F1 Fanatic

Just a random curiosity of mine.

We all know that in reality the Drivers’ Championship is more the Drivers+Cars Championship. So what if the Constructors’ Championship was more like the Car+Driver Championship? What I mean is what if the championship was decided only by the points scored by the highest-placing driver in the team, not both? Sometimes car performance is “blamed” for a driver being champion or not, but what about driver performance in the team championship? For example, Massa clearly under-drove the Ferrari in 2010, or Kovalainen in 2008.

Anyway, for fun, here’s my Alternative WCC:

Red Bull: 161
McLaren: 131
Ferrari: 73
Renault: 56
Mercedes: 42
Sauber: 26
Toro Rosso: 11
Force India: 9
Williams: 4
Lotus: 0
HRT: 0
Virgin: 0

Did that take anyone else far too long to understand the concept?! Only me? Ha

It is interesting though, theres some great anaylsis to be made from that, but I’m not clever enough to do it!

Yes it is, but I didn’t read it clearly enough.

Thought I’d give this an update after that other thread made me think of it! This time though I’m going to include the top driver’s points:

Red Bull: 237 (Vettel 234)
McLaren: 195 (Hamilton 146)
Ferrari: 157 (Alonso 145)
Mercedes: 64 (Rosberg 48)
Renault: 62 (Heidfeld 34)
Sauber: 34 (Kobayashi 27)
Force India: 25 (Sutil 18)
Toro Rosso: 20 (Buemi 12)
Williams: 4 (Barrichello 4)
Lotus: 0
HRT: 0
Virgin: 0

A few possible conclusions could be made from this, but it needs further study. For example, you could say that neither Toro Rosso driver is consistent enough since the points split is nearly 50-50, but if you look at the individual results they finish on average three places apart* and often on the threshold of the points. The same excuse can’t be made for the Renault drivers, however…

*discounting the two times they retired and one statistical anomaly of 9 places

Wow this is brilliant. Shows that Vettel is getting the most out of the Red Bull and that Hamilton/Button are getting inconsistent trying too hard to catch him.

It would be interesting to see how some of the constructors titles would have gone had the system always had been in that way… I may get MS Excel up…

Interesting… But the result would be what I expected. If you have an all round good car then it is expected that your drivers should peak at around the same point. With the case of massa it would obviously give ferrari a better chance of winning the constructors….but they would still need podium finishes and they haven’t done enough of that.

I think what would be interesting but completely impractical and would ruin a lot of other great things about f1 would be for the drivers to race a different manufacturers car each race. Therefor each car has equal opportunity for drivers and each driver also…..

I have to add that I would hate that though !

Very interesting!