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[Brogan]

As promised

So from Bahrain in 2010 when there were just 21 overtakes, just 14 months on in Turkey we had...wait for it...an astonishing, and yet another record-breaking figure for F1 of 126!

Courtesy of cliptheapex.com, figures show that in the previous six years of the race being staged at the track, we had witnessed just 120 in total.

Spanish fans will faint with shock if we get that many on May 22 at the Circuit de Catalunya, a notoriously miserable overtaking venue, where there have been just 103 passes since 1995.

http://www.sportinglife.com/formula...ME=formula1/11/05/12/AUTO_Column.html&BID=669

 

[Brogan]

Crofty just mentioned the Turkey overtaking figure and the site during FP1 of the 2011 Spanish Grand Prix

 

[Grizzly]

Jake was just on R1.. I txt in give us a mention, but...

 

[KekeTheKing]

Crofty just mentioned the Turkey overtaking figure and the site during FP1 of the 2011 Spanish Grand Prix

Right after reading a Tweet that sounded like it could have come from Mr. Brogan

 

[Brogan]

Jake Humphrey just mentioned the overtaking stat's for the season and Turkey during the 2011 Spanish GP main qualifying program

No plug for the site unfortunately but it was definitely our data.

 

[MCLS]

Sure it wasn't Mercedes data?

 

[Brogan]

Nope. Definitely ours.

296 overtakes for the season (which was the total before we added the 5 additional overtakes for Malaysia).
126 overtakes for Turkey.

 

[MCLS]

Good stuff then Problem this those who aren't registered with us will assume that it is Mercedes data though.

 

[KekeTheKing]

That was pretty cool. 126 Baby!

 

[KekeTheKing]

Good stuff then Problem this those who aren't registered with us will assume that it is Mercedes data though.

I pity those people.

 

[Brogan]

Well I just Tweeted it so make sure you all Retweet

http://twitter.com/#!/ClipTheApex/status/71896446995136512

 

[KekeTheKing]

Here was Crofty's mention during FP1.

 

[tooncheese]

P26 of F1 Racing magazine. They quote and credit the stats for Spain and previous Spanish GP's. "More this year than the previous 10 years combined"

 

[MCLS]

By heck, we aint doing too badly.

 

[Jos the Boss]

I heard that go CTA!

 

[Brogan]

After Mercedes published an updated article on overtaking statistics last week, the site was referenced in a lot of sites, including Eurosport France and L'Equipe, amongst others.

http://www.eurosport.fr/formule-1/saison/2011/les-depassements-de-retour_sto2877297/flashnews.shtml

http://www.lequipe.fr/Formule1/breves2011/20110721_092740_les-depassements-sont-rois.html

 

[cider_and_toast]

OMG!!

Good ain't it.

 

[Porceliamone]

Does Mercedes credit (or indeed use) the CTA raw figures?

 

[Brogan]

Does Mercedes credit (or indeed use) the CTA raw figures?

No.
They collect the data themselves.

 

[mjo]

Pg. 28 of F1 Racing (August 2011) that I got this morning had another mention of CTA!!! Well done to all the guys involved in the overtaking stats!
EDIT: About the number of overtakes in this season's GP's in relation to last year's.

Oh, and also, they're not very happy with the new tv deal and 96% of their letters are regarding it.