What does the F1 people want for Christmas?

Happy Holidays!

Merry Christmas Kimi fans :D
Julkaissut Kimi Räikkönen Fans 23. joulukuuta 2015

If you haven't seen the video then please check i out. It is one of the weirdest videos all year! :D

In Finland we celebrate Christmas today and we are opening our gifts tonight. Last year and the year before that I posted on Christmas day what F1 related stuff I got and I will do the same this year. If I don't get anything then there will be nothing to see here! :D I usually get F1 stuff though because everybody knows that I am a crazy F1 maniac (4 Life).

Merry Christmas you guys! ...or happy holidays! (if you do not celebrate christmas)

Daniil Kvyat takes his Russian Driving Test

A funny video I found and thought you guys might enjoy ;)

The 2015 season in numbers

Who completed the most overtakes in 2015? Which driver was the most penalised? Who had the biggest advantage over their team mate? And who were this year's record breakers? As the year draws to a close, we look back over some of the amazing facts and figures that helped define the 2015 FIA Formula One World Championship...

THE RECORD BREAKERS...





Lewis Hamilton became only the second Briton in history to win three world championship crowns, following in the footsteps of Sir Jackie Stewart (champion in 1969, 1971 and 1973).
Hamilton also moved to 43 Grand Prix triumphs, surpassing the tally of his boyhood hero Ayrton Senna (41). It also carried him above Sebastian Vettel (42), meaning Hamilton has more wins - and pole positions for that matter - than any other current driver.
Max Verstappen became the youngest driver to contest a Grand Prix in Australia and, two weeks later, the youngest points scorer in F1 history - the latter feat coming at the age of 17 years, 5 months and 27 days.
Mercedes meanwhile matched their 2014 record of 16 victories in a single season, but went one better by claiming a record 12 one-two finishes over a single year (breaking the record of 11 they set last year).
That wasn't the only benchmark Mercedes set - their final total of 703 points is a new record in the constructors’ championship.


AROUND THE WORLD IN 262 DAYS





Number of races: 19 (in 19 different countries, across five different continents)

Total number of drivers who raced: 22 (of which five were rookies and five were world champions)

Average age of the grid: 27 years 11 months*
* taken at the mid-point of the season

Longest race: Singapore (2h 01m22.118s)

Shortest race: Italy (1h 18m00.688s)

Number of wins from pole: 12 from 19 races

Lowest winning grid position: Third (Sebastian Vettel in Hungary)

Biggest winning margin: 25.042s (Italy, Lewis Hamilton over Sebastian Vettel)

Smallest winning margin: 0.714s (China, Lewis Hamilton over Nico Rosberg)

Race with most overtakes: Malaysia, 60

QUALIFYING STATS




Most pole positions (driver): 11 - Lewis Hamilton*; 7 - Nico Rosberg; 1 - Sebastian Vettel
* this is a career-high for Hamilton, whose previous best was 7 poles, scored in 2008 and ’12 with McLaren, and 2014 with Mercedes

Most pole positions (team): 18 - Mercedes; 1 - Ferrari

Front-row starts: 18 - Lewis Hamilton; 15 - Nico Rosberg; 3 - Sebastian Vettel; 1 - Kimi Raikkonen, Daniel Ricciardo

Q3 appearances*: 18 - Lewis Hamilton, Nico Rosberg; 17 - Valtteri Bottas; 16 - Sebastian Vettel, Daniel Ricciardo; 15 - Felipe Massa; 14 - Kimi Raikkonen; 12 - Romain Grosjean, Daniil Kvyat; 9 - Max Verstappen, Nico Hulkenberg; 8 - Sergio Perez; 7 - Carlos Sainz; 4 - Pastor Maldonado; 3 - Marcus Ericsson; 2 - Felipe Nasr
* does not include Austin, where Q3 had to be abandoned

Biggest pole margin: 0.594s (Australia, Lewis Hamilton over Nico Rosberg)

Smallest pole margin: 0.042s (China, Lewis Hamilton over Nico Rosberg)

Best team mate head-to-head record: Romain Grosjean, Lotus - out-qualified Pastor Maldonado 17-2 over the season


RACE STATS




Most wins (driver): 10 - Lewis Hamilton; 6 - Nico Rosberg; 3 - Sebastian Vettel

Most wins (team): 16 - Mercedes; 3 - Ferrari

Most podiums (driver): 17 - Lewis Hamilton; 15 - Nico Rosberg; 13 - Sebastian Vettel; 3 - Kimi Raikkonen; 2 - Felipe Massa, Daniel Ricciardo, Valtteri Bottas; 1 - Daniil Kvyat, Romain Grosjean, Sergio Perez

