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The Superstats is an on-going project that attempts to classify various performances throughout an F1 season by, generally, averaging each race's performance, in several categories, over the entire season.
Conceived as the SuperGrid by the late John Taylor for Autocourse, I started my own compilations when Taylor died. Originally, the SuperStats - as the project was to become - was developed purely for my own interest. This has not changed, and the day I get bored with the SuperStats, they will stop.
All figures used in the SuperStats are based on the official FIA timing sheets and, where necessary, those sheets are deemed to be the final authority.
Since it is now the half-way mark of the 1999 F1 season, it would seem like a good idea to look at each driver's performance in each of the main areas that figures are compiled on.
Any resemblence between the figures that appear here and what ensues during the rest of the season is purely coincidental... especially after Michael Schumacher's accident at the British GP.
As usual, any driver who has missed a session in any of the particular categories is marked with an asterisk ("*").
FRIDAY
Friday's session - there is actually only one session, split into two - cannot really be said to provide a pointer to the race result, you might think, as the teams try out a variety of settings in preparation for the next day.
However, this table (sorted on average postion) seems to show that, overall, the facts contradict this - with a few noteable exceptions.
Driver Avg'e Total Time
Pos
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Hakkinen 2.625 11:13.351
Coulthard 3.500 11:14.057
Schumacher, M 3.625 11:15.859
Irvine 4.000 11:16.222
Barrichello 7.000 11:19.244
Schumacher, R 9.500 11:22.302
Frentzen 9.750 11:23.953
Hill 10.125 11:32.999
Zanardi 10.250 11:24.447
Fisichella 10.500 11:24.125
Alesi 10.625 11:23.500
Trulli 11.500 11:24.410
Villeneuve 12.000 11:39.352
Herbert 13.250 11:26.322
Panis 13.250 11:27.670
Salo * 13.333 4:20.352
Wurz 13.375 11:26.699
Zonta * 14.400 7:09.813
Diniz 15.125 11:29.689
Badoer * 19.857 10:19.549
Takagi 19.875 11:39.704
de la Rosa 19.000 11:36.340
Sarrazin * 20.000 1:22.578
Gene 20.250 11:42.250
SATURDAY/GRID
The expectation with the grid times would be that they would, generally, be considerably quicker than the Friday times. However, in 1999, this is not the case so far.
In fact, the grid times overall are slower than the Friday times. Of course, this is due to inclement weather.
This is also the last time that Michael Schumacher will appear in the "top" division of the SuperGrid for 1999 - missing a qualifying session automatically disqualifies a driver from the SuperGrid for that year.
Driver Avg'e Total Time
Pos
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Hakkinen 2.750 11:24.526
Coulthard 2.875 11:22.973
Schumacher, M 3.125 11:24.433
Barrichello 4.750 11:25.877
Irvine 5.750 11:30.690
Frentzen 6.250 11:29.124
Fisichella 10.125 11:34.431
Alesi 10.250 11:31.722
Villeneuve 10.375 11:35.877
Trulli 10.750 11:34.901
Hill 11.250 11:36.963
Schumacher, R 11.375 11:37.697
Herbert 11.500 11:35.265
Wurz 13.250 11:39.009
Panis 13.625 11:37.579
Zanardi 13.750 11:40.209
Diniz 14.000 11:38.866
de la Rosa 19.375 11:51.371
Takagi 19.500 11:50.558
Gene 21.250 11:56.827
---107%--- 23.000 12:10.781
Zonta * 15.500 6:05.806
Salo * 15.667 4:15.375
Sarrazin * 19.000 1:20.016
Badoer * 21.000 10:34.146
SUNDAY WARM-UP
The Sunday monring warm-up is seen as an indicator of a possible race result by many people. Based on this table - sorted on average position - that statement might have a large measure of truth in it... then again, it might not.
