Abu Dhabi Grand Prix fastest lap analysis

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Drivers’ fastest laps

RankDriverFastest lapDeficit to fastest lapLaps within 1% of personal best
1Sebastian Vettel100.279021
2Sebastien Buemi100.3260.04714
3Lewis Hamilton100.3670.08810
4Rubens Barrichello100.4490.1721
5Mark Webber100.5710.29226
6Jenson Button100.6420.36329
7Nick Heidfeld100.6720.39329
8Jarno Trulli100.7230.44421
9Kazuki Nakajima100.7540.4758
10Fernando Alonso100.7570.4786
11Kamui Kobayashi100.7790.521
12Kimi Raikkonen100.8430.5646
13Adrian Sutil100.9040.62511
14Robert Kubica100.9240.64527
15Nico Rosberg100.9970.71824
16Giancarlo Fisichella101.1320.8532
17Vitantonio Liuzzi101.2770.9985
18Heikki Kovalainen101.3161.03720
19Romain Grosjean102.2741.99523
20Jaime Alguersuari103.3183.03910

Top 50 fastest laps

RankDriverLap timeLap
1

Sebastian Vettel100.27954
2

Sebastien Buemi100.32655
3

Sebastian Vettel100.32818
4

Lewis Hamilton100.36716
5

Rubens Barrichello100.44954
6

Sebastien Buemi100.51354
7

Rubens Barrichello100.51455
8

Sebastian Vettel100.5316
9

Mark Webber100.57114
10

Sebastian Vettel100.59453
11

Lewis Hamilton100.59915
12

Sebastian Vettel100.64239
13

Jenson Button100.64249
14

Jenson Button100.65915
15

Rubens Barrichello100.66615
16

Sebastian Vettel100.66838
17

Nick Heidfeld100.67254
18

Mark Webber100.71316
19

Jarno Trulli100.72349
20

Jarno Trulli100.73851
21

Sebastian Vettel100.7417
22

Jenson Button100.75316
23

Kazuki Nakajima100.75454
24

Fernando Alonso100.75754
25

Lewis Hamilton100.76910
26

Sebastian Vettel100.77515
27

Kamui Kobayashi100.77955
28

Rubens Barrichello100.7914
29

Jenson Button100.79348
30

Nick Heidfeld100.79452
31

Kamui Kobayashi100.79553
32

Mark Webber100.81213
33

Mark Webber100.81615
34

Jenson Button100.83350
35

Jarno Trulli100.83453
36

Sebastian Vettel100.83740
37

Sebastien Buemi100.8437
38

Kimi Raikkonen100.84354
39

Jarno Trulli100.85250
40

Jenson Button100.87314
41

Rubens Barrichello100.8853
42

Sebastien Buemi100.88140
43

Mark Webber100.88210
44

Mark Webber100.8839
45

Nick Heidfeld100.88640
46

Sebastien Buemi100.89952
47

Adrian Sutil100.90434
48

Kamui Kobayashi100.90751
49

Sebastian Vettel100.91637
50

Robert Kubica100.92454

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15 comments on “Abu Dhabi Grand Prix fastest lap analysis”

  1. Buemi did the second fastest lap!!!? WOW where did that come from :-D NICE!!! :-D

  2. Fun stats.. Interesting to see… Based on these. Out of the top 50 fastest laps Vettel scored 10, Button and Mark 6 each, Rubens 5, Trulli 4, Kamu Lewis and Heidfeld 3 each then Adrian, Alonso, Nakajima, Kimi and Kubica 1 each. Just thought it would be fun to see how many times each driver made it into the top 50 fastest laps. Not only was Vettel once again fast but very consistent as well. Sure there was drivers more consistent then him but he was fastest and had many very fast laps. Vettels 1% of his fastest lap was barely slower then Liuzzi’s fastest and was faster then Heikki, Grosjean and Alguersuari.
    Another worthless fact Vettels 10th fastest lap was within 0.64% of his fastest and was good enough to be the 49th fastest lap among all drivers fastest laps.

    1. yea, but you forgot buemi

  3. Interesting to see the drivers with 20+ laps consistently near their best. No doubt Hamilton would’ve been in there too if not for the retirement

    1. Oops hit submit accidentally before I added “and good to see Kobayashi putting plenty in. He has to be getting a drive next year”

  4. Hamilton, only 0.088s off fastest lap, with a suffering car and only racing 20 laps, best driver of the weekend hands down,

    and its not just the car, heikki was a second off that pace, dont blame his strategy either because he could have done some fast laps before his stop

    1. This isn’t me “blaming the strategy” but the difference between heikki on low fuel and lewis on low fuel was that his tyres had done 10+ more laps.

      I think you need to be slighty more sympathetic towards heikki

      1. And what about his next set of tyres? Heikki had the whole race to get faster.

        Oh hang on.

        Heikki’s driving a car that isn’t as good as Lewis’s. Oh and the tires didn’t work and something else wasn’t right. Otherwise Heikki is of course faster than Lewis…

    2. I remember something about Heikki not having KERS and McLaren trying to get things fixed.

      Maybe that also held him back?

  5. Its really interesting to see how close Trulli and Kobayashi were from this chart…only 5 hundredths between their fastest laps, and the same number of laps within 1%! And this from Kobayashi’s second race for the team! Toyota needs to swap out Trulli for this guy in 2010, he seems hungry.

  6. Can we get the “top 50 fastest laps” chart for the 2006 Brazilian GP?

    Schumi was ruthless there, he put a fastest lap right AFTER his 2nd pitstop, such was his pace. It will be awesome to see some 20-25 laps of those 50 belonging to Schumi.

  7. HounslowBusGarage
    4th November 2009, 20:06

    I’m impressed that BUT, WEB and KUB were within 1% of their best lap times (approx 1 second) for about a quarter of the race.

    1. HounslowBusGarage
      4th November 2009, 20:07

      And Heidfield too, sorry!

      1. Everyone forgets Heidfeld…

        1. Heidfeld who?

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