Motorsport Off Topic Thread

poosemon · Monday at 13:27

Mr Jack said:
Williams put out an nice video on the rebuilding of the cars after Brazil:

Thanks for sharing! Interesting watch - how many millions of ££ of damaged parts in that box as they were unpacking it!

Great to see this sort of thing shared as find it fascinating and not often made public the process it goes through.

petridish · Monday at 15:05

poosemon said:
Thanks for sharing! Interesting watch - how many millions of ££ of damaged parts in that box as they were unpacking it!

Great to see this sort of thing shared as find it fascinating and not often made public the process it goes through.

Totally agree. Hats off to the team for that, both those working on the car and those documenting and sharing what is usually quite a secretive world.

Interesting to hear him say potentially they'll be in a better state in Vegas than arriving at Brazil. Shows crashing during a triple header it can really have an impact.

Scam · Monday at 15:28

Interesting video, good on them for posting such good BTS. I did laugh when right at the end the Chief MEchanic is doing his bit to camera and the same guys behind him troop one way holding something, then back the other way. Methinks they were having a laugh

petridish · Monday at 15:41

Scam said:
Interesting video, good on them for posting such good BTS. I did laugh when right at the end the Chief MEchanic is doing his bit to camera and the same guys behind him troop one way holding something, then back the other way. Methinks they were having a laugh

I clocked that too. Nice to see a bit of harmless fun going on.

Mr Jack · 2024-11-19T08:53:48+0000

Interesting piece from Racefans: Verstappen has racked up more penalty points than any other driver. Not all that surprising, but the list of drivers at the top did surprise me:

Rank	Driver	Penalty points	Starts*	Points/start
1	Max Verstappen	39	206	0.19
2	Kevin Magnussen	37	182	0.20
3	Sergio Perez	34	222	0.15
4	Sebastian Vettel	32	179	0.18
5	Lance Stroll	29	163	0.18
6	Daniil Kvyat	27	110	0.25
7	Fernando Alonso	26	184	0.14
8	Romain Grosjean	23	134	0.17
9	Nico Hulkenberg	22	167	0.13
10	Daniel Ricciardo	21	207	0.10

KMag, Grosjean, Stroll, and Perez are also no surprise, but who had Vettel down as clocking up penalty points at that rate, or Hülk, or Ricciardo? I'd have figured drivers like Ocon might be up there as well.

Scam · 2024-11-19T13:42:08+0000

I'm not all that surprised with the top four. Vettel was quite the menace at RB wasn't he?

koolpc · 2024-11-19T13:59:23+0000

Good to see Max at the top! Lol...a leader in all things...

Kenai · 2024-11-19T14:08:13+0000

Scam said:
I'm not all that surprised with the top four. Vettel was quite the menace at RB wasn't he?

The penalty points system is only 10 years old or so I think, so most of his time at RBR wouldn't have been at the time he could accrue penalty points

GravyMonster · 2024-11-19T14:46:34+0000

Yeah, start of the 2014 season so only 1 year at RBR.

cuke2u · 2024-11-19T15:18:30+0000

Mr Jack said:
Interesting piece from Racefans: Verstappen has racked up more penalty points than any other driver. Not all that surprising, but the list of drivers at the top did surprise me:

Rank Driver Penalty points Starts* Points/start
1 Max Verstappen 39 206 0.19
2 Kevin Magnussen 37 182 0.20
3 Sergio Perez 34 222 0.15
4 Sebastian Vettel 32 179 0.18
5 Lance Stroll 29 163 0.18
6 Daniil Kvyat 27 110 0.25
7 Fernando Alonso 26 184 0.14
8 Romain Grosjean 23 134 0.17
9 Nico Hulkenberg 22 167 0.13
10 Daniel Ricciardo 21 207 0.10

KMag, Grosjean, Stroll, and Perez are also no surprise, but who had Vettel down as clocking up penalty points at that rate, or Hülk, or Ricciardo? I'd have figured drivers like Ocon might be up there as well.

I think the ratio of points to starts is the interesting one and more representative..

Mr Jack · 2024-11-19T15:19:55+0000

cuke2u said:
I think the ratio of points to starts is the more interesting one and representative..

I agree. Although it seems to tell a similar tale. I did try and find a more complete list, but I couldn't find an up-to-date set of data.

GravyMonster · 2024-11-20T09:09:28+0000

Logan Sargeant testing already for an Indycar seat. Some positive noises coming from his performances with the team. Good luck to him. He may not have been the quickest in F1, but always seemed like a down to Earth, genuine guy.