For me, it is this: Seen on Facebook. People are gullible. Some of the comments are trying to justify this as a joke. But I don’t think it is meant as one… People, I’ve met people, will believe this.
I, being a person who understands statistics, would never rule out a victory in a major tournament, but it looks ever less likely. This year marks 50 years since we won the World Cup, for instance. There is light at the end of the tunnel. Bright young stars are always there, and it seems that […]
A few days in to the New Year and I think I’ll do the first of a regular-ish post. Recently, I was given a Fitbit Charge HR from my the lovely Mrs Pitts. This monitors a few different things, among which are the number of steps taken in a day, my heart rate, the amount […]
A few years ago the sight of two Red Bulls, two McLarens and a Ferrari at the rear of the pack would have been incredible. But most of them had qualified there, and Kimi Raikkonen had only fallen to the back after a poor start. Stats More Ayrton Senna records may be matched… A […]
The Mercedes crew applaud Lewis Hamilton and Nico Rosberg following the team’s seventh one-two of the season. Stats Another Ayrton Senna record equalled Lewis Hamilton’s victory in the Belgian Grand Prix now gives him as many podium finishes as Ayrton Senna. Hamilton racked up 80 podiums in 159 starts – it took Senna 158 races […]
The drivers united in a minute of silence for Jules Bianchi before the race began. Stats Sebastian Vettel equals Ayrton Senna’s victory tally Sebastian Vettel equalled Ayrton Senna’s 41 career grand prix victories with this win in the Hungarian Grand Prix. The pair are now in joint third place on the all-time list of F1 […]
“Hamilton Britain 2015 victory” by Joel Spencer – https://www.flickr.com/photos/130378054@N06/19455000732/. Licensed under CC BY-SA 2.0 via Commons – https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Hamilton_Britain_2015_victory.jpg#/media/File:Hamilton_Britain_2015_victory.jpg Stats Wins at home Lewis Hamilton became the seventh driver to win his home race three times. However he will have to wait to break the British record, currently jointly held by Nigel Mansell and Jim Clark […]
“Nico Rosberg obtuvo el segundo lugar” by Joaquin.ignacio.mc – Own work. Licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0 via Commons – https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Nico_Rosberg_obtuvo_el_segundo_lugar.jpg#/media/File:Nico_Rosberg_obtuvo_el_segundo_lugar.jpg Stats Wins Nico Rosberg took his 11th F1 victory which put him level with one of the drivers he shared the podium with – Felipe Massa – as well as Jacques Villeneuve and Rubens Barrichello. […]
“Hamilton Canada 2015” by Richard Paquet – https://www.flickr.com/photos/rpaquet/18495848738. Licensed under CC BY-SA 2.0 via Commons – https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Hamilton_Canada_2015.jpg#/media/File:Hamilton_Canada_2015.jpg Stats Consecutive Front Row Starts Lewis Hamilton equalled Sebastian Vettel’s best run of consecutive front row starts with his 14th. But he needs to keep going for ten more races to equal the record set by Ayrton Senna. […]
I have spent far too long today getting our Geocaching Statistics page working the way I like it. In the end, I settled on having two separate pages (this makes updating it easier as I can upload the html directly to the server rather than having to feed it into a page). I will work […]