Friday , 29 March 2024
Pre-season testing is finally over, I’m completely ignoring all actual times as they’re pretty much irrelevant. Laps and total distance is what I’ve been looking at, gives some idea of car reliability at least. The cars covered a total of 49947.273km during the 12 days of winter testing, that’s larger than the circumference of the Earth and almost 40% of the race distance of all cars in 2012.

Testing Stats

Pre-season testing is finally over, I’m completely ignoring all actual times as they’re pretty much irrelevant. Laps and total distance is what I’ve been looking at, gives some idea of car reliability at least. The cars covered a total of 49947.273km during the 12 days of winter testing, that’s larger than the circumference of the Earth and almost 40% of the race distance of all cars in 2012.

Driver Team

Laps

Distance (km)

Days

Average Laps

Average Distance

Gutierrez Sauber

607

2768.381

6

101

461.40

Rosberg Mercedes

575

2639.851

6

96

439.98

Hamilton Mercedes

563

2584.445

6

94

430.74

Hulkenberg Sauber

554

2538.464

6

92

423.08

Perez McLaren

554

2538.237

6

92

423.04

Chilton Marussia

550

2535.961

9

61

281.77

di Resta Force India

553

2519.735

8

69

314.97

Vergne Toro Rosso

536

2454.901

6

89

409.15

Pic Caterham

516

2364.298

6

86

394.05

Bottas Williams

514

2352.264

8

64

294.03

Alonso Ferrari

505

2350.775

5

101

470.16

Vettel Red Bull

513

2343.069

6

86

390.51

Massa Ferrari

513

2336.486

6

86

389.41

Grosjean Lotus

495

2270.402

7

71

324.34

Webber Red Bull

495

2264.727

6

83

377.45

Maldonado Williams

484

2217.835

8

61

277.23

van der Garde Caterham

469

2148.691

6

78

358.12

Button McLaren

455

2090.785

6

76

348.46

Ricciardo Toro Rosso

448

2050.709

6

75

341.78

Raikkonen Lotus

260

1182.379

5

52

236.48

Sutil Force India

249

1159.095

3

83

386.37

Bianchi Marussia

136

633.080

2

68

316.54

Bianchi Force India

117

531.923

2

59

265.96

Razia Marussia

113

500.364

2

57

250.18

Rossiter Force India

61

270.108

2

31

135.05

de la Rosa Ferrari

51

225.828

1

51

225.83

Valsecchi Lotus

16

74.480

1

16

74.48

Despite Mercedes only doing around 30 laps after the first two days of testing they have had impeccable reliability since then and would have done the most laps had they been able to run properly in those first two days. Sutil has done the least laps of any 2013 driver (Bianchi has 253 if you combine Force India and Marussia) which isn’t too surprising as he was only confirmed very late. Chilton has done the most actual days of testing because of Razia’s money troubles but still not even in the top 5 of total distance meaning that he has a very low average laps and distance.

Team

Laps

Distance (km)

Sauber

1161

5306.845

Mercedes

1138

5224.296

Ferrari

1069

4913.089

McLaren

1009

4629.022

Red Bull

1008

4607.796

Williams

998

4570.099

Caterham

985

4512.989

Toro Rosso

984

4505.610

Force India

980

4480.861

Marussia

799

3669.405

Lotus

771

3527.261

Sauber and Mercedes have travelled the furthest, as you probably guessed after looking at the driver table. Lotus and Marussia have done the least, almost 2000km less than Sauber, a massive gap. Williams have done 665 laps and 3095km on their new 2013 car, not too bad for 8 days of driving.

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