Comments on: F1 2009: The year in stats (Part 1)

By: Fixy

Fixy — Wed, 03 Nov 2010 15:37:59 +0000

WOW, Badoer is great in the first 4 graphs!

By: VXR

VXR — Thu, 26 Nov 2009 18:27:01 +0000

Of course the only ‘stats’ that matters are the one that tell us which driver and which car came out on top.

By: Patrickl

Patrickl — Mon, 16 Nov 2009 17:18:42 +0000

Hamilton only once showed that he was fed up with the car. I’d hardly classify that as “throwing toys out of pram”

By: sumedh

sumedh — Mon, 16 Nov 2009 10:04:10 +0000

Can someone please tell Keith that it is off-season, he can take some rest

On a serious note, Red Bull should have decimated Brawn from Turkey onwards. They missed European, Belgian, Italian Grand Prixes. These 3 races really guaranteed Jenson the title.Many things happened during this part.
1) Renault engine broke down too many times
2) Force India rose out of nowhere
3) Mercedez engine showed that it was a class apart
4) Rubens Barrichello managed 2 wins in a car that was not the fastest.

By: Adam Tate

Adam Tate — Mon, 16 Nov 2009 08:37:17 +0000

Can there by any doubt now to how good Massa is? He finished third on the position change mark despite missing so much of the season! It took Heikki a full season in a much improved McLaren to score as many points as Massa had accumulated by Hungary! Were it not for the injury I suspect he would have been deep in the fight with Kimi and Lewis for best of the rest behind the Brawn and RBR guys and certainly had a victory or two. Sure would have shaken up the standings. But here’s to 2010!

By: Macca

Macca — Mon, 16 Nov 2009 07:16:37 +0000

Driver of the year for me would have to be Button but Webber would be a close second. With 69.5 points, Webber more than doubled his carrer tally. That to me shows he had a great year.

By: Alpha

Alpha — Mon, 16 Nov 2009 02:11:38 +0000

Thanks Keith, Nice stats and graph you’ve put together!

By: Aaron

Aaron — Mon, 16 Nov 2009 01:30:18 +0000

It highlight a few things about drivers though, Webber is really world class, despite all the negative comments that normally come from ‘f1 fans’…
It shows vettel is a true star but still needs time to develop.
It show Rubins got robbed by his team with strategy calls, and is still a great wheel man, even though the oldest on grid(age isnt a barrier), it also highlights that Button while WDC is not the greatest driver ever to win title.
Deserving yer..he did end up with most points and wins but he really went belly up when car wasnt perfect, where Rubins could drive the car and be competitive from start to end…
How many times did he had less than perfect car and still be in the hunt in races…or how he had weird pit calls..???

I am no LH fan but after he stopped throwing toys out of pram and had a better car he showed true grit, only bettered by Kimi IMHO as the Ferrari stop all development where Mclaren kept it going.

Sutil is a danger on the road, and Nico is over rated. Heikki was a disappointment and is lucky there is a host of new teams to fall back on.

By: Aaron

Aaron — Mon, 16 Nov 2009 01:18:04 +0000

huh?

RBR retirements weren’t car issues really, apart from a few engine blowups the real problem had nothing to with car one bit…sure they had a performance dip but the car was still capable of points.
RBR lost the WDC and WCC in the pits and in front of the strategy screen.

The car itself was quite bullet proof.

By: wasiF1

wasiF1 — Mon, 16 Nov 2009 00:54:11 +0000

How on earth does you get so much time to make stat like that,great job.