Terms & Conditions
About One F1 Race Website
More than a couple years ago I started Race of One Formula 1. I have been excited about fights among drivers from different epochs. At the certain moment I decided to open a website where I should publish last results and current states.
Data Collection
I had to find something to be able to align hundreds of drivers on the same default line. There are different qualification systems, different starting formations, different scoring, different racetracks, or different cars. Different number of season races influences historical point of view; longer season makes bigger happy wave.
Features of sportsmen don't change only. All of them are racers which want to be first; faster than anybody else. There is one problem.
I split racing weekend to two separate groups – qualification and race.
Every race and its qualification have winner, sometimes winners. There are three steps of podium or three first qualification fastest time. To slightly copy something from Olympic scoring system I have recorded also first six places of the race and/or qualifying.
Well, I began to count involvements, successful qualifications, starts, checkered flag finishes, wins, podiums, fastest laps, points and best results of every racing weekend involved driver. I'm machining all those data. I recalculate results to relative values according to number of seasons, qualification involvements or race starts. I fill my spreadsheets in and sort rows by pre-set criteria. I create overviews. It's simple.
I have recorded following data from every race and allocated them to every involved driver:
- involvement,
- qualification final position,
- successful qualification attempt,
- successful start off,
- real start position after sprint race and/or possible disqualifications and/or penalties,
- successful race finish (checkered flag finish),
- race finish position (checkered flag position),
- final race finish position after possible disqualifications and/or penalties,
- fastest lap,
- total point (sprint, race, and fastest lap).
Drivers' Involvements
My counting begins by qualification. It means website has mentioned drivers which actively participated in at least one official qualification only.
Race Starts
Here are three different conditions - qualified driver doesn't show starting grid from such reason up, driver doesn't start race from the grid off (usually because of technical problems) and driver starts race off. This website title "start" means driver did start race off. My system counts the first race start only, repeated start participation has not been recorded separately.
Race Classification
Every driver who started race off has been classified by this website although he/she didn't finish race (wasn't flagged). I have processed every race and assigned the score of retired drivers as well. I follow official classification and add race score of retired drivers by the order of retirements.
Season Classification
Every driver who involved at least one Grand Prix excluded Indianapolis 500 has assigned season classification in particular year although he/she didn't qualify for the race. I follow official classification and add season ranks of remaining drivers by their best qualification and/or race classifications.
Indianapolis 500
This race had been part of Formula 1 calendar from 1950 to 1960. Because of completely different qualification format some drivers have their number of involvements recorded only. I had not been able to find not qualified drivers’ qualification results to assign them a position.