2018 Bahrain Grand Prix interactive data: lap charts, times and tyres

17 comments on “2018 Bahrain Grand Prix interactive data: lap charts, times and tyres”

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   dusty (@dusty)
   8th April 2018, 22:22

   > Kimi Raikkonen Ferrari 25.018

   How is this time measured?
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      Phylyp (@phylyp)
      9th April 2018, 4:27

      That was his first and successful stop @dusty not the second one which injured the mechanic.
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   Osella-AlfaRomeo (@osella-alfaromeo)
   8th April 2018, 22:27

   What a laptime by Grosjean, without bargeboards and a broken floor.
   I say: get rid of those bargeboards right now.
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      jenc (@jens)
      9th April 2018, 9:41

      Grosjeans excuse (one of more) for a bad race was the damage to barge boards.

      But it is on lap 47 he puts in the 3rd fastest lap of all.

      – how does that compute?
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         nase
         9th April 2018, 10:45

         @jens
         That’s not a serious question, is it? He made the last pit stop of the race, and took on tyres of the softest compound for the final 11 laps. Nonetheless, his lap time was just 0.274 seconds quicker than Magnussen’s fastest lap 18 laps earlier (i.e. with the additional weight of circa 33 kilos of fuel, and on the somewhat harder ‘Soft’ compound). According to the information available here (Time penalty per lap of fuel: 0.054 seconds, multiplied with 18), Grosjean’s lighter fuel load translates to a theoretical lap time advantage of 0.972 seconds per lap compared to Magnussen’s fastest lap. In other words: Grosjean’s lap time looks competitive exclusively due to the circumstances. His fuel-adjusted pace was still 7 tenths slower than his team mate’s.

         – how does that compute?

         That’s how it computes.
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   Ben Rowe (@thegianthogweed)
   8th April 2018, 23:16

   Ericsson, the most positions gained. So many say that the sauber is such a bad car. Either that or some will have to admit that Ericsson was extremely good this race.
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      Miani (@miani)
      9th April 2018, 16:43

      It’s fun how Ericsson destroyed both Wherlein and Nasr career just because people think he’s bad and his team mates can’t soundly beat him. If he beats Lecler this season I can see Leclerc future champion aura going away.
4. 

   Neil (@neilosjames)
   8th April 2018, 23:33

   Vandoorne’s recovery to P8 after such a dreadful start was quite impressive.
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   Brolloks
   9th April 2018, 7:05

   How far behind Hamilton would Kimi have emerged had he completed his pit stop? Would he have been able, with fresh supersofts, to catch and pass Hamilton on older mediums?
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      frood19 (@frood19)
      9th April 2018, 11:12

      I was wondering about this. It was a shame it didn’t work out – for multiple reasons. my guess is that he would have cooked his tyres but maybe not. he had 14 seconds-ish before his stop so he would have needed to make up 10 and then pass and then maintain it, so a bit of a tall order in 22 laps.
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         Egonovi
         9th April 2018, 23:45

         Gassly did 23 laps on the SupSofts at the end and overall he only lost 8sec to Hamilton.
         I would hope that Raikkonen in a race winning Ferrari (and 1sec/lap faster than Gassly) could have caught & overtaken Hamilton.
         He should even have been able to overtake Bottas and (had the team allowed him) challenge for the win.
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            Brolloks (@brolloks)
            11th April 2018, 6:56

            It just goes to show then how costly the pit stop error was. I’m still baffled as to why Ferrari let Kimi retire. Yes, the mechanic was hurt, but no matter how much time they lost pushing the car back and attaching the correct tyre, he was still guaranteed a fourth place and 12 points.
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   Alan Santo (@alanmclaren)
   9th April 2018, 15:45

   One thing I struggle to understand is why did McLaren make Fernando to stop at the same time to the guys with softer compounds on first stint. And then why, having fitted mediums, not going for 1 stop.
   It seems even more senseless when they made him do 17 laps on ss at the end but decided to do only 14 on softs.

   Ericsson’s one stop was wonderful one imho
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      Alan Santo (@alanmclaren)
      9th April 2018, 15:52

      I mean, if they can do 17 on ss, doing 14 on softs seems quite a few
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      Miani (@miani)
      9th April 2018, 16:53

      The car is a lot lighter at the end. And maybe tyre degradation on his first stint was too high.
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         Alan Santo (@alanmclaren)
         9th April 2018, 17:50

         Yeah, maybe.

         It only bothers me because through performance perspective they seemed to be able not to let Hulk’s gap to increase, even with harder compounds. So unless they suddenly had a big drop on grip and therefore performance it still feels strange to me. Yeah, I’m not an expert on strategy and my comments are indeed superficial since I don’t know the details.

         I was hopeful they would be able to stay on track when the cars on ss stopped though.
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   Joao (@johnmilk)
   9th April 2018, 16:19

   @keithcollantine as long as the usual post-race feature on the site that I hope you keep, will we have the radio transcript back as well?

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