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From: Sir Tim <no_email@invalid.invalid>
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Subject: Re: Calling all you statisticians ...
Date: 8 Nov 2024 16:48:39 GMT
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Mark Jackson <mjackson@alumni.caltech.edu> wrote:
> On 11/8/2024 5:23 AM, Sir Tim wrote:
> 
>> I wonder what happened to our resident statistician (I forget his
>> name)? He used to come up with some amazing stats, mainly derived
>> from Forix.
> 
> Thinking of Brian Lawrence?  He mentioned once or twice that he had his 
> own database.  He hasn't posted in rasf1 for a couple of years.
> 
> Getting some data out of Forix is easy (list of all winners with number 
> of wins; same for poles) but other questions would be tedious without an 
> actual database to query.
> 

Thanks for this, Mark. Yes, it was Brian Lawrence. Shame he doesn’t post
here anymore.

My memory has deteriorated badly over the last couple of years (I’m now in
my 86th year).

-- 
Sir Tim