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2016 FORMULA 1 MONACO GRAND PRIX- Proper at-TYRE Required- Driver Selections for Monaco

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Brought to you by TheJudge13 contributor Mattpt55 Monaco Tyre Choices Well Well Well guess it’s getting easier to tell the teams with deg problems apart from the ones that are on top of it (*coff*MANOR*coff*) but sadly by time we get to the race most teams will have almost exactly the same sets of tyres … Read more

2016 FORMULA 1 RUSSIAN GRAND PRIX- Time to re-TYRE!! Driver selections for Sochi

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Brought to you by TheJudge13 contributor Mattpt55 Sochi Tyre Choices The boring boringness of all teammates having exactly the same tyres has reasserted itself for Sochi. With luck, extra cold or warm temperatures might cause the odd team to shed a few tears, but despite all the brutal braking the low degradation of the track … Read more

2016 FORMULA 1 PIRELLI CHINESE GRAND PRIX- Tyred of Work? Let Driver Selections for Shanghai Divert You

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Brought to you by TheJudge13 contributor Mattpt55 Shanghai Tyre Choices Last year’s GP in Shanghai saw the teams rocking Soft and Medium Tyres on a track that is particularly brutal on the front left corner. Delightfully, there are some discrepancies at the top and the over/under for how long it takes to shred the Supers … Read more

2016 FORMULA 1 GULF AIR BAHRAIN GRAND PRIX- Who Said Tyres Were Boring?

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Brought to you by TheJudge13 contributor Mattpt55 Bahrain Tyre Choices Last year’s GP at Bahrain saw the Soft and Medium Tyre in action. Boringly, the top teams have chosen the exact same tyres for their drivers, unlike Melbourne (unless that was a typo on Mercedes’ part). Excitingly, Ferrari and Mercedes seem to be headed a … Read more

Castrol GP Predictor Summary – Monza 2013

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Brought to you by TJ13 Courtroom Reporter & Crime Analyst: Adam Macdonald. With the news of Kimi being on his way to Ferrari, it has thrown the twittersphere into overdrive as people try to make sense of where this leaves the driver market.  Personally, I would love to see two Champions up against each other … Read more

Daily #F1 News and Comment: Tuesday 23 July 2013

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Daniel Ricciardo’s teammate Jean-Eric Vergne has come out in support of the young Australian. Vergne said, “I think it’s my teammate Daniel Ricciardo who should get the job, not Kimi Raikkonen“. He went on to say “If Daniel, who at the moment is doing better than me, is running alongside Sebastian Vettel, it will show … 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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