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View: Pace, accumulated race time
Normalization: Fuel & Tire use
Population: Top 6 drivers
X-Axis: Lap number in race order
Y-Axis: Time delta to reference
Reference: Race winner’s average lap
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The pace-normalized view keeps the same core signal: HAM’s advantage is not erased when the race is leveled by driver pace. The three-stop strategy still carries the softer-tyre benefit, but the chart does not reduce HAM’s race to compound selection.
HAM’s Ferrari had genuine race-trim speed. The car was flying, and HAM had enough pace to turn the aggressive strategy into a weapon rather than a recovery problem.
The ALO VSC helped convert the strategy. It did not explain the underlying pace.
RUS and NOR remain close. VER shows recovery strength. PIA stays competitive but not decisive. HAD again loses time and cannot recover.
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View: Pace, lap time distributions
Normalization: Fuel & Tire use
Population: Top 6 drivers
X-Axis: Percentiles and Quartiles
Y-Axis: Lap time in seconds
Filter: 5%,10% excluded for scaling
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Pace Distributions
The normalization works very well here. The curve order now reflects the race order without over-amplifying the tyre or stop pattern. That makes the signal cleaner: HAM is the outlier.
HAM dominates the middle of the distribution, where race pace is most representative. This is not a single-lap artifact, not just soft tyres, and not just the ALO VSC. The Ferrari had race-trim pace, and HAM extracted it.
ANT is included as a useful control despite the DNF. He is still marginally better than the main pack, but not with the decisive separation seen before. Today the outlier was not the cub.
Today the outlier was HAM in a Ferrari.
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View: Pace, accumulated sorted time
Normalization: Fuel & Tire use
Population: Top 6 drivers
X-Axis: Percentiles and Quartiles
Y-Axis: Time delta to reference
Reference: Winner average pace
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Pace Sorted Time
Very clean signal. The pace-sorted view strengthens the same ranking seen in the distributions.
HAM separates as the clear reference. His curve recovers fastest and finishes lowest, confirming that the Ferrari pace was real and sustained.
VER is the next strongest recovery curve. He did not have HAM’s winning structure, but the pace signal is clearly alive.
RUS and NOR sit close together again: good, competitive, but not outlier material. This fits the recurring PWG pattern — RUS, NOR, PIA, and LEC trade the top-six space without consistently breaking away.
PIA is slightly behind that group today, still competitive but not decisive.
HAD remains the weak signal: too much time lost, not enough pace to recover.
Ranking that emerges:
HAM → VER → RUS/NOR → PIA → HAD
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View: Pace, accumulated sorted time
Normalization: Fuel & Tire use
Population: Top 6 drivers
Sectors: Percentiles and Quartiles
Radius: Time delta to reference
Reference: Winner average pace
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PACE Dartboard
Same signal, wrapped in polar form. The dartboard makes HAM’s race easy to see: his trajectory crosses the field and closes to P1, confirming he had the pace to afford the extra stop. The ALO VSC then made that stop cheap.
VER shows the next strongest recovery arc. RUS and NOR stay in the same competitive band, with PIA just behind. HAD remains the expensive curve.
Ranking repeated:
HAM → VER → RUS/NOR → PIA → HAD