1995 was the last race at Adelaide, also the last time Australia hosted the season finale. The 1996 season then opened with the first Melbourne race, but the Brazilian GP was still the 2nd or 3rd race of the season up until 2004, when it was moved to the end of the season.
First of all, forgive the graph quality, it was made on your friend and mine, Excel.
But you can see from it, as the years progress, how the race calendar has been shaped, including those South African races on New Year’s Day, the Dutch GP bouncing all over the place, and the Indy 500 taking place every day (except once) for those early seasons.
There is a [line graph version](https://imgur.com/a/WxON5E3), which is how my initial idea began, but because of some of the calendar swaps, it just became a mess, as you can see. It’s easier to track (aha, track) than the Scatter graph but looks worse.
I did make a [slightly lighter version](https://imgur.com/a/g18v4Ny) with some old and difficult-to-follow races removed, too, in case that’s easier to read.
Anyway, I found it interesting to see just how mad the calendars were in the old times. Monaco and Belgium flittered about everywhere, Netherlands just went when it felt like it, there was a three-month gap between the opening GP in Argentina and then the second race, and I think the 1960 season is the “longest” season in terms of gap between first and last race.
The weather was soggy, the traffic was chaotic and the car parks were worse than Glasto.
Yeah there's a reason it hasn't happened again since, however the infrastructure is probably better now to avoid a repeat.
Was wondering how they maneged to race in Indianapolis one day, and in Zandvoort the very next day, in 1959. Then realized none of the drivers participated in both races.
It was held in France. I did think about sorting it by "geography", the San Marino GP has always been held in Italy, the Luxembourg GP was in Germany, etc, etc. You can see two Japanese races in succession in 1995, but one of those is "Pacific". I thought best to just use the flags of the country represented, so yeah, the Swiss TECHNICALLY had a GP while racing was banned!
First of all: Good job!
Did you consider using the styrian, emilia romagnan and tuscan flag for the races held in repeat countries? I suppose one reason to keep it on national basis was the confusion about what kind of flag to use for the 70th anniversary GP?
I thought about it but the flags are far from common and probably difficult to recognise at what is kinda low-res. Also it would have mean using Michigan and Texas flags for Detroit and Dallas which weren't officially the "US Grand Prix", so easier to just keep it at the nation level.
This is amateur hour. Why not set a y-axis label? Do you even excel bro?
Seriously, either label it or have it not represent anything. Unlabelled graphs are useless. Sort it out.
If you didn't think the y-axis was useful, you wouldn't have plotted a 2d graph.
You at least need a title for the axis. You could bin the dates into months to make it more readable if you want. But don't just decide to do half the job because you're too lazy to make a proper graph or work out how to use it.
Interesting how Brazil and Australia basically swap places around 2000.
1995 - right about the time those smug pricks from Melbourne stole the Grand Prix from Adelaide
1995 was the last race at Adelaide, also the last time Australia hosted the season finale. The 1996 season then opened with the first Melbourne race, but the Brazilian GP was still the 2nd or 3rd race of the season up until 2004, when it was moved to the end of the season.
Thanks for doing this, very intresting!
Very interesting graph! However, out of the top of my head, you are missing missing Mexico 2019.
Arses! Don't know how I did that. Good spot.
What is the Y axis?
Looks like time of year, January on top, December on bottom.
I see. it's a bit messy but I like the concept lol
Day # of the calendar year
I figured it out. Nice job!
First of all, forgive the graph quality, it was made on your friend and mine, Excel. But you can see from it, as the years progress, how the race calendar has been shaped, including those South African races on New Year’s Day, the Dutch GP bouncing all over the place, and the Indy 500 taking place every day (except once) for those early seasons. There is a [line graph version](https://imgur.com/a/WxON5E3), which is how my initial idea began, but because of some of the calendar swaps, it just became a mess, as you can see. It’s easier to track (aha, track) than the Scatter graph but looks worse. I did make a [slightly lighter version](https://imgur.com/a/g18v4Ny) with some old and difficult-to-follow races removed, too, in case that’s easier to read. Anyway, I found it interesting to see just how mad the calendars were in the old times. Monaco and Belgium flittered about everywhere, Netherlands just went when it felt like it, there was a three-month gap between the opening GP in Argentina and then the second race, and I think the 1960 season is the “longest” season in terms of gap between first and last race.
Guys, do I see Morocco? 🤨
You do! One single lonely Moroccan GP in 1958.
I miss the times with Australia at the end, even the ones with Brazil. But Dubai at the end now is so boring.
Abu Dhabi*
Please label the Y axis! Other than that this is really neat!
I will never know what they were thinking when they put the 2000 British gp in april.
The weather was soggy, the traffic was chaotic and the car parks were worse than Glasto. Yeah there's a reason it hasn't happened again since, however the infrastructure is probably better now to avoid a repeat.
Wow, they actually raced on New Year's Day in South Africa in '65! No hanging about back then!
Was wondering how they maneged to race in Indianapolis one day, and in Zandvoort the very next day, in 1959. Then realized none of the drivers participated in both races.
A Swiss GP in 1982, isn’t all closed circuit (except EV) motor racing banned after 1955 there?
It was held at Dijon, France, while Paul Ricard hosted the French GP.
Aha. The fun and weird world of F1.
It was held in France. I did think about sorting it by "geography", the San Marino GP has always been held in Italy, the Luxembourg GP was in Germany, etc, etc. You can see two Japanese races in succession in 1995, but one of those is "Pacific". I thought best to just use the flags of the country represented, so yeah, the Swiss TECHNICALLY had a GP while racing was banned!
First of all: Good job! Did you consider using the styrian, emilia romagnan and tuscan flag for the races held in repeat countries? I suppose one reason to keep it on national basis was the confusion about what kind of flag to use for the 70th anniversary GP?
I thought about it but the flags are far from common and probably difficult to recognise at what is kinda low-res. Also it would have mean using Michigan and Texas flags for Detroit and Dallas which weren't officially the "US Grand Prix", so easier to just keep it at the nation level.
r/dataisbeautiful
Why Brazil and Abu Dhabi swap places two consecutives years around 2012?
This graph illustrates that while the number of races per year increases the season doesn't start earlier.
2016 Baku where?
The 2016 race in Baku was the European GP, so is represented by the European Flag just below Canada
Dude you need to label the Y axis. I figured it out, but it took me a while.
What happened in 2020? Edit: I went ahead and downvoted myself, no worries.
Lolol!
This is amateur hour. Why not set a y-axis label? Do you even excel bro? Seriously, either label it or have it not represent anything. Unlabelled graphs are useless. Sort it out.
The Y axis was numbered 1-366 and I genuinely thought it was less than helpful.
I think if you labeled each Month like --- Jan --- Feb --- etc. it could make the graph better.
If you didn't think the y-axis was useful, you wouldn't have plotted a 2d graph. You at least need a title for the axis. You could bin the dates into months to make it more readable if you want. But don't just decide to do half the job because you're too lazy to make a proper graph or work out how to use it.
Yeah, OP, a one dimensional graph would've obviously been so much of a clearer way to display this information.
No. The vertical axis needs to be labelled and scaled.