Some Interesting Statistics

With Valentino Rossi having recently won his 6th MotoGP championship and Troy Bayliss having won his 3rd WSBK (World Superbike) championship, crash.net have come up with some interesting statistics in the form of Bayliss v Rossi v Schumacher.

 

The first table below shows the most important stats for each competitor, with the second listing their achievements as a percentage. Rossi's stats are for 500cc/MotoGP only (does not include his 125 or 250 seasons and championships):

	races	wins	podiums	poles	titles *
Troy Balyiss	150	50	92	25	3
Valentino Rossi	148	70	113	41	6
Michael Schumacher	248	91	154	68	7

		wins	podiums	poles	titles *
Troy Balyiss		33.3%	61.3%	16.7%	60.0%
Valentino Rossi		47.3%	76.4%	27.7%	66.7%
Michael Schumacher		36.7%	62.1%	27.4%	50.0%

* only full racing seasons were included for the title percentage (Bayliss missed three rounds of the 2000 season, whilst Schumacher missed part of both the 1991 and 1999 seasons).