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From: Mark Jackson <mjackson@alumni.caltech.edu>
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Subject: Re: Calling all you statisticians ...
Date: Fri, 8 Nov 2024 12:33:13 -0500
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On 11/8/2024 11:48 AM, Sir Tim wrote:
> 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.

> 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).

I couldn't remember either, so I searched the saved messages in my 
motorsports file for "database."  Lots of obvious false positives, but 
Brian had posted this back in 2001:

> Over the last few weeks I have been working on putting the qualifying data
> into a database. Having more or less finished this task I have analysed all
> drivers qualifying records to produce a more accurate table of the all-time
> best qualifiers.

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