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SuperGrid & SuperRace 1997
Spainish GP Edition. Compilation by Rory Gordon, Australia

 

SUPERGRID 1997

An all-Williams front row for Spain means that the SuperGrid has an all-Williams front row also. This edition of the SuperGrid is sorted on the drivers' average position and then on their times - which is why the times and percentages may seem to be wrong.

While the best average time is used for calculating percentages in the SuperGrid, the actual average time for pole so far is 1m21.315, which makes the 107% mark 1m27.007.

With the changes at Sauber, Larini and Morbidelli join the "second division": drivers who have not competed in every race this season. Due to a number of requests, Rosset and Sospiri will be retained in the SuperGrid tables.

  DRIVER TEAM   POS. TIME %'AGE
1 Villeneuve WIL   1.33 1m21.376 100
2 Frentzen WIL   2.83 1m21.995 100.761
3 Schumacher, M FER   3.5 1m22.397 101.254
4 Coulthard MCL   7.33 1m22.828 101.784
5 Panis PRO   7.5 1m22.991 101.985
6 Schumacher, R JOR   8 1m22.995 101.989
7 Hakkinen MCL   8 1m23.078 102.091
8 Fisichella JOR   8 1m23.122 102.145
9 Herbert SAU   8.67 1m23.097 102.115
10 Alesi BEN   8.67 1m23.208 102.251
11 Berger BEN   9.83 1m23.397 102.484
12 Irvine FER   10.17 1m23.199 102.24
13 Barrichello STE   11.17 1m23.568 102.693
14 Hill ARR   14.17 1m24.114 103.364
15 Nakano PRO   17.67 1m24.688 104.07
16 Salo TYR   17.67 1m24.725 104.116
17 Trulli MIN   18 1m24.730 104.121
18 Magnussen STE   18.5 1m24.866 104.289
19 Diniz ARR   19 1m25.030 104.49
20 Katayama MIN   19.33 1m25.129 104.612
21 Verstappen TYR   20 1m25.260 104.772
  ---107%---       1m27.072 107
22 Morbidelli SAU * 13 1m19.323  
23 Larini SAU * 13.8 1m24.935  
24 Sospiri LOL * 23 1m40.972  
25 Rosset LOL * 24 1m42.086  

 

SUPERRACE 1997

World Champion one year ... the back-marker the next. We all know the story, so far, for Hill in 1997. This edition of the SuperRace may well serve the further deepen the depression about Hill's 1997 results - or lack thereof. A dismal season, indeed.

Meanwhile, at the other end of the table, Panis' consistency is paying off in many ways, however the SuperRace is sorted (here it is sorted on position).

Some really meaningless figures. To date, the ranks of the 1997 F1 drivers have completed a total of 6057 laps, and a distance of some 27,129 kilometres. So far as finishing a race is concerned, the Ferrari drivers are averaging 7.583 for their chassis and engine, while the Goodyear tyres average a 10.196 finishing position.

  DRIVER TEAM   POS. LAPS TOTAL LAPS
          390 KMS LED
1 Schumacher, M FER   5.83 318 1,433.48 64
2 Panis PRO   6.83 335 1,505.22  
3 Villeneuve WIL   7.17 264 1,169.32 223
4 Hakkinen MCL   7.5 328 1,529.88  
5 Alesi BEN   8.17 319 1,453.12  
6 Berger BEN   8.5 330 1,447.46 3
7 Irvine FER   9.33 329 1,419.30 6
8 Frentzen WIL   9.5 297 1,361.46 60
9 Larini SAU * 9.6 277 1,262.08  
10 Fisichella JOR   10 297 1,299.05  
11 Salo TYR   11 340 1,496.41  
12 Herbert SAU   11.67 235 1,037.30  
13 Coulthard MCL   12 232 1,105.55 34
14 Magnussen STE * 12.8 228 985.016  
15 Verstappen TYR   13.67 298 1,289.81  
16 Nakano PRO   14 257 1,146.49  
17 Barrichello STE   14 219 967.782  
18 Morbidelli SAU * 14 62 293.136  
19 Trulli MIN   14.17 266 1,215.43  
20 Schumacher, R JOR   15 205 905.92  
21 Katayama MIN   15.17 266 1,159.65  
22 Diniz ARR   15.5 224 1,071.22  
23 Hill ARR * 18.8 131 575.103  
NOTES

The raw data are copyright © 1997 Fédération Internationale de l'Automobile (8 place de la Concorde, Paris 75008 France). These compilations are copyright © 1997 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.

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