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Daily F1 News and Comment: Thursday 9th May 2013

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This page will be updated throughout the day FIA Press Conferences As always, we love to kick off the F1 race weekend with the mystifying event that is the FIA drivers’ press conference. Here are the schedues. Thursday, May 09, 1500 hours local time (1300 GMT) Fernando Alonso (Ferrari), Valtteri Bottas (Williams), Esteban Gutierrez (Sauber), … Read more

Daily F1 News and comment: Wednesday 8th May 2013

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This page will be updated throughout the day Allison to leave Lotus? 8/5/13 GMT 00:15 I had a coded conversation with someone yesterday, who suggested there may be some ‘exciting’ Lotus news this weekend, however they were not prepared to reveal exactly what this news was. So tonight when a secondary source suggested Lotus technical … 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

Castrol GP Predictor Summary – Shanghai 2013

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Brought to you by Adam Macdonald Another unpredictable GP has led to a mixed bag of results.  Here’s how they shape up… On the Up It was a good weekend for Somers GP, Team Baghetti and DWilD, up 22, 22 and 20 positions respectively.  All had picked Fernando to take the win, gaining 41% accuracy in … 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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Daily News and Comment: Monday 15th April 2013

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This page will be updated throughout the day Bahrain explosions I am expecting some big differences of opinion amongst us this week on this matter and that is good. Yet let’s respect each other’s opinions because I see here a growing group of people who debate incredibly well and expose most angles of any subject … Read more

2013 Formula 1 UBS Chinese Grand Prix Race Analysis: Alonso Launches A Shanghai Surprise

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Contributor: James Parker, TJ13 on track correspondent Fernando Alonso claimed his first victory of the 2013 Formula 1 season, and a first for Ferrari since Germany 2012 under glorious Sunshine in China. Commanding from the front, it was a race dominated by many on track incidents – some still raging on into the evening post … Read more

China GP 2013: Off Track post race review

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Thankfully after the past couple of weeks, the ‘off the track’ post race report I write will be considerably shorter than some of my recent reviews. Firstly, lets clear up the matter of 8 drivers under investigation for use of DRS under yellow flag conditions. All 8 escape sanction and the stewards note the following. … Read more

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