Bonus Blog -- F1 Australian GP

Hey there, Rockstars! The normal Blog Day (of Doom?) is Friday, but I carved out 10 seconds of free time (it's almost Holy Week, not a lot of free time for the pastor-types) to put together a little spreadsheet with the Race Scores for last weeks Formula 1 race in Melbourne.  Plus, I wanted to get some content out to all of you. Here's the festival of data:

Race Finish	Driver	Starting Position	Laps Led	Laps Completed	Race Score against Start	Race Score Standing
1	Raikkonen	7	27	58	86.91	1
2	Alonso	5	6	58	59.72	2
3	Vettel	1	6	58	46.08	4
4	Massa	4	3	58	45.77	5
5	Hamilton	3	4	58	39.81	6
6	Webber	2	0	58	29.55	11
7	Sutil	12	11	58	57.21	3
8	di Resta	9	0	58	36.36	7
9	Button	10	0	58	34.09	9
10	Grosjean	8	0	58	25.00	15
11	Perez	15	0	58	36.36	8
12	Vergne	13	0	58	27.27	13
13	Gutierrez	18	0	57	33.89	10
14	Bottas	16	0	57	24.92	16
15	Bianchi	19	0	57	27.12	14
16	Pic	22	0	56	29.08	12
17	Chilton	20	0	56	20.22	17
18	van der Garde	21	0	56	17.95	18
19	Riccardo	14	0	39	1.45	20
20	Rosberg	6	1	26	-7.06	22
21	Maldonado	17	0	24	0.78	21
22	Hulkenberg	11	0	0	2.27	19

Observations:

- Race Score Podium -- 1) Raikkonen: 86.91; 2) Alonso: 59.72; 3) Sutil: 57.21

- Obviously Kimi Raikkonen had the best drive, but watching the race I didn't think it would show up as THIS dominant (27.19 better than Alonso). Now, maybe that was because the Iceman's dominance made for bad TV, whereas the battles behind him were compelling.

- Very nice work from Adrian Sutil in his comeback race. From P12 on the grid to P7 in the box score thanks to some awesome tire (in F1 should I say "tyre?") management, which led to him leading the second-most laps. Put that man on the Race Score Podium!

- Finally, accolades go to Ferrari and Force India for being the only two constructors to have both drivers with an over 35 Race Score (35 is my working benchmark for "good drive"). More impressed by Force India here, since seeing cars number 15 and 16 with 35+ Race Scores is just flat out more shocking than cars number 3 and 4...

See you Friday for our regularly scheduled stuff: St. Pete IndyCar preview with last year's scores.

-- Guido

PS Data used in the spreadsheet above comes from both the official Formual 1 website as well as F1Fanatic.co.uk.