End Of Year Number Crunching

The finale to this season saw Alvaro taking part in his 100th Grand Prix in the World Championships.
It's a fitting time to take stock of his record since he first contested a WC race at Jerez in 2002 as a wildcard (entering the championships properly in 2003) and to knock out a few figures.
Lurking in these stats are his fab 2006 season, comprising the title, 8 victories and 14 podiums; and also this year's excellent 4 victories and 11 podiums (10 of which were consecutive)...

Here we go:

125cc
Races: 67
Victories: 8
Poles: 8
Fastest Laps: 9
Podiums 18

250cc
Races: 33
Victories: 6
Poles: 6
Fastest Laps: 8
Podiums: 18

TOTAL
Races: 100
Victories: 14
Poles: 14
Fastest Laps: 17
Podiums: 36


Great stuff, eh?
Hopefully plenty more cool stats to come next year - including another world title! :-)

2008 Stats

Here's a few stats form the season which were gathered to use in a recent 'end of season' desktop wallpaper design. Although I know so many of us wished Bati had clinched the title this year, a reading of some of these reminds you that he had a pretty impressive time of it anyway...


Championship Position: 2

Championship points: 244

Wins: 4

2nd places: 4

3rd places: 3

Podiums: 11

Consecutive podiums: 10

Fastest laps: 7

Pole positions: 5

Consecutive pole positions: 3

Laps in first place: 130

Km covered in races: 1669.863

Highest speed: 278.1 km/h (Mugello)

First win: Estoril

Last win: Sepang

(*Thanks to Tamara)

Number Crunching...

Some interesting 250cc stats after the San Marino GP:

1.Simoncelli - 190 points, 3 wins and 5 podiums, 3 poles
2.Kallio - 164 points, 3 wins and 2 podiums
3.Bautista - 163 points, 3 wins and 4 podiums, 5 poles
4.Barberá - 142 points, 4 podiums, 2 poles
5.Debón - 139 points, 1 win and 2 podiums, 2 poles

Another interesting stat to come out from the Aspar Team is that of "Leading Laps" this season: In first position, Alvaro has 122, followed by Simoncelli with 77, Debon with 37, Barbera with 24 and Kallio with 17.