Belgium GP - Silly Sweepstake

[slickskid]

This races sweepstake comes from the blue flag brigade - a gentlemans league of being overtaken

All you have to do is guess how many times the race winner laps other cars in the field that were classified finishers (according to the official published race classification).

This is not an official statistical review so there is no prize for the first smartass that points out that Senna unlapped himself in Spain once or any other example come to think of it

 

[Brogan]

Bearing in mind Spa is the longest circuit and has a relatively fast lap time, taking the existing fastest laps and equalising them all based on Spa this is what we get.

Italy		1:37.988

Belgium		1:47.263

Great Britain	1:47.860

Japan		1:50.409

Australia	1:51.109

Turkey		1:51.227

Germany		1:52.977

Brazil		1:56.175

Canada		1:58.241

China		1:58.517

Malaysia	1:59.058

France		1:59.687

Japan		2:00.380

Germany		2:01.724

Spain		2:02.882

Hungary		2:06.413

Abu Dhabi	2:06.459

Europe		2:07.547

Bahrain		2:11.526

Singapore	2:25.794

Monaco		2:36.099

Korea		N/A

From those figures I can see that there is absolutely no correlation between circuit length, lap time and the number of times drivers have been lapped.

So I'll go for 6

 

[Bullfrog]

16.

 

[AlexM]

Twenty Six and Two Thirds.

 

[teabagyokel]

I'll go for 13.

 

[McZiderRed]

Looking at those previous races, the number 21 has come up most often (If I deliberately ignore the number 8).

So, I choose 23.

 

[Muddytalker]

I'll take 11, please.

 

[MCLS]

I'll have 10

 

[Boyle]

I'll do 18

 

[FB]

Has 12 gone? If not I'll take that if I may.

 

[Enja]

17.

 

[F1Yorkshire]

14 Feels twice as lucky as a normal number.

 

[tooncheese]

Spa is long and SC prone so 15 unless its been nabbed