The "No race winners this season" Alternative Championship!

[James1978]

1998

No McLarens, M. Schumacher or D. Hill!

Eddie Irvine 103 (8 wins, 3 2nd)
Jacques Villeneuve 58 (2 wins, 2 2nd, 4 3rd)
Heinz-Harald Frentzen 51 (1 win, 4 2nd, 2 3rd)
Alex Wurz 48 (2 wins, 2 2nd, 2 3rd)
Giancarlo Fisichella 47 (2 wins, 4 3rd)
Ralf Schumacher 35 (1 win, 3 2nd)
Jean Alesi 30 (1 2nd, 3 3rd)
Johnny Herbert 13 (3 4th)
Rubens Barrichello 10 (1 2nd)
Pedro Diniz 5 (1 4th)
Mika Salo 4 (1 3rd)
Jarno Trulli 4 (1 5th)
Shinji Nakano 3 (3 6th)
Jan Magnussen 2 (1 5th)
Olivier Panis 1 (1 6th)
Esteban Tuero 1 (1 6th)
Toranosuke Takagi 1 (1 6th)

Verstappen and Rosset fail to score.

Dare I say it......boring? Irvine is pretty dominant, but Villeneuve wins a tight fight with his teammate and the Benttons for 2nd. Nothing particularly unusual to report otherwise.

[James1978]

1999

No McLarens, Ferraris (apart from the part-time Salo), Frentzen or Herbert.

Ralf Schumacher 94 (7 wins, 3 2nd, 1 3rd)
Rubens Barrichello 63 (4 wins, 1 2nd, 3 3rd)
Giancarlo Fisichella 36 (2 wins, 1 2nd, 1 3rd)
Alex Wurz 34 (1 win, 1 2nd, 3 3rd)
Jarno Trulli 32 (1 win, 1 2nd, 3 3rd)
Damon Hill 31 (4 2nd, 1 3rd)
Mika Salo 27 (1 win, 1 2nd, 1 3rd) - 5 for BAR, 22 for Ferrari, including the three podiums
Jean Alesi 20 (2 2nd)
Olivier Panis 17 (1 2nd, 1 3rd)
Pedro Diniz 15 (1 2nd, 2 3rd)
Marc Gene 12 (3 4th)
Alessandro Zanardi 11 (3 4th)
Jacques Villeneuve 5 (1 4th)
Toranosuke Takagi 5 (1 4th)
Ricardo Zonta 4 (2 5th)
Pedro De La Rosa 3 (1 4th)
Luca Badoer 3 (3 6th)

I'm surprised how many times Ralf wins here actually, I know he had a good season without winning a race in reality, but didn't expect him to do that well. The Benettons do a lot better than I would have expected too. And a win for Salo with Irvine not around! And Gene ahead of Zanardi and Villeneuve!!!

[James1978]

2000

Just no Ferraris or McLarens!

Ralf Schumacher 72 (6 wins, 1 2nd)
Jacques Villeneuve 66 (4 wins, 3 2nd)
Giancarlo Fisichella 52 (4 wins, 1 3rd)
Jenson Button 45 (2 wins, 3 2nd)
Heinz-Harald Frentzen 35 (1 win, 3 2nd, 1 3rd)
Mika Salo 34 (2 2nd, 3 3rd)
Eddie Irvine 25 (2 2nd, 1 3rd)
Jarno Trulli 21 (5 3rd)
Ricardo Zonta 18 (1 3rd, 4 4th)
Alex Wurz 16 (2 3rd)
Jos Verstappen 14 (2 2nd)
Pedro Diniz 12 (1 3rd)
Johnny Herbert 11 (1 3rd)
Pedro De La Rosa 10 (1 2nd, 1 3rd)
Gaston Mazzacane 3 (1 4th)
Marc Gene 3 (1 5th)
Nick Heidfeld 3 (1 5th)
Jean Alesi 2 (1 5th)

This:

http://atlasf1.autosport.com/2000/nov15/schot.html

Sums it up far better than I can, I already knew somebody had donw a "2000 without Ferrari and McLaren" championship!

(I Liked seeing Minardi beat Prost on points though!!!)

[James1978]

2001

Everyone from the top 3 teams is eliminated - except Barrichello, shame he couldn't have won a race!!

