500 – Last year Great Britain became the first country with more than 500 podium finishes in Race 1. Their tally now is 560.

236 – Tom Sykes racked up 236 points in Imola, a record for this track. His team-mate Rea is next up at 222.

219 & 220 - Race 2 in Imola will be Tom Sykes’ 220th start in WorldSBK, the 190th for Kawasaki. No other rider in WorldSBK history raced so much with a single manufacturer (Haga follows at 181 races for Yamaha). In Race 1 he will equal Carl Fogarty’s number of starts, 219, for the fifth all-time place (all-time record Troy Corser: 377 starts).

201 – Jonathan Rea’s next race will be his 201st: he will enter the top-10 all-time list, equalling the starts of double World Champion James Toseland.

94 – If Jonathan Rea leads for more than six laps in the upcoming weekend, he will be the first rider to have led more than 100 laps at this track.

23 – 23 wins out of 27 in Imola came from the front row of the starting grid, 85% of the total. This value will be put to the test with the new regulations for Race 2.

12 – So far Imola had twelve different pole sitters out of 14 race weekends. The only rider who scored more than one pole is Tom Sykes, with three.

12 – The last 12 races in Imola were always won from the front row of the grid: the string began in 2011, Race 1.

9 – Tom Sykes holds the record for podium finishes at Imola, 9: he is in the best position to be the first one who hits 10, with his team-mate Rea just behind at 8.

9 – Carlos Checa is the rider who won the race here from the lowest grid spot: he recorded the double in 2010 starting from 9th in both races.

8 – Tom Sykes led no less than eight races here: he was the race leader for at least one lap from 2010 to 2013 and then in 2015 Race 1.

8 – The last eight races held here have all been won by british riders (Sykes, Rea, Davies): a stunning record for only one country in Imola, as the next best is a string of three by Spain (all by Carlos Checa) from 2011 Race 2 to 2012 Race 2.

7 - The last seven races held at Imola have been led by a single team each time. The string started in 2013 Race 2, when Sykes led all the way for Kawasaki; in 2014 Jonathan Rea led both races from lights to flag for Honda; in 2015 the only leaders were the Kawasaki riders Rea and Sykes; last year the only bike hitting the front every time around was Chaz Davies’ Ducati.

6 – Six years ago Tom Sykes recorded his maiden career pole at Imola: 38 more followed, to make him the second all-time rider behind Troy Corser (43).

6 – Tom Sykes holds the record for the highest number of front row starts here: he has started from the front six times in Imola.

5 – Is the highest number of wins at Imola, shared by Carlos Checa and Jonathan Rea.

4 – Pole has been decided by less than one tenth of a second around Imola four times in total: the last time was in 2015, when Davide Giugliano and Tom Sykes were separated by 0.084 seconds.

3 – Only three riders currently on the entry list have ever led a WorldSBK race at Imola; Tom Sykes (8 times), Jonathan Rea (6 times) and Chaz Davies, who led all the laps in both races last year.

3 – The last three races run here were led only by one rider: Rea was the sole leader in the second 2015 Race, while Davies led both races from lights to flag last year.

1 – Jonathan Rea is the only rider able to score four consecutive wins at Imola, with a double in 2014 and 2015 for two different manufacturers: Honda and Kawasaki. He was also able to break Carlos Checa’s dominance in the 2010-2012 period, winning Race 1, 2011: all the other five races in those years went to the Spaniard.

1 – Only one country was represented on the podium last year: with Davies, Rea and Sykes, there was an all-British podium twice.

0.021 seconds – This is the smallest margin for a win in Imola: it was recorded in the 2nd 2001 Race, between Regis Laconi –at his maiden win and podium appearance- and Ruben Xaus. Xaus took revenge two years later, winning over Laconi with the largest margin ever recorded here: 12.038 seconds (Race 2).