Our final foray into the statistics from the 2008 season actually takes a look at the bigger picture. I’ve charted the numbers for a driver’s entire career, comparing race wins, fastest laps and career points to the number of races he has started. There is always some ambiguity when it comes to certain race start statistics, but I have chosen a way forward and applied it fairly to everyone in the chart. Click here for the full information.
As part of our ongoing series looking at the numbers behind the 2008 Formula 1 season, we’re moving on to retirement statistics. A table, and a couple of pretty pie charts, lead us to some startling conclusions about how the teams performed throughout the year.
The table is available to view here, and I’ve decided not to include it in the blog post itself as it lends itself better to the spreadsheet environment.
The second in our series of 2008 season statistics takes a closer look at how the inter-team battles played out. The raw data can be over-simplified, who outperformed the other in qualifying compared to the race doesn’t always show the truth about what happens each weekend. However, conclusions can be drawn and that’s what we’re about to do.
| Driver | Qualifying | Race | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Massa | 12 | 67% | 12 | 67% | |
| Räikkönen | 6 | 33% | 6 | 33% | |
This seems to imply two things. Wherever the Ferrari qualifies, it generally tends to finish in that position. We know Massa likes to lead from the front, and we know the F2008 isn’t a fan of dirty air, and this adds up. Raikkonen suffered with performance issues in qualifying throughout the season, and it’s fair to say he has been half as good as his teammate. Although not every finish will have been the same, the numbers indicate that some work needs to be done on that Ferrari’s ability to overtake.
| Driver | Qualifying | Race | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Hamilton | 14 | 78% | 11 | 61% | |
| Kovalainen | 4 | 22% | 7 | 39% | |
With things beginning to settle down after a manic end to the season, it’s time to start reviewing the year. What better way to kick things off than with some graphs? You know us, any excuse to post a geeky chart or two. This series of posts will look at some of the statistics the year has provided us with, and what conclusions we can draw from them.
The first thing to notice about this graph, is the massive gap between the top three teams, and everyone else. Renault like to think they were the third fastest constructor at the end of the season, and we can see they did make a big leap away from the mid-field, but they made no impact on the wide margin to the big three.
Since the Sidepodcast league was set up over on Fantasy Racers, we’ve had a record number of teams enter. Although, having said that, any number would be a record for us, this being the inaugural competition and all. Still, 92 teams is nothing to be sniffed at and we owe Dan a considerable quantity of beer tokens for getting this particular ball rolling.
We may have mentioned, we love messing around with graphs and this new league contains lots of potential for stats and pie charts, but there is one metric that is most fascinating.
Presenting, Sidepodcast Fantasy Racers by Country:
I thought that F1 wasn’t popular in the US? Bernie, are you listening? To be fair, though, the UK also has an England/Scotland split as well, but where are the Welsh?
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