Rubens Barrichello 126 (12 wins, 1 2nd) !!!!!!!
Nick Heidfeld 44 (1 win, 2 2nd, 4 3rd)
Jacques Villeneuve 40 (1 win, 1 2nd, 2 3rd)
Jarno Trulli 39 (1 win, 3 2nd, 2 3rd)
Kimi Raikkonen 39 (1 win, 2 2nd, 1 3rd)
Jean Alesi 27 (1 2nd, 1 3rd) - 16 for Prost, 11 for Jordan
Eddie Irvine 21 (3 2nd)
Heinz-Harald Frentzen 21 (1 2nd, 2 3rd) - 19 for Jordan, 2 for Prost
Giancarlo Fisichella 20 (1 win, 1 3rd)
Olivier Panis 20 (1 2nd, 1 3rd)
Pedro De La Rosa 15 (1 2nd, 2 3rd)
Jenson Button 12 (1 2nd)
Jos Verstappen 9 (1 3rd)
Luciano Burti 4 (1 5th) - 2 for Jaguar, 2 for Prost
Ricardo Zonta 3 (1 4th)
Tarso Marques 1 (1 6th)
Fernando Alonso 1 (1 6th)

Plain and simple domination! Great fight for second though. Just imagine how good it could have been without Rubens! It's left to 5 different drivers to pick up a win each when Rubens fails - including Kimi Raikkonen in his first season!

[Ferrim]

Go home, Rubens Barrichello!

[Bleu]

Had to check where did Rubens finish 2nd...found out it was Belgium behind Fisichella.

[James1978]

I don't think Rubens was ever in a position to win a race that year (and therefore be eliminated) - even in Austria when he let Michael through at the end they were still both behind Coulthard. Whenever he came 2nd in a Ferrari 1-2 Schumacher needed to win for the championship (Malaysia, Monaco, Hungary). Think Hakkinen would have resisted him at Indy too had his engine not gone.

[James1978]

2002

No Schumachers, Coulthard or Barrichello

Juan Pablo Montoya 108 (9 wins, 3 2nd)
Kimi Raikkonen 56 (5 wins, 1 2nd)
Jenson Button 45 (1 win, 3 2nd, 3 3rd)
Nick Heidfeld 35 (2 2nd, 1 3rd)
Jarno Trulli 33 (1 win, 2 2nd, 1 3rd)
Giancarlo Fisichella 31 (4 2nd)
Eddie Irvine 25 (1 win, 1 2nd, 1 3rd)
Felipe Massa 25 (4 3rd)
Jacques Villeneuve 22 (1 2nd, 2 3rd)
Mika Salo 16 (2 3rd)
Olivier Panis 11 (1 3rd)
Takuma Sato 10 (1 3rd)
Heinz-Harald Frentzen 7 (1 3rd)
Allan McNish 7 (3 5th)
Mark Webber 5 (1 4th)
Pedro De La Rosa 4 (1 5th)
Alex Yoong 1 (1 6th)

Almost as dominant for Montoya as it was for Barrichello '01! Kimi has the speed to challenge but only finished 6 races! Button (Brazil), Trulli (Monaco) and Irvine (Monza) win a race each when the top two fail. Massa did a lot better than I would have expected given ghe was on the reject podium of the year! And Sato on the podium for his home race.

Been really looking forward to the next one though!!

[James1978]

Sorry I couldn't wait!!!

2003

No Ferraris, McLarens, Williamses (apart from Gene's one-off appearance at Monza), Alonso or Fisichella

Jarno Trulli 89 (5 wins, 3 2nd, 2 3rd)
Mark Webber 72 (4 wins, 2 2nd, 1 3rd)
Jenson Button 72 (3 wins, 2 2nd, 1 3rd)
Cristiano da Matta 68 (1 win, 2 2nd, 1 3rd, 1 4th, 7 5th!!!!)
Nick Heidfeld 54 (6 3rd)
Heinz-Harald Frentzen 51 (2 wins, 1 2nd)
Olivier Panis 43 (4 2nd)
Jacques Villeneuve 39 (2 2nd, 2 3rd)
Antonio Pizzonia 24 (3 4th)
Ralph Firman 23 (1 3rd)
Jos Verstappen 21 (1 3rd)
Justin Wilson 13 (1 4th)
Marc Gene 10 (1 win)
Nicolas Kiesa 8 (1 6th)
Takuma Sato 6 (1 3rd)
HWNSNBM 4 (1 5th)

It wasn't quite the Trulli massacre it could have been given his equipment (the new points system contributed to this too). He only won 5 times and it took him until the penultimate race to clinch it. He was even behind Webber and Button in the mid-season when he had a bad patch. Da Matta gets Toyota's first win in Spain and is elsewhere very consistent - how anyone manages to come 5th 7 times I'll never know. The Saubers also do very well.

[James1978]

The other thing I meant to add about 2003 was that with the top 8 scoring points, only a 20 car field and 8 drivers eliminated, there were only 5 races where all 8 points positions were awarded!!!

