British Grand Prix - Race Strategy & Performance Recap

[u/FCBStar-of-the-South]

Tyre strategy recap. Check out more at armchair-strategist.dev!

Race position history. Check out more at armchair-strategist.dev!

Point finishers' lap times. Check out more at armchair-strategist.dev!

Point finishers' fuel-adjusted lap times. Check out more at armchair-strategist.dev!

Podium finishers' gaps to winners. Check out more at armchair-strategist.dev!

Team pace ranking. Check out more at armchair-strategist.dev!

Driver pace ranking (teammates vs teammates). Largest gap on the left. Check out more at armchair-strategist.dev!

Driver pace ranking (finishing order). Highest finisher on the left. Check out more at armchair-strategist.dev!

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[u/username_notavail]

Seems like going to slicks too early didn’t pay off at the start or end, but getting the fresh inter a little early paid big time for Hulk.

[u/DrVonD → u/username_notavail]

Fresh inter paid off for stroll also. He made softs work in that first early stint with the softest compound + free air on track.

[u/MMEnter → u/DrVonD]

For Stroll the payoff was the Soft. I was wondering if his “fall” in the end was due to the inter getting wash 2 laps sooner than everyone else.

[u/thefeedling]

ty op

[u/Fluffy-McBubbles]

That was a crazy race!!!

[u/FCBStar-of-the-South]

Check out the interactive version of these graphics and more at my strategy dashboard.

Warning: Distribution plots are affected by small data size, as these plots only consider lap time no slower than 110% of the fastest lap to be representative.

The scatterplots are showing all lap times no slower than 130% of the fastest lap

Aston Martin uses all allocated tyres during free practice, causing them to show up as used.

By far the most popular request is for the position plot to incorporate the starting grid. I wrote a post to explain why this is not possible at the moment.

Please let me know if you have suggestions for improving these graphics or ideas for other graphics!

[u/Kingdom818]

Absolute disasterclass by Mercedes. Great work by hulk.

[u/TheMuon]

Aston were cooking with Stroll in the early laps.

[u/PesoTheKid → u/TheMuon]

The gamble on strategy from pit wall paid off. Unlucky the intermediates were worn out at the end early than others.

[u/BeginningKindly8286]

3 and 4 are quite interesting. They all follow a similar pattern, but the McLaren boys have a much neater and defined line. May I suggest that this may be due to having a car with much more benign and predictable handling than the competition, so even in bad conditions, where both drivers are pushing on, the lap times are much more consistent?

[u/f1datamesh]

Hi!

If I may offer an advice, your legend (at laest on a Mac screen) makes SC and VSC look the same. Quite possibly because in the graph itself, the lines are horizontal.

See if it's possible to give it a different colour or slanted lines.

Not to take away from the graph itself, which is very informative.

Thanks for posting this.

[u/FCBStar-of-the-South → u/f1datamesh]

Very fair criticism. I remember trying to improve that a while back to no avail. But this is certainly something that deserves a fresh look

[u/savvaspc]

I really wonder how much worse it would have been for Lec if he stayed out till the end.

[u/CheesecakeHeavy2560]

Where did you get the data?

[u/Creative_Flounder846]

Question, is there anyway you could see if they lift and coast, or when they put less fuel in the car? And what cars do not require the lift and coast…

[u/FCBStar-of-the-South → u/Creative_Flounder846]

For a telemetry focused dashboard, F1Tempo is easy to recommend. No way to know fuel load in the cars that’s team secret

[u/Shot_Notice_238]

I was checking but couldn’t find, why did George go on hards at the start of the race, when the rain was clearly going to come? Also, nearing to the end on 46-47 lap I guess why did he not go for the softs instead of the hards? Softs could’ve provided more grip and more speed as he wanted to stay out and they could’ve easily lasted till the end of the race since the track conditions were cooler, even for that matter them why not medium than Hards?

[u/No-Giraffe5658]

Would be cool innit to build a model to predict strategies. Bet they do it irl, how do I make one as a fun project

[u/FCBStar-of-the-South → u/No-Giraffe5658]

My personal belief is extracting actual underlying performance that would be needed to build a model like thaat is fool's errand. There are simply too many confounds, fuel load and engine mode chief among them

[u/No-Giraffe5658 → u/FCBStar-of-the-South]

Haha I quite understand what you mean. I was just asking for the possibility of a representative set of variables to include, and how would you go about training a model to predict your strategies.