I was bored, procrastinating, and curious, so I decided to see how drivers/teams fastest laps compare to their actual point standings in the race, and one another.
Some quick calculations gave me this:
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Driver AVG STD
Lewis Hamilton 2.00 0.53
Fernando Alonso 2.29 1.03
Felipe Massa 3.57 2.19
Kimi Räikkönen 3.71 1.98
Nick Heidfeld 6.14 2.64
Robert Kubica 7.00 4.34
Giancarlo Fisichella 7.71 1.39
Nico Rosberg 8.57 2.56
Heikki Kovalainen 9.29 3.28
David Coulthard 10.50 2.75
Alexander Wurz 11.83 3.53
Jarno Trulli 13.43 4.30
Mark Webber 13.43 5.15
Jenson Button 13.80 2.79
Ralf Schumacher 14.00 3.27
Rubens Barrichello 14.00 0.58
Takuma Sato 15.29 2.81
Vitantonio Liuzzi 15.50 2.43
Anthony Davidson 16.29 2.49
Scott Speed 17.67 3.86
Adrian Sutil 18.17 1.95
Christijan Albers 19.57 1.50
The team order up front is definately unsurprising, although it shows the Ferrari/BMW gap as being bigger than I would otherwise imagine.
Renault comes next, followed by Williams, although here Wurz is far far closer to Rosberg than he is in qualifying.
After Williams comes Red Bull, who are the real losers when it comes to the WCC for their speed. This would be evidence of their lack of reliability.
Also interestingly for me is that Super Aguri are behind Honda, although my guess is a combination of consistency, driveability and reliablity gives them what appears to be the better car.
Hope someone finds this interesting.
* Side note: I counted Vettel's result in the US as part of Kubica's scores, since his placement was consistent (6th), and it helped keep the team's tally easy to read.