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| 1999 SuperStats | |
| San Marino GP Edition. Compilation by Rory Gordon, Australia | |
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The Superstats is an on-going project that attempts to classify various performances throughout an F1 season by, generally, averaging each race's performance, in several categories, over the entire season.
Conceived as the SuperGrid by the late John Taylor for Autocourse, I started my own compilations when Taylor died. Originally, the SuperStats - as the project was to become - was developed purely for my own interest. This has not changed, and the day I get bored with the SuperStats, they will stop. All figures used in the SuperStats are based on the official FIA timing sheets and, where necessary, those sheets are deemed to be the final authority.
Already this season, there are four drivers (Luca Badoer, Mika Salo, Stephan Sarrazin and Ricardo Zonta) with an asterisk beside their names to denote that they have not participated in every race. All such drivers appear in the "second division" of the SuperGrid, separated from the main field to clearly show their advantage/disadvantage. SuperGrid The first SuperGrid of the season shows what most F1 fans would probably know instinctively anyway - the two McLarens are on top with Michael Schumacher close behind. The claims from the Stewart team that they may soon be one of the top teams does not appear to be too far from the mark. Even the Stewart "new boy", Herbert, seems to be performing well. Down the bottom of the "grid", it would seem that the Arrows and Minardi teams are in for a bleak season. The table is sorted on times.
Driver Team Average Total Percent
Pos Time Time
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Hakkinen McLaren 1.000 4m13.392s 100.000%
Coulthard McLaren 2.000 4m14.045s 100.258%
Schumacher, M Ferrari 3.333 4m15.897s 100.989%
Barrichello Stewart 4.333 4m16.862s 101.369%
Irvine Ferrari 5.333 4m17.125s 101.473%
Frentzen Jordan 6.667 4m17.791s 101.736%
Hill Jordan 8.000 4m18.287s 101.932%
Schumacher, R Williams 9.333 4m18.967s 102.200%
Fisichella Benetton 9.333 4m19.100s 102.253%
Villeneuve BAR 10.667 4m19.578s 102.441%
Herbert Stewart 11.667 4m19.611s 102.454%
Wurz Benetton 12.000 4m19.888s 102.564%
Trulli Prost 13.000 4m20.058s 102.631%
Zanardi Williams 14.000 4m21.143s 102.955%
Diniz Sauber 14.667 4m21.167s 103.059%
Panis Prost 14.333 4m21.909s 103.068%
Alesi Sauber 14.333 4m20.879s 103.361%
de la Rosa Arrows 18.000 4m23.516s 103.995%
Takagi Arrows 19.000 4m23.936s 104.161%
Gene Minardi 21.333 4m27.758s 105.669%
--- 107% --- 4m31.129s 107.000%
Zonta BAR * 19.000 1m34.412s
Sarrazin Minardi * 19.000 1m20.016s
Salo BAR * 19.000 1m29.451s
Badoer MInardi * 21.500 3m06.261s
The first SuperRace indicates that 1999 may finally, at long last, be the season for Ferrari, with both Michael Schumacher and Eddie Irvine - the latter only just - leading the race. Sorted on laps completed, the juxtaposition of laps completed against position clearly indicates that it just isn't necessarily good enough to finish a race, it's position that counts. Mika Hakkinen is well down the order, but is currently third in the Championship; while Takagi is sixth in the SuperRace, and without points in the Championship. The extra asterisks against "Avg. Best Lap" shows those drivers who have not set a fastest lap at every race so far this season (Jean Alesi, Johnny Herbert and Damon Hill at Australia, and Jarno Trulli and Jacques Villeneuve at San Marino). Naturally, a driver must complete at least one lap in a race to set a fastest lap time in that race.
Driver Team Avg. Laps Racing Time Avg. Best
Pos 191 Lap Time
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Schumacher, M Ferrari 3.67 190 4h45m10.007s 1m26.425s
Irvine Ferrari 6.67 174 4h21m22.593s 1m27.367s
Frentzen Jordan 6.67 174 4h21m26.653s 1m27.539s
Barrichello Stewart 7.00 160 4h06m28.173s 1m27.645s
Schumacher, R Williams 8.00 156 3h54m23.739s 1m27.846s
Takagi Arrows 10.33 155 3h58m54.090s 1m29.687s
Gene Minardi 10.33 153 3h55m41.076s 1m30.787s
Fisichella Benetton 8.00 151 4h01m43.021s 1m28.373s
Panis Prost 11.33 142 3h32m31.823s 1m28.459s
Zanardi Williams 13.33 121 3h05m23.264s 1m29.624s
Diniz Sauber 12.67 118 3h05m04.604s 1m28.830s
De La Rosa Arrows 11.67 114 2h56m42.497s 1m30.082s
Hakkinen McLaren 11.67 110 2h39m37.952s 1m26.967s
Wurz Benetton 12.67 103 2h33m54.083s 1m29.850s
Badoer Minardi * 9.00 101 2h46m46.291s 1m34.962s*
Coulthard McLaren 12.67 97 2h28m43.287s 1m27.371s
Alesi Sauber 14.67 88 2h11m48.087s 1m24.670s*
Herbert Stewart * 15.00 73 1h52m35.498s 1m25.781s*
Hill Jordan 15.00 71 1h48m04.725s 1m25.640s*
Villeneuve BAR 17.00 62 1h29m09.772s 1m27.749s*
Salo BAR * 7.00 59 1h32m08.096s 1m31.007s*
Zonta BAR * 9.00 48 1h22m24.310s 1m34.756s*
Trulli Prost 18.33 46 1h14m44.152s 1m27.975s*
Sarrazin Minardi * 16.00 31 0h42m50.145s 1m21.225s*
The raw data are copyright © 1999 F?d?ration de l'Automobile (2 Chemin Blandonnet, 1215 Geneva 15, Switzerland). These compilations are copyright © 1999 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 |