Comments on: Singapore GP race progress analysis

By: Dima

Dima — Thu, 17 Sep 2009 21:27:55 +0000

Keith, great work with your website!
I have a question for you: I’ve noticed you work as a journalist so you must have access to full historical and recent F1 results on the fia.com websites (I mean the officially published .pdf files from every GP, archives of which currently require a login). Would you mind sharing? I would much appreciate it. Would be happy to provide with anything I can with respect to F1, I’ve been following it for many years now and have an extensive information if you need anything. Thanks

By: f1feak

f1feak — Fri, 03 Oct 2008 16:22:03 +0000

superb..i read all of your blogs..keep up the good work..

p.s feel so sorry for massa..

By: Keith Collantine

Keith Collantine — Tue, 30 Sep 2008 19:35:27 +0000

pSynrg – You’re very kind! I do work as a journalist already for Auto Trader where I also write a weekly motor racing column on Mondays (although not this week!)

When we hit the off-season I may find time to go back and compile these charts for the rest of the year.

Derek Smith & Nirupam – you’re welcome

By: Nirupam

Nirupam — Tue, 30 Sep 2008 16:46:37 +0000

Great work Keith!!! Hats off!!!!

By: Derek Smith

Derek Smith — Tue, 30 Sep 2008 09:14:37 +0000

Great work, you are truly a fanatic and I follow your blog with great interest. To me the most informative resource on the ‘net and I mean it. I’ve bookmarked ITV, PlanetF1 & F1 live as well as participate in the D’Arcy F1 blog down under. Yours come up with some interesting background while the others are usually coming up with hard news in the same format.

Congratulations

By: Mahesh

Mahesh — Tue, 30 Sep 2008 02:57:28 +0000

@GeorgeK – I am expat in America
To answer you, F1 has long moved from sports of “racing” enthusiast to Engineers and Super-Computers Game. Yes All these charts and simulations are used by Pitwalls continuosly, Strategists just don’t sit on Pitwall for bigger team like McLaren, Ferrari and BMW , they sit back in the war room in factories and feed pitwall with strategies real-time. Its reason why so many races have become game of strategya and Engineering Wizardry.

Its only on time like Safety car, rains and untoward events that cat is thrown among the pigeons and racing fans like me get to see smaller teams thinking on their feet are able to out wit the Big3. Recent case was Monza ,The top teams relied too much on data and forgot to apply common sense, while STR drivers went around understanding the track 33 times Ferrari drivers for eg. ran 10 laps result STR driver got correct setup knew the wet patches on circuit accurately something Likes of Prost did in Good Ol’ days .

Like wise even in recent Valencia race, Simulators of Williams and McLaren hooked upto GPS and Ultramodern software fell short of simulating the lap times by about 0.3 seconds.

All said If they have resources the Giants are going to use them and nobody can stop them from using them and we will see the graphs and Monte carlo simulations and what nots …

By: GeorgeK

GeorgeK — Tue, 30 Sep 2008 01:13:49 +0000

Dude (Yes I’m American),

Can’t imagine the time and effort it took you to put this chart together. Makes me realize the difference between a fan (me) and an enthusiast (you). Well done indeed!

One question. Does the analysis give any insight as to the performances of the competitors over the last three races? Curious as to whatever guesses can be extrapolated from the data.

By: Bbbut

Bbbut — Mon, 29 Sep 2008 20:57:32 +0000

Most interesting laps on the first graph are 44 to 50.
You can see 4 drivers were in there own league in terms of speed: Alonso, Raikkonen, Hamilton and (surprisingly) Glock.

Also funny how Heidfelds line in on top of Vettel for every single lap, I wonder how much faster he could have been…

By: CarlitosF1

CarlitosF1 — Mon, 29 Sep 2008 20:56:33 +0000

Great job, Keith. Look how badly Kimi was held by slower cars from lap 18 to the very end of his race. I sort of disagree with M. Counsell, I’d rather say that Rosberg lost the race in laps 34 to 40 and 43 to 51, when he had a golden chance to trim Alonso’s lead down but couldn’t keep his pace at all. Nakajima – Rosberg gap also shows that the japanese was as quick as his teammate yesterday.

By: Mahesh

Mahesh — Mon, 29 Sep 2008 19:54:51 +0000

Thanks Keith.

For those Interested Check http://visionf1.com/
This provides good race simulation. There used to be another enthusiast who had developed nice Java based Lap-Viewer..I wonder whatever happened of it

Cheers