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[Chucky]

Originally Posted by dh01

Jones is unfit, overwight, smokes, drinks, and is wasting Australian time and money. If he is allowed anywhere near that car again the whole Team Aus management should be shot.

Here, here!!

[Mr Jinxx]

The reports suggest that France dominated, and Brazil fell short of their dominance at Brands Hatch. For the statisticians amongst us, the data suggests that Brazil may still be scarily dominant on track.

I was bored and hadn't got enough to drink, OK, before you ask.

But I looked at the fastest laps for the top 12 teams, and then (as some people may be better than others at getting that one best lap out of the tyres) at the next two fastest laps, to get an idea of who was lapping consistently quickly. I looked at the 3rd quickest lap, to discount the one-lap flying lap. I added the top 3 fastest laps together to see what sort of an advantage was gained over those 3 laps. Surprise, surprise, Brazil were fastest per lap in everything, by 2/10ths or more over France (2nd quickest) and very consistently quick.

Germany, for example, posted a fastest lap only 3/10ths slower than Brazil, yet over 3 fast laps, they lost nearly 2 seconds. Italy, whose fastest lap was 5/10ths off Brazil, lost nearly 3 seconds over those 3 laps. Great Britain were about 5/10ths off Brazil per lap, which is getting closer. Czekoslovakia and Netherlands were also pretty quick in what seemed a fairly unobtrusive way.

It also shows what a good job Jonny Reid did for NZL.

Not that you can read too much into data alone, but it's also interesting to see where that fastest lap was posted in relation to fuel load and how new the tyres were. France, Great Britain and Switzerland posted their best laps right at the end of the race.

Draw any conclusions you wish:

Country FL1 Diff On lap Laps after pitstop

1st BRA 34.856 0.000 18 8
2nd FRA 35.028 0.172 31 16
3rd NZL 35.094 0.238 19 3
4th CZE 35.134 0.278 20 6
5th GER 35.190 0.334 14 2
6th NED 35.294 0.438 19 11
7th GBR 35.347 0.491 31 29
8th INA 35.441 0.585 20 8
9th ITA 35.441 0.585 9 2
10th CAN 35.503 0.647 8 3
11th IRE 35.559 0.703 20 18
12th SUI 35.576 0.720 31 11


Country FL3 Diff

1st BRA 35.067 0.000
2nd FRA 35.287 0.220
3rd CZE 35.303 0.236
4th NZL 35.327 0.260
5th NED 35.539 0.472
6th IRE 35.643 0.576
7th CAN 35.647 0.580
8th GBR 35.699 0.632
9th INA 35.762 0.695
10th SUI 35.772 0.705
11th GER 35.831 0.764
12th ITA 36.182 1.115

Country Top 3 FLs Diff

1st BRA 104.890 0.000
2nd FRA 105.600 0.710
3rd CZE 105.622 0.732
4th NZL 105.634 0.744
5th NED 106.340 1.450
6th GBR 106.656 1.766
7th CAN 106.668 1.778
8th INA 106.712 1.822
9th GER 106.804 1.914
10th IRE 106.805 1.915
11th SUI 107.011 2.121
12th ITA 107.779 2.889