Path: ...!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!individual.net!not-for-mail From: Mark Jackson Newsgroups: rec.autos.sport.f1 Subject: Re: Calling all you statisticians ... Date: Fri, 8 Nov 2024 12:33:13 -0500 Organization: =?UTF-8?Q?Bureau_Central_de_Recherches_Surr=C3=A9alistes?= Lines: 31 Message-ID: References: <33AsZ3wvimcDpfBbok20ng7IduPv@4ax.com> <0eEtZ6RzGL8JocUoDDMHgfEoIruN@4ax.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: individual.net AWrsvM3zu8fCIw+zjb7htgVTUVw0aGpiDCS9U40bIFEho7cj55 Cancel-Lock: sha1:SpiZhPd4Xg2QPTln4xgB2teTxpI= sha256:vTV8ROuMy00EElawv4ZQuZnAnsSSnG1ENarUAbhO/io= User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird Content-Language: en-US In-Reply-To: Bytes: 2322 On 11/8/2024 11:48 AM, Sir Tim wrote: > Mark Jackson 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. -- Mark Jackson - https://mark-jackson.online/ Americans crave the performance of authenticity. - Tressie McMillan Cottom