Comments on: Bahrain Grand Prix facts and stats

By: zuth

zuth — Thu, 30 Apr 2009 19:25:49 +0000

Keith,

Have to say love your site and I check it out before an other.

I’ve had the privilege to being at Silverstone in ’85 and been hooked ever since, traveling to all the European circuits over the years (Valencia excluded as I don’t consider that a proper circuit yet) and Malaysia last year.

Always being in the position of defending F1 against other sports the statement I am often met by is ‘Well, there was only one overtaking maneuver in the whole race!’

Can you tell me if there is anywhere that I can find out those statistics (and if the maneuver was successful or not) or can I through the gauntlet down to all you stat geeks out there to do a bit or research on the matter?

By: Pink Peril

Pink Peril — Wed, 29 Apr 2009 12:45:57 +0000

Maybe you need to key in a PIN number to get him to stop

By: Alianora La Canta

Alianora La Canta — Tue, 28 Apr 2009 11:53:27 +0000

Difficult to put an exact number on it. Concentration fades first, so it wouldn’t have been seen so much as a consistent loss of time as an increase in minor errors. Fortunately, Alonso is good enough that none of the minor errors that inevitably would have occurred led to any major incidents.

After that, co-ordination is reduced, at which point it would have taken more brainpower to keep everything going correctly.

The easiest way to figure out the time loss would be to compare the times he was doing at the end to the beginning and then comparing the way his times changed to that of others round him.

It’s entirely possible that only adrenaline and determination was keeping him going at the end.

By: Alianora La Canta

Alianora La Canta — Tue, 28 Apr 2009 11:47:45 +0000

He didn’t seem particularly overawed by the statistic when Martin asked about it on the grid. He made a jokey comment along the lines of “Next they’ll be saying 130 races is a milestone!”

By: James Bolton

James Bolton — Tue, 28 Apr 2009 09:47:53 +0000

Was this Toyota’s first fastest lap?

Piquet has been outqualified by Alonso in every race since they became team mates, 22 races and counting

Car 22 has won 8 of the past 22 races, with Button and Hamilton

By: Dane

Dane — Tue, 28 Apr 2009 04:39:39 +0000

how much time per lap would Alonso have suffered by being that dehydrated?

By: ying

ying — Tue, 28 Apr 2009 03:48:48 +0000

Piquet upset Barrichello by holding him back, the elder Brazilian mistakenly thinking he was being lapped, and finished a consistent 10th.

By: ying

ying — Tue, 28 Apr 2009 03:48:13 +0000

Alonso said that he had the eighth fastest car and finished in eighth place, which said it all. Piquet upset Barrichello by holding him back, the elder Brazilian mistakenly thinking he was being lapped, and finished a consistent 10th.

By: Bud

Bud — Tue, 28 Apr 2009 03:33:34 +0000

KERS = push to block.

By: todd

todd — Tue, 28 Apr 2009 02:59:06 +0000

yeah good point. or if he hasn’t set that record i don’t think he’ll be around long enough to set it.

on the upside, at least he finished the race.