The problem is they got it wrong with their stats. They list in Bahrain results Sauber's engine as Cosworth. What a lack of professionalism.
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Spurgeon's presentation seems to show he didn't check the quality of the stats...
QUOTE ("Spurgeon on F1 Blog NYTimes")
March 16, 2010, 4:38 pm
Grand Prix Guide
By BRAD SPURGEON
One of the greatest bits of news to come out of the weekend in Bahrain was that fans finally have access to the most authoritative and certainly the best guide to Formula One statistics online.
For some 30 years or so the Swiss journalist, Jacques Deschenaux has been putting together a guidebook called the Grand Prix Guide. It is every F1 journalist’s bible. It is red, it has been sponsored by Marlboro over the years, although I’m not entirely sure what the status of that deal is at the moment, except that all journalists flock to the Ferrari team at the first race in order to get a copy of the guide.
Deschenaux has been late in coming online with it, but now that the Grand Prix Guide is online you no longer have to be a journalist or have a good connection to get free access to this amazing database. Now you can just go to the Grand Prix Guide site and look up all the stats.
This may sound like an advertisement for the book and database, but I know by looking at the desks of the journalists in the media center at each race that there are few who would not swear by this. And I’m also pushing fans to it here because Deschenaux told me this weekend that he is looking for sponsorship and ads for the web site and that if he doesn’t find any then around next June or July or so, he’ll start requiring a subscription and he’ll close it off of free use.
So I thought I should mention it now so everyone can take a look at the stats, if you find the racing boring….
Grand Prix Guide
By BRAD SPURGEON
One of the greatest bits of news to come out of the weekend in Bahrain was that fans finally have access to the most authoritative and certainly the best guide to Formula One statistics online.
For some 30 years or so the Swiss journalist, Jacques Deschenaux has been putting together a guidebook called the Grand Prix Guide. It is every F1 journalist’s bible. It is red, it has been sponsored by Marlboro over the years, although I’m not entirely sure what the status of that deal is at the moment, except that all journalists flock to the Ferrari team at the first race in order to get a copy of the guide.
Deschenaux has been late in coming online with it, but now that the Grand Prix Guide is online you no longer have to be a journalist or have a good connection to get free access to this amazing database. Now you can just go to the Grand Prix Guide site and look up all the stats.
This may sound like an advertisement for the book and database, but I know by looking at the desks of the journalists in the media center at each race that there are few who would not swear by this. And I’m also pushing fans to it here because Deschenaux told me this weekend that he is looking for sponsorship and ads for the web site and that if he doesn’t find any then around next June or July or so, he’ll start requiring a subscription and he’ll close it off of free use.
So I thought I should mention it now so everyone can take a look at the stats, if you find the racing boring….
Sorry M. Spurgeon. But all your quotes in bold would apply to Autosport's Forix. Not to Grand Prix Guide. Get yourself a subscription sir.