2004

No Ferraris, Trulli, Raikkonen or Montoya

Jenson Button 134 (10 wins, 3 2nd, 1 3rd)
Fernando Alonso 102 (5 wins, 4 2nd, 2 3rd)
Giancarlo Fisichella 75 (3 2nd, 1 3rd, 3 4th, 5 5th)
Takuma Sato 67 (1 win, 3 2nd, 4 3rd)
David Coulthard 66 (1 2nd, 6 3rd)
Felipe Massa 52 (1 win, 1 2nd)
Ralf Schumacher 45 (1 win, 2 2nd, 2 3rd)
Mark Webber 33 (4 4th)
Olivier Panis 26 (1 2nd, 2 5th)
Christian Klien 20 (1 3rd, 3 6th)
Antonio Pizzonia 14 (2 4th)
Nick Heidfeld 14 (1 4th)
Cristiano Da Matta 13 (1 3rd)
HWNSNBM 10 (1 4th)
Ricardo Zonta 6 (1 6th, 1 7th, 1 8th)
Jacques Villeneuve 6 (1 6th, 1 7th, 1 8th)
Timo Glock 5 (1 4th)
Marc Gene 5 (1 5th)

Pantano and Bruni fail to score.

The Button massacre! Dread to think what he'd have won by under pre-2003 points! Fisichella comes 3rd by dint of lots of mid-points positions. Indy was great - Sato won, Panis was 2nd, DC was 3rd and HWNSNBM unrejectified himself by coming 4th!
Zonta and Villeneuve were impossible to separate but Zonta's next best result was a retirement.

[James1978]

2005

No Alonso, Raikkonen, M. Schumacher, Fisichella or Montoya.

Ralf Schumacher 100 (2 wins, 4 2nd, 5 3rd)
Rubens Barrichello 89 (4 wins, 2 2nd, 1 3rd)
Jarno Trulli 88 (4 wins, 3 2nd, 1 3rd)
Jenson Button 86 (5 wins, 2 2nd, 1 3rd)
Mark Webber 66 (1 win, 2 2nd, 3 3rd)
David Coulthard 56 (1 2nd, 4 3rd)
Felipe Massa 51 (1 2nd, 1 3rd)
Nick Heidfeld 45 (2 wins, 1 2nd)
Christian Klien 41 (1 2nd, 3 4th)
Jacques Villeneuve 33 (1 2nd, 2 4th)
Tiago Monteiro 17 (1 2nd)
Takuma Sato 16 (2 5th)
Alex Wurz 10 (1 win)
Narain Kartikeyan 9 (1 3rd)
Vitantonio Liuzzi 7 (1 5th)
Antonio Pizzonia 6 (1 3rd)
Pedro De La Rosa 6 (1 3rd)
Christijan Albers 5 (1 4th)
Patrick Friesacher 4 (1 5th)

Was thinking of doing this in 2 parts, but as Ralf had won "No Real Champions", I didn't really see the point as this shouldn't be any great surprise. He scored in every race apart from two, and one of those was Indy when Zonta took his place anyway!

Trulli hit the self-destruct button though - with 4 races to go he had a 12-point lead over his teammate but only managed 1 point from the last 4 races! Barrichello shouldn't really have been in it but got a 10-point bonus due to Indy, and Button should really have been able to defend his title but he only scored 5 points before Indy and always had too much to do - but he did get most wins.

But all the top 4 had a chance going to China!

Also you can see here how much better Massa was than Villeneuve - in reailty it was very close between them!

[James1978]

2006

No Renaults, Ferraris or Button!

Kimi Raikkonen 116 (10 wins, 2 2nd)
Rubens Barrichello 80 (5 2nd, 4 3rd)
Nick Heidfeld 62 (1 2nd, 5 3rd)
Jarno Trulli 59 (1 win, 3 2nd)
Ralf Schumacher 56 (1 win, 2 2nd, 2 3rd)
Juan Pablo Montoya 46 (3 wins, 2 2nd)
Pedro De La Rosa 44 (3 wins, 2 3rd)
David Coulthard 43 (1 2nd, 1 3rd)
Mark Webber 31 (2 3rd, 2 4th)
Nico Rosberg 30 (1 3rd, 1 4th)
Jacques Villeneuve 29 (1 2nd, 3 4th)
Vitantonio Liuzzi 22 (1 4th, 1 5th)
Christian Klien 20 (1 3rd)
Robert Kubica 19 (1 2nd)
Scott Speed 19 (1 5th, 2 6th)
Christijan Albers 7 (3 7th)
Tiago Monteiro 5 (1 6th)
Takuma Sato 4 (1 5th)
Robert Doornbos 3 (1 7th)

The second Super Aguri drivers fail to score.

