You may have already noticed a few new buttons over to the left in the last week or so, under the subheading Statistics. These are the new look season statistics pages for 2010, although you can look back to 2009 to compare them as we have also updated last season’s statistics to reflect the new data. We just thought we’d take a few moments to introduce the new pages, giving an opportunity for feedback before the season starts.

Standings
Both the World Drivers’ and World Constructors’ Championship standings as you may have expected. The one minor change is to show the points gaps but otherwise, simple, straightforward and to the point with the man with the most points at the top.

Results
A quick summary of all the season’s race results on one handy page, including reasons for not finishing and podium positions highlighted for quick reference.

Qualifying
Similar to the Results page, a brief summary of qualifying position and final grid position for every race of the Formula One season.

Performance
Driver by driver, the basics statistics of how they have performed in 2010 in qualifying and the race, including a summary of Q1/Q2/Q3 distribution, handily graphed for comparison or if you just can’t deal with more numbers.

Team Mates
Every driver pairing goes head-to-head: Who’s the better qualifier out of Button and Hamilton? Does Schumacher put in better race performances than Rosberg? Who contributes the most points to the team’s total out of Glock and di Grassi? We don’t know but the numbers might point you in one direction or another.

Engines
Once again, teams are allowed eight engines per car over the entire season and this is the place to keep track of who has used how many. And new for 2010, the engine manufacturers side-by-side with percentage engine failures – BMW had the weakest engine last year, but who’ll take that crown this year?

Reliability
Engines aren’t the only thing that can go wrong, and the Reliability page summarises each team’s weaknesses: Virgin had how many hydraulic failures? Ferrari ran out of fuel how often? USF1 missed how many races?* Plus keep track of the gearbox cycle with each gearbox once again having to last for four events.

Penalty
Watching over the stewards, the Penalty Tracker shows who was punished, where and how throughout the season. Just think of it as F1’s Most Wanted.

Testing
The Pre-Season Testing Statistics page has been around for over a month now, detailing the key statistics from testing. If you haven’t seen it, it’s still here.

2009
Almost all the above statistics pages allow you to swap between them and last year’s statistics, allowing you to contrast with the 2009 season. In addition, you can access all of them together from the 2009 Statistics hub page. Did you know that Toro Rosso only completed three quarters of the maximum possible number of laps?

So that’s all the statistics pages, feedback and comments are more than welcome. The plan is to also graph much of the data as the year progresses – watch out for those here on the blog.