Okay, here’s my attempt at a blog post about “f1 dnf”, written in a casual, personal style, and using basic HTML tags for formatting:
Alright, so I spent my Saturday messing around with, uh, F1 stuff, specifically looking at DNFs (“Did Not Finish”). I kinda got sucked into this rabbit hole after watching a race where, like, half the grid retired. It got me thinking, how often does this actually happen?
First, I just started Googling around. You know, the usual – “f1 most dnfs in a race,” “f1 dnf records,” that sort of thing. Found some interesting, old races. Lots of mechanical failures back in the day, it seems!
Digging Deeper
Then I was like, “Okay, but what about recent seasons?” So I decided to get my hands a little dirty. I went to a, uh, a website which records F1 results, and manually, like a caveman, started tallying up DNFs for each race of, let’s say, the 2023 season. No fancy tools, just me, a notepad, and a whole lot of clicking.
Here’s a glimpse of my super sophisticated process:
- Step 1: Open the website for race results.
- Step 2: Scroll down to the results table.
- Step 3: Count the guys with “DNF” next to their name.
- Step 4: Write it down.
- Step 5: Repeat for the next race.
It was… tedious. I definitely spilled coffee at some point. And my cat kept trying to “help” by walking across the keyboard. But hey, I got some numbers!
I started noticing some patterns. Certain tracks seemed to be, well, car-killers. Others, not so much. And then there’s the whole reliability factor of different teams. Some cars are just, you know, built different.
After a few hours of this, I had a decent little collection of DNF data. Nothing groundbreaking, probably, but it was my data, dammit! I even made a little chart. It was ugly, but it was mine. Then i realized that I can put them all together and see a bigger picture.
So, yeah, that was my Saturday. Went in expecting to watch a couple of highlight reels, ended up becoming a one-man F1 DNF research team. The things we do for fun, right? I might try to automate this next time, though. My fingers are still recovering.