McLaren almost match their 1988 real-life feat - they won all but two races (Indy where they both crashed out on the first lap, and Magny-Cours where they were both beaten by Ralf Schumacher). The only other different between this and 1988 is that due to Montoya's sacking, there's no in-house fight for the championship - but the combinded total for Montoya and De La Rosa was enough for 2nd overall! Barrichello gets a massive collection of podiums but without a win.

[James1978]

2007

This actually has some semblance of reality - becuase the only winners were McLaren and Ferrari drivers, both teams could have been excluded for Spygate (Ferrari due to Stepney's role), this is what would have happened!!

Nick Heidfeld 118 (8 wins, 2 2nd, 2 3rd)
Robert Kubica 88 (3 wins, 5 2nd)
Heikki Kovalainen 77 (2 wins, 1 2nd, 2 3rd)
Giancarlo Fisichella 62 (1 win, 2 2nd, 2 3rd)
Nico Rosberg 58 (1 win, 1 2nd, 4 3rd)
Mark Webber 37 (1 win, 2 3rd)
David Coulthard 36 (2 2nd, 1 3rd)
Jarno Trulli 34 (1 2nd, 2 3rd)
Alex Wurz 32 (2 2nd)
Jenson Button 25 (1 2nd, 1 4th)
Ralf Schumacher 25 (1 3rd, 1 4th)
Rubens Barrichello 20 (1 5th, 1 6th, 6 7th)
Sebastian Vettel 15 (1 win for Toro Rosso, 1 4th for BMW sauber)
Takuma Sato 11 (1 4th, 1 5th)
Vitantonio Liuzzi 10 (1 3rd)
Scott Speed 4 (1 5th)
Adrian Sutil 4 (1 5th)
Anthony Davidson 4 (1 7th)
Kazuki Nakajima 3 (1 6th)

It was indeed the Heidfeld massacre. I expected Kubica to be much closer than 30 points behind! Nick had it sewn up by the end of the European races. Webber is (deservedly I feel too) ahead of Coulthard! Vettel manages to win in China in the only part-season he's eligible in this championship. And Honda don't look anywhere near as bad in this as in reality either!

[James1978]

2008

No Hamilton, Massa, Raikkonen, Kovalainen, Kubica, Alonso or Vettel

Nick Heidfeld 130 (8 wins, 2 2nd, 1 3rd)
Jarno Trulli 92 (3 wins, 3 2nd, 3 3rd)
Mark Webber 86 (2 wins, 3 2nd, 5 3rd)
Timo Glock 77 (2 wins, 3 2nd, 1 3rd)
Nico Rosberg 59 (1 win, 1 2nd, 2 3rd)
Nelson Piquet Jr 52 (2 wins, 1 2nd, 3 3rd)
David Coulthard 44 (1 2nd, 5 4th)
Kazuki Nakajima 40 (3 3rd)
Rubens Barrichello 34 (2 2nd)
Sebastien Bourdais 33 (1 2nd, 1 4th, 3 5th)
Jenson Button 33 (1 2nd, 1 4th, 1 5th)
Giancarlo Fisichella 8 (1 6th)
Adrian Sutil 3 (1 7th)

The Super Aguris failed to score in their 4 races.

Heidfeld does even better than in 2007, not only did he easily get most wins but he scored in every race! I thought more than 6 drivers would have won actually. But everyone not in a Force India or Super Aguri gets at least one podium. Funnily enough, Brazil had a Toyota 1-2 despite them struggling on dry tyres at the end!

[James1978]

2009

No Brawns, Red Bulls, Hamilton or Raikkonen.

Nico Rosberg 86.5 (1 win, 6 2nd)
Timo Glock 69 (1 win, 4 2nd*, 1 3rd)
Fernando Alonso 69 (1 win, 2 2nd, 5 3rd)
Jarno Trulli 64 (4 wins, 3 3rd*)
Heikki Kovalainen 61 (2 wins, 1 2nd, 2 3rd)
Nick Heidfeld 55 (2 wins*, 3 3rd)
Felipe Massa 47 (3 wins, 1 2nd, 1 3rd)
Robert Kubica 47 (1 win, 1 2nd, 4 4th)
Giancarlo Fisichella 35 (1 win, 1 4th) - 23 for Force India including the win, 12 for Ferrari
Sebastien Buemi 25 (1 2nd, 1 3rd)
Adrian Sutil 19 (1 win, 1 5th)
Kazuki Nakajima 18.5 (2 5th, 2 6th)
Sebastien Bourdais 15.5 (1 4th, 1 5th)
Kamui Kobayashi 14 (1 2nd, 1 3rd)
Nelson Piquet Jr 10 (1 5th)
Vitantonio Liuzzi 4 (1 5th)
Romain Grosjean 2 (1 7th)
Jaime Alguersuari 1 (1 8th)

