F1 2011 European Grand Prix/Valencia - Practice Times By Team

A quick overview of practice laptimes with and without fuel penalty correction for Red Bull, McLaren, Ferrari and Mercedes.

Legend: color is driver, symbol is stint.

Red Bull

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McLaren

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Ferrari

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Mercedes

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Just by looking at these charts, can we identify tyre selection, and even get a feel for the tyre model (i.e. how long tyres take to come on/go off?)

R-code to generate plots, of the form:
plot(Time~Elapsed,data=subset(eur_2011practicelaptimes,((DriverNum==7 | DriverNum==8) & Time < 110)),col=(DriverNum-6),pch=Session,main='F1 2011 EUR Mercedes Practice Times')

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See also:
- F1 2011 European Grand Prix/Valencia - Third Practice
- F1 2011 European Grand Prix/Valencia - Second Practice
- F1 2011 European Grand Prix/Valencia - First Practice
- F1 Valencia - Circuit Preview Based on 2010 Race Telemetry