Pos Name 3p 2p 1p Tot Pts 1 Felipe Massa 14 3 0 48 [b]10[/b] 2 Sebastian Vettel 8 8 1 41 [b]8[/b] 3 Fernando Alonso 2 11 2 30 [b]6[/b] 4 Timo Glock 0 3 6 12 [b]5[/b] 5 Kimi Räikkönen 0 0 10 10 [b]4[/b] 6 Lewis Hamilton 1 0 6 9 [b]3[/b] 7 Giancarlo Fisichella 0 0 3 3 [b]2[/b] 8 Sebastien Bourdais 0 0 1 1 [b]1[/b] 9 Nick Heidfeld 0 0 1 1Places 8-9 decided by reversed race result.
* Felipe Massa's eighth ever win.
* Sebastian Vettel's fifth and Fernando Alonso's 48th podium finish.
The entries
Votes that didn't comply with the voting system:
None.
Voting Championship 2008 final standings:
Pos Name Pts AUS MAL BAH SPA TUR MON CAN FRA GBR GER HUN EUR BEL ITA SIN JPN CHN BRA : Win Pod Pnt Tie 1) Lewis Hamilton 95 1 9 4 2 3 9 10 1 1 3 3 1 4 3 1 6 : 5 10 13 2) Felipe Massa 77 10 1 7 1 5 6 3 5 2 1 6 8 7 7 7 1 : 4 6 15 3) Fernando Alonso 68 5 8 2 6 11 9 5 5 5 3 1 1 2 3 : 2 6 12 4) Robert Kubica 67 8 2 2 5 7 2 1 7 7 9 4 2 2 8 : 1 6 13 5) Kimi Räikkönen 66 9 1 5 1 8 5 1 4 9 7 3 9 5 3 5 : 3 5 12 6) Sebastian Vettel 44 10 11 6 8 8 3 2 7 1 4 10 2 : 1 4 9 7) Nick Heidfeld 37 4 7 4 15 12 3 3 4 4 10 6 9 : 2 8 8) Timo Glock 33 13 4 8 1 6 8 5 5 4 : 1 1 8 9) Heikki Kovalainen 31 6 4 8 12 3 10 5 6 10 4 5 9 : 1 8 10) Mark Webber 28 5 7 3 4 4 6 8 7 : 1 8 11) Jarno Trulli 27 11 3 6 16 12 2 9 6 5 9 6 : 2 6 12) Sebastien Bourdais 23 3 2 6 4 8 : 2 5 13) Nico Rosberg 22 2 11 5 7 2 11 : 2 4 2*2nd = Nelson Piquet Jr 22 9 4 2 6 3 10 : 2 4 1*2nd 15) Rubens Barrichello 19 7 13 10 7 7 2 4 : 1 5 16) Giancarlo Fisichella 14 6 3 8 8 8 9 7 : 1 6 17) Adrian Sutil 11 1 9 8 : 1 1 2 1*1st = David Coulthard 11 13 14 11 2 10 6 9 : 1 2 1*2nd 19) Jenson Button 4 12 9 6 11 8 : 1 20) Kazuki Nakajima 2 9 7 : 1 21) Anthony Davidson 0 11 10 : 1*10th, 1*11th = Takuma Sato 0 12 10 : 1*10th, 1*12thCongratulations again to Lewis Hamilton, who secured the 2008 Atlas Voting Championship title in China already!
Felipe Massa took a fine second place, and Fernando Alonso passed Robert Kubica for third in the final Voting of the season.
At the right hand side of the table you find columns with amount of wins, podiums and points scoring finishes for each driver, plus the relevant tie breakers.
Voting Championship 2008 WCC:
Pos Team Pts 1) Ferrari 143 2) McLaren 126 3) BMW Sauber 104 4) Renault 90 5) Toro Rosso 67 6) Toyota 60 7) Red Bull 39 8) Force India 25 9) Williams 24 10) Honda 23 11) Super Aguri 0
Results of Rate the Race
[B]Quality of racing: 8.47 average[/B] Vote breakdown: 10 4 #### 9 5 ##### 8 5 ##### 7 1 # 6 2 ## 5 0 4 0 3 0 2 0 1 0 0 0 [B]Satisfaction with results: 6.13 average[/B] Vote breakdown: 10 3 ### 9 1 # 8 0 7 3 ### 6 2 ## 5 1 # 4 2 ## 3 1 # 2 2 ## 1 0 0 0Fifth highest ever Quality! Satisfaction just average although opinions differ greatly there, as expected.
2008 ratings: GP Quality Satisfaction Australia 7.35 5.57 Malaysia 5.70 6.94 Bahrain 5.35 6.27 Spain 3.94 6.19 Turkey 6.41 5.53 Monaco 7.90 4.11 Canada 7.06 7.56 France 5.88 5.29 Britain 7.76 5.33 Germany 6.91 5.09 Hungary 4.92 5.77 Europe 2.85 4.25 Belgium 8.33 2.18 Italy 7.73 7.69 Singapore 7.09 6.50 Japan 7.00 6.07 China 3.31 4.73 Brazil 8.47 6.13 Average Q&S per season # Qual Satis 2002 17 5.83 5.86 2003 16 6.36 6.42 2004 18 5.71 5.82 2005 19 5.87 5.76 2006 18 5.66 5.58 2007 17 5.80 6.10 2008 18 6.33 5.62With a very entertaining final part of the season, the Quality average for 2008 became a high one. Satisfaction ended up low though.
I might revise the tie-breaker rules for next season, more about that when it's time to vote again I suppose.
Thank you for this season and see you again in 2009!