Tuesday , 19 March 2024
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2015 Testing Stats

Testing is over for another year, meaning that soon we’ll be back doing what we love, watching free practice at 1am on a Friday morning not sleeping.

Over the 12 days of testing the nine teams totalled 8599 laps on their new cars, 1499 laps more than last year with two fewer teams taking part. 24 drivers took part in testing, giving a total distance of 40918.414km, that’s more than once around the Earth at the equator.

For the second year in a row Mercedes have done the most laps and distance in testing, and apparently they did that with just one engine. Mercedes completed 1340 laps and 6120.568km, to put that into context the maximum possible race distance last year was 5746.946km. McLaren did the second least distance in testing, just 380 laps and 1750.967km, Force India with just three days in their car did 365 laps and 1699.075km.

Only McLaren and Force India have done fewer laps than they did in testing last year, both doing less than 50% of the laps than last year. The biggest improvement was Lotus, doing just 238 laps last year and 918 laps this year, a 386% improvement. And while on the subject of McLaren, they averaged less than half a race distance per day of testing.

Team Laps Distance
McLaren 380 1750.967
Red Bull 943 4351.983
Lotus 918 4230.160
Force India 365 1699.075
Toro Rosso 1206 5533.799
Ferrari 1182 5422.987
Sauber 1245 5708.761
Mercedes 1340 6120.568
Williams 1020 4684.994

Rosberg has again done the most laps in testing, 554 laps last year, this year he did 759, more than McLaren and Force India combined. Rosberg averaged 577km per day of testing and did over two full distances on four different days.

Ignoring all of the test/reserve drivers taking part in testing the driver with the least laps was Alonso, just 117 laps and 536.009km, meaning that Rosberg’s AVERAGE distance per day was greater than Alonso’s total testing distance.

Driver Team Laps Distance Days Average Laps Average Distance
Rosberg Mercedes 759 3463.229 6 126.500 577.205
Nasr Sauber 649 2976.376 6 108.167 496.063
Verstappen Toro Rosso 617 2833.545 6 102.833 472.258
Vettel Ferrari 602 2768.487 6 100.333 461.415
Ericsson Sauber 596 2732.385 6 99.333 455.398
Sainz Toro Rosso 589 2700.254 6 98.167 450.042
Raikkonen Ferrari 580 2654.500 6 96.667 442.417
Hamilton Mercedes 533 2433.899 7 76.143 347.700
Massa Williams 492 2257.572 6 82.000 376.262
Ricciardo Red Bull 486 2243.262 6 81.000 373.877
Maldonado Lotus 486 2231.231 6 81.000 371.872
Kvyat Red Bull 457 2108.721 6 76.167 351.454
Bottas Williams 442 2027.092 5 88.400 405.418
Grosjean Lotus 355 1640.494 4 88.750 410.124
Hulkenberg Force India 235 1093.925 2 117.500 546.963
Button McLaren 224 1033.413 7 32.000 147.630
Perez Force India 130 605.150 1 130.000 605.150
Alonso McLaren 117 536.009 4 29.250 134.002
Wolff Williams 86 400.330 1 86.000 400.330
Palmer Lotus 77 358.435 1 77.000 358.435
Wehrlein Mercedes 48 223.440 1 48.000 223.440
Magnussen McLaren 39 181.545 1 39.000 181.545

 

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