RaceDepartment Forum Racing Season 36 - Statistics
Let's start with the regular teammate comparisons:
As you can see the two title rivals and teammate's were equal on race performances, with Kederer grabbing the early advantage but Ancevski slowly but surely grabbed back the advantage to take the title by 4 points! For the other teams we see some really one-sided affairs with Utzer only managing to outperform his teammate once, that was when he took his only podium and win of the season in Spain. Omer Said also dominated his teammate but had to get to grips with his car in the early part of the season, whereas he too, just like Ancevski, started to reel in the results in the second half of the season.
Next up are the regular stats:
Most noticable here are the win and pole of Utzer in Spain considering his season, the weird pole by Stevinho in the final grand prix of the season and the fact that Kederer scored more podiums than his title-winning teammate.
Moving on with the race-by-race stats:
What we can see here is that Kederer dominated the field in the early stages of the season, grabbing his biggest advantage when he took his third win in Belgium, a margin of 13 points to Lutz back then. You can also see the steep uprise of Ancevski and Said after the Belgian Grand Prix. It seemed their time of during the season break had helped them to recharge their batteries and go out all guns blazing. Jimmy Laad's season has been quite lackluster with only 4 podiums, and a lot of 3rd and 4th places. He, however, together with Tobi Kederer, were the only ones who managed to score at least one point in every race this season, a feat even champ Ancevski couldn't achieve. You can also see here that Lutz has managed to keep himself in the title race for quite some fight but the double non-points finishes in Hungary and Serbia ruled him out of a possible title. He however, silenced all his doubters by grabbing the win in the final race of the season, showing his pace this season has been incredible as well. To finalise this, only one driver has managed to win his home grand prix, even with the advantage, and that was champ Ancevski. It seemed the pressure of the home crowd was difficult to endure for most of the drivers this year.
Let's move towards splitting the results to see where it might have gone wrong or well for the drivers:
Europe-only:
Rest-of-World-Only:
What stands out the most to me here is the poor performance by Said in the Rest-of-World races only managing to grab 16 points. Also Kederer managed to score a podium on every occasion when he was outside of Europe.
To finalise things, let's split up the results in sprint-only and non-sprint only races:
Sprint Races-only:
Non-Sprint Races-only:
As you can see here Tobi Kederer and Lutz have been the best drivers when it came to the strategical races, however when it came down to the raw speed during the sprint races, Ancevski showed the rest his pace was almost unbeatable this season grabbing 4/7 wins in the sprint races. Mark Lintner was quite close to his rivals in the sprint races but buckeled a bit during the feature and reversed grid races. His season has been up-and-down scoring some very good results, even a win during his teammate's home race, but also having some poor results like in Japan and Greece where he never really seemed in contest of scoring a podium. Still he can be proud of his season and he'll be looking to be more consistent next time around and challenge the rest for the podium spots. Not a lot so far has been said about Old Wolf so I want to mention him as well. His season can be described by a lot of back luck, mixed with some mistakes but also sometimes just lacking the pace with his rivals. After the season finished it was clear that there were some internal arguments between Wolf and the team, him not being happy that Sauber invested most of their resources into teammate Said. It will be interesting to see what Wolf will do during the off-season.
With this I want to congratulate
@Milos and and the Alpine team with
@kedy89 on both titles, amazing season you had. I also want to thank everyone for your participation during this enthralling season of Forum Racing. I loved your interactivity with the post-race descriptions, it kept me motivated and enthousiastic to do this season for you. I wish everyone a good new year in advance and I hope to speak all of you in 2022!
Oh and regarding moderating next season, I'm thinking about doing one more, but it someone else feels like he wants to do it, please let me know!
