Ferrari Mailing List: Fwd: FIA publishes F1 medals analysis of past championships

[Red5hilser (Red5hilser]

Very interesting slant on the past FIA World Drivers Championships.
 
Forza, yer pal Ferrari Bubba
 

Under the medals system, it is proposed that the top  three drivers in each 
race would win gold, silver and bronze medals. At the  end of the season the 
driver with the most gold medals would win the  championship. If two or more 
drivers have the same number of golds then the  silver medals would come into 
account and so on.

The FIA’s analysis  shows that the medal system would change the outcomes of 
past World  Championships considerably. Only 22 of the 59 World Championships 
to date  would have the same top 3. The other 37 World Championships would be  
different. The World  Champion would be altered on 13 occasions.

The medal  system would create three “new” World Champions who  did not win 
the title using the various points systems. 

The overall  effect would be to reduce the number of World Champions, 
concentrating the  titles in a smaller group.

The results that would change are largely  before 1990. The last 20 years 
would be largely unchanged.

In the  overall assessment the list of World Championships per driver would 
be altered  as follows:  


1958 Stirling  Moss    instead of Mike  Hawthorn  1964 Jim  Clark   instead 
of  John Surtees  1967 Jim  Clark   instead of Denny  Hulme  1977 Mario  
Andretti    instead of Niki  Lauda  1979 Alan  Jones     instead of Jody  
Scheckter  
1981 Alain  Prost    instead of Nelson  Piquet  1982 Didier  Pironi   instead 
of Keke  Rosberg  1983 Alain  Prost       instead of Nelson  Piquet  1984 
Alain  Prost      instead of Niki  Lauda  1986 Nigel  Mansell    instead of 
Alain 
 Prost  1987 Nigel Mansell   instead of Nelson  Piquet  1989 Ayrton  Senna    
instead of Alain  Prost  2008 Felipe  Massa      instead of Lewis  Hamilton 



Michael Schumacher 7  1994  1995  2000 2001 2002  2003  2004   Juan Manuel 
Fangio 5  1951  1954  1955  1956  1957    Alain Prost 5  1981 1983  1984  1985  
1993     Jim Clark 4 1963 1964 1965 1967     Ayrton Senna  4 1988 1989 1990 
1991     Jack  Brabham    3 1959 1960 1966      Jackie  Stewart     3 1969 1971 
1973      Nigel Mansell   3 1986 1987 1992     


Instead of the existing  totals:


Michael  Schumacher    7 1994 1995  2000  2001 2002 2003 2004   Juan Manuel  
Fangio    5 1951  1954  1955  1956  1957     Alain Prost   4 1985  1986 1989  
1993      Jack  Brabham    3 1959  1960 1966      Jackie  Stewart    3 1969  
1971  1973       Niki Lauda  3 1975  1977 1984       Nelson Piquet  3 1981 1983 
 1987       Ayrton  Senna      3 1988 1990 1991     


Key notional changes to be  noted:

Brabham under the  ownership of Bernie Ecclestone would have won no Drivers’  
Championships. 

Stirling Moss would have been the  first British World Champion.  

Jim Clark would have won four  titles, rather than two. He would have won 
three consecutive  titles in  1963-64-65. 

Mario Andretti and Alan  Jones would each have won two titles instead of  
one. 

Niki Lauda would have lost two of  his three championships and would have 
just one title to his  name. 

It should be noted, however, that the 1977 result is  skewed by the fact that 
Lauda left Ferrari as soon as he had won the title and  did not compete in 
the final races. If the scoring system had been different  the result would 
almost certainly not have favoured Andretti. 

Nelson Piquet would have lost all  three of his World Championships. 

All four World Champions between 1981-1984 would have  been different. 

Alain Prost would have won five  World Championships but they would be 
different to the four that he actually  claimed. His titles were won in 1985, 
1986, 
1989 and 1993. With the medal  system they would have been 1981, 1983, 1984, 
1985 and 1993. He would have won  three consecutive titles in 1983-85. 

Nigel Mansell would have won three  World Championships instead of one, 
adding to 1986 and 1987 to his 1992  triumph. 

Ayrton Senna would have won the  1989 title and thus would have had four 
consecutive titles between 1988 and  1991.


The duration of the World Championship  battles 

The duration of the World Championship battle would have  been altered in 22 
of the 59 seasons. The medal system would have had no  effect in 37 of the 59 
World Championships. 

Fourteen World Championship battles would have been  shorter (1955, 1970, 
1978, 1987, 1992, 1993, 1994, 1995, 1996, 1997, 2000,  2001, 2003 and 2004).  

Eight World Championship battles would have lasted longer  (1973, 1977, 1979, 
1980, 1990, 1991, 2001 and 2005). 

In terms of World Championship final race showdowns,  there would have been 
five lost (1955, 1994, 1996, 1997, 2000) but six gained  (1977, 1979, 1980, 
1990, 1991 and 2005). 
source: FIA Press  Release



 
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