Head to head

Where the lap was won

Pick any session from 2018 onwards and put two laps against each other. Every figure is real telemetry from the Formula 1 timing archive.

Season

Event

Session

Reference

Challenger

Published dataset · pre-built session

Hamilton beat Verstappen by +1.216s

Spielberg · 2020 Qualifying · biggest swing at T6 (+288 ms) and T5 (−56 ms)

Reference · HAM

1:19.273Q3

Mercedes

Top speed: 295 km/h
Full throttle: 49%
Peak braking: 3.2 g

Challenger · VER

1:20.489Q3

Red Bull Racing

Top speed: 290 km/h
Full throttle: 55%
Peak braking: 3.0 g

Sector deltas

S1+296
S2+547
S3+373

Circuit

4,306 m

10 corners

500 samples

Where the time went

The running gap between the two laps. The line rises where the challenger is losing time and falls where they are taking it back — so the steep parts, not the end value, are the story.

Speed rosette — the shape of the whole lap, both drivers at once.

The circuit, drawn from position telemetry and coloured by who carried more speed through each corner.

Every channel

What the car was doing at each point on the lap. Reading down one vertical line tells you speed, pedals, gear and acceleration at that exact place on the track.

Corner ledger

The lap cut into one segment per corner, at the midpoints between corner markers. Every metre belongs to exactly one corner, so the time column adds up to the lap gap exactly.

Time and minimum-speed difference between VER and HAM at each corner.
Corner	HAM min	VER min	Δ speed	Δ time	Running
T1	104	99	−5.0	+257	+257
T2	259	259	+0.1	+54	+311
T3	56	54	−2.6	+171	+482
T4	83	84	+1.6	+236	+718
T5	141	152	+11.6	−56	+662
T6	141	139	−2.3	+288	+950
T7	150	143	−6.5	+190	+1140
T8	166	174	+7.9	−24	+1116
T9	159	160	+1.0	+84	+1200
T10	130	130	−0.1	+17	+1216
Lap total				+1216