The fastest Grand Prix

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F1 is revving its engines again and I thought it would be cool to see how GPs stack up as for speed. So I made this table with the speed rankings from fastest to slowest.

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I used the record of each GP for the calculations. Any thoughts, surprises, remarks?
 
^Why? I on the other hand knew that it would rank high, it's a flowing track.

For Monaco it's funny how it's the shortest, slowest(speed) and third quickest(time) after Brazil and Canada.
 
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I love the OPs avatar, lol.

I'm surprised Turkey is slower than Melbourne.

I think Montoya still has the lap record at Istanbul, jeez somebody needs to beat that. He
s been in nascar now for like 4 years.
 
Valencia would be second bottom I would guess. I'm suprised that Korea is so slow with those three long straights. Bahrain I thought would have been slightly higher too.
 
DQuaN
I'm suprised that Korea is so slow with those three long straights.
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Don't think they had a fully dry track during the race...

Also remember the one year that set that record is also a "slow" year if we're using racing times - rarely did the cars get within 2 seconds of Quali time on most circuits...

C.
 
May I ask where the OP got these stats? Did you use the all-time average speed records and laptimes or the 2010 records? I think it would be a little more accurate to use records set with the same/similar era cars.
 
^All-time records. I think it's a nice approximation as it shows the potential of the track driven at its limit.
 
AlexGTV
^All-time records. I think it's a nice approximation as it shows the potential of the track driven at its limit.
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I'm not really sure what we're supposed to be taking away from this, though. It's like me going into the kitchen and recording the lengths of all of my baby dill pickles. I can plug them into some kind of a chart but what would be the point of that data? I mean, the average speed of a circuit and whether it's higher or lower relative to other circuits on the calendar effect absolutely nothing in any conceivable way, just like my hypothetical pickle data.
 
IceMan PJN
I mean, the average speed of a circuit and whether it's higher or lower relative to other circuits on the calendar effect absolutely nothing in any conceivable way, just like my hypothetical pickle data.
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With the same frame of mind racing does not matter or scoring points in a basketball game. While this may be statistics (as opposed to competing) it's not like it's useless. It's information, processed data in other words, and useful by definition. If not to you then to me and others.
 
IceMan PJN
I'm not really sure what we're supposed to be taking away from this, though. It's like me going into the kitchen and recording the lengths of all of my baby dill pickles. I can plug them into some kind of a chart but what would be the point of that data? I mean, the average speed of a circuit and whether it's higher or lower relative to other circuits on the calendar effect absolutely nothing in any conceivable way, just like my hypothetical pickle data.
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Not everything has to be a full-blown intelligent debate. :rolleyes:
 
Vettel's pole lap had an average speed of 250 km/h. Miles above the race average!
 

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