A table accounting how well (or bad) has each team done in those two first GPs in terms of fastest laps in race.
Whatever the fuel strategy is, every car (that don't retire early) have laps with few fuel aboard just before going to pit, so I think every driver/team has a priori a chance to show his/its speed.
Early retired cars (typical first lap accidents, "doing a BAR" with the engine, etc) suffers in this statistic because they don't have to opportunity to run good laps.
I just assign scores by ranking: 19-18-17-...-1-0 points.
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F1 2005 Fastest Laps
Fastest laps in each race: 1st=19, 2nd=18, 3rd=17,…,20th=0
Drivers:
AUS MAL Tot
Raikkonen McLaren 16 19 35 -----------------------------------
Alonso Renault 19 16 35 -----------------------------------
Fisichella Renault 18 14 32 --------------------------------
Webber Williams 12 15 27 ---------------------------
Barrichello Ferrari 17 10 27 ---------------------------
Heidfeld Williams 8 18 26 --------------------------
Montoya McLaren 13 12 25 -------------------------
Rschumacher Toyota 11 13 24 ------------------------
Trulli Toyota 6 17 23 -----------------------
Mschumacher Ferrari 15 8 23 -----------------------
Coulthard RBR 9 11 20 --------------------
Button BAR 14 6 20 --------------------
Klein RBR 10 9 19 -------------------
Massa Sauber 7 7 14 --------------
Villeneuve Sauber 5 5 10 ----------
Sato BAR 4 8 --------
Kartykeyan Jordan 3 4 7 -------
Monteiro Jordan 2 3 5 -----
Davidson BAR 2 4 ----
Albers Minardi 0 1 1 -
Friesacher Minardi 1 0 1 -
Teams:
AUS MAL Tot
Renault 35 35 70 -----------------------------------
McLaren 30 29 59 ------------------------------
Williams 25 28 53 ---------------------------
Ferrari 24 25 49 -------------------------
Toyota 21 25 46 -----------------------
RBR 23 17 40 --------------------
BAR 22 21 43 -------------------
Sauber 7 4 11 ------
Jordan 2 5 7 ----
Minardi 1 1 2 -
- Renault is dominating clearly; Alonso and Fisi are close together.
- Raikkonen is doing well too, Montoya needs to better his perfomance.
- Minardi, Jordan and Sauber are sunk very far of the rest. Is Sauber following Jordan path into "minardization"? An out of form Villenueve doesn't help this
- BAR is flattered by the good perfomance of Button in Australia. On the other side, the very bad reliability in Malaysia has hurt badly their lap times. This is the team with more uncertain place until now.
- Ferrari is in trouble, but they are not as bad as it looked in this race.
- Toyota was bright in qualification, but they are not so good in race speed (they tied with Ferrari!).
- RBR was a plesant surprise in Australia's grid, but in race they have not been impressive at all.