Re: Calling all you statisticians ...

On 11/8/2024 11:48 AM, Sir Tim wrote:

Mark Jackson <mjackson@alumni.caltech.edu> wrote:

On 11/8/2024 5:23 AM, Sir Tim wrote:
 

I wonder what happened to our resident statistician (I forget
his name)? He used to come up with some amazing stats, mainly
derived from Forix.

 Thinking of Brian Lawrence?  He mentioned once or twice that he
had his own database.  He hasn't posted in rasf1 for a couple of
years.

Thanks for this, Mark. Yes, it was Brian Lawrence. Shame he doesn’t
post here anymore.
 My memory has deteriorated badly over the last couple of years (I’m
now in my 86th year).

I couldn't remember either, so I searched the saved messages in my motorsports file for "database."  Lots of obvious false positives, but Brian had posted this back in 2001:

Over the last few weeks I have been working on putting the qualifying data
into a database. Having more or less finished this task I have analysed all
drivers qualifying records to produce a more accurate table of the all-time
best qualifiers.

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