ANALYSING THE IMPORTANCE OF QUALIFYING IN FORMULA 1 USING THE FASTF1 LIBRARY IN PYTHON

Formula 1 cars are very difficult to set up. This paper uses data from the past 3 seasons to analyse whether the car setup, and driving style of a driver should be tailored majorly to race performance or whether a balance should be maintained so as to try and perform well in both the qualifying and race sessions. The FastF1 library has been used to extract driver, circuit, session and weather data in order to perform this analysis.