2014 Australian Grand Prix lap charts

Williams came away from the Australian Grand Prix with ten points. That’s twice what they scored during the whole of 2013.

Yet they had cause to be disappointed with their result. The FW36 was clearly one of the fastest cars on the track, but misfortune ended Felipe Massa’s race at the first corner.

Valtteri Bottas produced some excellent overtaking moves as he made his way forward from 15th on the grid – but he also made a costly mistake.

On lap ten he banged his car against a wall, damaging his wheel and puncturing his tyre, forcing a pit stop. Fortunately for him he the Safety Car was deployed, minimising the loss, and he was able to fight back.

By the end of the race he’d made 14 overtakes to take sixth, which became fifth after Daniel Ricciardo’s disqualification. But how much better could it have been?

Bottas was shaping up to make a move on Fernando Alonso when he hit the wall. Given his pace it seems likely he would have been able to pass the Ferrari, and at this stage he already had Jenson Button behind him.

Bottas would have been in a fight with Ricciardo and Kevin Magnussen for a top-three finish. Given the pace he showed when he was in free air – he set the second-fastest lap – there’s a good chance he would have been able to pass them for second. But Nico Rosberg was probably always going to be out of reach.

The lap chart and race chart below give more insight into how the race unfolded for each driver.

Australian Grand Prix lap chart

The positions of each driver on every lap. Use the control below to show/hide different drivers:

