Starting tomorrow, Formula 1 is at Silverstone, with practice beginning tomorrow at 10:00. For now though, here are the tallies in the Twitter outlook:
Drivers – The Top 10
01 – 1,006,951 – Jenson Button (McLaren)
02 – 884,029 – Lewis Hamilton (McLaren)
03 – 774,309 – Fernando Alonso (Ferrari)
04 – 441,288 – Bruno Senna (Williams)
05 – 370,005 – Mark Webber (Red Bull)
06 – 222,129 – Sergio Perez (Sauber)
07 – 222,064 – Pastor Maldonaldo (Williams)
08 – 173,657 – Nico Rosberg (Mercedes)
09 – 157,705 – Heikki Kovalainen (Caterham)
10 – 149,000 – Pedro de la Rosa (HRT)
Drivers – Biggest Increases
01 – 44,551 – Fernando Alonso
02 – 10,243 – Lewis Hamilton
03 – 9,397 – Jenson Button
04 – 5,033 – Nico Rosberg
05 – 4,438 – Bruno Senna
Drivers – Smallest Increases
01 – 358 – Charles Pic
02 – 545 – Jean-Eric Vergne
03 – 555 – Timo Glock
04 – 802 – Vitaly Petrov
05 – 833 – Nico Hulkenberg
As I noted last week, Jenson Button has passed the one million follower barrier, a fantastic feat. With Button now past one million followers, it is between Fernando Alonso and Lewis Hamilton as to who will be the second current Formula 1 driver to surpass that mark.
As the graph above shows, Alonso is closing in massively on Hamilton, and based on their current rate of progress, I would expect Alonso to overtake Hamilton in the August break and break the one million follower barrier before the end of the year.
Teams – The Top 10
01 – 296,131 – Ferrari
02 – 204,279 – McLaren
03 – 134,596 – Mercedes
04 – 127,081 – Red Bull
05 – 115,462 – Lotus
06 – 78,238 – Caterham
07 – 68,661 – Marussia
08 – 67,623 – Williams
09 – 67,574 – Force India
10 – 60,766 – Sauber
Teams – Biggest Increases
01 – 3,292 – Ferrari
02 – 1,902 – McLaren
03 – 1,855 – Red Bull
Teams – Smallest Increases
01 – 502 – Toro Rosso
02 – 505 – Williams
03 – 577 – Marussia
In the Teams table, the only milestone is that Sauber have broken the sixty thousand barrier. Toro Rosso gained three followers less than Williams meaning that they recorded the smallest increase for the week. Up front, Ferrari again led with McLaren and Red Bull scrapping over second.
Driver and Team statistics as of Monday 2nd July 2012.
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