435 Overtakes in 2017

435 Overtakes in 2017

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Cold

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15,511 posts

96 months

Tuesday 5th December 2017
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Someone at Pirelli has done some maths about the past season's passes using their own parameters to determine an overtake.
During the 20 races there were 435 overtakes which is 21.8 per race. Ricciardo tallied the most with 43 during the year, including 13 at Silverstone.

Unfortunately these numbers don't compare too favourably with last year which saw 866 overtakes in the 21 rounds despite the laptimes being 2.968 seconds faster.

Reuters link

anonymous-user

60 months

Tuesday 5th December 2017
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Cold said:
Someone at Pirelli has done some maths about the past season's passes using their own parameters to determine an overtake.
During the 20 races there were 435 overtakes which is 21.8 per race. Ricciardo tallied the most with 43 during the year, including 13 at Silverstone.

Unfortunately these numbers don't compare too favourably with last year which saw 866 overtakes in the 21 rounds despite the laptimes being 2.968 seconds faster.

Reuters link
400 of them was when cars were in the pits biggrin

Galveston

734 posts

205 months

Tuesday 5th December 2017
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But the quality of overtakes was far higher.

I thought the FIA had taken the wrong path with the changed regs for 2017, but I was proven completely wrong. The new cars are much more interesting to watch, and I'd so much rather watch one hard-fought overtake than 100 due to tyre degradation.

HustleRussell

25,146 posts

166 months

Tuesday 5th December 2017
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Death by statistics. I enjoyed the 2017 season.