Well, what is official? The FIA counts it as the official record.

Er, no, it is the fastest lap ever set in a Formula 1 car.

Er, no :rollingeyes:

The fastest lap ever was not that Montoya's lap of 2004. Barrichello's pole was the fastest Monza lap that year, and I guess of all time.

Monza have the highest average speed per lap of all calendar, but even with this fact it is somewhat "vague" to call the fastest lap there as the fastest lap ever.

2004 was faster than 2002.

Barrichello took pole with a laptime about 0.2 sec faster than Montoya's 2002 pole lap.

But Montoya was faster in the first part of qlf that year, with a lap about half a sec. quicker than the pole. If I remember well, in Qlf part 1 the cars lapped very light on fuel, while on part 2 they had to fuel for the race, Parc Fermé rules and shit.

Er, no :rollingeyes:

The fastest lap ever was not that Montoya's lap of 2004. Barrichello's pole was the fastest Monza lap that year, and I guess of all time.

Monza have the highest average speed per lap of all calendar, but even with this fact it is somewhat "vague" to call the fastest lap there as the fastest lap ever.

And pray tell, what lap, official or unofficial, is faster than Montoya's?

And pray tell, what lap, official or unofficial, is faster than Montoya's?

The thing is that these Q1 times from 2004 are hard to find(for instance, not even in the link alex posted it can be found)

I thought the fastest ever lap record took qualifying into account too?

Otherwise, again, Rosberg would not have held the record for nearly 20 years.

Jacky Ickx lapped Watkins Glen in 1:02.740 in 1970. That could be considered faster than the 1:19.525 Montoya did, so he's right that it's a fairly vague definition.

Thought so too, but then again, Rosberg had the record for the fastest average speed on a qualifying lap, didn't he ?

To me the fastest lap is the lap with the highest average speed (on a normal track, not an oval ofcourse).

Niki Lauda got pole in the 1974 French GP at Dijon with a 58.790. Isn't that the fastest lap ever?

Why the distinction between the two? The fastest lap on an oval is also the one with the highest average speed.

Anyway, the fastest lap ever in F1 (Formula 1 car, World Championship official session) is that of Montoya, Q1, at Monza in 2004.

I wonder, if we bend the rules a bit, the fastest ever Grand Prix lap would be from 1937.

Average speed because that's how you can compare "fastness" on different tracks. A 1:30 on Spa is much faster than a 1:30 on Monaco.

I exclude ovals because they are not "regular" F1 tracks anymore.

he race was perhaps best known for speed records set during the race. In the first part of qualifying (which did not count towards grid positions), Juan Pablo Montoya lapped Monza in his Williams FW26 at an average speed of 262.242 km/h (162.9 mph), the fastest ever qualifying lap in the history of Formula One.