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Post by paulgilb on Apr 17, 2013 23:34:09 GMT 1
Some stats that I discovered/read elsewhere:
Webber's first DNF in China. Alonso has a 100% record of top 9 starts and top 9 finishes in China. 5th podium for Hamilton in China - more than any other circuit. Button's last 5 visits to China have seen him finish 3rd, 1st, 4th, 2nd, 5th. First time since 2010 that the Chinese GP has seen a retirement that was not due to a right wheel failure. 3rd year in a row that there has been such a retirement. Alonso has started from positions 5-3-3 this season, Hamilton has finished 5-3-3. All 3 races so far in 2013 have seen 18 classified finishers. 11th season in a row that at least 1 Mercedes-powered car has managed a pole. 88th race in a row in which at least one German has scored points (France 2008 was last race without) - equals Britain's record (USA 1960 - Italy 1969) 10th season in a row in which at least 1 British driver has scored a pole. 2nd time that the top 5 in the race have all been world champions - Italy 2011 (in which Webber also retired) was the first. First time since Brazil 2011 that the top 3 starters all finished on the podium. First time that 5 consecutive races have been won by different drivers all of whom have been world champions. All 5 of these drivers finished in the top 5 in this race driving for different teams. Last time the podium had 3 past, present and future McLaren drivers: Italy 2012 (Hamilton, Perez, Alonso). Last time the podium (after post-race penalties) had 3 past and present McLaren drivers: Germany 2012 (Alonso, Button, Raikkonen). Last time the podium had 3 past McLaren drivers: Britain 1983 (Prost, Piquet, Tambay). Coulthard's presence as interviewer meant there were in fact 4 ex-McLaren drivers on the podium. 7 of Hamilton's 14 3rd-place finishes have come in the first 3 races of the season (5 in the last 2 years). 10th time Perez has finished 11th (from 40 starts) - he is yet to finish 12th. The total winning time of the race was only 0.016s longer than last year. Jenson Button was closer to Hamilton in the race (22.9s) than in qualifying (31.2s). 3rd time in 4 years that 3 different teams have won the first 3 races. Massa has finished 3rd, 4th, 5th, 6th in the last 4 races. Hamilton keeps alive his record of at least 1 pole per season competed. Last time there was no Red Bull, Ferrari or McLaren on the front row: China 2012 (but Hamilton qualified 2nd before penalty). Before that: Belgium 2009 (Force India & Toyota). Alonso's 58th consecutive race without a mechanical DNF - equals Schumacher's record.
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Post by Shireblogger on Apr 18, 2013 7:53:58 GMT 1
Lovely stats, as always.
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Post by borneoman on Apr 18, 2013 8:14:08 GMT 1
btw amazing race in China!!!! loved it! Not sure what to think about Webber´s problems, first the gas, then the wheel,
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Post by paulgilb on Apr 20, 2013 18:49:02 GMT 1
Grid for Bahrain:
1 Rosberg 2 Vettel 3 Alonso 4 Massa 5 di Resta 6 Sutil 7 Webber (penalty from China) 8 Raikkonen 9 Hamilton (gearbox change) 10 Button (no time in Q3) 11 Grosjean 12 Perez 13 Ricciardo 14 Hulkenberg 15 Bottas 16 Vergne 17 Maldonado 18 Pic 19 Bianchi 20 van der Garde 21 Chilton 22 Gutierrez (penalty from China)
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Post by paulgilb on Apr 21, 2013 22:52:15 GMT 1
Great race (especially considering it was Bahrain)! Shame that Vettel had things so easy, though.
A few stats/facts:
Alonso beats Schumacher's record for most races without mechanical DNF. Same podium as last year (same weekend as well). 6th Bahrain podium for Raikkonen without a win, despite only 2 top 7 starts. First time since 2006 that Rosberg has finished in Bahrain in a different position to where he started. 89th consecutive race in which a German driver has scored - beats Britain's record from the 1960s. 11 different drivers have led laps so far this season - last year saw 13 all season, 2010 and 2011 only saw 8 all season. Last pole-sitter to finish outside top 8 (excluding DNFs) was Hamilton in Japan 2008 (12th) - in the previous race, Massa had finished 13th from pole.
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Post by paulgilb on Apr 23, 2013 22:36:33 GMT 1
Apparently this is only the 4th time that the same circuit has featured 2 identical podiums, and only the second time that it has happened in consecutive years:
Jerez in 1988 and 1990: Prost, Mansell, Nannini (top 2 were both driving for Ferrari in 1990, neither were in 1988) Monaco in 1997 and 2001: M Schumacher, Barrichello, Irvine (both involved M Schumacher, his Ferrari team-mate, and the current Red Bull team scoring their first podium under one of their former names) Barcelona in 1998 and 1999: Hakkinen, Coulthard, M Schumacher
Britain 1964 and Britain 1965 both had a Clark-Hill-Surtees podium, but they were at different circuits (Brands Hatch and Silverstone).
A few others that I read elsewhere:
Both Keke Rosberg and Nico Rosberg had 371 days between their 2 most recent pole positions.
