1999 SuperStats
Post-French GP Edition. Compilation by Rory Gordon, Australia

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. Time for some real trivial statistics, perhaps. A wise man once said, "Statistics teach us nothing, except that statistics teach us nothing." Sometimes it is a mystery as to what exactly what any of the SuperStats teach us. And this set of tables seem to serve no more than curiosity value. However, the curious can often be fascinating. The reader is left to draw their own conclusions and interpretations as the compiler is not sure which of his conclusions and interpretations actually demonstrate anything. RACES These two tables show figures specific to the races held so far this season. The first table shows the average for each race of each driver's grid time for that race; the average racing time for each driver; and, the total racing time for all drivers in that race. Grand Prix Average Average Total Grid Time Race Time Race Time ---------- --------- ----------- ------------ Australia 1:33.206 0:59:58.255 20:59:23.358 Brazil 1:18.556 1:07:30.277 23:37:35.813 San Marino 1:28.220 1:05:56.308 24:10:38.767 Monaco 1:22.276 1:13:06.832 26:48:30.308 Spain 1:23.452 1:15:00.357 27:30:07.856 Canada 1:20.930 1:04:53.946 23:47:46.812 France 1:43.362 1:20:26.308 29:29:38.766 The second table shows the average number of completed laps for each race; the total number of racing laps completed;and, the average of the driver's best race lap. Grand Prix Avg. Total Average Laps Laps Best Lap ---------- ---- ----- --------- Australia 35 740 1:34.733 Brazil 49 1023 1:20.176 San Marino 42 934 1:30.874 Monaco 51 1122 1:24.294 Spain 51 1114 1:26.764 Canada 44 957 1:24.348 France 49 1078 1:21.566 TEAMS As stated often in the past, I have many reservations about the methods behind the compilation of figures on the teams, but have yet to arrive at a suitable, easy and simple method. That said, I am still fascinated by data on the teams and, obviously, still compile it. The figures in this table show the average grid position of each team's drivers; their average finishing position; their total number of racing laps completed; total laps led; and kilometres led. Team Avg. Avg. Total Laps Kms Grid Finish Laps Led Led --------- ----- ------ ----- ---- ------- Arrows 19.43 13.29 665 BAR 13.86 12.73 474 Benetton 10.86 10.29 672 Ferrari 4.64 5.00 892 196 830.027 Jordan 9.21 11.21 607 7 29.750 McLaren 2.93 8.71 670 205 952.457 Minardi 20.38 13.95 600 Prost 11.86 12.86 605 Sauber 12.29 14.43 471 Stewart 8.00 12.71 599 67 285.716 Williams 12.86 10.00 713 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 Send comments to: gordon@atlasf1.com