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Originally Posted by Prisoner Monkeys
was it important in '06?
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Originally Posted by Prisoner Monkeys
was it important in '06?
In rallying nobody has "claim" to #1. It's given to the champion as a matter of courtesy. If he's not there, it's given to someone else. Which is exactly how it should be.Quote:
Originally Posted by Prisoner Monkeys
This is not true, until 1996 the F1 numbers were allocated according to the 1973 constructors championship. Only the team with the reigning drivers champion received #1 & #2, while last years owners of #1 received the old numbers from the current champion. In 1993 Prost won the championship for Williams, that is why they kept #1 & #2. By the way, Williams already drove with #0 & #2 in 1993 because 1992 champion Nigel Mansell deflected to the USA.Quote:
Originally Posted by Prisoner Monkeys
I'm well aware that the numbering structure in Formula 1 has gone through several versions.
Actually, that's not true at all. Under the WRC regs it is specifically reserved for the current World Champion. It's common in many top tier sports.Quote:
Originally Posted by sollitt
MotoGP didn't just hand 1 to someone else when Rossi ran his normal number.
Who cares if there's no number 1 because Loeb isn't there? He earned it. No one else came within a country mile of earning it.
Loeb will be the only one to run 1 next year, and rightly so.
eWRC.cz - po všech stránkách rally…Quote:
Originally Posted by rallyfiend
That specific case relates to a change in nominated driver after entries had closed and required a waiver for him to even step in to the car when Seb had injured himself? After entries had been closed and entry list issued.Quote:
Originally Posted by Nornbugger
Very different to a precise policy / regulation designed to reserve that number for the Champion.
I think up until the early 90´s, drivers numbers were seeded by the event organisers, so they never carried the same number whole year. I don´t see why we should attach to it really.
Interesting to see these statistics on final of the season.
Is this why NZ and GB had no number 1 on the events? tbh I remember Loeb was injured etc but I forget the detail of why we had McRae and Pons at No1 and then the 2 events with no no.1.Quote:
Originally Posted by rallyfiend