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Show HN: Formula 1 Lap Charts

49 points by davidor 12y ago

crm114 12y ago
Gosh those are pretty. Sort of reminds me of Pennant, that lovely baseball stat app from a few years back.
rdc12 12y ago
Amazing seeing the chaos of some of the wet races, the early laps of Brazil 2012 is a pretty good example.
jdietrich 12y ago
Excellent work. Good to be reminded of Ricciardo's incredible drive in Abu Dhabi. A minor note: The page is broken for users of HTTPS Everywhere, because several resources are loaded via URIs that specify the HTTP protocol. Chopping off the scheme names in your script tag paths and using URIs in the form "//domain.tld/script.js" should fix the problem.
- rdc12 12y ago
  Ricciardo had an amazing season, I didn't think he was going to do much after his time at Toro Rosso. That race made me wish I could isolate two drivers, to compare Ricciardo and Vettel.
  - christop 12y ago
    That would be a nice feature. It's possible here, but unfortunately the pit stops aren't highlighted as in the OP's version: http://www.f1fanatic.co.uk/2014/11/23/ricciardo-beats-vettel-red-bulls-fight-pits/ http://www.f1fanatic.co.uk/2014/11/23/ricciardo-beats-vettel...
- davidor 12y ago
  It should be fixed now. Thanks!
frik 12y ago
Nice, it looks like a D3 reimplementation of the old official Formula1 Java applet chart. Are the F1 laps data available as API or as data dump on F1/FIA website?
- davidor 12y ago
  I get the lap data from the Ergast web service: http://ergast.com/mrd/ http://ergast.com/mrd/
jonah 12y ago
Very neat! I'd love to see accompanying commentary. For example, what happened in laps 5-6 of Abu Dhabi? Mass chaos.
- bagnus 12y ago
  IIRC, They were routine pit stops
christop 12y ago
F1 Fanatic has been doing something very similar for several years now: https://www.google.com/search?q=site:www.f1fanatic.co.uk+"lap+charts" https://www.google.com/search?q=site:www.f1fanatic.co.uk+"la... Though I guess their code isn't on GitHub :) The gap charts they have are nice as well.
Saiyan1 12y ago
I like it!

49 points by davidor 12y ago

crm114 12y ago

Gosh those are pretty. Sort of reminds me of Pennant, that lovely baseball stat app from a few years back.

rdc12 12y ago

Amazing seeing the chaos of some of the wet races, the early laps of Brazil 2012 is a pretty good example.

jdietrich 12y ago

Excellent work. Good to be reminded of Ricciardo's incredible drive in Abu Dhabi. A minor note: The page is broken for users of HTTPS Everywhere, because several resources are loaded via URIs that specify the HTTP protocol. Chopping off the scheme names in your script tag paths and using URIs in the form "//domain.tld/script.js" should fix the problem.

rdc12 12y ago
Ricciardo had an amazing season, I didn't think he was going to do much after his time at Toro Rosso. That race made me wish I could isolate two drivers, to compare Ricciardo and Vettel.
- christop 12y ago
  That would be a nice feature. It's possible here, but unfortunately the pit stops aren't highlighted as in the OP's version: http://www.f1fanatic.co.uk/2014/11/23/ricciardo-beats-vettel-red-bulls-fight-pits/ http://www.f1fanatic.co.uk/2014/11/23/ricciardo-beats-vettel...
davidor 12y ago
It should be fixed now. Thanks!

frik 12y ago

Nice, it looks like a D3 reimplementation of the old official Formula1 Java applet chart. Are the F1 laps data available as API or as data dump on F1/FIA website?

davidor 12y ago
I get the lap data from the Ergast web service: http://ergast.com/mrd/ http://ergast.com/mrd/

jonah 12y ago

Very neat! I'd love to see accompanying commentary. For example, what happened in laps 5-6 of Abu Dhabi? Mass chaos.

bagnus 12y ago
IIRC, They were routine pit stops

christop 12y ago

F1 Fanatic has been doing something very similar for several years now: https://www.google.com/search?q=site:www.f1fanatic.co.uk+"lap+charts" https://www.google.com/search?q=site:www.f1fanatic.co.uk+"la... Though I guess their code isn't on GitHub :) The gap charts they have are nice as well.

Saiyan1 12y ago

I like it!