2022 Bahrain Grand Prix interactive data: lap charts, times and tyres

10 comments on “2022 Bahrain Grand Prix interactive data: lap charts, times and tyres”

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   Sensord4notbeingafanboi (@peartree)
   21st March 2022, 0:06

   Saturday I was watching on sky, as soon as Croft and Brundle started bemoanibg the rightful and obvious end of the “bad” q2 tyre rule I switched to Edwards and Palmer.
   Croft and Brundle are still “doing their thing” you know when they try to change something because they don’t like it, regardless of logic. I hope they enjoyed the strategy this Sunday. Almost everyone started on softs bet they didn’t predict that and then some went in completely opposite directions. What a genuine race. Drs is still there but we had a proper race.
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      SjaakFoo (@sjaakfoo)
      21st March 2022, 7:42

      Started with Edwards and Palmer on FP1 and never looked back. Sam Collins’ pitlane reporting was great, too.

      Brundle I can deal with, as a figure of authority on racing, but Crofty’s awful takes and constant yelling to feign excitement is enough to never go back.
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   sumedhvidwans (@sumedhvidwans)
   21st March 2022, 2:09

   I just saw lap 45. Max did a 95.7 and Charles a 97.4. At 1.7s/ lap quicker and Max needing to cover 26 seconds on 12 laps, I think Max could have won. Don’t understand how Ferrari reached the conclusion that they need not cover. Something for the team to analyse and fix before the next race.

   Also, been a while since we saw such a huge undercut benefit. All drivers were comfortably 2-2.5s a lap faster than the laps prior to pitstop. And that too without pushing on the out lap (as Max said). Previously, a gap of 2 to 2.5s to the car behind would be considered sufficient to ward off an undercut. But i think drivers now need to be at least 4-5s ahead in order to prevent undercut.
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      Johnny
      21st March 2022, 4:18

      In Bahrain the undercut has always been very powerful to the effect of 3 or 4 seconds.
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         sumedh
         21st March 2022, 4:41

         Hmm, just checked last year’s interactive graphs, the difference seemed lesser to the tune of 1-2 seconds.

         Another thing I noticed was that last year, as the stint progressed, the lap times increased slowly (the reducing car weight offsetting the wearing tyres to an appreciable extent. This year, the lap times are increasing much faster. That is also making the undercut more powerful. Now, this could be a temporary phenomenon as teams understand the tyres better. I think whichever teams get on top of this sooner could have serious race pace advantage.
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   Kimberley Barrass
   21st March 2022, 7:46

   Three observations:
   Merc PU is the worst! (I don’t know why – or whether this is redeemable in the current engine freeze)
   Mercedes package is bad, but even if the handling element is fixed, their maximizable pace looks off Ferrari and red bull due to simple speed limitations.
   There is something about the cars (almost all of them) handling of low(er) speed corners that makes there general speed feel more visceral and the fact that the drivers seem to have to drive them now… – I am not sure if the race was actually a good one yet.. But it was certainly enjoyable to watch from start to finish
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      Oliver21
      21st March 2022, 10:07

      Russell already looking faster than Hamilton on race pace, just shows that the talk of him being Mr Saturday was wrong.
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   Dave The Drummer (@davethedrummer)
   21st March 2022, 10:23

   Is there any way to get the stopped time from the overall pitstop time?
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   Dumbrizio
   21st March 2022, 16:56

   Mercedes and Mercedes powered cars are doomed for next 4-5 years.I cn’t see them making any inroads for a deficit of 1 -1.5s.
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      Kimberley Barrass
      22nd March 2022, 23:07

      So – There are still elements of the engine that aren’t locked in until September – energy recovery systems mainly – so I hold out some hope that a certain amount is recoverable – but I agree with this totally! – Even if the Mercedes team absolutely nail their handling – they might potentially be able to maximise their performance with the aggressive packaging, but I can’t see how they are never not third fastest, and realistically as other teams develop into the engine capability – probably not even third.

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