It was a second win of the season for Mark Webber as he overtook Fernando Alonso in the closing stages to win the British Grand Prix. Did that result in a larger than usual Twitter gain for the Australian? Let’s find out:

Drivers – The Top 10
01 – 1,022,952 – Jenson Button (McLaren)
02 – 898,598 – Lewis Hamilton (McLaren)
03 – 823,685 – Fernando Alonso (Ferrari)
04 – 446,540 – Bruno Senna (Williams)
05 – 381,592 – Mark Webber (Red Bull)
06 – 228,955 – Sergio Perez (Sauber)
07 – 227,102 – Pastor Maldonaldo (Williams)
08 – 176,974 – Nico Rosberg (Mercedes)
09 – 160,182 – Heikki Kovalainen (Caterham)
10 – 153,441 – Pedro de la Rosa (HRT)

Drivers – Biggest Increases
01 – 49,376 – Fernando Alonso
02 – 16,001 – Jenson Button
02 – 14,569 – Lewis Hamilton
04 – 11,587 – Mark Webber
05 – 6,826 – Sergio Perez

Drivers – Smallest Increases
01 – 837 – Jean-Eric Vergne
02 – 941 – Charles Pic
03 – 1,337 – Nico Hulkenberg
04 – 1,428 – Vitaly Petrov
05 – 1,479 – Timo Glock

It was the highest average gain since the Spanish Grand Prix for the entire field this week, with everyone gaining an average of 6,800 followers, which shows the popularity of the British Grand Prix. Mark Webber’s win moved him into the biggest increases table, with his 11,587 follower increase the biggest yet since I started tracking this in April. Whilst it was also Jenson Button’s highest gain yet, it was not Lewis Hamilton’s biggest gain, on two occasions he has gained more than 14,000 followers, during the Spanish and Canadian Grand Prix weeks.

At the other end of the table, hold the papers, Charles Pic is not last! For the first time since I started the tracking, Pic recorded a bigger gain than another driver, in this case Jean-Eric Vergne.

Teams – The Top 10
01 – 301,373 – Ferrari
02 – 208,176 – McLaren
03 – 136,382 – Mercedes
04 – 131,259 – Red Bull
05 – 117,759 – Lotus
06 – 79,544 – Caterham
07 – 72,267 – Marussia
09 – 69,265 – Force India
08 – 68,744 – Williams
10 – 62,975 – Sauber

Teams – Biggest Increases
01 – 5,242 – Ferrari
02 – 4,178 – Red Bull
03 – 3,897 – McLaren

Teams – Smallest Increases
01 – 920 – Toro Rosso
02 – 1,121 – Williams
03 – 1,306 – HRT

Thanks to their pitiful gains in the past few weeks, Force India have jumped back in front of Williams. Ferrari jumped over the 300,000 follower barrier, while Red Bull and McLaren also recorded solid gains. I should note that behind them, Marussia recorded their highest gain yet, with an increase of 3,606 followers, compared to an average increase of just 691 followers per week for all the weeks preceding that. I can only put that down to the accident of Maria de Villota last Tuesday with people wanting to get the latest up-to-date news.

Driver and Team statistics as of Monday 9th July 2012.

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.

It’s the end of another month, and in the month of June we’ve seen two fantastic races. Lewis Hamilton won the Canadian Grand Prix, overtaking Sebastian Vettel and Fernando Alonso in the closing stages due to differing pit-stop strategies; while Alonso won the European Grand Prix, benefiting from Vettel’s alternator problem. So how did that affect the Twitter standings? Of course it did not affect Vettel at all, Vettel is Twitterless, so to say. As is Kimi Raikkonen and Michael Schumacher. Here goes…

