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

[Graham Witt (gw.ferrari]

It's nice of them to do all the work for us and try and justify another
pointless rule change.

I wonder if they also analysed each race and changed the teams strategies
for the proposed medal system? With rule changes comes strategy changes so
surely the results can't be retrofitted that simply.

On the new rules for this year it was interesting to read (sorry I cant find
the link but it was Briatore I think) that the modifictions to upgrade the
cars to meet the new regulations cost in the order of $150 million. Hmm,
lets make the sport cheaper but change the rules every year forcing
constructors to spend millions on development.

To make it cheaper for next year why not keep this years rules so that the
teams can not spend so much on development...

Cheerio
Graham




On Sun, Feb 1, 2009 at 6:59 PM, <Red5hilser [at] aol.com> wrote:

> 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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