Just for Fun: The 2010 F1 World Championship, NASCAR Style

[call_me_andrew]

Well how do you determine who the best of the slow teams is?

[slorydn1]

001 S Vettel............3060.....5
002 F Alonso............3045.....5
003 M Webber............3021.....4
004 J Button............2953.....2
005 L Hamilton..........2949.....3
006 F Massa.............2770.....0
007 N Rosberg...........2734.....0
008 R Kubica............2720.....0
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009 M Schumacher........2577.....0
010 R Barrichello.......2502.....0
011 A Sutil.............2462.....0
012 J Algersuari........2364.....0
013 V Petrov............2339.....0
014 N Hulkenberg........2312.....0
015 S Buemi.............2284.....0
016 K Kobayashi.........2283.....0
017 V Liuzzi............2261.....0
018 H Kovaleinen........2128.....0
019 T Glock.............2026.....0
t20 J Trulli............1999.....0
t20 L Di Grassi.........1996.....0
022 B Senna.............1893.....0
023 P De La Rosa........1593.....0
024 K Chandok...........1090.....0
025 S Yammamoto.........0748.....0
026 N Heidfeld..........0631.....0
027 C Klein.............0303.....0

Congrats to Sebastian Vettel for a thrilling season, no matter which way it is scored.

As you can see, he edged Alonso by just 15 points. as tight as this battle was, even in Nascar scoring, it came down to BONUS POINTS.
You see, all 5 of Vettel's race wins were of the 195 point variety-meaning he led the most laps in all 5 races he won. Yet only 1 of Alonso's (Singapore) was that kind of deal. The in his other 4 wins, he only scored 190 points, so that is a 20 point swing right there. In 2 of those 4 races (Bahrain and Korea) Vettel led the most laps but had a mechanical problem, the 3rd was Monza, where Button pretty much dominated the race, and the 4th...well that was the infamous deal at Hockenheim where Massa led the most laps.

Here is the "Chase Version"......

001 S Vettel............5897
002 F Alonso............5891
003 J Button............5797
004 L Hamilton..........5791
005 M Weber.............5788
006 R Kubica............5700
007 N Rosberg...........5671
008 F Massa.............5659
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009 M Schumacher........2577
010 R Barrichello.......2502
011 A Sutil.............2462
012 J Algersuari........2364
013 V Petrov............2339
014 N Hulkenberg........2312
015 S Buemi.............2284
016 K Kobayashi.........2283
017 V Liuzzi............2261
018 H Kovaleinen........2128
019 T Glock.............2026
020 J Trulli............1999
021 L Di Grassi.........1996
022 B Senna.............1893
023 P De La Rosa........1593
024 K Chandok...........1090
025 S Yammamoto.........0748
026 N Heidfeld..........0631
027 C Klein.............0303

Here again, a championship by Vettel, this time by a razor thin 6 points.
Either way you slice it, the young German driver "got 'er done..."

Now, for those of you who wanted a comparison of the back marker teams and drivers, I have figured out a way to that as well using this system, which will be in the next post:

[slorydn1]

Here is a little deal I came up with to score the teams and drivers using nascar points- points per race. This way we can see how Yammamoto compared to Chandok, for example using points divided by the actual number of races they competed in.
For the constructor I used the total number of points divided scored by all the drivers involved divided by 2 (there are 2 "seats" in every race per team regardless of who's in them)....

This is what I came up with:

1) Red Bull: 160.02
Vettel: 161.05
Webber: 159.00

2) McLaren: 155.31
Button: 155.42
Hamilton: 155.21

3) Ferrari: 153.03
Alonso: 160.26
Massa: 145.79

4) Mercedes: 139.76
Rosberg: 143.89
Schumacher: 135.63

5) Renault: 133.13
Kubica: 143.16
Petrov: 123.11

6) Williams: 126.68
Barrichello: 131.68
Hulkenburg: 121.68

7) Force India: 124.28
Sutil: 129.58
Liuzzi: 119.00

8) Torro Rosso: 122.32
Algersuari: 124.42
Buemi: 120.21

9) BMW-Sauber: 118.61
Heidfeld: 126.20
Kobayashi: 120.16
de La Rosa: 113.79

10) Lotus: 108.61
Kovalainen: 112.00
Trulli: 105.21

11) HRT: 106.15
Chandok: 109.00
Yammamoto: 106.86
Senna: 105.17
Klein: 101.00

12) Virgin: 105.84
Glock: 106.63
Di Grassi: 105.05

I'm not gonna do any analysis, I'll leave to y'all who are the F1
experts...

[Mark]

Good to see that Vettel would be champ whichever way you cut it. Thanks for doing this it has been most informative!

[jens]

Interesting that the "ordinary" championship and the chase didn't turn out too differently. Top2 is the still the same in the same order and Top5 still consists of the same drivers.

[rightnwrong]

Here is a little deal I came up with to score the teams and drivers using nascar points- points per race. This way we can see how Yammamoto compared to Chandok, for example using points divided by the actual number of races they competed in.
For the constructor I used the total number of points divided scored by all the drivers involved divided by 2 (there are 2 "seats" in every race per team regardless of who's in them)....

This is what I came up with:

1) Red Bull: 160.02
Vettel: 161.05
Webber: 159.00

2) McLaren: 155.31
Button: 155.42
Hamilton: 155.21

3) Ferrari: 153.03
Alonso: 160.26
Massa: 145.79

4) Mercedes: 139.76
Rosberg: 143.89
Schumacher: 135.63

5) Renault: 133.13
Kubica: 143.16
Petrov: 123.11

6) Williams: 126.68
Barrichello: 131.68
Hulkenburg: 121.68

7) Force India: 124.28
Sutil: 129.58
Liuzzi: 119.00

8) Torro Rosso: 122.32
Algersuari: 124.42
Buemi: 120.21

9) BMW-Sauber: 118.61
Heidfeld: 126.20
Kobayashi: 120.16
de La Rosa: 113.79

10) Lotus: 108.61
Kovalainen: 112.00
Trulli: 105.21

11) HRT: 106.15
Chandok: 109.00
Yammamoto: 106.86
Senna: 105.17
Klein: 101.00

12) Virgin: 105.84
Glock: 106.63
Di Grassi: 105.05

I'm not gonna do any analysis, I'll leave to y'all who are the F1
experts...

Thanks for posting this informative tally. Now I know who has a chance to be a champ.