Comments on: 2008 Turkish GP stats and facts

By: Sush

Sush — Wed, 14 May 2008 15:12:39 +0000

mr La canta, cheers for that, I see heidfield is the only one with more than a season under his belt too.

By: Michael Counsell

Michael Counsell — Wed, 14 May 2008 01:21:19 +0000

Very true, although a one stopping Honda or Toro Rosso could step into that role.

By: Nik

Nik — Tue, 13 May 2008 18:59:41 +0000

I could buy that Michael, except for the bit about piquet

if anything, Piquet is most likely to hand Alonso the safety car he requires for that strategy

By: michael counsell

michael counsell — Tue, 13 May 2008 18:14:46 +0000

Alonso could win at Monaco. The car may work well there or he could fuel light in qualifying again, stop early again, put on hard tyres a lot of fuel again maybe fill the tank. Then wait for the safety car to come out (it might) everyone queues up and pits Alonso leads the field possibly with Piquet behind him. Alonso pulls out a huge lead pits again and wins. If they do it right there could be an 8 or so lap window in which a safety car could hand them the race.

Everyone is probably thinking this so it might not happen but so far Renault and Alonso have been the only ones on this strategy for the last two races.

By: Alianora La Canta

Alianora La Canta — Tue, 13 May 2008 12:38:28 +0000

Drivers who have never been beaten over a season by any team-mate in F1*:

Hamilton (though it was a close thing…), Kovalainen, Heidfeld and Sutil.

* – 2008 rookies and near-rookies not included in list

By: sChUmAcHeRtHeGrEaTeStEvEr

sChUmAcHeRtHeGrEaTeStEvEr — Tue, 13 May 2008 12:20:25 +0000

@sush i think heidfeld is the only driver not to have been beaten by a teamate over a season….at least till the end of this year, doesnt seem to be able to match kubica now!

@diacho intresting point. in my opinion you cant say it all depends on what cars certain drivers are in at certain times! way to early to say hamilton could be an all time great remember villeneuve’s start to his career and subsequent fall (id say hamiltons start has been better though)

Alonso is still young yet he is in his 7th full season of racing in f1 (2002 he was testing for renault) so i wonder hoe many more years hel go on for..schumacher did 16. If rumours that raikkonen is going to retire after next year are true then i think hel be remembered as a driver who should have ended up with more titles.

By: Sush

Sush — Tue, 13 May 2008 07:18:17 +0000

is heidfield the only driver to not be beaten by a teammate over a season?.

I’m probably wrong, but i’m pretty sure I read that somewhere.

By: Daniel

Daniel — Mon, 12 May 2008 22:40:48 +0000

Studying deeply the “hat-trick” wins in a single Grand Prix, I could notice that very few drivers acheived the feat during the entire Formula 1 history, but some of them did that quite a lot of times…

Felipe Massa, by doing that, joined a select club formed by Kimi Raikkonen, Michael Schumacher, Mika Hakkinen, Ayrton Senna, Alain Prost, Jim Clark and Graham Hill, if I didn’t miss anyone else…

Surely Felipe Massa was only the second brazilian ever to do this (Senna in Monaco, Belgium and United States being the other) and the only non-champion to achieve the feat, even though Kimi Raikkonen, by the time he scored his, wasn’t a champion yet…

I hope Felipe will soon be getting rid of this uniqueness, and will win his WDC!

By: Alex Andronov

Alex Andronov — Mon, 12 May 2008 19:09:40 +0000

@Keith

True – my system only outputs them alphabetically and I always have to remind myself to fix those. Done now.

I love the fact that Keith “Wins are more important than points” Collantine has alphabetical as standard in case of a win!!!

By: Diacho

Diacho — Mon, 12 May 2008 18:18:56 +0000

Wow, Kimi is already amongst the best ever in fastest laps!
That brings an interesting point: After MS’s era, who of the current drivers will be remembered as an All-time great?
Alonso has an amazing record, being the youngest WDC ever, a record long held by Emerson Fittipaldi, but I know many rate Kimi so much higher. And then there are Hamilton and Kubica (2nd tier?), Kovalainen and Massa (3rd?). Ten years from now, who’ll be breaking records?
My bets: Alonso – 200+ GP starts; Hamilton 1000+ points, with WDCs spread all over (sweet…)