Mercedes secured another one-two victory at the Chinese Grand Prix today, but it wasn't all sunshine within the team as Nico Rosberg proved extremely unsatisfied with Hamilton's performance.
I'm thinking the same, but this also changes IF the Mercedes is eating away its rear tires. Bad drive off that turn before the straight and the Merc will be a sitting duck as well.Phil wrote:If they can match their laptimes, then there will be a bigger difference than 10kmh anyway, because the car at the front will not have DRS vs. the car behind that (under the assumption the gap will be < 1.0 sec) will. But even with DRS vs. a Merc without, the key will be how close that Ferrari can get in dirty air on the run up to those long straights. I'm operating on the assumption that the Merc has quite a bit of downforce, so is quicker through the corners (it has to be, otherwise it wouldn't make up the deficits in straight line speed on the straights), so it probably has a higher corner speed, thus is pulling away at that point. A car overtaking will have to overcome this and be still quick enough to pass before the end of the straight.Vasconia wrote:But if Ferrari can match their lap times during the first 3-5 laps they could attack them on the straight. Vettel used to be in his on league during the first 3 laps of each race when he was driving his WC winner cars.
Anyway, it's only been practice, so we have differing fuel loads to consider. QF might tell us more, but then we are comparing light car vs light car - however in the race it will be relevant how both Merc and Ferrari compare under full fuel loads (heavy!) and how much performance they can extract from the tyre.
To just add one further suggestion: would be good to group teammates together and/or order the drivers in terms of faster overall laps. Found myself jumping around a bit to compare Ferrari and Mercedes.hollus wrote:Those are wonderful "charts", psychemedia! I suggest that you open a new thread to discuss it, specially is you have other similar things.
As for improvements, I can think of 2:
One is to color code the times as in a rainbow from blue to red, something like 15 different color shades from bluest for the fastest to reddest for the slowest going around the rainbow in between. You lose your "pink", but you can still bold the fastest time of each car.
Alternatively, a graph behind the numbers showing the times relative to the fastest lap of that car, the scale could cover only 5 or 10 seconds from there.
What program are you using to make them?
Cheers!hattrick wrote:First Practice Session Lap Times.pdf
Second Practice Session Lap Times.pdf
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The colouring I use at the moment is grey for everything except green (driver's best time so far in the session) and purple (best time in session overall so far). The empty circles are outlaps, the dotted circles are pit laps. (If the session is red flagged, it seems from timing sheets that cars that pit don't get timed as they pit?)One is to color code the times as in a rainbow from blue to red, something like 15 different color shades from bluest for the fastest to reddest for the slowest going around the rainbow in between. You lose your "pink", but you can still bold the fastest time of each car.
Yes - I've been pondering ways of best showing that. It can be a tricky balance trying to make charts that are "glanceable" and ones that require a deeper, more focussed (and skilled) reading whilst still remaining clear and not over cluttered. Sometimes, we need several charts, each revealing something different about the data.Alternatively, a graph behind the numbers showing the times relative to the fastest lap of that car, the scale could cover only 5 or 10 seconds from there.
I'm using R and the ggplot2 graphics library. The recipes all end up fully described in leanpub.com/wranglingf1datawithr/ at some point (the session utilisation charts are in a new chapter that I hope to push later today, or tomorrow at the latest).What program are you using to make them?
Yes - that could be useful; would make it easier to see team strategies and compare drivers in a team more easily....hmmm...would be good to group teammates together and/or order the drivers in terms of faster overall laps. Found myself jumping around a bit to compare Ferrari and Mercedes.
someone said the guy crossing was Alonso disguised as a chinese .... he wanted to test Vettel's car. Loved it !!!raymondu999 wrote:WTH happened here? Rings of Hockenheim a few years back with a mad priest running on the racetrack.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X7wAomUJ5bQ
This is the best I could find!atanatizante wrote:Can someone tell, in the case of Lewis, Nico, Seb and Kimi, which tyre they used and also how many laps they did with those race sims in the second part of the FP2 ? coz F1App didn't do that accurately ...
