Formula 1 is into its second day at Abu Dhabi, but for a brief moment of The F1 Broadcasting Blog, attention turns to the Twitter outlook, with a full round-up of who gained what in October.
Drivers
01 – 1,214,142 – Jenson Button (McLaren)
02 – 1,200,768 – Fernando Alonso (Ferrari)
03 – 1,173,882 – Lewis Hamilton (McLaren)
04 – 512,498 – Bruno Senna (Williams)
05 – 471,125 – Mark Webber (Red Bull)
06 – 327,971 – Sergio Perez (Sauber)
07 – 290,933 – Pastor Maldonaldo (Williams)
08 – 212,930 – Nico Rosberg (Mercedes)
09 – 197,818 – Felipe Massa (Ferrari)
10 – 190,182 – Pedro de la Rosa (HRT)
11 – 188,266 – Heikki Kovalainen (Caterham)
12 – 170,303 – Paul di Resta (Force India)
13 – 150,764 – Narain Karthikeyan (HRT)
14 – 109,541 – Vitaly Petrov (Caterham)
15 – 94,562 – Nico Hulkenberg (Force India)
16 – 88,355 – Timo Glock (Marussia)
17 – 87,231 – Kamui Kobayashi (Sauber)
18 – 87,008 – Romain Grosjean (Lotus)
19 – 50,722 – Daniel Ricciardo (Toro Rosso)
20 – 36,034 – Jean-Eric Vergne (Toro Rosso)
21 – 21,943 – Charles Pic (Marussia)
The major change is that Felipe Massa is moved up to ninth from eleventh, with Heikki Kovalainen moving the opposite way from ninth to eleventh. Another change further down, thanks to his third place at the Japanese Grand Prix, Kamui Kobayashi gets in front of Lotus driver Romain Grosjean, the French driver now moving down to 18th position.
Drivers – Increases
01 – 90,211 – Fernando Alonso (n/a)
02 – 88,490 – Lewis Hamilton (n/a)
03 – 71,590 – Jenson Button (n/a)
04 – 51,091 – Sergio Perez (n/a)
05 – 32,961 – Felipe Massa (up 1)
06 – 32,415 – Mark Webber (down 1)
07 – 25,464 – Pastor Maldonaldo (up 1)
Average driver = 25,051
08 – 19,906 – Bruno Senna (down 1)
09 – 14,156 – Nico Rosberg (up 4)
10 – 13,279 – Kamui Kobayashi (up 7)
11 – 12,275 – Pedro de la Rosa (down 1)
12 – 10,759 – Narain Karthikeyan (up 2)
13 – 10,306 – Romain Grosjean (down 1)
14 – 9,700 – Paul di Resta (down 5)
15 – 9,538 – Heikki Kovalainen (n/a)
16 – 9,404 – Vitaly Petrov (down 5)
17 – 8,322 – Nico Hulkenberg (down 1)
18 – 5,805 – Timo Glock (up 2)
19 – 4,852 – Daniel Ricciardo (down 1)
20 – 3,316 – Jean-Eric Vergne (down 1)
21 – 2,244 – Charles Pic (n/a)
The top four above are identical their position in the same table last month. It is worth noting though that the raw values are not directly comparable as October’s table is over five weeks compared with four weeks for September.
Average driver is higher than last month for the reason above, but interestingly it has fallen a few places, thanks to Fernando Alonso and Lewis Hamilton recording a near 40,000 drop between them. The only reason average driver managed to record a higher average is because several drivers recorded substantially more gains than last month: Perez 27k higher, Massa, Webber and Maldonaldo all ~11k higher than September.
Teams
01 – 361,174 – Ferrari
02 – 252,035 – McLaren
03 – 178,142 – Red Bull
04 – 160,058 – Mercedes
05 – 148,074 – Lotus
06 – 90,694 – Caterham
07 – 87,414 – Marussia
08 – 86,562 – Force India
09 – 86,006 – Sauber
10 – 78,361 – Williams
11 – 66,843 – HRT
12 – 54,098 – Toro Rosso
No changes above, apart from saying that Force India and Sauber have sped away from Williams and both are likely to squabble around Marussia into November.
Teams – Increases
01 – 20,749 – Ferrari (n/a)
02 – 18,695 – Red Bull (up 1)
03 – 16,055 – McLaren (down 1)
04 – 10,284 – Mercedes (up 2)
05 – 10,025 – Lotus (down 1)
Average team = 9,315
06 – 9,303 – Sauber (down 1)
07 – 7,132 – Force India (n/a)
08 – 5,672 – Marussia (up 1)
09 – 4,293 – HRT (down 1)
10 – 3,749 – Caterham (n/a)
11 – 3,324 – Toro Rosso (up 1)
12 – 2,505 – Williams (down 1)
Mercedes record a very good month by their standards, is that the Hamilton effect starting, or just general deviation? Time will tell…
Driver and Team statistics as of Tuesday 30th October 2012.
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