9781854433152
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QPRS
F1 Grand Prix Racing by the Numbers – 1950-2019
New edition
Innovative statistical analysis and hundreds of new illustrations rewrite the history of Formula One racing.
Any devotee of Formula One Grand Prix racing will have their picks for which drivers are the greatest of all time and which are wildly overrated—selections likely guided in large part by personal, even emotional, preferences. Clyde P. Berryman’s QPRS brings a welcome dose of hard data into these fevered discussions with the introduction of the Quality Point Rating System, a method that uses mathematical formulae to analyze both Formula One drivers and their racing vehicles.
In this book, Berryman digs deep into every Formula One World Championship from 1950 to 2019, using the QPRS method to create a new statistical analysis-based rating for every driver and car in competition. In addition to its potentially paradigm-shifting assessments of racing legends, QPRS also stands out as a major fine art book, with more than 200 color illustrations from some of today’s foremost motorsport artists that depict Formula One’s most memorable moments in a variety of media. This book may forever change the way racing fans look at the history of the Formula One Grand Prix.
Any devotee of Formula One Grand Prix racing will have their picks for which drivers are the greatest of all time and which are wildly overrated—selections likely guided in large part by personal, even emotional, preferences. Clyde P. Berryman’s QPRS brings a welcome dose of hard data into these fevered discussions with the introduction of the Quality Point Rating System, a method that uses mathematical formulae to analyze both Formula One drivers and their racing vehicles.
In this book, Berryman digs deep into every Formula One World Championship from 1950 to 2019, using the QPRS method to create a new statistical analysis-based rating for every driver and car in competition. In addition to its potentially paradigm-shifting assessments of racing legends, QPRS also stands out as a major fine art book, with more than 200 color illustrations from some of today’s foremost motorsport artists that depict Formula One’s most memorable moments in a variety of media. This book may forever change the way racing fans look at the history of the Formula One Grand Prix.
544 pages | 77 maps, 216 illustrations | 11 1/4 x 9 | © 2021
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Table of Contents
6 · Foreword by Graham Gauld
8 · Introduction
10 · The Rating Game
16 · Then and Now
An explanation of the Quality Point Rating System (QPRS)
and how it works in analyzing the relative performances of
the cars and drivers of Formula One.
A capsule view of the dramatic changes which have taken
place in Formula One between 1950 to the present day
with regard to drivers, cars, circuits, safety, rules and how
the sport has been managed and run as a business.
· Summaries by Decade
Best ten Formula One drivers and cars, annual season
calendars, results, and annual QPRS driver and car ratings.
The 1950s
The 1960s
The 1970s
The 1980s
The 1990s
The 2000s
The 2010s
· Conclusion Tables
QPRS: The Top 100 F1 Grand Prix Drivers
The All-Time Top 100 F1 Grand Prix Drivers
QPRS: The Top 50 F1 Grand Prix Drivers ‘At Their Peak’
The All-Time Top 50 F1 Grand Prix Drivers ‘At Their Peak’
QPRS: The Top 50 F1 Grand Prix Cars
QPRS: The Greatest F1 World Driving Championships
The All-Time Greatest F1 World Driving Championships
QPRS: The Driver Made the Difference
The Most Competitive Decade in F1 History
Annual F1 Grand Prix Season Competitiveness Index
Fatal Accidents in F1 Grand Prix Racing
522 · Meet the Artists
530 · Acknowledgments
533 · Circuit Map Illustrations
532 · Abbreviations
534 · Index
8 · Introduction
10 · The Rating Game
16 · Then and Now
An explanation of the Quality Point Rating System (QPRS)
and how it works in analyzing the relative performances of
the cars and drivers of Formula One.
A capsule view of the dramatic changes which have taken
place in Formula One between 1950 to the present day
with regard to drivers, cars, circuits, safety, rules and how
the sport has been managed and run as a business.
· Summaries by Decade
Best ten Formula One drivers and cars, annual season
calendars, results, and annual QPRS driver and car ratings.
The 1950s
The 1960s
The 1970s
The 1980s
The 1990s
The 2000s
The 2010s
· Conclusion Tables
QPRS: The Top 100 F1 Grand Prix Drivers
The All-Time Top 100 F1 Grand Prix Drivers
QPRS: The Top 50 F1 Grand Prix Drivers ‘At Their Peak’
The All-Time Top 50 F1 Grand Prix Drivers ‘At Their Peak’
QPRS: The Top 50 F1 Grand Prix Cars
QPRS: The Greatest F1 World Driving Championships
The All-Time Greatest F1 World Driving Championships
QPRS: The Driver Made the Difference
The Most Competitive Decade in F1 History
Annual F1 Grand Prix Season Competitiveness Index
Fatal Accidents in F1 Grand Prix Racing
522 · Meet the Artists
530 · Acknowledgments
533 · Circuit Map Illustrations
532 · Abbreviations
534 · Index