2021 Bahrain Grand Prix interactive data: lap charts, times and tyres

16 comments on “2021 Bahrain Grand Prix interactive data: lap charts, times and tyres”

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   Niefer (@niefer)
   29th March 2021, 1:27

   “Clearly faster”, huh, @f1osaurus? ;)
   What a joke.
   1. 

      F1oSaurus (@)
      29th March 2021, 7:44

      @niefer Lol you are really going to try to deny that Verstappen had the fastest car?

      What a joke indeed.
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         Niefer (@niefer)
         29th March 2021, 8:07

         @f1osaurus – go argue with the charts, if you can understand them. I give up on you.
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            F1oSaurus (@)
            29th March 2021, 14:07

            @niefer The charts clearly shows Verstappen was faster. How do you think he closed the gap to Hamilton? Or how he was on top of every session before the race?

            The chart shows even Perez had a faster lap than Hamilton.

            Is it that you don’t understand that Bottas taking a fresh set of medium tyre to set a single fastest lap is not representative?

            You really should give up on commenting on F1 altogether.
         2. 

            mystic one (@mysticus)
            29th March 2021, 14:41

            @niefer
            in the charts, you can see average speed of max is faster than lewis… overall…
            RB made a mistake, despite undercut, they should have pitted, as i m quite sure, max would have gotten by mercedes much easier with fresher mediums… and continue to track position… they had the speed and pace… not sure why didnt they pursue it is beyond me… the only logical thing is they were afraid that lewis would pace up and make max waste the tyres sooner… but even then they could do the undercut themselves, and move on… not sure mercedes would answer to max’s pace… they were clearly faster in race pace… not sure why u both argue about the same thing.
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   Tim
   29th March 2021, 3:42

   Comparing Stroll and Vettel’s lap times, the gap between the two is the largest on the grid.

   Vettel will likely not see out his contract at Aston Martin. I hope I’m wrong.
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   NS Biker (@rekibsn)
   29th March 2021, 3:56

   Seems Perez went from Pit Lane to 3rd in 17 laps, sets the 3rd fastest race lap, 2nd if you discount Bottas’s one-lap-wonder. Not bad for a “new guy on the team”.
   Just can’t wait to see more action from both Red Bull drivers.
   Wonder what he can do once he gets used to the car.?
   1. 

      MattDS (@mattds)
      29th March 2021, 8:52

      @rekibsn well, Albon on his first race for RBR did 17th to 5th. Perez pit to 5th, but the SC brought him back into play immediately so in the end both results are highly comparable.

      Not saying Perez ultimately won’t do better but a lot of people seem to forget Albon had a comparable start for the team. The true measure is not seeing how he can get the best (or second best maybe in following races, we’ll see) car up to fifth from back of the grid – it’s seeing how he can consistently qualify it on first or second row of the grid, score podiums with it and make it a bit harder for Mercedes.
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         bosyber (@bosyber)
         29th March 2021, 15:45

         Good bit of context @mattds, indeed, let’s not forget why Albon was initially seen as a good try, and hopeful signing, if only he could keep improving on that a bit large deficit to Verstappen in quali, until he couldn’t.

         I do think that Perez did well, and his confidence in his race and tyre-massaging probably helps them go for more advantagous strategies when he’s not quite there, but they will want him to get nearer soon.
   2. 

      Rik
      5th April 2021, 22:32

      Not that remarkable if you consider he rejoined at the back of the field on lap 4 after the safetycar went of.
      On the freshest tires, in arguably the fastest car, and with almost the entire field pitting between lap 12 and 16.
      Not saying it wasn’t a very good drive but lets not forget he still almost finished a minute behind Verstappen on what turned out to be a similar strategy.
      I’ll concede he had to do alot of overtakes but on the restart he was only 5 to 6 seconds behind Verstappen.
      Plus Verstappens car had diff issues and RBR revealed that they had to run his car on a lower engine setting because some sort of software issue.
      I like Pérez and i hope he does well but i think his drive wasn’t as stellar as everyone makes it out to be.
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   AdrianMorse (@adrianmorse)
   29th March 2021, 5:43

   I thought Mercedes had overplayed their hand by pitting Hamilton after only 15 laps on a new set of hard tyres. Of course, he had to use the tyres hard initially to execute the undercut, but still I would have expected him to go a bit longer on those tyres (though his last lap before the pit stop was not good – I did not see if he had any traffic that lap). However, Max had closed to within 2 seconds, which I suppose is the undercut range. I don’t think Red Bull would have pitted Max at the first opportunity, but apparently Mercedes did not want to take the chance.

   Note that Hamilton was not unlucky after the first pit stop. On the timing screens we could see Perez closing to within 0.3 seconds, so despite his pit lane start he almost did do the job Red Bull hired him to do.
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   Euro Brun (@eurobrun)
   29th March 2021, 9:53

   The graphs are so hard to follow now that majority of the field is a sea of blues
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      Keith Collantine (@keithcollantine)
      29th March 2021, 12:31

      @eurobrun Yeah I’ll do some work on that to improve it. Remember you can select the driver’s name in the legend to highlight them, and of course switch off the drivers whose data you want to exclude.
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         Sumedh
         29th March 2021, 13:46

         One suggestion could be use of dashed and solid lines to show 2 drivers of same team. That would reduce your color requirement by half.
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   Fryewerk
   29th March 2021, 15:35

   These charts are wonderful. I love a good collection of data!
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   RekF1
   31st March 2021, 21:16

   Although RB appeared faster, Mercedes had to measure their pace, so on race pace they’re not separable currently. IF they stay closely matched, then I’d still call RB slight favourites because they can do sub 2 seconds stops whereas Mercedes still look ,erm… Let’s say rusty.

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