Both Caterham and Marussia are yet to score after 4 races despite no DNFs so far this season - apparently they are the first 2 teams to manage this (although Force India got both cars classified outside the points in the first 4 races of 2009).
This is the first time Hulkenberg has finished outside the points since Singapore last year - which was Paul di Resta's first 4th place finish.a
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Post by paulgilb on May 11, 2013 23:15:38 GMT 1
Grid for Spain:
1 Rosberg 2 Hamilton 3 Vettel 4 Raikkonen 5 Alonso 6 Grosjean 7 Webber 8 Perez 9 Massa (penalty for blocking) 10 di Resta 11 Ricciardo 12 Vergne 13 Sutil 14 Button 15 Hulkenberg 16 Bottas 17 Maldonado 18 van der Garde 19 Gutierrez (penalty for blocking) 20 Bianchi 21 Chilton 22 Pic
Vettel is still yet to manage a pole in Barcelona. Barring any penalties, the only current tracks on which Hamilton has never started from the front row are now Suzuka and Greater Noida.
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Post by paulgilb on May 12, 2013 21:52:31 GMT 1
Interesting race - at least demonstrating that it is possible to win from off the front row at Barcelona. As for Mercedes, their good-in-qualifying-but-nowhere-in-the-race seems reminiscent of Williams in 2002.
A few stats/facts:
12 different drivers have led laps this season - only 1 shy of the whole of 2012. Also, all 12 drivers have led more than 1 lap - last year di Resta and Massa each led only 1. Alonso has had 32 wins and 32 second places in his career. First circuit at which Alonso has scored more than 100 points (obviously this is skewed by the points system change in 2010). The 3 podium finishers are the 3 most recent drivers to have won the Spanish GP for Ferrari. Massa has now had 11 wins, 12 2nd places, 13 3rd places, and 14 4th places. Vettel has now gone 56 races without a non-mechanical DNF (his last was Turkey 2010). This equals Heidfeld's record (France 2006 - Italy 2009), although he had a crash in Brazil 2006 but was still classified. Marussia are the only team without a DNF this season.
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Post by Paul on May 12, 2013 22:02:57 GMT 1
I don't think the Merc - '02 Williams comparison is fair at all. It was more the fact that Michelin had a very good qualifying tyre that gave them the edge in qualifying. Williams still had the 2nd, or at the very worst, 3rd quickest race car. The Merc is at best 4th quickest in the races, not that far ahead of Force India and McLaren.
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Post by paulgilb on May 12, 2013 22:56:02 GMT 1
Fair point...
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Post by Shireblogger on May 13, 2013 7:23:59 GMT 1
Massa has now had 11 wins, 12 2nd places, 13 3rd places, and 14 4th places. The beauty of statistics.
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Post by paulgilb on May 14, 2013 23:11:27 GMT 1
Some more stats that I discovered/read elsewhere:
Gutierrez is (currently) the second driver to have managed a fastest lap but never scored a point - the other is Brian Henton (although Masahiro Hasemi is wrongly credited with a fastest lap).
Excluding Indy 500 drivers and those who raced in 1950, only J Villeneuve, N Rosberg, and L Hamilton have needed fewer than Gutierrez's 5 starts to score a fastest lap.
Only 4 other drivers have led at least one lap but never scored a point: Jimmy Daywalt, Eddie Sachs, Pat O'Connor (all Indy 500 drivers), and Markus Winkelhock.
The last time that the top 3 starters all finished the race but off the podium was China 2010.
Hamilton's first finish outside the points since Germany 2009.
Last driver to manage 3 consecutive 2nd place finishes - Hamilton in 2007 (he managed 4 in a row).
19th consecutive season in which a Ferrari-powered car has managed a fastest lap – extends the record.
First race since India 2012 in which no British driver led.
Alonso has had 60 races since his last mechanical DNF (Malaysia 2010).
Last team to lock-out the front row and not manage a podium – Red Bull in Korea 2010 (they also managed it in Australia and China that year).
Gutierrez is the second-youngest fastest lap setter (after Rosberg).
Alonso has never managed 4 consecutive top 3 starts since joining Ferrari.
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Post by Paul on May 16, 2013 11:05:20 GMT 1
Honda have confirmed their return to F1 as an engine supplier to McLaren in 2015. Very good news - will be interesting to see if other manufacturers return.
There are rumours that Sauber and Lotus are looking at Honda as their engine supplier from 2015 onwards too.
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Post by paulgilb on May 25, 2013 21:41:55 GMT 1
Grid for Monaco: 1 Rosberg 2 Hamilton 3 Vettel 4 Webber 5 Raikkonen 6 Alonso 7 Perez 8 Sutil 9 Button 10 Vergne 11 Hulkenberg 12 Ricciardo 13 Grosjean 14 Bottas 15 van der Garde 16 Maldonado 17 di Resta 18 Pic 19 Gutierrez 20 Chilton 21 Bianchi (no time in Q1) 22 Massa (no time in Q1 + gearbox change)
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Post by paulgilb on May 28, 2013 22:36:32 GMT 1
Some stats re Monaco race:
Rosberg has led more laps than anyone else in 2013. He has led in every race bar China. Vettel has scored 77 points at Monaco, equalling Singapore, and just 1 shy of Japan. He has also managed 75 in Malaysia and 70 in Bahrain. So-called Monaco specialist Maldonado now has 3 DNFs from 3 F1 starts in Monaco.
