They will all be clarified by the official data, carefully and carefully collected and calculated by Formula 1, they were presented in the final author's program for the analytics of the season by the former Renault driver and now the chief technical expert of F1 TV, Jolyon Palmer.
The dynamics of the lag behind the cars from the best car of the season
Turquoise line Mercedes, blue Red Bull, red Ferrari, orange McLaren, pink Alpin, gray-blue Alfa Tauri, green Aston Martin, blue Williams, burgundy Alfa Romeo, white Haas.
The gaps are formed in % behind Ferrari, she is taken as a count, since she started the melbet-azerbaycan.com season with the fastest car. Each division is 0.5% of the lap time, for comparison: 1% for an average lap of 90 seconds is 0.9 seconds.
Palmer detailed his vision of the update race:
Ferrari and Red Bull started strong and maintained the level throughout the season. And because of the new rules, many areas for the development of fireballs have opened up for the teams: first of all, reducing the mass to the minimum permitted limit.
Mercedes suffered almost the most. Moreover, their problem was not only in the net backlog, but also in grip, in the lack of downforce. However, you can see how much the team dragged itself back to the top. And right up to Miami, you can see where they didn’t understand the problem at all and tried to figure out what was happening.
Aston Martin is another great example of progress: the green car started the season last.
Alfa Romeo is the same started very well at the beginning of the season they had a very light car [compared to the rest], from there and the advantage. But by the end of the year, they were too far behind and were barely fighting for any points. Only a couple of updates to the final helped to see how noticeable the effect is.
And, of course, the fall of Haas's pace from the top 5 to the tail of the peloton.
Red Bull became the fastest only towards the season finale, but for most of the season Ferrari had the best car.
Qualifying pace
Top drivers: LEC = Leclerc, VER = Verstappen, SAI Sainz, PER Perez, RUS Russell, HAM Hamilton , ALO Alonso, NOR Norris, OCO Ocon, MAG Magnussen, GAS Gasley, BOT Bottas, TSU Tsunoda, ZHO Zhou, RIC Ricciardo, MSC Mick Schumacher, VET Vettel, ALB Albon, STR Stroll, LAT Latifi.
Bottom table is an aggregate score for teams: turquoise bar Mercedes, blue Red Bull, red Ferrari, orange McLaren, pink Alpin, grey-blue Alfa Tauri, green Aston Martin, blue Williams, burgundy Alfa Romeo, white Haas.
< p> The gaps are formed in % of the backlog from the fastest in the session. Drivers have 1 division 1%, teams have 0.5%.Palmer's verdict Leclerc was the fastest driver. In my opinion, he generally became one of the fastest F-1 qualifiers back in 2019 and once again proved his class. He always found a little more time in the final attempt. He got the trophy for 9 pole positions.