http://www.f1fanatic.co.uk/charts/2014drivercolours.csv

	0	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12	13	14	15	16	17	18	19	20	21	22	23	24	25	26	27	28	29	30	31	32	33	34	35	36	37	38	39	40	41	42	43	44	45	46	47	48	49	50	51	52	53	54	55	56	57
Lewis Hamilton	1	4
Daniel Ricciardo	2	2	2	2	2	2	2	2	2	2	2	2	2	2	2	2	2	2	2	2	2	2	2	2	2	2	2	2	2	2	2	2	2	2	2	2	3	3	2	2	2	2	2	2	2	2	2	2	2	2	2	2	2	2	2	2	2	2
Nico Rosberg	3	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1
Kevin Magnussen	4	3	3	3	3	3	3	3	3	3	3	3	3	3	3	3	3	3	3	3	3	3	3	3	3	3	3	3	3	3	3	3	3	3	3	3	2	2	3	3	3	3	3	3	3	3	3	3	3	3	3	3	3	3	3	3	3	3
Fernando Alonso	5	6	5	5	5	5	5	5	5	5	5	5	5	5	5	5	5	5	5	5	5	5	5	5	5	5	5	5	5	5	5	5	5	4	4	7	5	5	5	5	5	5	5	5	5	5	5	5	5	5	5	5	5	5	5	5	5	5
Jean-Eric Vergne	6	7	6	7	7	8	8	8	8	8	7	7	7	7	7	7	7	7	7	7	7	7	7	7	7	7	7	7	7	7	7	7	6	9	10	10	7	7	7	7	7	7	7	7	7	7	8	8	8	8	8	8	8	9	9	9	9	9
Nico Hulkenberg	7	5	4	4	4	4	4	4	4	4	4	4	4	4	4	4	4	4	4	4	4	4	4	4	4	4	4	4	4	4	4	4	4	8	9	9	6	6	6	6	6	6	6	6	6	6	6	6	6	6	6	6	7	7	7	7	7	7
Daniil Kvyat	8	9	8	9	9	9	9	9	9	9	8	8	9	10	10	10	10	9	9	9	9	9	9	9	9	10	10	10	10	10	10	10	9	7	7	6	10	10	10	10	10	10	10	10	10	10	10	10	10	10	10	10	10	10	10	10	10	10
Felipe Massa	9
Jenson Button	10	11	10	10	10	10	10	10	10	10	9	9	6	6	6	6	6	6	6	6	6	6	6	6	6	6	6	6	6	6	6	6	10	10	8	8	4	4	4	4	4	4	4	4	4	4	4	4	4	4	4	4	4	4	4	4	4	4
Kimi Raikkonen	11	8	7	6	6	6	6	6	7	7	6	6	8	8	8	8	8	8	8	8	8	8	8	8	8	8	8	8	8	8	8	8	7	5	5	5	9	9	9	9	9	9	9	9	9	9	9	9	9	9	9	9	9	8	8	8	8	8
Sebastian Vettel	12	15	15	16
Adrian Sutil	13	12	11	11	11	12	12	11	11	11	10	10	10	9	9	9	9	10	10	11	11	11	11	11	11	11	11	11	11	11	11	11	11	11	11	13	13	13	13	13	13	13	13	13	12	12	12	12	12	12	12	12	12	12	12	12	12
Kamui Kobayashi	14
Valtteri Bottas	15	10	9	8	8	7	7	7	6	6	16	16	16	16	16	16	14	12	11	10	10	10	10	10	10	9	9	9	9	9	9	9	8	6	6	4	8	8	8	8	8	8	8	8	8	8	7	7	7	7	7	7	6	6	6	6	6	6
Sergio Perez	16	18	17	17	16	16	16	16	16	16	15	17	17	17	17	17	15	14	14	14	13	12	12	12	12	12	12	12	12	12	12	12	12	12	12	11	11	11	11	11	11	11	11	11	11	11	11	11	11	11	11	11	11	11	11	11	11	11
Max Chilton	17	16	14	14	14	14	14	14	14	15	14	14	14	14	14	14	17	17	17	17	17	17	17	16	16	17	17	17	16	16	15	15	15	15	15	15	15	15	15	15	15	15	15	15	14	14	14	14	14	14	14	14	14	14	14	14
Jules Bianchi	18	20	19	19	18	18	18	18	18	18	18	18	18	18	18	18	18	18	18	18	18	18	18	18	18	18	18	18	17	17	16	16	16	16	16	16	16	16	16	16	16	16	16	16	15	15	15	15	15	15
Marcus Ericsson	19	13	12	12	12	11	11	12	13	13	12	12	12	12	12	12	13	15	15	16	16	16	16	17	17	16	16	16
Romain Grosjean	20	17	16	15	15	15	15	15	15	14	13	13	13	13	13	13	12	13	13	13	14	14	14	13	13	13	13	13	15	14	13	13	13	13	13	12	12	12	12	12	12	12	12	12
Pastor Maldonado	21	14	13	13	13	13	13	13	12	12	11	11	11	11	11	11	11	11	12	12	12	13	13	14	14	14	14	14	14	15
Esteban Gutierrez	22	19	18	18	17	17	17	17	17	17	17	15	15	15	15	15	16	16	16	15	15	15	15	15	15	15	15	15	13	13	14	14	14	14	14	14	14	14	14	14	14	14	14	14	13	13	13	13	13	13	13	13	13	13	13	13	13

Australian Grand Prix race chart

The gaps between each driver on every lap. Use the control below to show/hide different drivers.

