2012 Australian Grand Prix lap charts

19 comments on “2012 Australian Grand Prix lap charts”

1. 

   Meander (@meander)
   18th March 2012, 17:48

   Excellent as always Keith, it must be said.
2. 

   Dejan Milosavljevic (@kimster381)
   18th March 2012, 19:33

   Lotus had bad luck this weekend,car seems to have the pace.Hope they keep on developing the car through the season.Kimi will take care of the rest.Nice charts to :)
3. 

   lubhz (@lubhz)
   18th March 2012, 20:39

   The race progress chart shows that it was a 2 horses race, and the prancing horse is not included.
4. 

   Lauri (@f1lauri)
   18th March 2012, 20:40

   Great chart to analyse cars’ speed! My

   + Maldonado showed good speed. Many times he was faster than Button
   + Perez ran many laps as fast as the leaders. Great potential!
   + Kimi was almost as fast as leaders when he was not behind slower cars. Great potential!
   – Alonso really was slow with his Ferrari. This shows how he did manage to get absolutely best out of that slow Ferrari today.

   McLaren is fastest
   RBR not far behind
   Merc potentially fast, but has tire issues – maybe on regular track they don’t suffer so much
   Lotus potentially fast, extremely good tire performance. They can squeeze more speed out because of that!
   Sauber – same as Lotus, probably a bit slower
   Williams – a lot faster than Ferrari, but probably slower than Lotus, Merc and even Sauber?

   Foce India and Toro Rosso – somewhere

   Great season ahead. We will see teams gaining and loosing speed as they learn more about tires and the cars.
5. 

   Estesark (@estesark)
   18th March 2012, 21:49

   6th, 7th, 8th, 9th, 10th, 11th, 12th, 13th. Final two laps. Awesome.

   More of the same this season, please!
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   Theoddkiwi (@theoddkiwi)
   18th March 2012, 22:37

   You can see quite clearly how badly Lewis lost out after the first stop. not only did he loose time to Jenson, but it ultimately allowed Vettel to catch up to him. Both mclaren drivers look pretty similar.

   You can also see how much the safet car slowed Lewis lap while Vettel could drive at full speed to the pit lane. Pretty much everyone elses lap was much slower when the safety car came out except Vettel. All the people around me where like “what thats rediculous!”

   I was standing at turn 2 and i was trying to understand why Vettel was allowed to dive so fast under a full course yellows when everyone else slowed down.
   1. 

      91jb12 (@91jb12)
      18th March 2012, 23:26

      Vettel was well over halfway round the lap so he had less distance to travel at the reduced speed. Also, as Lewis was limited to his speed behind the SC, the pit lane time loss was not the usual 25 seconds, perhaps only 10-15, Vettel was close enough to Hamilton anyway so that a 10 second swing like that would give Vettel the place.
      It was fortunate for him but it might work out opposite in future.
   2. 

      dkpioe
      19th March 2012, 14:08

      if he had started better, he wouldnt have the problem. 1st driver in team gets first treatment in pits. not only did he start bad, he lost 3 seconds to button quickly in first few laps, so talking about the pitstop is no excuse. he wasnt up to the job this weekend. better luck next weekend.
      1. 

         Tricky (@tricky)
         19th March 2012, 16:39

         With Button’s gap Mclaren really didn’t have to worry about Hamilton making the undercut in the stops, so really they could have pitted Hamilton first.
         As I understand it, LH had a pit stop in hand over Perez, but lost it in the last two laps before pitting.
         They could be enforcing a too strict rule in these days where the drop off in performance can be so bad. Didn’t the same thing happen in China last year, with Hamilton losing 5s on his in-lap (when Button first forgot to pit, then went into the RB box).
7. 

   Richard
   18th March 2012, 23:19

   Its because Vettel is the new golden child. It’s only gonna get more interesting.
8. 

   extasy
   19th March 2012, 0:59

   mercedes looks to be in trouble, their race pace is pretty much slower than all the cars except for the back markers. Schumacher was consistently losing a second a lap from the mclarens until he retired and rosberg never could match the lead cars times. The only

   It looks to be a repeat of last year, except this year every other car is quicker in race pace. They could end up at the back pretty soon if they can’t sort things out.
   1. 

      dkpioe
      19th March 2012, 14:14

      mercedes qualifying performance gave their fans false hope. this new rear wing f-duct system they have only works when drs is activated. in qualifying they can use drs whenever they want. in the race, they can only use it in the drs activation points. so they cant use the speed advantage they have in qualifying during the race. get ready for a year of high qualifying, and lower race results.
      oh, and lets not forget the bad tyre wear they have which doesnt show up during qualifying but will during the race, as it did in melbourne, and as it did all throughout preseason testing.
9. 

   JustinF1 (@justinf1)
   19th March 2012, 2:26

   Well done Keith,. Thanks.
10. 

    Briant
    19th March 2012, 8:45

    Im a big Hamilton fan. can’t help but feel he struggled in the car for pace but no one else seems to think that. is it just me?
    and tire degradation seemed worse for Lewis than for Jb. much worse than usual
    1. 

       dkpioe
       19th March 2012, 14:16

       it is hamiltons weak point. maybe this years tyres require better care then previous years. hamilton will just have to adapt like everyone else.
    2. 

       AndrewTanner (@andrewtanner)
       19th March 2012, 23:58

       He did struggle yep. I was keeping a close eye on the time different between himself and Vettel. Vettel was clawing him in pretty rapidly before the Safety Car disrupted things. He was taking tenths off him at an alarming rate.

       I think that probably attributed to his mood after the race.
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    dkpioe
    19th March 2012, 14:05

    to me it seems this is the running order currently is:
    1st/2nd mclaren or redbull depending on the track, with mclaren possibly having a qualifying advantage and being faster on low fuel. hamilton will have the advantage over button and redbull only on tracks where tyre management isnt a major factor, his weakest point.
    3rd to 5th – lotus, mercedes and ferrari. mercedes in qualifying because of the f-duct activated during drs, but will fall back in race with bad tyre wear, and f-duct use only during drs zones. alonso bringing in top 6 results because of skill ahead of faster lotus and ferrari cars with inferior drivers.

    6th williams
    7th torro rosso
    8th sauber
    9th force india
    I thinkg 6th to 9th will vary race to race, but with williams more often at the front, and torro rosso consistent. sauber will be incosistent, occasionly top 10, other times 15th, and force india even more inconsistent.

    10th caterham
    11th marussia
    12th hrt

    10th to 12th wont change during the year. caterham has obviously not caught the midfield yet.
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    Enigma (@enigma)
    19th March 2012, 19:26

    Safety car came in as Glock was yet to catch it after being allowed to unlap himself! A bit unfair…
13. 

    F1 Mad
    21st March 2012, 13:01

    Great stats. Pity about the extremely annoying ads. I have heard others complain about it but had never seen them myself. Just got 3 full screen eBay ads taking over my entire browser when trying to look at these stat pages.

    Consider yourself adblocked.

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