Passing Thoughts: F1 Overtaking Analysis
Overtaking remains the purest and most exciting form of racing - the raison d'etre for Formula One and its fans. Yet there seems to be less and less on-track passes as the years go by. Michele Merlino brings the numbers from the past 25 years
If we look at the autosport.com 2007 Top Ten ranking of the best races, the first four places are taken by the four Grands Prix that counted the highest number of passes this year . No doubt, then, that the overtaking manoeuvre is still one of the parameters to measure the spectacle in Formula one.
Before starting with the analysis, however, we have to state some "rules" to identify a pass. These rules were set by Brian Lawrence, the first person in the internet age to post amateur statistics on the rec.autos.sport.f1 newsgroup.
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