Comments on: Abu Dhabi Grand Prix fastest lap analysis

By: Ekke

Ekke — Fri, 27 Nov 2009 12:19:23 +0000

Heidfeld who?

By: Random Chimp

Random Chimp — Thu, 05 Nov 2009 16:22:51 +0000

Everyone forgets Heidfeld…

By: HounslowBusGarage

HounslowBusGarage — Wed, 04 Nov 2009 20:07:15 +0000

And Heidfield too, sorry!

By: HounslowBusGarage

HounslowBusGarage — Wed, 04 Nov 2009 20:06:06 +0000

I’m impressed that BUT, WEB and KUB were within 1% of their best lap times (approx 1 second) for about a quarter of the race.

By: sumedh

sumedh — Wed, 04 Nov 2009 09:16:25 +0000

Can we get the “top 50 fastest laps” chart for the 2006 Brazilian GP?

Schumi was ruthless there, he put a fastest lap right AFTER his 2nd pitstop, such was his pace. It will be awesome to see some 20-25 laps of those 50 belonging to Schumi.

By: Patrickl

Patrickl — Tue, 03 Nov 2009 00:19:48 +0000

I remember something about Heikki not having KERS and McLaren trying to get things fixed.

Maybe that also held him back?

By: pSynrg

pSynrg — Mon, 02 Nov 2009 23:24:46 +0000

And what about his next set of tyres? Heikki had the whole race to get faster.

Oh hang on.

Heikki’s driving a car that isn’t as good as Lewis’s. Oh and the tires didn’t work and something else wasn’t right. Otherwise Heikki is of course faster than Lewis…

By: Hallard

Hallard — Mon, 02 Nov 2009 17:27:27 +0000

Its really interesting to see how close Trulli and Kobayashi were from this chart…only 5 hundredths between their fastest laps, and the same number of laps within 1%! And this from Kobayashi’s second race for the team! Toyota needs to swap out Trulli for this guy in 2010, he seems hungry.

By: Richard Evans

Richard Evans — Mon, 02 Nov 2009 14:17:30 +0000

This isn’t me “blaming the strategy” but the difference between heikki on low fuel and lewis on low fuel was that his tyres had done 10+ more laps.

I think you need to be slighty more sympathetic towards heikki

By: Harv's

Harv's — Mon, 02 Nov 2009 02:00:05 +0000

Hamilton, only 0.088s off fastest lap, with a suffering car and only racing 20 laps, best driver of the weekend hands down,

and its not just the car, heikki was a second off that pace, dont blame his strategy either because he could have done some fast laps before his stop

By: sam

sam — Mon, 02 Nov 2009 00:53:05 +0000

yea, but you forgot buemi

By: Matt

Matt — Sun, 01 Nov 2009 23:42:49 +0000

Oops hit submit accidentally before I added “and good to see Kobayashi putting plenty in. He has to be getting a drive next year”

By: Matt

Matt — Sun, 01 Nov 2009 23:39:26 +0000

Interesting to see the drivers with 20+ laps consistently near their best. No doubt Hamilton would’ve been in there too if not for the retirement

By: macahan

macahan — Sun, 01 Nov 2009 23:30:40 +0000

Fun stats.. Interesting to see… Based on these. Out of the top 50 fastest laps Vettel scored 10, Button and Mark 6 each, Rubens 5, Trulli 4, Kamu Lewis and Heidfeld 3 each then Adrian, Alonso, Nakajima, Kimi and Kubica 1 each. Just thought it would be fun to see how many times each driver made it into the top 50 fastest laps. Not only was Vettel once again fast but very consistent as well. Sure there was drivers more consistent then him but he was fastest and had many very fast laps. Vettels 1% of his fastest lap was barely slower then Liuzzi’s fastest and was faster then Heikki, Grosjean and Alguersuari.
Another worthless fact Vettels 10th fastest lap was within 0.64% of his fastest and was good enough to be the 49th fastest lap among all drivers fastest laps.

By: TommyB

TommyB — Sun, 01 Nov 2009 22:40:30 +0000

Buemi did the second fastest lap!!!? WOW where did that come from NICE!!!