Drivers
01 – 997,554 – Jenson Button (McLaren)
02 – 873,786 – Lewis Hamilton (McLaren)
03 – 729,758 – Fernando Alonso (Ferrari)
04 – 436,850 – Bruno Senna (Williams)
05 – 365,901 – Mark Webber (Red Bull)
06 – 218,947 – Sergio Perez (Sauber)
07 – 218,697 – Pastor Maldonaldo (Williams)
08 – 168,624 – Nico Rosberg (Mercedes)
09 – 156,119 – Heikki Kovalainen (Caterham)
10 – 144,658 – Pedro de la Rosa (HRT)
11 – 131,148 – Paul di Resta (Force India)
12 – 116,160 – Narain Karthikeyan (HRT)
13 – 111,295 – Felipe Massa (Ferrari)
14 – 78,207 – Vitaly Petrov (Caterham)
15 – 73,692 – Timo Glock (Marussia)
16 – 72,869 – Nico Hulkenberg (Force India)
17 – 60,084 – Kamui Kobayashi (Sauber)
18 – 50,553 – Romain Grosjean (Lotus)
19 – 32,036 – Daniel Ricciardo (Toro Rosso)
20 – 24,754 – Jean-Eric Vergne (Toro Rosso)
21 – 13,793 – Charles Pic (Marussia)

The very first thing I need to note is that yesterday, Jenson Button broke the one million follower barrier, the second Formula 1 driver to do so after Rubens Barrichello. The above table was done on Monday, so will be reflected in next week’s Twitter outlook.

The only change in the table above is that Sergio Perez is back in front of Pastor Maldonaldo, albeit the gap is very close between the two drivers (not for the first time either!). Since the end of last month as well, Fernando Alonso has not only broken the 600,000 follower barrier, but he has also broken the 700,000 follower barrier, so Alonso making very large strides. I think Alonso will overtake Hamilton soon and will very quickly become the second current Formula 1 driver to break the one million barrier. Meanwhile, Alonso’s team-mate Felipe Massa broke the 100,000 follower barrier, meaning 13 drivers’ on the current grid are now above that mark. There is now a large gap as a result between ‘The Elite Thirteen’ and Vitaly Petrov in 14th.

Drivers – Increases
01 – 153,575 – Fernando Alonso (n/a)
02 – 52,047 – Lewis Hamilton (up 1)
03 – 41,447 – Jenson Button (up 1)
04 – 22,466 – Mark Webber (up 1)
05 – 21,687 – Sergio Perez (up 3)
06 – 21,257 – Bruno Senna (n/a)
Average driver = 20,927
07 – 20,103 – Pastor Maldonaldo (down 5)
08 – 19,112 – Felipe Massa (down 1)
09 – 11,977 – Pedro de la Rosa (up 2)
10 – 11,332 – Nico Rosberg (down 1)
11 – 11,060 – Narain Karthikeyan (up 5)
12 – 10,211 – Paul di Resta (down 2)
13 – 7,578 – Heikki Kovalainen (down 1)
14 – 7,281 – Romain Grosjean (n/a)
15 – 5,386 – Kamui Kobayashi (down 2)
16 – 5,086 – Vitaly Petrov (down 1)
17 – 4,523 – Nico Hulkenberg (up 1)
18 – 4,055 – Jean-Eric Vergne (up 1)
19 – 3,895 – Timo Glock (up 1)
20 – 3,717 – Daniel Ricciardo (down 3)
21 – 1,685 – Charles Pic (n/a)

The up and down positions above is a comparison to their position in the same table last month. As I noted above, Fernando Alonso made significant gains, an increase of over 150,000 in total. Pastor Maldonaldo fell down five places partially due to his fantastic gain in May as a result of his win at the Spanish Grand Prix, while Sergio Perez benefited well from his podium in Canada. Further down the chart, Narain Karthikeyan moved up five positions (although I am not sure exactly why!) while Daniel Ricciardo dropped three places, recording the second smallest gain for June.

