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Re: Top 100 Greatest F1 Drivers Ever
Posted: 09 Aug 2014, 00:04
by Bobby Doorknobs
More_Blue_Flags wrote:This is a fairly substantial bump of the thread, but I thought it was the logical place to post this somewhat interesting top 60 ranking I came across the other day:
http://f1metrics.wordpress.com/2014/07/ ... /#comments I won't spoil the surprise other that to say there are some fairly counter-intuitive rankings here - by the time I had got to the #20 to #15 mark I really started to doubt the author's methodology.
Well you know you're getting it wrong when you're using maths to determine the greatest of all time.
Re: Top 100 Greatest F1 Drivers Ever
Posted: 09 Aug 2014, 00:06
by Nessafox
Simtek wrote:More_Blue_Flags wrote:This is a fairly substantial bump of the thread, but I thought it was the logical place to post this somewhat interesting top 60 ranking I came across the other day:
http://f1metrics.wordpress.com/2014/07/ ... /#comments I won't spoil the surprise other that to say there are some fairly counter-intuitive rankings here - by the time I had got to the #20 to #15 mark I really started to doubt the author's methodology.
Well you know you're getting it wrong when you're using maths to determine the greatest of all time.
I don't know what drugs that guy was using, but i want some of it!
Re: Top 100 Greatest F1 Drivers Ever
Posted: 09 Aug 2014, 00:18
by Bobby Doorknobs
This wrote:Simtek wrote:More_Blue_Flags wrote:This is a fairly substantial bump of the thread, but I thought it was the logical place to post this somewhat interesting top 60 ranking I came across the other day:
http://f1metrics.wordpress.com/2014/07/ ... /#comments I won't spoil the surprise other that to say there are some fairly counter-intuitive rankings here - by the time I had got to the #20 to #15 mark I really started to doubt the author's methodology.
Well you know you're getting it wrong when you're using maths to determine the greatest of all time.
I don't know what drugs that guy was using, but i want some of it!
Also notice under the Panis entry he mentions Pedro Diniz being in the top 100.
Re: Top 100 Greatest F1 Drivers Ever
Posted: 09 Aug 2014, 07:55
by tommykl
Simtek wrote:This wrote:Simtek wrote:Well you know you're getting it wrong when you're using maths to determine the greatest of all time.
I don't know what drugs that guy was using, but i want some of it!
Also notice under the Panis entry he mentions Pedro Diniz being in the top 100.
To be fair to him, he said that he's ranking drivers by their best three-year streak, so that automatically disqualifies a lot of drivers...
Re: Top 100 Greatest F1 Drivers Ever
Posted: 09 Aug 2014, 13:09
by dr-baker
tommykl wrote:To be fair to him, he said that he's ranking drivers by their best three-year streak, so that automatically disqualifies a lot of drivers...
And I find it amusing/absolutely rubbish that Button's best three-year streak did NOT include his championship-winning year!
Re: Top 100 Greatest F1 Drivers Ever
Posted: 09 Aug 2014, 19:10
by mrfakeboullier
Just out of interest does anyone know where Glock would be if we exclude 2010 from that
Re: Top 100 Greatest F1 Drivers Ever
Posted: 09 Aug 2014, 20:46
by FullMetalJack
dr-baker wrote:tommykl wrote:To be fair to him, he said that he's ranking drivers by their best three-year streak, so that automatically disqualifies a lot of drivers...
And I find it amusing/absolutely rubbish that Button's best three-year streak did NOT include his championship-winning year!
It should have, 2 of his 3 best years, 2009 and 2011
Re: Top 100 Greatest F1 Drivers Ever
Posted: 10 Aug 2014, 01:03
by RonDenisDeletraz
As soon as I saw that Hakkinen was lower than Panis I couldn't take the list seriously. The people at 16th and 19th also really surprised me