2012 Brazilian Grand Prix lap charts

11 comments on “2012 Brazilian Grand Prix lap charts”

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   Girts (@girts)
   26th November 2012, 12:42

   It’s interesting to look back at how Petrov got to that important 11th-place finish. Glock actually got ahead of both Caterhams during the first pit stops and was still in front as Vergne hit him at the restart after the safety car. Kovalainen lost around 15 seconds in his second pit stop. Finally, Petrov spun on lap 46 and thus lost a place to Pic at that moment.

   We’ll never know if Pic had defended more fiercely against Petrov on lap 55 if the latter didn’t represent his future employer that most likely gained several million pounds because of this pass. But Caterham fully deserved the 10th place in the championship even if yesterday wasn’t their best day in the office.
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      Cosmas (@cosmas)
      28th November 2012, 9:45

      @girts, well spotted .
      I wasn’t aware about all this happening in the back and assume the most of the people wasn’t either…… it was kind of a second smaller championship that was decided there.
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   the_sigman (@sigman1998)
   26th November 2012, 12:53

   Νοw that I see this graphic I see that ΜSC also had a fantastic race.
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      Gosjean
      26th November 2012, 19:09

      Yea it’s amazing what a couple safety cars can do for an average drive
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         Sohaib Ahmad (@sohebbasharat)
         27th November 2012, 20:20

         Yes like a couple of safety cars helped an average driver in Abu Dhabi. Oh no!!!! It was Sebastian Vettel!!!
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         Sohaib Ahmad (@sohebbasharat)
         27th November 2012, 20:23

         Only difference being that there were two SC to help Sebastian in Abu Dhabi while Michael took advantage of one in think?? (The one in the end didnt help)
         Also Sebastian was probably in the fastest car in Abu Dhabi and MSC in a dog of a mercedes, 6th fastest car at best……..
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            Sohaib Ahmad (@sohebbasharat)
            27th November 2012, 20:24

            * i think
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   Cosmas (@cosmas)
   27th November 2012, 11:47

   if somebody choose to see only Vettel, Alonso, Button,Hamilton and Hulkenberg in the race chart the following is apparent:
   1) About the 20 first laps of the race when the track was damp-wet Vettel was the fastest man on track although his damaged floor and necessity of overtaking.
   2) After the safety car ,when everybody were on slick tyres and the track was drying out Hamilton was the quickest and Button-Hulkenberg were close on par behind him. Alonso was i little slower and Vettel a lot slower than Alonso.
   3) In the closing stage of the race and specially the last 10 laps when everybody was again with intermediates Vettel was again the fastest of all.

   conclusion:
   Although Ferrari had wished for a wet race it looks like the RB of Vettel was the quickest car in these conditions and if we didn’t had that middle dry part (30~55 lap) probably he would ended up even higher than 6th , maybe even in front of Alonso.

   2nd remark
   Webbers pace in that middle part of the race was also equal slow to Vettel , meaning that the pace of the latter maybe was more due to the set up and less due to the damaged floor he had.
   On the other hand, during almost the whole middle part (30~52lap) Vettel was close behind Kobayashi unable to overtake him due to the low top speed of the RB meaning his pace was dictated by the latter.
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   Cosmas (@cosmas)
   27th November 2012, 12:09

   About the overtaking of Vettel on Schumacher in lap 64,
   the chart shows us that from lap 59 onward Vettels pace was 1-2 sec/lap quicker than Schumachers.
   In 4 laps Vettel glossed a gap of 6sec.
   According to this, its clear that Vettel passing Michael was either way inevitable even without him stepping aside.
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   Cosmas (@cosmas)
   27th November 2012, 12:49

   Something other interesting to see is the position changes in the last pit stops between Vettel- Webber- Kobayashi.
   Although Vettel was about 5sec in front of webber his double pit stops due to miscommunication lead to Webber coming in front of him. Seeing the position Webber finished (in front of hulk) means that if Vettel didn’t had to do this double pit stop would finish 4th.
   On the other hand, Kobayashi who was in front of Vettel lost two places to the redbulls even with only one pit stop. Kobayashis pit stop was one of the worsts of the race even worser(+4s) than the last of Vettels and cost him at least one place. This pit stop of kobayashi was 17 sec slower that the first pit stop(10lap) of Vettel which was the fastest of the race.

   Lastly if we look closely in Webbers & Kobayashis lines in laps 6-7 we can see that the the HIT of the latter to the former that resulted him to spin of the track costed Webber about 10sec and 12 places drop in position.
   Somehow coincidentally the last disastrous pit stop of kobayashi gave justice to Webber.
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   AndrewTanner (@andrewtanner)
   29th November 2012, 18:41

   Well, Button and Hulk were certainly comfortable enough in the conditions!

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