Webber has finished 1st, 3rd, and 4th twice each at Monaco, but is yet to finish 2nd. 15th is the Caterham team's best qualifying since Spain 2011. First time that di Resta has missed Q2. Rosberg has led exactly 200 laps. Ricciardo's first non-mechanical DNF. Massa's first DNF since Australia 2012. 6th time that Massa has started outside the top 20 (after Malaysia 2006, Monaco 2006, Australia 2007, Malaysia 2010, Singapore 2010), but the first such occasion on which he has failed to score. All teams have now had at least one DNF.
2nd time in 3 years that a crash involving Massa at Monaco brought out the first safety car of the season. First all-German top 2 since Japan 2004 (M Schumacher, R Schumacher). Only other father-and-son to have scored wins at the same circuit: G Hill and D Hill at Monza. First race since Monaco 2000 to be red-flagged whilst not under safety car conditions.
(thanks to f1fanatic.co.uk and magnetimarelli.com for some of these)
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Post by Paul on May 28, 2013 23:48:23 GMT 1
So-called Monaco specialist Maldonado now has 3 DNFs from 3 F1 starts in Monaco. 2 GP2 wins, 2 2nd places and a Formula Renault 3.5 win suggests otherwise. He should have got 6th in a terrible Williams in 2011 before Hamilton took him out.
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Post by paulgilb on Jun 8, 2013 23:15:15 GMT 1
Grid for Canada: 1 Vettel 2 Hamilton 3 Bottas 4 Rosberg 5 Webber 6 Alonso 7 Vergne 8 Sutil 9 Hulkenberg 10 Perez 11 Raikkonen (2-place drop for pit-lane overtake) 12 Ricciardo (2-place drop for pit-lane overtake) 13 Maldonado 14 Button 15 Gutierrez 16 Massa 17 di Resta 18 Pic 19 Grosjean 20 Bianchi 21 Chilton 22 Grosjean (penalty from Monaco)
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Post by paulgilb on Jun 9, 2013 23:27:59 GMT 1
Not a bad race, but not as good as previous Canadian GPs.
A few facts (thanks to statsf1.com for a couple of these):
Hamilton breaks his win-or-DNF record in Canada. Hamilton, Alonso, and Vettel share the podium for only the second time - first was also in North America (USA 2012). Raikkonen equals Schumacher's record of 24 consecutive points finishes. Only M Schumacher and Barrichello have completed more F1 laps than Button. McLaren's first no-score since Abu Dhabi 2009 (a record 64 races) - ironically at a circuit where they had won the previous 3 races. Ferrari's 55th consecutive points-scoring race - equals their record (Malaysia 1999 - Malaysia 2003).
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Post by paulgilb on Jun 11, 2013 23:00:50 GMT 1
A few more stats that I discovered/read elsewhere:
This is the first time that Hamilton has finished a North American F1 race somewhere other than 1st.
Ricciardo's grid penalty was the first time that he has ever received a penalty for a driving infringement.
First time since 2004 that the first 7 races have all been won by odd-numbered cars.
Alonso has alternated between good and bad races: 2-DNF-1-8-1-7-2.
Perez's 11th 11th place finish without managing a 12th place.
First time since Britain 2009 that neither McLaren ran higher than 8th at any point.
Webber has finished in each position from 2nd to 7th once so far this season (and one DNF).
6th and 10th have each been occupied by 7 different drivers in the 7 races so far in 2013.
First time since Malaysia 2010 that McLaren have not got either car into Q3.
Vettel now has 28 wins with Red Bull - the same number as Mansell with Williams, 2 behind Prost with McLaren, and 7 behind Senna with McLaren, and 44 behind some German driver with some Italian team.
Button's 7th race without a podium - his worst streak since 2008.
And a couple of slightly morbid ones relating to the marshal who was sadly killed:
5 of the last 7 fatalities in F1 weekends are linked by the name Villeneuve (Gilles Villeneuve, 2 at Circuit Gilles Villeneuve, Villeneuve Corner at Imola, crash involving Jacques Villeneuve).
The last 4 races during which there was a fatal accident have all been won by Germans who have won 3+ titles. The last 7 such races have all been won by drivers who would end up with 3+ titles (although Italy 1978 was won on the road by Andretti). This does not include fatalities in qualifying e.g. Gilles Villeneuve.
(these assume that there have been no other non-driver fatalities since 1975 apart from the 3 marshals in 2000, 2001, and 2013).
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Post by Shireblogger on Jun 12, 2013 8:22:03 GMT 1
Very sad to hear of the marshall's death. A genuinely tragic accident, and one which could happen on building sites, quarries and truck yards anywhere in the world. I think it must have happened in front of the largest stand at Montreal, and felt like it happened in slow motion to those who witnessed it, which must be awful for them as well.
Appropriate to note my admiration and thanks for motor sport marshalls the world over, at every level of the sport, for giving up their time to support a spectacle I love.
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