Whoops! Add Bruce McLaren to the list!

An interesting thing is that when you apply other scoring systems, even to the extreme of number of wins or a 24,23,22, ..., 1 points system, the majority of champions don't change and when they do the main effect is the number of championships won by multiple champions. From memory, I think the only non-champion who becomes a champion is Moss.

In boxing, a champion remains champion until he is defeated. Could we have something like this in F1? You couldn't go on a "who won the last race?" basis but you could do it on a rolling score basis: "Points scored (or number of wins) in the last year (or 6 months or 2 years)". Fangio and Schumacher would still reign as Champion for many years while tightly contested eras would probably show the World Champion changing between two drivers almost race by race. I've never tried it, so I don't know, but it would be an interesting exercise.