2020 Styrian Grand Prix interactive data: lap charts, times and tyres

14 comments on “2020 Styrian Grand Prix interactive data: lap charts, times and tyres”

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   theRealMax (@millionus)
   13th July 2020, 7:12

   If I’m reading the graphs correctly then it looks like Lando was as fast as Hamilton for his 2nd stint. Impressive but seems like the McClaren likes a lighter fuel load. You can definitely feel in the race that there are some drivers who get into a rhythm better than their team mates in the second half of the race, but perhaps this is just a querk of the Alpha Tauri Ring.
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      Jere (@jerejj)
      13th July 2020, 7:26

      @millionus Alpha Tauri Ring, LOL.
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      Ivan Vinitskyy (@ivan-vinitskyy)
      13th July 2020, 8:48

      @millionus You’re missing the fact that Lando pitted 12 laps later, stint length much shorter so he could push a lot more.
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         theRealMax (@millionus)
         13th July 2020, 22:06

         @ivan-vinitskyy Good point. I knew there was a reason why I don’t work for an F1 team :)
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   James (@knewman)
   13th July 2020, 8:03

   Can I just say how much I LOVE this feature? I’m sure it probably doesn’t get the same kinda traffic that a “Mercedes accuses Verstappen of Murdering a Cow!!” type of headline gets, but it’s absolutely one of the reasons I keep coming back here.
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      Captain Pie (@captainpie)
      13th July 2020, 10:56

      Verstappen murdered a Cow!! Vegans unite!

      /s
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      Keith Collantine (@keithcollantine)
      13th July 2020, 15:00

      @knewman Thanks very much James!
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   DAllein (@)
   13th July 2020, 8:32

   It is funny how may are assuming Mercedes were slow, and that suddenly everybody was faster then them in the second half of the race.

   Look. They Mercedes were faster by a mile. They were in front and just didn’t need to stress the car any more, that they needed.
   What is the benefit in finishing with 30+ seconds margin, but with concerns about the car? No point.
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   ColdFly (@)
   13th July 2020, 8:55

   That McLaren is quite impressive at certain points during the race.
   Sainz kept Verstappen more than honest during the initial laps, and he beat him by 0.5s chasing the FLAP.
   Also Norris had a good couple of laps towards the end both weekends.
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   frood19 (@frood19)
   13th July 2020, 8:57

   I’m struggling to understand ricciardo’s strategy, surely he needed to go much longer on his stint on the medium tyres? Both perez and norris went longer on the soft. Was the medium just not a great tyre? He had good pace on it early on.
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      Keith Campbell (@keithedin)
      13th July 2020, 10:10

      @frood19 I think that since the soft was holding on quite well they thought it was a good tyre to go to the end from that point. Plus, if he’d stayed out longer he would have likely lost track position to Sainz and Perez who were quite close to his window.
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         Keith Campbell (@keithedin)
         13th July 2020, 10:14

         @coldfly Yeah but I’m curious where Sainz’s pace went on the second stint. He didn’t seem happy on the medium compound – his laptimes were quite a bit off what Norris was doing which ultimately dropped him from a potential P5 all the way to P9. Given that he got fastest lap by a good margin, albeit on a brand new soft, it doesn’t look like there was any problem with the car.
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         frood19 (@frood19)
         13th July 2020, 10:17

         @keithedin yes, I guess hindsight is a wonderful thing with these strategies. It strikes me that they went a bit too conservative, given that track position was not as important as it is on some tracks. he could have given up track position and then had an advantage at the end. bottas had a 10 (?) lap tyre advantage over verstappen and breezed past. though admittedly he also had a mercedes.
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   David (@davidjwest)
   13th July 2020, 15:09

   Looks like Verstappen picked up his damage on lap 50, you can see he gets progressively slower after that whilst Bottas gets quicker.

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