2010 Deconstructors Championship

[Mark]

The traditional year end look at who's made the biggest mess of things.
You score points in this championship for retiring from races. The first to retire gets 25 points, the second 18 points etc according to the F1 system. You don't get any points if you finish the race!

J Trulli        138
L di Grassi     134
Kamui Kobayashi 133
V Liuzzi        121
Bruno Senna     108
Timo Glock      104
K Chandhok      94
P de la Rosa    91
H Kovalaninen   79
S Buemi         69
N Hulkenburg    65
Vitaly Petrov   51
M Webber        43
N Rosberg       40
R Kubica        38
J Alguersuari   37
L Hamilton      36
A Sutil         34
J Button        33
R Barrichello   31
M Schumacher    30
S Vettel        25
S Yamamoto      15
F Massa         12
F Alonso        12
C Klien         10
N Heidfeld      6

Sauber          230
Lotus           229
Virgin          226
HRT             192
Force India     155
Williams        96
Torro Rosso     94
Renault         89
Mercedes        78
Red Bull        68
McLaren         61
Ferrari         24

[Dave B]

Lucky for Heidfeld that he wasn't in the Sauber earlier in the season

[52Paddy]

Interesting, that. Sauber were hampered by numerous reliability issues, particularly in the opening half of the year. I wouldn't have thought that Lotus were the worst of the new teams, given their pace and overall solid work all season. I certainly didn't expect Ferrari would be the cream of the crop, initially, but on reflection, McLaren and Red Bull made some big mistakes this year. Ferrari were not quick for a long time, but did manage to finish regularly.

[VkmSpouge]

It is a good way of showing who had the least reliable car. Interesting to see Hispania's F110 did at least appear to be more reliable than the Lotus and Virgin.

[N. Jones]

It is interesting to see how high Sauber is but I think we might have forgotten how terrible their first half was. Sauber and Kobayashi were much improved in the second half.

[schmenke]

It is interesting to see how high Sauber is but I think we might have forgotten how terrible their first half was. Sauber and Kobayashi were much improved in the second half.

That's what I was thinking. I was at first surprised to see Kobayashi up (down?) in third in the list.


BTW, thanks again Mark.

[N. Jones]

Yes, thanks Mark. This is always a welcome part of the forum.

[UltimateDanGTR]

what really amazes me is that Vettel is behind Hamilton and Webber in the standings.

With instanbul and his bad luck, I find that surprising.

[keysersoze]

what really amazes me is that Vettel is behind Hamilton and Webber in the standings.

With instanbul and his bad luck, I find that surprising.

Vettel's retirements were generally later in the race. Mark's Korea exit was very early. Hamilton was the first retirement in Monza IIRC.

It's a similar situation with Kubica (38 pts) and Petrov (51 pts). Petrov had several wrecks, but I barely recall Kubica dropping out of any race. However, one time was very early (Suzuka) and another was Silverstone, when RK was the second retirement, and another was his pitlane get-together with Sutil, where RK was the fourth to retire. Yes, Petrov dropped out of Suzuka on the first lap, but there were four lap one casualties, and Vitaly had outqualified all of them, so he only "earned" 10 points for his contact with Hulkenberg--as we all remember, Di Grassi went off on the reconnaissance lap and didn't take the start.

[jens]

Wuohoo, Trulli won at least something. : Of course could find excuses like it may have easily seemed that his chassis had an inherent (hydraulic) flaw as it seemed to break down in almost every race and ridiculously nothing changed during the whole year. But in the end doesn't matter much, little was at stake and nothing else to do than to wait for 2011 and hope for better, when finally a new chassis will be unveiled!