• View: Race, accumulated time

    Population: Top 6 drivers

    X-Axis: Lap number in race order

    Y-Axis: Time delta to reference

    Reference: Winner average pace

  • Race Timeline — Gap to Leader

    This is the race in time: gap to leader, lap by lap.

    Miami starts messy. VER starts second, gets tangled with LEC after a sharp Ferrari launch, clips the curb, spins, and drops into the pack.

    From there, VER is on damage control.

    The lap-6 Safety Car resets the race. Red Bull boxes VER for hard tires. He loses track position, but gains a long-game strategy. The chart shows it clearly: VER disappears from the front, then works back through the race as the stops cycle.

    By lap 28, VER briefly reaches the lead.

    That is why Driver of the Day makes sense. The visible story is strong: second place lost, recovery through strategy, back to the front, then survival on older tires.

    But the timeline also shows the limit.

    Once ANT and NOR arrive on fresher tires, VER cannot hold the front. The race snaps back toward real pace.

    ANT wins through consistency. NOR has the McLaren recovery pace. RUS, PIA, and LEC sit in the core fight, all in a similar window.

    LEC’s race has the Ferrari shape: strong launch, strong first phase, tire fade, performance cliff, spin, and radio pain. Rain was expected around lap 25, but never became more than drops.

    The chart tells two stories.

    The emotional race: VER’s recovery was real.

    The performance race: the order settled back into place.

    Mercedes > McLaren > Ferrari.

    And inside Mercedes, the uncomfortable signal remains:

    ANT was clearly stronger than RUS.

    This was not a procession. It was a rotating front pack, with VER trying to hold a rescue mission together on the wrong tire age.

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  • View: Race, lap time distributions

    Population: Top 6 drivers

    X-Axis: Percentiles and Quartiles

    Y-Axis: Lap time in seconds

    Filter: 5%,10% excluded for scaling

  • Race Distribution — Pace Envelope

    The Race Distribution shows the full pace envelope across the event.

    Q1 carries the usual race clutter: traffic, tire warm-up, Safety Car distortion, compromised laps, and strategy residue. After Q1, the real structure appears.

    At the front, two drivers separate: NOR and ANT.

    McLaren was properly fast in Miami. This was not cosmetic recovery. The car was back in the fight.

    But ANT edges NOR where it matters.

    From roughly P55 to P95, ANT holds the cleaner envelope. The margin is small. It does not say Mercedes was faster everywhere. It says ANT converted the available pace better.

    Not a faster car. A cleaner race.

    PIA confirms the McLaren case. His curve sits near the sharp end, showing that both McLarens had real pace.

    PIA also separates from LEC across the useful range. Ferrari was good. McLaren had more.

    RUS is the uncomfortable Mercedes counterpoint. If ANT is the winning reference, RUS is not on that envelope. Competitive, yes. Decisive, no.

    Then VER.

    The Driver of the Day vote still makes sense in the Race layer. The recovery was visible and emotionally clear.

    But VER did not have the winning pace envelope. His curve sits outside the leading class, especially through the middle and upper percentiles.

    The rescue mission was real.

    The winning pace was not.

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  • View: Race, sorted timeline

    Population: Top 6 drivers

    X-Axis: Percentiles and Quartiles

    Y-Axis: Lap time in seconds

    Reference: Winner average lap

  • Race Sorted — Integrated Race

    The Race Sorted chart integrates the race by percentile. It removes the lap-by-lap timeline and shows how each driver’s race accumulates across the full distance.

    This is pace as experienced: traffic, tire age, strategy, Safety Car timing, and Miami’s rotating topology.

    The message is clear.

    ANT and NOR separate from the field.

    Across the useful range, ANT and NOR form the sharpest race signatures. They are not escaping by seconds in the live race, but once the laps are sorted and integrated, the separation is harder to ignore.

    This is the race underneath the yo-yo.

    ANT confirms the winning pattern: not one spike, but sustained execution. The car is good. The driver is clean.

    NOR confirms the McLaren recovery. This was not just strategy or a lucky phase. The McLaren had form. NOR belongs in the leading envelope.

    PIA adds the second McLaren signal. He does not quite join ANT and NOR at the front, but he confirms that McLaren was back in the top-car conversation.

    Behind them, RUS, VER, and LEC converge.

    That convergence explains the race.

    These were not isolated performances drifting into procession. They were closely matched race signatures, trading advantage through tire phase, traffic, errors, and strategy.

    That is where the fun came from.

    The front six were close enough to rotate, but not equal enough to freeze. Mercedes, McLaren, Ferrari, and VER kept pulling the race into new shapes.

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