http://www.f1fanatic.co.uk/charts/2014drivercolours.csv

	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12	13	14	15	16	17	18	19	20	21	22	23	24	25	26	27	28	29	30	31	32	33	34	35	36	37	38	39	40	41	42	43	44	45	46	47	48	49	50	51	52	53	54	55	56	57
Lewis Hamilton	4.09
Daniel Ricciardo	1.511	1.283	1.839	2.866	4.093	4.596	4.503	5.041	5.869	6.565	7.719	8.677	1.272	0.785	0.824	2.263	2.289	2.977	4.468	5.277	6.254	6.936	7.981	8.849	10.185	10.519	10.03	9.582	10.626	11.656	12.832	14.066	15.008	16.675	17.978	36.827	43.997	23.472	16.141	16.501	16.815	16.78	18.01	18.516	18.321	19.856	21.613	22.649	22.915	23.389	22.861	23.009	23.451	23.824	24.006	24.172	24.525
Nico Rosberg	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Kevin Magnussen	3.364	3.112	5.264	7.121	8.449	9.329	9.358	10.56	12.083	13.274	14.283	16.552	2.059	1.615	1.463	2.92	3.019	3.859	6.035	7.571	9.106	10.093	11.431	11.934	13.361	14.682	15.708	16.523	18.718	19.499	20.732	21.053	22.165	23.09	23.837	24.368	41.813	25.749	17.291	17.795	17.696	18.152	19.198	19.524	19.743	20.999	22.75	23.912	24.109	24.339	23.628	23.934	25.145	25.864	26.12	25.936	26.777
Fernando Alonso	6.228	7.152	9.197	9.977	10.744	11.401	12.276	14.186	16.374	19.002	21.484	26.74	5.064	4.245	2.246	4.743	6.154	7.911	10.886	12.698	14.471	16.377	18.464	19.82	21.938	23.196	23.391	23.622	25.828	26.713	27.815	28.7	30.561	30.659	49.506	55.014	54.198	33.574	26.193	26.75	27.599	28.841	30.522	31.182	31.064	31.736	32.05	32.333	33.053	33.764	33.745	34.405	34.457	34.638	34.8	34.107	35.284
Jean-Eric Vergne	6.767	7.659	11.318	13.234	15.388	16.768	17.614	18.862	20.738	22.733	24.589	33.814	7.395	5.936	3.462	6.142	7.627	9.845	12.421	14.164	16.182	17.792	20.04	21.487	23.223	24.934	25.317	25.987	27.929	28.882	30.34	30.978	51.895	58.332	58.215	57.913	57.365	37.268	30.85	32.471	34.019	35.742	37.308	38.901	39.116	41.078	43.405	45.44	47.68	49.781	50.675	52.055	55.39	57.014	58.31	59.367	60.441
Nico Hulkenberg	4.948	5.62	6.711	8.65	9.564	10.65	11.851	13.607	16.041	18.405	20.097	22.225	2.888	2.719	1.93	4.416	5.319	7.469	10.379	11.951	13.8	15.817	17.813	19.334	21.148	22.368	22.727	22.851	24.683	25.708	27.429	28.201	49.439	54.904	55.046	56.495	56.311	36.042	29.596	30.863	32.477	34.16	36.078	37.588	37.781	39.219	40.321	41.933	43.391	45.204	45.073	47.957	49.153	50.931	51.276	51.177	50.718
Daniil Kvyat	7.465	8.575	12.227	14.325	15.879	17.647	18.458	19.77	21.244	23.337	25.451	42.026	13.977	8.66	5.231	8.89	11.172	13.546	16.435	18.369	20.953	23.415	26.563	28.356	31.276	32.585	32.657	33.336	35.343	36.139	37.389	37.532	38.947	40.16	41.771	63.15	67.217	44.657	36.971	37.564	38.025	38.593	40.382	42.326	43.318	45.175	46.623	49.108	50.682	52.441	52.98	54.508	56.097	57.813	59.055	61.629	63.585
Felipe Massa
Valtteri Bottas	7.728	8.778	11.597	13.444	13.753	13.701	14.244	15.267	16.782	78.704	106.374	90.306	40.691	16.459	8.664	13.239	14.25	16.958	20.062	22.137	24.144	25.741	27.313	28.588	30.144	30.586	30.328	30.311	32.027	32.994	34.362	34.429	35.51	36.169	38.1	58.69	63.245	41.83	34.706	35.131	35.807	36.379	37.764	39.397	39.778	40.969	42.049	43.045	43.727	45.523	45.288	46.477	47.569	47.786	47.566	46.825	47.639
