There is a long debate about the fastest F1 driver in the last decades. And don’t worry, they will be even after the publication of machine learning results.
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The F1 Championship has been cooperating with Amazon for some time in data analysis, respectively Amazon Web Services. So far, it is cooperation in diapers. For example, Amazon provides tire wear data on individual cars to live broadcast graphics. However, they have nothing to do with the actual wear of the tires, it is probably a simple calculation depending on the number of wheels driven. Even Pirelli, the yard’s tire supplier, has distanced itself completely from this assessment.
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Now you Amazon Machine Learning Solutions Lab. gave another not exactly easy task. He decided to choose the fastest pilot Formula 1 for almost 40 years, specifically since 1983. Not surprisingly, it is impossible to obtain accurate data from the beginnings of the championship due to the technology of the time.
Machine learning allegedly took into account all sorts of parameters that can affect the results in any way – accidents, technical failures, changing weather conditions – even the age or return of the rider to the championship after a short or long pause. So what decided? Because we are looking for a rider who is really the fastest (not the best or the most complex), Amazon focused on qualifications. He has analyzed them all since 1983, ie some 650 rides and thousands, thousands of rides.
In addition to the already mentioned, the key role was played, for example, by the dominance over the teammate, or his regular defeat. And so the Finnish pilot Heikki Kovalainen, for example, appears in the top ten, even though he has won only one victory in his career and has only been on the podium four times. The names above it are certainly better known to Formula 1 fans…
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We won’t strain you, Ayrton Senna, a legendary Brazilian pilot and three-time world champion who tragically died on May 1, 1994 on the Imola circuit, took first place in the Amazon rankings. Michael Schumacher finished close behind him, followed by the reigning champion Lewis Hamilton. The potato medal remained with Max Verstappen, who is currently racing for the Red Bull Racing team. You can see the complete twenty pilots, including the calculated distances, in the attached table.
| Order | Rider | Difference (s) |
| 1. | Ayrton Senna | 0 |
| 2. | Michael sSchumacher | 0,114 |
| 3. | Lewis Hamilton | 0,275 |
| 4. | Max Verstappen | 0,28 |
| 5. | Fernando Alonso | 0,309 |
| 6. | Nico Rosberg | 0,374 |
| 7. | Charles Leclerc | 0,376 |
| 8. | Heikki Kovalainen | 0,378 |
| 9. | Jarno trulli | 0,409 |
| 10. | Sebastian Vettel | 0,435 |
| 11. | Rubens Barrichello | 0,445 |
| 12. | Nico Hulkenberg | 0,456 |
| 13. | Valtteri Bottas | 0,457 |
| 14. | Carlos Sainz | 0,457 |
| 15. | Lando Norris | 0,459 |
| 16. | Daniel Ricciardo | 0,461 |
| 17. | Jenson Button | 0,462 |
| 18. | Robert Kubica | 0,463 |
| 19. | Giancarlo Fisichella | 0,469 |
| 20. | Alain Prost | 0,514 |
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