[WRC] News & Rumours 2019

[mknight]

ive been thinking all the time what the championship would look like without the top3

this is my maths before australia

1. Meeke 173
2. Latvala 170
3. Evans 164
4. Suninen 149
5. Mikkelsen 147
6. Lappi 139
7. Sordo 137
8. Loeb 98
9. Breen 26
10 Tidemand 23

keep in mind that Evans missed three rounds, Hyundai guys also with partial programs.

I didn't count power stage as they are highly affected by who is allowed to push (ex. Meeke in Spain, Mikkelsen in Turkey etc..), without them I get very different results:
(obviously there can be errors)

Monte Sw Mex Cors Arg Chile Port Sard Fin Ger Tur GB Sp
Mikkelsen 0 18 4 0 25 10 0 15 15 12 18 15 0 132
Meeke 15 12 18 8 18 4 0 8 0 25 10 25 0 143
Evans 0 15 25 25 0 18 18 12 0 0 0 18 12 143
Latvala 18 0 10 6 15 2 15 0 18 18 10 0 15 127
Suninen 4 0 0 15 10 15 25 18 10 0 15 0 10 122
Lappi 0 25 0 12 0 12 0 10 25 10 25 0 0 119
Sordo 0 0 8 18 12 0 0 25 0 15 12 0 25 115


Or listed by points:
Evans 143 (first because of more 2nd places than Meeke), missed 3 rounds
Meeke 143
Mikkelsen 132, missed 3 rounds
Latvala 127
Suninen 122
Lappi 119
Sordo 115, missed 5 rounds

There are also some properly ridiculous results in there, like Latvala finishing 5th in Mexico 18 mins behind. That's highly unlikely to happen cause there would be other WRC cars. All the overseas events are really sensitive to this so all the drivers that did superrally or lost huge chunks of time but still made it to finish at those benefit a lot in this comparison.