Monday, May 28, 2012

F1 2012 Monaco - Pit Stop Behaviour

A handful of graphics showing how the drivers pitted during the Monaco 2012 Formula On Grand Prix. When did the drivers stop (or at least, pass through the pits) and how long did they spend doing it?
Same chart, essentially, with axes flipped:
How much time in total did each driver lose in the pits (NB maybe better to do a stacked chart here so we can see the contribution of each PIT event?)?
Separate out the times spent on first, second pit stop, etc. Is this a clearer way of separating out strategies? Would it b more useful if bars were coloured according to the tyre each driver came out of the pits on?
Another view over individual strategies. The point size represents how long was spent pitting.
To see the R code used to generate these charts: CloudStat: F1 Race Stats To do in general: tidy up the legends.

Saturday, May 26, 2012

F1 2012 Monaco Qualifying - Summary Charts

A few summary charts based on qualifying timing data from the 2012 Monaco Formula One Grand Prix. Apologies for the low quality images...








For R scripts describing how the images were generated, see: CloudStat: F1 Qualifying.

Friday, May 25, 2012

F1 Championship Points Overview

The following graphic - known as a Sankey Diagram - is generated using the d3.js library according to a recipe developed by Mike Bostock, (my working notes here). The data is pulled from the Ergast Motor Racing Results Data API.

(I think the insecure content warning is a result of mixing http and https calls to generate the following graphic. Not sure what I can do about this????)

The chart shows how points "flow" from race to driver to team. The chart is interactive so you can reorder the driver/team blocks. I wonder if it would make sense to order the drivers and/or team blocks in the standings order (although the mapping of lines from race to driver may get a little more cluttered/confusing?), or use colour to identify rank positions?