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29 Apr 2014, 02:25 (Ref:3399459) | #1 | |
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Official V8 Supercar statistics
Hello all,
We often hear commentators and journalists referencing the exact number of race starts and race wins that a driver has. Is there anywhere online that displays those completed statistics, including referencing the actual races? For example, wikipedia tells me that Mark Winterbottom has started 138 races with 23 race wins - I would like to see a list of those indivudal races. Is this possible? Thanks. |
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29 Apr 2014, 02:47 (Ref:3399465) | #2 | |
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Contact Aaron Noonan. He'd know.
I'm pretty sure the V8SC Wikipedia page has this info anyway, doesn't it? |
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29 Apr 2014, 07:01 (Ref:3399516) | #3 | |
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Surely it would be 138 round starts for Frosty, not races?
With an average of 30-35 races per year (38 this year) in previous years, drivers are racking up huge start numbers with ease. Championship statistics as a whole has been a topic of conversation on another local forum recently. Namely how John Bowe is now listed as having started 226 championship rounds rather than the previously celebrated 225, with Bowe now all of a sudden being credited as having started the 1986 Lakeside round despite being a DNS (he handed his Volvo over the Francevic after Robbie's car broke in morning warmup and was in the commentary box for the race) |
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29 Apr 2014, 07:36 (Ref:3399529) | #4 | |
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Winterbottom was used as an example, the wikipedia page could be out of date.
The apparent lack of readily available information about this sort of stuff (the John Bowe round starts is a nother great example) have been bothering me for a while and because of this, I've started compiling data myself to be included on the racing-reference database. The idea being to have a more comprehensive source of information out there, covering individual races, championships and driver careers: http://racing-reference.info/v8.htm If you see anything that needs to be changed or can add to the information, feel free to add into the comments section. I have just submitted the 2009 results and the Surfers Paradise event is what made me start this thread, as I have been thinking about how to properly classify and display those "split" races. Similar thoughts about the 1999 Adelaide 500 - with the way they were run with retirements, etc, should those events really be counted as an overall race? I'd really just like to see a more comprehensive and informative way to look back through the record books. Couldn't find one, so started my own! |
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29 Apr 2014, 08:41 (Ref:3399558) | #5 | ||
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Very messy stuff, and something that was never really clarified for the event as a whole, but judging by the crowds ever since, nobody seemed to care the formats made no sense! |
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29 Apr 2014, 09:45 (Ref:3399583) | #6 | |||
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Excel stuff, much appreciated |
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30 Apr 2014, 06:26 (Ref:3399907) | #7 | ||
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They then totally buggered any statistics by changing from the round format to the event format. Where we now have upto 4 winners per weekend(round) as opposed to 1 winner. Which throws out any stats for round victories in the past. |
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