{"id":185836,"date":"2025-10-08T16:13:08","date_gmt":"2025-10-08T16:13:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/185836\/"},"modified":"2025-10-08T16:13:08","modified_gmt":"2025-10-08T16:13:08","slug":"the-f1-season-in-numbers-at-the-three-quarter-stage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/185836\/","title":{"rendered":"The F1 season in numbers at the three-quarter stage"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In Formula 1 the numbers never lie \u2013 whether it\u2019s the number of zeros on your paycheque, the thousandths of a second on the stopwatch or the points of downforce on your new front wing.<\/p>\n<p>By looking at the underlying numbers of driver and team performance we can spot trends and learn more about what\u2019s really going on this season.<\/p>\n<p>We did this at the quarter stage, the half stage and now after three quarters of this F1 world championship we look again.<\/p>\n<p>To help James Allen find the numbers that count is friend of the pod, former <a href=\"https:\/\/www.autosport.com\/team\/ferrari\/36466\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Ferrari<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.autosport.com\/team\/williams\/36474\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Williams<\/a> engineer and now data guru Rob Smedley. Autosport\u2019s Jake Boxall-Legge and F1 writer Ronald Vording joins from Singapore.<\/p>\n<p>What is the most important number when it comes to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.autosport.com\/driver\/max-verstappen\/829269\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Max Verstappen<\/a>? What record could the pairing of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.autosport.com\/driver\/fernando-alonso\/829156\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Fernando Alonso<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.autosport.com\/driver\/lance-stroll\/840484\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Lance Stroll<\/a> break later this season? Williams, Racing Bulls and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.autosport.com\/team\/sauber\/36476\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Sauber<\/a> have all made big points gains, but at whose expense?<\/p>\n<p>Read Also:<\/p>\n<p>Send your comments or questions to: @jamesallenonf1 on X or jamesallenonf1@<a href=\"https:\/\/www.autosport.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">autosport.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0            <\/p>\n<p>            We want to hear from you!<\/p>\n<p class=\"mt-auto\">Let us know what you would like to see from us in the future.<\/p>\n<p>            <a href=\"#\" class=\"ms-link text-link font-bold\">Take our survey<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"mt-1 font-info text-body\">&#8211; The Autosport.com Team<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"In Formula 1 the numbers never lie \u2013 whether it\u2019s the number of zeros on your paycheque, the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":185837,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[1687,372,6537,82006,67596,67497,101,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-185836","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-f1","8":"tag-f1","9":"tag-formula-1","10":"tag-formula1","11":"tag-ja-on-f1-podcast-the-f1-season-in-numbers-at-the-three-quarter-stage","12":"tag-marina-bay-street-circuit","13":"tag-singapore-gp","14":"tag-sports","15":"tag-uk","16":"tag-united-kingdom","17":"tag-unitedkingdom"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/185836","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=185836"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/185836\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/185837"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=185836"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=185836"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=185836"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}