2012 F1 driver biographies and statistics updated

34 comments on “2012 F1 driver biographies and statistics updated”

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   Silverkeg (@silverkeg)
   6th January 2012, 11:51

   @keithcollantine The Overall Results list has Maldonado, Di Resta, Perez and D’Ambrosio debuting in 2010 instead of 2011.

   Otherwise, the revisions look great, now I’m going to spend a moment of my time looking through each one :D
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      Keith Collantine (@keithcollantine)
      6th January 2012, 12:17

      @Silverkeg Fixed, thanks.
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         Silverkeg (@silverkeg)
         6th January 2012, 12:23

         @keithcollantine Sorry to bug you again, you changed Bruno’s to 2011, not Pastor’s.

         I am enjoying reading through everyone’s, might take me a while though. I am learning a lot of their histories before Formula 1 which is very interesting.
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            Keith Collantine (@keithcollantine)
            6th January 2012, 15:04

            @silverkeg Oops, double blunder. Sorted.
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   OOliver
   6th January 2012, 12:26

   Keith, your table of driver overall results, you order them by wins or something else?
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      AndrewTanner (@andrewtanner)
      6th January 2012, 13:50

      I’m trying to figure it out too but I can’t see any pattern. Not that it’s a problem of course, quite fun trying to figure it out!
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         BasCB (@bascb)
         6th January 2012, 14:37

         first criterium seems to be best finishing position. After that I am not sure about it, but its not amount of wins, nor percentage.
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            Girts (@girts)
            6th January 2012, 14:50

            @BasCB @AndrewTanner I think it’s 1) Best championship finish 2) Points
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               AndrewTanner (@andrewtanner)
               6th January 2012, 22:34

               @Girts @BasCB @KeithCollantine Can you throw any light on this for us please, Keith?
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               Toro Stevo (@toro-stevo)
               7th January 2012, 22:36

               Definitely this, sorted by total championship points after top finishing position. Hence why Raikkonen is last of those finishing 1st, as he hasn’t raced in the last 2 seasons where wins were worth 25 instead of 10.
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      Jack Leslie (@)
      6th January 2012, 14:25

      its ordered by their highest finish in the WDC? :)
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   vjanik
   6th January 2012, 12:30

   filtering just Schumacher and Vettel in the championship position graph is very interesting. So far Vettel seems to be on a similar path.
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      GR (@gr)
      6th January 2012, 12:35

      I was thinking exactly the same thing. Schumi’s record before his comeback was astounding.

      It’s interesting if you try to look at groups of contemporaries. Ie if you look at just Fernando, Kimi and Felipe, it’s clear to see that Felipe is just not a top tier driver. Especially when you consider that he’s been in a Ferrari most of that time
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      Mike (@mike)
      6th January 2012, 13:41

      That’s uncanny.
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      Keith Collantine (@keithcollantine)
      6th January 2012, 14:57

      Imagine if Schumacher hadn’t retired in 2006, and gone to Red Bull instead. He might have won ten championships by now.
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         BasCB (@bascb)
         6th January 2012, 15:32

         But viewing figures would be a lot lower, I guess!
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         Days of Thunder
         6th January 2012, 20:15

         Wow Keith that would be a perfect F1 for me :D
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         matt90 (@matt90)
         6th January 2012, 21:40

         Same could have happened if he’d stayed at Ferrari perhaps. Or moved to McLaren.
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      Josie Maunders (@jbmaunders)
      7th January 2012, 0:47

      The beginning of Alonso’s looks very similar to Vettel’s as well… Next year will be interesting.
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   Deurmat (@deurmat)
   6th January 2012, 13:34

   Srry if this is a stupid question but I can’t find where to follow a driver :/
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      Girts (@girts)
      6th January 2012, 13:48

      @Deurmat

      Click here:
      https://www.racefans.net/members/deurmat/profile/

      Then go to Edit and then to F1 teams and drivers. You can pick as many as you want, just hold Ctrl if you support more than one driver / team. After that press Save Changes.
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         Deurmat (@deurmat)
         6th January 2012, 13:51

         Ty found it!
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   BasCB (@bascb)
   6th January 2012, 14:38

   Its amazing what kind of statistics and graphs you come up with @Keithcollantine, great idea!
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   Adam Tate (@adam-tate)
   6th January 2012, 15:41

   The graphs really show just how few of the drivers in the current field are race winners and pole sitters.
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   electrolite (@electrolite)
   6th January 2012, 16:48

   Adrian Sutil…
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   Nick.UK (@)
   6th January 2012, 17:02

   Have to say Kieth, you love your crazy multi-coloured line graphs on this webiste. Haha :P
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   F1andy83
   6th January 2012, 17:06

   Hamilton profile had 2009 where 2010 should be or the season title.
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    Alex (@)
    6th January 2012, 18:29

    Small niggle: shouldn’t F1 drivers be shown with 0 wins in years they didn’t compete?

    For example, Alonso should have no wins in 2002 (instead of 1/2), and Schumacher should have no wins in 2007 (instead of 5 and a bit).
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       Keith Collantine (@keithcollantine)
       6th January 2012, 20:14

       @smallvizier They aren’t shown with any wins for the years they didn’t compete (there are no data points for them).
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    ops30
    6th January 2012, 19:21

    This is great Keith. Thank you for putting this together. Shows why you’re the best F1 blogger on the web.
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    TED BELL
    6th January 2012, 22:31

    Nicely done, thanks for your effort. I am color blind in life and admit to having some trouble following the paths of the colors. No complaint here, it is with admiration that you have gone to such extent to provide the details as you have. We are fortunate.
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    aja
    9th January 2012, 0:09

    Great stuff as always thanks Keith, I love the interactive graphs, quite illuminating,
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    Cynthia Aldridge
    14th March 2012, 15:46

    Hi, so much great information here! I’m looking for a list of F1 drivers with Twitter accounts. Do you have that? I have some and happy to share but not all or perhaps not that many are on.
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       BasCB (@bascb)
       14th March 2012, 19:39

       Hi Cynthia, nice to see you on here.
       Keith put together a list of just that – the real and confirmed twitter accounts of the drivers (and teams, team members, … listed separately) here: https://www.racefans.net/f1-information/f1-twitter/

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