1998 Superstats

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1998 SuperStats

Italian GP Edition. Compilation by Rory Gordon, Australia

As the 1998 season draws to a climatic conclusion, the SuperStats for the Grand Prix of Italy take a step back and return to their roots of the SuperGrid as originally presented by the late John Taylor in Autocourse.

This table is akin to the FIA grid sheet at every Grand Prix. However, this table differs in that it shows a grid based on the average grid times for each driver so far this season.

Not only do the times overall seem to be closer than ever before, but this season has also been notable for the lack, so far, of driver changes - the only one being Verstappen taking over from Magnussen. along with those two drivers, Rosset is also not eligible for the final SuperGrid of the season as they have not set a grid time for all the Grands Prix.

Driver           Average      Split        Gap To       %'age   
                 Grid Time                 Pole                 
-------------    ---------    ---------    ---------    --------

Hakkinen         1m25.717s                              100.000%
Coulthard        1m26.095s    0m00.378s    0m00.378s    100.441%
Schumacher, M    1m26.304s    0m00.209s    0m00.587s    100.685%
Villeneuve       1m26.945s    0m00.641s    0m01.228s    101.433%
Irvine           1m26.957s    0m00.012s    0m01.240s    101.447%
Fisichella       1m27.041s    0m00.084s    0m01.324s    101.544%
Frentzen         1m27.133s    0m00.092s    0m01.416s    101.652%
Schumacher, R    1m27.395s    0m00.262s    0m01.678s    101.957%
Hill             1m27.440s    0m00.045s    0m01.723s    102.010%
Wurz             1m27.440s    0m00.001s    0m01.723s    102.011%
Alesi            1m27.623s    0m00.182s    0m01.906s    102.223%
Herbert          1m27.913s    0m00.473s    0m02.196s    102.562%
Barrichello      1m28.326s    0m00.412s    0m02.608s    103.043%
Trulli           1m28.484s    0m00.158s    0m02.767s    103.228%
Panis            1m28.592s    0m00.108s    0m02.875s    103.354%
Salo             1m28.630s    0m00.038s    0m02.912s    103.398%
Diniz            1m29.034s    0m00.405s    0m03.317s    103.870%
Takagi           1m29.052s    0m00.017s    0m03.334s    103.890%
Nakano           1m29.942s    0m00.891s    0m04.225s    104.929%
Tuero            1m30.040s    0m00.097s    0m04.322s    105.043%
---107%---       1m31.717s    0m03.088s    0m06.000s    107.000%

    Magnussen        1m26.557s
    Rosset           1m29.153s
    Verstappen       1m31.976s


The raw data are copyright © 1998 Fédération de l'Automobile (8 place de la Concorde, Paris 75008 France). These compilations are copyright © 1998 Rory Gordon. Reproduction in any form of these compilations is forbidden without the express permission of the compiler.

The data are subject to revision. The compiler will not be held responsible for any errors or omissions.

For any comments, please contact the compiler.

Rory Gordon
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