F1 Forensics

F1 Forensics: Spanish Grand Prix: Friday Practice Analysis

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Brought to you in partnership with Dr James Beck of IntelligentF1. So the European season starts, everyone brings their big upgrades and hopes that they did better than anyone else. History tends to dictate that the improvements are generally fairly even and that the impact on competitiveness here does not really tell the whole story. Indeed, last year’s … Read more

F1 Forensics: Analysis of teams race pace progress

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TJ13 asked James Beck of IntelligentF1 whether his magic calculator could analyse the relative pace of the teams in the first four races and compare this to previous years. This could give us an idea of how things have changed – who has really moved forward, and who back – and whether the perceptions (Lotus/Mercedes are more … Read more

F1 Forensics: Bahrain Grand Prix: Race Notes (Delayed)

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Brought to you in partnership with Dr James Beck of IntelligentF1. The dust (or sand) has well and truly settled on an eventful Bahrain Grand Prix, and now that I’m back from my work trip, I have a little time to dig into the data and discover a few bits and pieces behind what we can see in … Read more

F1 Forensics: Bahrain Grand Prix: Friday Practice Analysis

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Brought to you in partnership with Dr James Beck of IntelligentF1. The conventional wisdom (by which I mean other articles) has this one as a battle between Lotus and Ferrari. Interestingly, this seems entirely based upon the long runs from Free Practice 2, so it looks like people are coming around to my way of thinking. Even more … Read more

F1 Forensics: Chinese GP Race Pace Analysis

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Brought to you in partnership with Dr James Beck of IntelligentF1.

We have been privileged this weekend to enjoy the work of Dr. James Beck and his mathematical analysis of the teams underlying pace and 1 lap performance. I am though aware from 1 or 2 comments that his model is not fully understood. Click the above link to his site and you will find the background to the analysis he has been bringing to us.

The shortish version to help the more impatient among us is that when you see James’ graphs, the pace of each car is determined by the gradient of the line, the faster the car, the steeper the gradient. The intelligentF1 model matches the gradient of the line in a stint where the car is in clear air (not always available) and can then predict the pace of the cars at other stages of the race. (I do recommend you follow the link for a much more complete explanation).

Anyway, James has analysed the data from the race lap times and here are his notes on the Chinese GP 2013.

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F1 Forensics: 2013 UBS Chinese Grand Prix – Strategy Options

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Brought to you in partnership with Dr James Beck of IntelligentF1. Qualifying leaves us with a fascinating race in prospect. Personally I’m surprised that only three cars went for the mediums in Q3, and my initial feeling was that Vettel and Button look good for the race tomorrow. But do they? I’ve had a play … Read more

F1 Forensics: 2013 UBS Chinese Grand Prix: Friday Practice

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Brought to you in partnership with Dr James Beck of IntelligentF1. And so to China, where the headline times from practice show Mercedes looking good in FP1 and Ferrari in FP2. But the real story is that the soft tyres are fragile. We talking about more than 0.5s per lap degradation – it’s like it … Read more

F1 Forensics: Jenson claims he would have led in Sepang ~ True or False?

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I’m really excited to announce a TJ13 partnership with someone who has a brain the size of the planet and is a real life rocket scientist. Dr. James Beck will be collaborating with TJ13 to provide you with a technical analysis that I don’t believe can be found anywhere else. He has a model that … Read more