Jenson Button	8.29	9.571	12.511	14.728	16.41	18.119	18.973	20.502	22.264	24.555	47.213	33.784	5.724	5.096	3.012	5.22	6.582	8.568	11.284	13.294	15.32	17.083	19.283	20.732	22.554	23.871	24.242	24.734	26.679	27.604	29.24	47.906	52.98	52.516	53.032	52.725	51.692	30.534	23.124	23.812	24.487	24.998	25.895	26.467	26.284	26.911	26.952	27.574	28.147	28.83	28.516	29.066	29.493	30.109	30.616	30.698	30.027
Kimi Raikkonen	7.349	8.292	10.298	12.372	13.026	13.181	13.907	17.479	19.91	21.99	24.058	35.753	11.811	6.631	4.039	6.77	8.21	10.395	13.255	14.68	16.768	18.557	20.649	22.048	25.765	27.263	27.575	28.249	29.448	29.999	31.538	32.313	34.33	35.441	39.812	59.628	65.13	43.832	36.503	36.875	37.515	38.163	39.632	41.024	41.391	42.737	44.196	45.986	48.328	50.83	51.363	52.907	54.683	55.553	56.114	56.496	57.675
Sebastian Vettel	18.939	31.199	46.894
Adrian Sutil	11.331	15.329	19.588	24.472	30.828	35.393	37.97	41.218	45.063	49.382	62.212	46.533	12.779	7.898	4.812	8.445	11.993	16.167	21.121	24.916	28.913	32.753	36.059	38.873	42.145	44.173	45.871	47.409	49.986	51.911	54.917	56.589	59.765	63.33	88.101	97.01	96.884	76.966	70.628	71.8	73.121	74.637	76.834	79.173	80.243	82.272	83.973	86.273	89.052	91.531	94.048	95.981	97.581	99.123	100.565	101.999
Kamui Kobayashi
Sergio Perez	54.669	61.772	63.071	64.642	65.237	66.33	67	69.446	71.651	73.671	107.949	94.388	47.129	18.038	9.875	14.158	16.031	19.77	25.32	29.076	31.688	33.682	36.625	39.393	42.558	44.666	46.72	48.09	51.269	53.208	55.88	76.043	82.155	81.542	81.087	80.619	79.116	57.876	50.357	50.564	51.296	52.023	53.527	54.995	55.341	56.447	57.943	59.925	62.05	64.688	65.923	68.25	70.691	73.458	76.353	82.337	85.916
Max Chilton	23.482	29.302	33.962	37.951	41.149	45.627	49.706	54.152	60.971	65.984	84.967	74.074	32.791	12.552	7.689	16.741	21.688	27.053	33.234	38.673	44.697	50.513	57.326	82.789	92.453	96.175	97.843	100.652	104.377	108.303	112.32	114.39	118.899	122.666	125.706	130.905	133.558	116.331	114.71	120.209	146.089	156.901	161.067	165.654	169.602	173.087	176.528	183.895	190.077	193.912	197.175	200.552	203.501	207.075	209.525
Esteban Gutierrez	59.856	67.624	72.426	74.887	75.894	77.071	77.687	79.259	80.972	84.115	103.013	87.619	39.659	15.714	8.603	15.262	19.593	24.668	31.005	34.854	38.884	43.492	47.738	52.196	54.878	57.229	59.591	61.447	64.608	86.751	97.001	96.352	96.466	96.972	97.47	98.206	98.219	78.156	71.289	72.669	73.914	76.355	79.091	81.91	82.481	83.928	85.218	87.608	90.099	94.682	96.424	98.252	100.903	102.962	105.617	108.103
Marcus Ericsson	12.975	16.55	20.242	25.077	29.947	35.307	39.736	46.053	51.616	57.456	68.182	51.602	15.934	10.016	6.566	13.209	19.086	24.22	31.913	37.397	43.666	49.36	77.483	86.912	90.403	92.928	96.673
Romain Grosjean	28.757	36.699	39.453	43.671	46.726	49.562	51.257	54.7	59.204	62.821	75.116	59.277	17.746	11.008	6.797	11.84	15.493	19.229	25.013	29.76	34.461	39.728	43.088	46.049	48.91	51.261	52.591	72.906	81.12	80.94	82.59	82.422	83.816	84.724	86.094	86.913	87.339	68.577	62.722	64.479	66.563	68.079	70.578
Pastor Maldonado	14.467	17.236	21.612	26.401	31.511	35.903	40.076	44.435	48.781	53.048	65.403	49.25	14.948	9.093	5.904	10.099	13.391	18.704	24.082	28.204	34.11	39.55	45.598	49.106	52.824	55.844	58.907	64.015	88.771