Most podiums (team): 32 - Mercedes; 16 - Ferrari; 4 - Williams; 3 - Red Bull; 1 - Lotus, Force India

Most points finishes: 18 - Lewis Hamilton

Most consecutive races in the points: 12 - Lewis Hamilton

Lotus completed the fewest laps of any team - even though Marussia did not compete in the season opener

Most fastest laps: 8 - Lewis Hamilton; 5 - Nico Rosberg; 3 - Daniel Ricciardo; 2 - Kimi Raikkonen; 1 - Sebastian Vettel

Most laps completed (driver): Sebastian Vettel, 1,127 (98.1 percent of the season)

Most laps completed (team): Mercedes, 2,220 (96.6 percent)

Fewest laps completed (driver)*: Pastor Maldonado, 778 (67.7 percent)
* Fernando Alonso (770), Roberto Merhi (737) and Alexander Rossi (302) completed fewer, but none contested every race

Fewest laps completed (team): Lotus, 1,635 (71.1 percent)

Most laps led: 587 - Lewis Hamilton; 349 - Nico Rosberg; 176 - Sebastian Vettel; 19 - Felipe Massa; 10 - Kimi Raikkonen; 7 - Daniel Ricciardo; 1 - Valtteri Bottas

Most laps spent in 20th position: 71 - Roberto Merhi; 48 - Will Stevens; 39 - Felipe Massa; 12 - Max Verstappen; 7 - Jenson Button; 6 - Alexander Rossi; 2 - Sebastian Vettel; 1 - Fernando Alonso, Nico Hulkenberg, Pastor Maldonado, Carlos Sainz

Most fastest pit stops: 6 - Ferrari; 4 - Red Bull; 3 - Mercedes; 1 - Force India, McLaren, Lotus, Toro Rosso

Number of overtaking moves: 509

Driver with most overtakes: Max Verstappen (49)

Verstappen accounted for 49 of the 509 overtakes - the most of any driver

Team with most overtakes: Toro Rosso (94)

Team with most retirements: Lotus (15)

Number of lead changes: 56 (based on official lap chart with lead changes taken at the end of each lap)

Best team mate head-to-head record: Sebastian Vettel, Ferrari - beat Kimi Raikkonen 14-4, with DNFs included

Most places gained from Saturday to Sunday: 42 - Fernando Alonso

Most penalty points: 8 - Max Verstappen (12 points within 12-month period leads to Super Licence being suspended for one race)

Total sets of tyres used (testing and Grand Prix weekends): 17,580

Average stops per Grand Prix: 37 (down from 44 in 2014)

Race with the most pit stops: Hungary, 60

Race with the fewest pit stops: Australia, 17

Highest top speed of the season: 366.4 km/h (Pastor Maldonado, Mexico)

AND FINALLY




This was the first time in his career that Fernando Alonso has been out-scored by a team mate. Jenson Button - also the only team mate to have out-scored Lewis Hamilton - finished the year on 16 points, five ahead of Alonso.
Alonso was also the most penalised driver of 2015. Including grid drops for engine changes, the Spaniard was handed 13 penalties over the season (Button and Carlos Sainz were next up with 10).
This was the first year since 2008 that Red Bull have failed to win a race.

(source: f1.com)

Hamilton, Rosberg and Vettel Receive 2015 Trophies (video)

I was supposed to post this video right away after the awards but totally forgot. Well... here it is now!

Sebastian Vettel's Press Conference Quips

This season many of the Vettel haters have suddenly started to like him. This is one reason why...

The 2015 F1 Supergrid

Lewis Hamilton swept the board in 2015, claiming the most wins, the most podiums, the most poles and the most fastest laps - as well as the world championship of course. No surprise then that he heads up the 2015 'Supergrid' - but there are a few surprises behind, as our analysis of the underlying speed of each driver reveals...

How do you judge driver performance over any single season in Formula One racing - particularly one where the top ten in the drivers' championship finished in team order? Looking at the points table will tell you so much - but a different picture emerges by drilling down into the underlying pace of each driver over the 19 races.

We compared every driver's best lap, at each race, to the outright fastest time, which is expressed below as 100. Those tallies are then added up and divided by 19 - or fewer if they were not present, like Fernando Alonso in Australia - to produce an index for each driver over the entire season.

Hamilton, as noted, heads the field, with Nico Rosberg close behind - and a clear gap between Mercedes and the rest of the pack. Marussia meanwhile are comfortably at the back - indeed the scale has had to be adjusted accordingly. In between those outliers, though, the data is far more interesting - and it doesn't make great reading for some...




The driver makes the difference

Perhaps the key detail revealed by the Supergrid is just how much difference the driver makes in F1 racing. Mercedes are streets ahead of the opposition admittedly, but behind them the chart reads Ferrari, Williams, Ferrari, Red Bull, Williams, Red Bull, Lotus, Toro Rosso, Force India...

