The 2011 Season

[no-FIAt-please]

Williams have released Sam Michael from his contract early, he is allowed to begin working for McLaren on 1/11/2011 (or 11/1/2011 if your an Atlantic cousin), this will allow him to attend the last two races (Abu Dhabi and Brazil) of the season with McLaren and gain a much better insight into his role rather than being dropped into the deep end at Melbourne next year.

 

[RickD]

Williams have released Sam Michael from his contract early, he is allowed to begin working for McLaren on 1/11/2011 (or 11/1/2011 if your an Atlantic cousin), this will allow him to attend the last two races (Abu Dhabi and Brazil) of the season with McLaren and gain a much better insight into his role rather than being dropped into the deep end at Melbourne next year.

I wonder how much that cost McLaren..

 

[teabagyokel]

Sometimes I just play around with Excel charts:

Sirs, the 2011 World Drivers Championship

 

[Galahad]

Speechless!

 

[FB]

It doesn't matter how you dress it up, there only one bloke who is head and shoulders (no Jenson, not you) above the rest.

Though you might all enjoy this image of Sebastein fingering his helmet...

 

[teabagyokel]

It doesn't matter how you dress it up, there only one bloke who is head and shoulders (no Jenson, not you) above the rest.

I don't think I've posted anything to dispute that!

 

[Brogan]

Sirs, the 2011 World Drivers Championship

I've got one of those, with flashy mouseover effects

http://cliptheapex.com/pages/2011-standings/

 

[Fenderman]

Interactive! Great fun and informative too! Sorry TBY, have to like Bro's a teensy weensy bit more! Classically supreme stat's and presentation from Clip The Apex as ever. Wicked.

That's to both you guys, by the way and Galahad and Keke and ... well everybody who brings us the facts on here.

 

[Brogan]

The FIA has mistakenly changed Lotus to Caterham: http://www.fia.com/EN-GB/SPORT/CHAMPIONSHIPS/F1/Pages/season_guide1.aspx

Although the name change has been approved, it isn't until next year.

 

[RasputinLives]

thats odd! Interesting they should do it on one but not the other 2!

There is a Caterham GP2 team though so maybe it was on the drop down option when programmed in

 

[The Artist.....]

It really is scary that essentially the battle for second place in the 2011 world championship has mirrored the battle for first place in the 2010 championship - such is the dominance of Sebastian Vettel this year!

 

[teabagyokel]

I've got one of those, with flashy mouseover effects

http://cliptheapex.com/pages/2011-standings/

And very good it is too!

I attempted to change the perspective so its a little clearer whats happening further down the field. Don't know if it worked?

 

[Brogan]

Yes, it's much clearer than a flat two dimensional chart; one of the drawbacks when there are so many non-scorers.

 

[Brogan]

Some vaguely interesting stat's, as the season draws to an end, taken from here:
http://cliptheapex.com/pages/2011-statistics/

Mark Webber hasn't won a single GP, Vettel has won 11.
Button and Hamilton are matched on wins and points finishes, but Button has finished on the podium 11 times, Hamilton just 6.
Massa hasn't finished on the podium all season, Alonso 10 times.
Only 7 different drivers have finished on the podium.
Only 4 different drivers have won a race.

 

[Slyboogy]

Only 7 different drivers have finished on the podium.

Is that not 5 drivers? Think it was mentioned in commentray that it was just Alonso, Button, Hamilton, Vettel and Webber

 

[Brogan]

Petrov at Australia, Heidfeld at Malaysia, plus Vettel, Webber, Hamilton, Button, Alonso.

The page I linked to above is accurate.

 

[Slyboogy]

Martin Brundle is wrong then

 

[no-FIAt-please]

Button also missed out on 2 points finished in Britain and Germany due to reliability, which slightly scews the result.

 

[Brogan]

Until his retirement today, Vettel was on course to be the only driver to finish every race this year.

 

[Jos the Boss]

Martin Brundle is wrong then

No he isn't! I heard him say 7!