race in 2001 being his first ever Formula One podium finish.

As the weekend began, the Williams team was struggling to get the setup right and both drivers weren't on the pace at all. Ralf Schumacher finished the day eighth, a full second behind leader David Coulthard. For Montoya things were worse, since he managed only a 13th place, nearly two seconds behind the leader. Both drivers went better on saturday morning, but so did everyone else. When qualifying arrived, things hadn't improved much and especially Montoya wasn't helped with traffic in his final two runs. The end result was a 12th position on the grid.

On Sunday, Montoya's start was spectacular. While David Coulthard dropped down, the Colombian took a clean route through the center and was up to seventh before the first corner. Entering the first corner, he beat Jacques Villeneuve for sixth, where he settled until the pitstops. The Williams team did a good job to bring Montoya out in fourth, ahead of Villeneuve, Trulli and Heidfeld.