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 analyse whether car setup, and driving style of a driver should be tailored majorly race performance or balance maintained so as try perform well in both qualifying sessions. The FastF1 library has been used extract driver, circuit, session weather order this analysis.