Comments on: Japanese Grand Prix progress chart

By: Patrickl

Patrickl — Tue, 14 Oct 2008 23:19:32 +0000

@Jonatas,

It took hamilton one lap to pass Barrichello?

Hamilton’s car was damaged after he was rammed by Massa. Because of that he was setting similar (and slower) lap times as Massa was doing with more fuel on board.

Nonetheless he got past Button and Barichello with little effort.

By: Jonatas

Jonatas — Tue, 14 Oct 2008 18:41:50 +0000

Lets be fair:

How long did it take Hamilton to get around Barrichello?

How many times did Hamilton reset fast lap?

After pit stops and penalties, Massa and Hamilton were running fairly close in 13th and 14th I think it was.
Massa was able to finish 8th even after a spin. Hamilton, 12th.

Massa had an amazing race and the way he was setting fastest lap after fastest lap was incredible. He probably went into Bourdais because of tunnel vision from concentrating so much. lol.

By: Mahir C

Mahir C — Tue, 14 Oct 2008 09:38:26 +0000

How long did it take Felipe to get past the Honda? Five laps? Six laps? And Lewis just blasted past him.

I wonder if Ron Dennis asked Hamilton why he went off the track a second time in lap one(turn 3)? The more Mclaren defend Lewis no matter what, the more reckless he becomes.

By: Keith Collantine

Keith Collantine — Tue, 14 Oct 2008 08:13:30 +0000

Andrew – I’ll see what I can do…

By: Andrew

Andrew — Tue, 14 Oct 2008 07:57:39 +0000

Much as I love these graphs, I find the method used by Forix much clearer. They use the winner’s average laptime as the baseline, which means that there aren’t the discontinuities in all the drivers’ graphs whenever the leader pits, spins or changes. Any chance of using this method for China?

By: Kester

Kester — Mon, 13 Oct 2008 21:47:44 +0000

Sounds about right for Hamilton. He’s getting how he was last year. The boy needs to grow up before I’ll ever think he is a worthy champion.

To be honest though, the only deserving champion this year would be Kubica.

By: Keith Collantine

Keith Collantine — Mon, 13 Oct 2008 21:46:27 +0000

Comment from Jamie moved here: Massa and Hamilton’s Fuji crash - the penalty they got right (Video)

By: Keith Collantine

Keith Collantine — Mon, 13 Oct 2008 21:27:55 +0000

Antonio – true enough, that probably had a lot to do with it.

F1Fan – Agreed. Kubica impressed me enormously yesterday, and the figures back it up.

By: F1Fan

F1Fan — Mon, 13 Oct 2008 21:14:53 +0000

There is something to be said about Kubica, and that is that he is a really, really good driver and a really, really good race manager. The car was obviously lacking any sort of appreciable performance in Fuji, as it has in all slow tracks, as manifested by his and Nick’s practice and Q times. Yet there he was 2nd on the podium, at the end. I think this speaks volumes about his ability.

By: Antonio

Antonio — Mon, 13 Oct 2008 21:01:18 +0000

The only thing that Ron Dennis and you did not say, when they passed Button, was that Massa had just pit at lap 20 and was full of gas, and when I say full of gas I mean enough fuel for more than 32 laps, and Hamilton was seven laps away.