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Formula 1 thread 2011

By isaidno, in General Football and Sport

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James Allen's top 5 drivers of 2011 http://www.jamesallenonf1.com/2011/12/my-top-five-drivers-of-2011/

Good to see Heikki on the list! He's feckin cool! Favourite F1 driver. Down to earth and not an arsehole. Shame it didn't work for him at McLaren. However, I agree with James. He's been brilliant for Lotus this year.

I think thats a decent and logical list, although I would probably swap Button and Alonso around and put Sutil in place of Alguersuari.

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Allen or Legard? Good grief.

I think I'd rather have Walkers on 5 Live.

Less of an annoying **** and probably less biased to the Brits, too.

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Ben Edwards to lead BBC's Formula 1 commentary team in 2012

Ben Edwards will replace Martin Brundle as the BBC's lead Formula 1 commentator next year, ending weeks of speculation about who will join David Coulthard in the box.

With Brundle having switched to Sky for 2012, the BBC has been looking for an experienced broadcaster to join its efforts next year.

Edwards, who has most recently been the British Touring Car Championship commentator for ITV, previously worked in F1 for Eurosport, as well as Bernie Ecclestone's original digital channel back in 2002.

Although there has been no official statement from the BBC about its plans, Edwards wrote on Twitter: "So, it looks as though it's really happening. I will be the BBC F1 commentator in 2012 and I can't wait!

"It took a while for things to be sorted, and thanks to ITV for being so understanding. Really looking forward to working with the crew."

http://www.autosport.com/news/report.php/id/96736

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As far as I'm aware, there's only four race seats yet to be confirmed. Both Force India cars, one at Williams and one at HRT.

Which could be interesting, considering the likes of Vitaly Petrov, Bruno Senna, Nick Heidfeld, Paul Di Resta, Adrian Sutil, Sebastien Buemi, Jaime Alguersuari, Rubens Barrichello and several more are still without a drive for next year.

Confirmed driver line-ups:

Red Bull - Sebastian Vettel & Mark Webber

McLaren - Jenson Button & Lewis Hamilton

Ferrari - Fernando Alonso & Felipe Massa

Mercedes - Michael Schumacher & Nico Rosberg

Lotus - Kimi Raikkonen & Romain Grosjean

Force India - ? & ?

Sauber - Kamui Kobayashi & Sergio Perez

Toro Rosso - Daniel Ricciardo & Jean-Eric Vergne

Williams - Pastor Maldonado & ?

Caterham - Heikki Kovalainen & Jarno Trulli

HRT - Pedro de la Rosa & ?

Virgin - Timo Glock & Charles Pic.

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http://news.bbc.co.u...ne/16187987.stm

Toro Rosso drop both Jaime Alguersuari and Sebastien Buemi. (Quite shocked by that, both appear to be very capable drivers).

Replaced by Daniel Ricciardo and Jean-Eric Vergne.

Really suprised by this. I've followed Vergne and Ricciardo quite closely in British F3 and rate both drivers highly, but Torro Rosso have no experience in their team next season.

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Really suprised by this. I've followed Vergne and Ricciardo quite closely in British F3 and rate both drivers highly, but Torro Rosso have no experience in their team next season.

Exactly. They should of kept one of the original two on as a benchmark so that they could compare either Vergne or Ricci to an established driver.

How sad that two competent and capable drivers aged 21 and 23 could already be on the F1 scrapheap.

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As much as I like Petrov, I just can't see him being on the grid next year. HRT could be a possibility but it looks like their going for an all-latin line-up.

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Michael Schumacher top overtaker in 2011

http://www.autosport.com/news/report.php/id/96836

Michael Schumacher ended the season as Formula 1's top overtaker, with his impressive opening lap efforts throughout 2011 helping him edge out Sebastien Buemi.

In strategic data compiled by Mercedes GP over the course of the campaign, and obtained by AUTOSPORT, Schumacher's end-of-season tally has been recorded as 116 passes - just two ahead of his Scuderia Toro Rosso rival.

Schumacher's tally was most certainly helped by the fact that he was able to make up so many positions in the opening stint of races - because he often qualified further down the field that his car was capable of.

Nevertheless, the team was well aware that throughout 2011, Schumacher’s race pace was every bit as good as team-mate Nico Rosberg’s so he could recover well on Sundays - which points towards the amount of progress the seven-time champion has made since his F1 comeback.

The top 10 rankings for the best overtakers of 2011, according to Mercedes GP’s data, are:

Pos Driver Passes

1. Michael Schumacher 116

2. Sebastien Buemi 114

3. Kamui Kobayashi 99

4. Jaime Alguersuari 94

5. Pastor Maldonado 91

6. Paul di Resta 90

7. Sergio Perez 87

8. Rubens Barrichello 86

9. Jenson Button 85

10. Felipe Massa 82

With the top positions dominated by drivers who were often battling in the midfield, it shows that racing in the pack offers greater opportunities to notch up overtaking moves.

That also explains why world champion Sebastian Vettel, who more often than not started at the front of the field, ended the campaign fourth from the bottom in the rankings with just 27 moves over the course of the season.

Mercedes GP’s data is compiled for the benefit of its strategic department, and is based on a combination of video, timing data and GPS technology – rather than just simple lap charts.

Its end of season analysis shows that there were a total of 1486 overtaking moves over the course of 2011.

However, if you discount the moves that take place on an opening lap (150), and those that were helped because a rival had a damaged car (124), it leaves a total of 1212 moves throughout the campaign.

Further whittling the figures down to try and view only what many consider to be genuine overtaking moves, so not those on the three slowest teams (310) or by team-mates (80), as they can often help each other, it leaves a total of 822.

Out of these, 452 moves were considered normal overtaking moves, while 370 took place thanks to the use of the new-for-2011 DRS. It means DRS accounted for roughly 45% of the number of overtaking moves over the course of the season.

In terms of individual races, the Turkish Grand Prix witnessed the highest number of overtakes at 85 – ahead of Canada (79) and China (67). The races with the fewest moves were Monaco (16), Australia (17) and India and Brazil (18).

In terms of DRS’s impact, it accounted for the most moves in Turkey (50) and Abu Dhabi (50), ahead of China (37) and Spain (29).

Its smallest impact came in Monaco (2), with Melbourne (5), Silverstone (6) and Brazil (7) also offering limited opportunities.

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