Teams
01 – 292,839 – Ferrari
02 – 202,377 – McLaren
03 – 133,530 – Mercedes
04 – 125,226 – Red Bull
05 – 114,242 – Lotus
06 – 77,592 – Caterham
07 – 68,084 – Marussia
08 – 67,118 – Williams
09 – 66,970 – Force India
10 – 59,891 – Sauber
11 – 51,814 – HRT
12 – 43,033 – Toro Rosso

All the positions are status quo compared to May. The only milestone worth noting is that McLaren join Ferrari in the over 200,000 followers club.

Teams – Increases
01 – 17,516 – Ferrari (n/a)
02 – 9,870 – McLaren (n/a)
03 – 9,629 – Red Bull (up 1)
04 – 5,847 – Lotus (up 1)
Average team = 5,714
05 – 4,867 – Sauber (up 1)
06 – 4,613 – Mercedes (up 1)
07 – 3,302 – HRT (up 1)
08 – 2,908 – Caterham (up 1)
09 – 2,830 – Marussia (up 2)
10 – 2,793 – Force India (n/a)
11 – 2,368 – Toro Rosso (up 1)
12 – 2,030 – Williams (down 9)

After being third last month, Williams tumble down the table, surprising to last! The team only recorded a gain of two thousand followers through June, with all the other teams either staying put or moving up a position as a result.

Driver and Team statistics as of Monday 25th June 2012.

Formula 1 heads back to Europe, and in particular to Spain for the second Spanish round, known as the European Grand Prix. Hopefully everyone can stay awake for the duration… onto this week’s counters:

Drivers – The Top 10
01 – 987,338 – Jenson Button (McLaren)
02 – 861,251 – Lewis Hamilton (McLaren)
03 – 677,392 – Fernando Alonso (Ferrari)
04 – 432,168 – Bruno Senna (Williams)
05 – 360,767 – Mark Webber (Red Bull)
06 – 214,980 – Sergio Perez (Sauber)
07 – 213,528 – Pastor Maldonaldo (Williams)
08 – 166,067 – Nico Rosberg (Mercedes)
09 – 153,862 – Heikki Kovalainen (Caterham)
10 – 140,621 – Pedro de la Rosa (HRT)

Drivers – Biggest Increases
01 – 28,811 – Fernando Alonso
02 – 12,147 – Lewis Hamilton
03 – 9,627 – Jenson Button
04 – 4,949 – Sergio Perez
05 – 4,889 – Bruno Senna

Drivers – Smallest Increases
01 – 365 – Charles Pic
02 – 527 – Jean-Eric Vergne
03 – 785 – Daniel Ricciardo
04 – 916 – Timo Glock
05 – 940 – Nico Hulkenberg

Hamilton and Perez get their benefits from their respective Canadian performances, with Perez recording one of the biggest increases of the week. As usual though, it is Fernando Alonso out in front. All of the five smallest increases are under one thousand followers, with both Marussia’s, Toro Rosso’s and the Force India of Nico Hulkenberg occupying the latter spots.

Teams – The Top 10
01 – 286,974 – Ferrari
02 – 199,938 – McLaren
03 – 132,345 – Mercedes
04 – 122,789 – Red Bull
05 – 112,647 – Lotus
06 – 76,827 – Caterham
07 – 67,316 – Marussia
08 – 66,527 – Williams
09 – 66,299 – Force India
10 – 58,834 – Sauber

Teams – Biggest Increases
01 – 3,101 – Ferrari
02 – 2,088 – Red Bull
03 – 1,865 – McLaren

Teams – Smallest Increases
01 – 326 – Williams
02 – 463 – Force India
03 – 552 – Toro Rosso

I did the statistics on Monday, as I usually do, but since then, McLaren have broken the 200 thousand follower barrier. As I type this, they have 200,154 followers, joining Ferrari in the over 200 thousand club. For the second time in three weeks though, it is Williams that recorded the smallest increase, recording an increase of only 326 followers since last Monday. Ouch.

Driver and Team statistics as of Monday 18th June 2012.