NB. Jules Bianchi’s race has been omitted because he was six laps down from the start. Daniel Ricciardo was disqualified from the final result.

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14 comments on “2014 Australian Grand Prix lap charts”

Chad (@chaddy)
16th March 2014, 19:36

Wow Alonso really wanted to be fifth
1. claudioff (@claudioff)
  16th March 2014, 22:36
  
  Not as much Rosberg wanted the first position (if I understood correctly that your post was based on the lap chart).
Kingshark (@kingshark)
16th March 2014, 20:01

Frightening pace shown by the WO5. The fact that Rosberg set FL on lap 19 when he still had ~75 kg of fuel onboard is scary. Imagine how fast he could have gone if he tried.
1. jono
  18th March 2014, 9:17
  
  no it shows how the fuel regulations stop drivers from driving fast, once they have estabalished a gap from then on its just gap management ( the person behing uses much fuel trying get past). fuel limits where they are are stupid and stop racing if Bernie if you really to stop racing why not just sell your shares and sail on… oh wait….
iFuel
16th March 2014, 20:12

We always pick on him, and question his ability.. But Chilton’s ability to finish every godamn race will probably pay off this season… He already got a 13th place this season!
1. Patrick (@paeschli)
  17th March 2014, 18:50
  
  Indeed, he is slow but his consistency may very well pay off this season.
daniyyel (@oji)
16th March 2014, 20:18

Wow, the lap chart really shows that absolutely nothing happened in the race, except for one safety car.
George (@george)
16th March 2014, 20:33

Interesting pace differences between Alonso and Raikkonen and Hulkenberg and Perez, I guess that would suggest the slower drivers were carrying issues. Perez was completely anonymous during the race, I dont think I saw him at all after the first lap.
1. rulox777
  17th March 2014, 19:33
  
  I think Gutierrez git him (Perez) on the first lap, and he had to change tires but you are right, I didn’t see him either. Hope he does better in Malaysia
Bforth (@bforth)
16th March 2014, 21:19

Thanks for the charts @keithcollantine
I have been really keen to see how the two Lotus drivers compare. I was expecting them to be a bit closer, really. Grosjean was averaging a second per lap quicker than Maldonado, and nothing Maldonado said after the race made it sound like he was having issues before his retirement.
Anyone know anything different or was that gap genuine?
avl0
16th March 2014, 21:42

so after looking at the race chart and race lap times I think we can establish the performance order

1) Mercedes – 0sec – good straight line speed, good downforce levels
2) Williams – +1sec – Same engine as merc, maybe 1sec a lap slower due to less downforce
3=) Redbull – +1.5sec – down on power/ driveability, equal to or better than merc downforce
3=) McLaren – +1.5sec – Same engine as merc, maybe 1.5sec a lap slower due to less downforce
3=) Ferarri – +1.5sec – jack of all trades/ some problems with everything
6) Force India – +2sec – same engine as merc, maybe 2sec a lap slower due to less downforce
7) Toro Rosso – +3sec – down on power/driveability, maybe 1.5sec a lap slower due to less downforce
8=) Sauber – +4sec
8=) Lotus – +4sec
10=) Marussia +5sec
10=) Caterham +5sec

I think we’ll see all the renault teams gain half a second or so from sorting their drivability issues during the flyaways, maybe the ferrari teams the same to a lesser extent this will probably push the redbulls and ferraris upto williams performance and bring the sauber and lotus closer to the rest of the midfield with the lotus having a bigger jump (seeing as it currently appears fairly unfriendly)
Boomerang
17th March 2014, 8:47

Maldonado has nothing to say ’cause he was much quicker in the opening laps. Check the graph again.
Alexander (@)
17th March 2014, 9:50

Umm.. Claire Williams said Bottas overtook over 20 cars, and he did start 15th not 10th as in the graph….
1. conor
  18th March 2014, 21:27
  
  Check the chart again ;)