Rather belatedly, I got around to posting a series of posts summarising the Formula One season to date: F1 2012 Mid-Season Review – Grid/Classification Analysis: for example, how do the drivers’ grid and final classifications compare? F1 2012 Mid-Season Review – Pit Stops: for example, how does pit stop performance across the teams ... [Read more...]

Why don’t X-Y plots of latitude and longitude data look “right” compared to traditional map views? For example, here’s an X-Y scatterplot of some of Jenson Button’s McLaren telemetry data from the 2010 Australian Formula One Grand Prix: The image was generated, from a data file hosted on ... [Read more...]

Things have been a little quiet, post wise here, of late, in part because of the holiday season… but I have been posting notes on a couple of charts in progress over on the F1DataJunkie blog. Here are links to the posts in chronological order – they capture the evolution ... [Read more...]

Looking over the sector times from the qualifying session for tomorrow’s Hungarian Grand Prix, I noticed that Vettel was only fastest in one of the sectors. Whilst looking for an easy way of shaping an R data frame so that I could plot categorical values sector1, sector2, sector3 on ... [Read more...]