F1 2011 Canada Preview - Turn 6 & 7 Track Guide Based on 2010 Telemetry

Picking up on the taster F1 2011 Canada Preview - Basic Track Guide Based on 2010 Telemetry, here's a closer look at the telemetry for turns 6 and 7...

You might want to listen along to this technical preview of the race from @ScarbsF1 on 'The Flying Lap' whilst you're doing so...



Hamilton brakes on the approach to 6:



as well as lifting off the throttle:



There's gear shifting going on, although the following diagram doesn't make it very clear...



We get a better idea of how HAM is changing gear from this sort of view (sLap is distance round the track. I forgot to note the distances used to generate the above images, but the range is about the same...)

Here are the brake and throttle, along with gear change highlighted:



A rapid change down from 6th to 2nd, then back up to 5th.

How does that translate to speed?

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Finally, let's see what sort of forces HAMilton experiences. gLong is the longitudinal force experienced while braking and accelerating:



This chart shows just how significant the deceleration is:



The lateral force is the force that flings the driver from side to side as they move off the straightline:



So here we see how HAMilton feels himself being flung to the right as he gets onto the line, then the left the right again:



What else do those diagrams show? (Please feel free to add you own thoughts in the comments:-)

Are there any other corners I should be pulling out the data for?

That's it for now: for more race preview information, why not check out Sidepodcast's Canada 2011 Race Information?


Howto - I used Gephi for the track maps, and R for the charts, commands of the form:
plot(rThrottlePedal~sLap,data=subset(HAMfull_can_2010, sLap>940 & sLap<1530),col=NGear,main="F1 2010 Canada HAM")
points(pBrakeF~sLap,data=subset(HAMfull_can_2010, sLap>940 & sLap<1530),col=NGear,pch=3)
legend("right",c("1","2","3","4","5","6","7"),col=1:7,pch=1)

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Telemetry data captured (h/t @bencc) from the McLaren F1 Live Dashboard during the race last year, probably Copyright (©) McLaren Marketing Ltd 2010.