The relative gaps between team mates are also expressed far better over a season than just one race. Where points scored in each race can depend upon a multitude of factors - race strategy, traffic, tyre conservation, rapid pit stops, one moment of brilliance or bad luck - looking only at the ultimate speed of each driver paints a revealing picture of who excelled, and who struggled, in 2015.


Who comes off worst?

If beating your team mate is the first job for any driver, two were markedly off the pace in 2015 - Kimi Raikkonen and Felipe Massa.

Both men actually followed their respective team mate home in the championship - Raikkonen was fourth on 150 points (128 behind Sebastian Vettel) while Massa was sixth with 121 points, just 15 behind Valtteri Bottas.

But in terms of underlying pace, both men had a clear deficit to their partner. Taking the average percentages used for the Supergrid, both men have a deficit of 0.55 percent. That might seem miniscule, but it's the largest gap between team mates of the entire field - and in a sport where inches can make the difference, it highlights the fact the two veterans have significant ground to make up in 2016.

There is one caveat: the rain-hit race in Austin has an impact for both drivers. Raikkonen's crash just before mid-distance meant he was not out on track when conditions were at their best - and his score for that race suffers as a result (the best times are typically set in qualifying, but due to Hurricane Patricia the fastest times in Austin came during the race). As for Massa, he too fared badly as Williams struggled massively for handling - which had an exaggerated effect on his score as team mate Bottas escaped the same fate by only managing four laps, which meant we discounted the race from the Finn's overall score.

Who else struggled?

It's perhaps not overly surprising that Pastor Maldonado fares badly compared to Romain Grosjean in our Supergrid. The Venezuelan had the worst qualifying head-to-head of the entire field, for example, trailing Grosjean 17-2. He was well beaten in the championship too, scoring 27 points to Grosjean's 51.

What is more surprising is that his Supergrid deficit to his team mate - 0.31 percent - is actually smaller than those of Marcus Ericsson, on 0.37, and Daniil Kvyat, on 0.36.

Like Raikkonen and Massa above, Ericsson is not helped by his weekend in the USA - an electrical issue forced his retirement mid-race, meaning he too was unable to profit from the best conditions of the weekend in the closing stages. Even without that, though, the Supergrid reveals a clear speed deficit to Nasr - not revealed by their qualifying head-to-head, where Nasr beat Ericsson 10-9.

Kvyat is another odd case. On the face of it, the Russian had an impressive first season with Red Bull - he out-scored Daniel Ricciardo 95 points to 92, and beat him in qualifying one third of the time.

Even so, Kvyat came under pressure from his Red Bull bosses to improve, particularly in the early races - and the data for the Supergrid confirms he was struggling. In the first six races, Kvyat's deficit to Ricciardo was 0.61 percent - among the highest in the entire field. Crucially for the young Russian, he began to close that gap as the season progressed - over the last three races, for example, it was down to 0.12 percent, and indeed he was the faster of the two Red Bull drivers in Brazil.

Effectively, the data shows why Red Bull put more pressure on Kvyat than Ricciardo, despite the former being ahead in the championship - but it also shows that Kvyat improved markedly, which bodes well for 2016.

The closest fights of the field

Statistically speaking, the three closest intra-team battles of 2015 came at Toro Rosso, Force India and McLaren. Of the three, McLaren pair Fernando Alonso and Jenson Button had the tightest fight - indeed there was almost nothing to separate the two former world champions.

In this instance, Australia has been discounted given that Alonso was not able to race in the season-opener. Momentum swings between the two drivers over the other 18 races - Alonso had a clear deficit to Button in Canada and Austria, for example, but equally was far faster in Bahrain, Monaco and the USA. Overall, there was just 0.01 percent difference between the two, with Alonso having the slight edge. As expected, of course, McLaren ended the season comfortably behind every other team bar Marussia.

Next up are Force India. The team's two drivers matched each other almost exactly over the first six races, before Hulkenberg found a slight edge in Canada and the following few races. Perez, however, had the upper hand at the season's end, out-pacing Hulkenberg in Japan, the USA, Mexico and Abu Dhabi, meaning there was just 0.05 percent difference between the pair's season-ending averages.

The third closest fight, meanwhile, came at Toro Rosso - and interestingly it is Carlos Sainz, not Max Verstappen, who has the slightest of edges. As with McLaren and Force India, the advantage between the two swings one way and then the other throughout the course of the season, but it is Sainz - whose score in Russia was disregarded following his massive practice crash - who emerged ahead, just 0.09 percent in front of his fellow rookie.

(source: f1.com)