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F1 Testing 2010 – Barcelona Day 1

Posted by RubberGoat 809 days ago Grand Prix| f1 testing barcelona red bull sauber All
http://f1numbers.wordpress.com — Today, testing started in Barcelona – this is in fact the last week of testing before the season begins (can you believe this is just over two weeks away? Read More
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Fantasy Racers 2010 Introduction

Posted by RubberGoat 813 days ago Grand Prix| fantasy racers All
http://f1numbers.wordpress.com — One of the fun things I like to do during the F1 season is to take part in an online game called Fantasy Racers, which is a sort of prediction game based on the form of F1 drivers throughout the season. It’s great fun and very interesting, which is why I also like to analyse the scores after each race on my blog (if you would like to read these posts, please click here). Read More
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F1 Testing 2010 – Barcelona Day 4

Posted by RubberGoat 813 days ago Grand Prix| f1 testing barcelona lotus red bull All
http://f1numbers.wordpress.com — So here we are then.  The final day of testing.  The last chance to develop and shake down the cars before the teams pack up all the gear and send it off to Bahrain.
Guys, the first Grand Prix of the season is less than two weeks away now!  After what seems to have been a [...] Read More
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F1 Testing 2010 – Barcelona Day 3

Posted by RubberGoat 813 days ago Grand Prix| f1 testing barcelona di grassi fauzy All
http://f1numbers.wordpress.com — We move on to Day 3 of testing at Barcelona, a difficult day to judge as the weather conditions were changeable.  Nevertheless, I have still made the usual graphs for you.  Before we begin, why don’t you take a look at the action on Day 1 and Day 2, If you haven’t already?




So how many [...] Read More
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F1 Testing 2010 – Barcelona Day 2

Posted by RubberGoat 813 days ago Grand Prix| f1 testing barcelona lotus virgin All
http://f1numbers.wordpress.com — So, Day 2 of testing at Barcelona. How did the teams fare today? Before we begin, if you want to have a recap on yesterday’s action, click here. Read More
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Update on the Points System Comparisons

Posted by RubberGoat 817 days ago Grand Prix| f1 race championship constructors All
http://f1numbers.wordpress.com — As an addition to the posts I wrote on the different points systems used since 1950 and their fairness the other day, ManipeF1 has written an excellent post where he compares the greatest drivers of the sport using a normalised points scoring system here: A alternative view of points-scoring comparisons. Read More
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How Fair Have The F1 Points Systems Been?

Posted by RubberGoat 817 days ago Grand Prix| f1 race f1 championship All
http://f1numbers.wordpress.com — In my previous post, we looked at various points systems used in the Formula 1 World Championship since 1950, along with some other possible systems that could be used. As promised, this is the second part of the post that aims to look at how ‘fair’ a points system is. Read More
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Points Systems Comparison 1950-2010

Posted by RubberGoat 817 days ago Grand Prix| f1 race 2009 brawn button All
http://f1numbers.wordpress.com — Recently, the Sporting Working Group met in Paris and decided to vote through some proposals that would hopefully improve the racing this year. The most important of these was a radical change to the points system, which would drastically increase the amount of points for a win and award points down to tenth place, in order to help the new teams score some points this year. Read More
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2009 Driver Rankings Summary

Posted by RubberGoat 817 days ago Grand Prix| F1QualifyingRaceSummary2009averageChampionshipconsistencydriver All
http://f1numbers.wordpress.com — So after analysing finishing positions (Driver Classification), Qualifying Performance, Fastest Laps and Driver Consistency, it’s now time to put it all together and come up with some sort of ranking system. Except that this will be just for fun and does not take into account the relative car performance, any changes in strategy, size of the paycheck or claim to be a definitive ranking system ;) Read More
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2009 In Review – Driver Consistency

Posted by RubberGoat 817 days ago Grand Prix| f1 summary 2009 driver All
http://f1numbers.wordpress.com — So far, in evaluating driver performances in 2009, we have looked at Finishing Positions, Qualifying Performance and Fastest Laps.  Now we have finally arrived at the last category – Driver Consistency.
This is a subject which is particularly interesting to me, because I have been analysing this for most of the year.  If you are new [...] Read More
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Castrol Driver Rankings « Making Up The Numbers

Posted by RubberGoat 858 days ago 2010 F1 season| 2009 autosport castrol ranking drive All
http://f1numbers.wordpress.com — Now, this blog is primarily a statistics blog about F1, but sometimes I see stuff that is slightly off-topic and yet I feel I have to write about it and offer an opinion or two.

Today is such a day.

To much fanfare, AUTOSPORT have launched a new service called the ‘Castrol Driver Rankings’, which are apparently the definitive method of measuring who is the number one driver by using weight Read More
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