Some stats for interest

[vonuber]

Some stats of the season up to Hungary. Quite interesting regarding how reliable things are now. I've also included where an accident with Maldonado has resulted in a DNF, just out of curiosity (not including when he has binned himself)..

Driver	WC Pts	DNFs	Mechanical	Accident	Pastored
Alonso	164	0	0	0	0
Webber	124	0	0	0	0
Vettel	122	1	1	0	0
Hamilton	117	2	1	1	1
Räikkönen	116	0	0	0	0
Rosberg	77	0	0	0	0
Button	76	2	1	1	0
Grosjean	76	4	1	3	1
Pérez	47	2	1	1	1
Kobayashi	33	4	2	2	0
Maldonado	29	4	2	2	0
Schumacher	29	6	5	1	0
di Resta	27	1	1	0	0
Massa	25	1	0	1	0
Senna	24	3	1	2	0
Hülkenberg	19	1	0	1	0
Vergne	4	1	0	1	0
Ricciardo	2	1	1	0	0
Kovalainen	0	1	1	0	0
Petrov	0	2	2	0	0
Glock	0	1	1	0	0
Pic	0	3	3	0	0
Karthikeyan	0	3	3	0	0
de la Rosa	0	2	1	1	0

[Jasandjules]

It is certainly interesting to see the mechanical failures of some cars....

[P-Jay]

I assume the stats include the "I'm out of the points and fancy a fresh gearbox for next race" mechanicals.

"Pastored" ha ha

[Vocal Minority]

Has Pastor not technicall Pastored himself?

[Use Psychology]

psator doesn't pastor himself, he pastors the wall/gravel trap/marshalls/etc.

[McClure]

I'd say Perez has been "pastored" twice - his Monaco DNF was through a failure resulting from Maldonado driving into him in practice.

[vonuber]

Yes this includes voluntary retirements like Vettel and Hamilton. What's interesting is schumacher has had more mechanical dnfs than both hrts together, and how much higher grosjean would be if he didn't keep binning it.

[Graebob]

Use Psychology said:

psator doesn't pastor himself, he pastors the wall/gravel trap/marshalls/etc.

[vonuber]

Another one:

Grand Prix	Winner	Pages (80 posts)
Australia	Button	26
Malaysia	Alonso	21
China	Rosberg	16
Bahrain	Vettel	23
Spain	Maldonado	24
Monaco	Webber	19
Canada	Hamilton	15
Europe	Alonso	26
Great Britain	Webber	24
Germany	Alonso	14
Hungary	Hamilton	9

Any patterns as to what makes a more commented on race?

[CiderwithCerbie]

Anyone would think that there's someone in the Merc garage loosening the nuts on one of the cars! it's either that or back to the bad Karma theory again.

Mind you Mercedes managed to do the same thing to McLaren by delivering dodgy engines in 2000 and 2003 that helped 'your hero' to a couple more WDC's...

[Life Saab Itch]

vonuber said:

Another one:

Grand Prix	Winner	Pages (80 posts)
Australia	Button	26
Malaysia	Alonso	21
China	Rosberg	16
Bahrain	Vettel	23
Spain	Maldonado	24
Monaco	Webber	19
Canada	Hamilton	15
Europe	Alonso	26
Great Britain	Webber	24
Germany	Alonso	14
Hungary	Hamilton	9

Any patterns as to what makes a more commented on race?

Gaz. and i came up with a theory that fitted last year perfectly.

[Life Saab Itch]

This may explain everything, Gaz.

http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/2005/11/which-onl...