There is no Ferrari F2002 because Barrichello's results were awful in the first part of the season - Ret Ret Ret 2 Ret 2 7. They had 73 points after the first 7 races. If I continue to do these standings, F2002 will eventually show up, because of the 5 consecutive 1-2 finishes, but right now they are not close.
All that is correct. But again, don't forget that of the first 6 starts of the season there was only one F2002 result, all others were with F2001.
But to do the F2002 better justice, I could think about creating a stat in which the other cars are also scored like the F2002 did in 2002
Meaning: a single entry for the first race and that would have to be the result of the driver who became world champion and from there an the next 14 GP's. Such a stat will likely end up with F2002 coming out on top because in 15 races used it lost only a single race
If scored in that manner, the mighty MP4/4 will lose a victory because Senna became world champion with the MP4/4 but didn't score points with it. In the case of Mercedes 2014, if Hamilton becomes champion, then the Rosberg victory needs to be scrapped
I must look into such a statistic to see what happens then, the mmore I write about it, the more I feel it could be interesting.
Henri
Edit:
I have made the stats for what are the best ever and most dominant cars ever in history based on point scores over the entire season, being the 1988 McLaren and the 2002 and 2004 Ferraris.
As mentioned: the F2002 had only 15 starts and in its first race only one car used, driven by the man who became world champion.
If I summarize the records for MP4/4 and F2004 and duplicate their season to that of the F2002 that means that for the opening race of the season only the results for `the braso` is valid, a DNQ, thus no points. And race 16 (McLaren double) has to go as well.
For F2004 I must scratch the results of Barrichello (and place) and then the final three races of the season.
For points score I have used the 10-8-4-3-2-1 system, Any car could score a maximum of (15*10)+(14*6) = 234 points.
Here are the results of what happens then:
Mp4/4 F2002 F2004
1st 13 14 13
2nd 9 10 8
3rd 0 1 4
4th 1 1 1
5th 0 0 0
6th 1 0 1
7th or up 0 1 1
Ret 5 2 1
Starts 29 29 29
avg point score
per start 6.48 7,14 6.83
% max score
(pts/234) 80.3 88.5 84.6
I know, this is very much calculation to the benefit of the F2002 but ain't it shocking to see that all of a sudden the MP4/4 plays not even second but third fiddle then?
For Mercedes it will be very difficult to match or even better the results of the F2002. For starters it can't affort to loose a race anymore in the upcoming 8 races (one defeat, like the F2002 suffered has already happened) and if Hamilton becomes champion then Merc also loses the 10 points of Nico in the opener. And the one 7th place or higher that F2002 scored is also already matched by Lewis yesterday.
I leave it up to others to convert the results with using other point scoring systems of the past years.
Henri
Edited by Henri Greuter, 09 June 2014 - 19:02.