In Canada, where he claimed his first podium of 2015, the dynamic was reversed.Īs the graph above shows, Bottas in fact posted the highest score of the entire field for the majority of the race.

Over the four Grands Prix prior to Canada, Williams’ Valtteri Bottas had always scored lower than either Sebastian Vettel or Kimi Raikkonen in the throttle rankings. This score is then indexed against the scores for the entire field, to produce the values accessible in the Race Performance Rankings.īy nature of the maths, acceleration out of corners - the speed and magnitude with which drivers are able to open up the throttle - has a markedly greater influence on the total score than top speed. These two variables are multiplied together to give an individual score for each driver, meaning that every input from the driver - be it a small change of pressure on the accelerator, or easing off slightly before each corner - is tracked and reflected in their individual total. The throttle score is calculated primarily from two parameters: throttle engagement and overall top speed. The individual scores for each of the five categories - which update every five seconds throughout the race - are averaged to give an overall Race Performance Rating, which can be tracked live during each race in 2015.

Each category is determined by the raw telemetry from each driver, but given the sensitive nature of that data the Ratings are expressed as an indexed score, with each driver ranked on a scale of 1-10 based on how they compare to their competitors.

Five key parameters are measured: Aggression, Braking, Cornering, Steering and Throttle.

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