Driver Avg'e Avg'e
Pos Time
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Coulthard 1.750 1:25.955
Hakkinen 2.625 1:26.145
Schumacher, M 3.375 1:26.343
Irvine 5.875 1:26.763
Frentzen 8.375 1:27.165
Schumacher, R 9.000 1:27.247
Barrichello 9.000 1:27.386
Herbert 9.000 1:27.452
Hill 9.125 3:22.659
Trulli 10.500 1:27.520
Alesi 11.125 1:27.505
Panis 11.250 1:27.675
Diniz 11.625 1:27.787
Fisichella 12.500 1:27.853
Wurz 13.250 1:27.925
Villeneuve 14.125 1:28.003
Zanardi 14.750 1:28.440
Salo * 16.000 1:28.041
de la Rosa 17.750 1:28.872
Zonta * 18.250 1:31.402
Takagi 18.625 1:30.243
Sarrazin * 20.000 1:20.764
Badoer * 20.286 1:31.146
Gene 21.250 1:30.646
RACE
There seems to have been some comment expressing, shall we say, astonishment at the performance of Eddie Irvine this season. Indeed, Irvine leads the SuperRace for 1999 in a number of categories (average position, laps completed, distance raced, and time raced).
This table - sorted on average position - shows the situation after a total of 8,034 racing laps, covering a total of 36,255.959 kilometres in a total of 202 hours, 40 minutes and 36.188 seconds.
Today's trivia item: based on the laps completed so far, there is a 68% chance of any one driver in any one race completing the full race distance.
Driver Avg'e Laps Total Kms Racing Time Avg'e
Pos 535 Best Lap
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Irvine 4.63 518 2,323.178 12h59:31.469 1:24.939
Schumacher, M * 5.00 434 1,915.807 10h51:17.964 1:24.038
Schumacher, R 6.25 476 2,153.630 12h02:29.810 1:25.578
Frentzen 7.13 484 2,163.654 12h09:39.990 1:25.449
Fisichella 7.38 463 2,098.437 11h53:31.537 1:26.094
Hakkinen 7.50 429 1,865.092 10h40:51.129 1:24.685
Salo * 10.00 159 714.674 3h59:40.069 1:27.599
Barrichello 10.13 441 2,001.208 11h19:17.271 1:25.835
Coulthard 10.13 336 1,549.254 8h20:23.496 1:24.939
Panis 12.13 406 1,826.521 10h23:16.368 1:26.416
Diniz 12.13 342 1,558.067 8h37:44.537 1:26.218
Wurz 12.75 329 1,450.075 6h36:09.746 1:27.407
Zanardi 13.00 357 1,585.870 8h58:59.917 1:26.920
Trulli 13.13 319 1,398.958 8h12:18.406 1:26.399
Badoer * 13.14 305 1,412.463 8h09:42.851 1:29.564
Zonta * 13.50 163 780.126 4h31:21.317 1:37.322
Hill 13.63 243 1,158.387 6h19:13.056 1:25.957
Takagi 13.75 423 1,936.868 11h01:34.918 1:27.873
Gene 14.00 328 1,505.399 8h22:34.048 1:28.081
De La Rosa 14.13 300 1,347.991 7h50:17.762 1:27.198
Herbert * 14.57 278 1,277.633 6h59:57.614 1:25.959
Alesi 15.63 248 1,117.880 6h11:32.731 1:25.080
Sarrazin * 16.00 31 133.052 0h42:50.145 1:21.225
Villeneuve 16.25 222 981.735 5h26:20.037 1:25.828
The raw data are copyright © 1999 F?d?ration de l'Automobile (2 Chemin
Blandonnet, 1215 Geneva 15, Switzerland). These compilations are copyright © 1999 Rory Gordon. Reproduction in any form of these compilations is forbidden without the express permission of the compiler.
The data are subject to revision. The compiler will not be held responsible for any errors or omissions.
For any comments, please contact the compiler.
Rory Gordon
Send comments to: gordon@atlasf1.com
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