*Half points for Malaysia

Rosberg is by far the most consistent. Incidentally, his two main challengers both got injured - Massa was only 2.5 points behind when he had his Hungary crash, and Glock was only 5.5 points behind, with Toyota in good form, when he had his Japan crash. Trulli wins on medals but retires too often. But 10 drivers winning races show how open it was when you take the top two teams out (and the two most recent real-life champions). Force India even get two wins!

Other things of note: it takes until the last two races of the year for BMW to win a full race, and Kobayashi gets two podiums in his two appearances, if it hadn't have been for Heidfeld in Abu Dhabi.......

[James1978]

And to get right up to date!

2010

No Red Bulls, McLarens or Alonso.

Nico Rosberg 296 (7 wins, 3 2nd, 3 3rd)
Robert Kubica 272 (3 wins, 6 2nd, 3 3rd)
Felipe Massa 264 (5 wins, 4 2nd)
Michael Schumacher 206 (3 wins, 2 2nd, 1 3rd)
Rubens Barrichello 156 (1 win, 2 2nd)
Adrian Sutil 138 (4 3rd)
Kamui Kobayashi 103 (1 2nd, 1 3rd)
Jaime Alguersuari 85 (1 4th, 1 5th)
Nico Hulkenberg 84 (3 3rd)
Vitaly Petrov 83 (1 2nd, 2 3rd)
Vitantonio Liuzzi 77 (4 4th)
Sebastien Buemi 70 (1 3rd, 2 5th)
Pedro De La Rosa 31 (1 4th)
Nick Heidfeld 29 (1 3rd)
Heikki Kovalainen 13 (1 7th)
Jarno Trulli 4 (1 8th)
Karun Chandhok 3 (3 10th)
Lucas Di Grassi 2 (1 9th)
Timo Glock 2 (1 9th)
Bruno Senna 1 (1 10th)

Yamamoto and Klien fail to score.

Bet everyone thought that would be Massa didn't they? He had too many races where he only just scraped into the points, where Rosberg was more often best of the non-championship contenders and took most wins. Much less winners than in 2009, only 5 in total. Though there were two tantalising results for a couple of favourites from this site - Kobayashi was only 4 seconds off the lead at his home race and was rapidly catching Schumacher at the end. And also Petrov was only a "Fernando is faster than you" message from winning in Hungary, as he was 2nd to Massa who would have got eliminated without that message......

Kovalainen is easily best of the new team drivers.

[dr-baker]

...And Chandhok is still the best of all the HRT drivers, beaten only by the Lotus drivers amongst the new team drivers...

[James1978]

Full list of champions (sorry for skipping the 50s for any fans of that era!!!)

1961 Dan Gurney USA Porsche
1962 Tony Maggs RSA Cooper-Climax
1963 Richie Ginther USA BRM
1964 Richie Ginther USA BRM
1965 Dan Gurney USA Brabham-Climax
1966 Jochen Rindt AUT Cooper-Maserati
1967 Chris Amon NZ Ferrari
1968 Pedro Rodriguez MEX BRM
1969 Bruce McLaren NZ McLaren-Ford
1970 Denny Hulme NZ McLaren-Ford
1971 Ronnie Peterson SWE March-Ford
1972 Peter Revson USA McLaren-Ford
1973 Francois Cevert FRA Tyrrell-Ford
1974 Patrick Depailler FRA Tyrrell-Ford
1975 Patrick Depailler FRA Tyrrell-Ford
1976 Patrick Depailler FRA Tyrrell-Ford (the six-wheeler no less!)
1977 Jochen Mass GER McLaren-Ford
1978 John Watson GB Brabham-Alfa Romeo
1979 Didier Pironi FRA Tyrrell-Ford
1980 Elio De Angelis ITA Lotus-Ford
1981 Elio De Angelis ITA Lotus-Ford
1982 Derek Daly IRL Williams-Ford
1983 Eddie Cheever USA Renault
1984 Elio De Angelis ITA Lotus-Renault
1985 Stefan Johansson SWE Tyrrell-Ford and Ferrari
1986 Stefan Johansson SWE Ferrari
1987 Stefan Johansson SWE McLaren-TAG
1988 Thierry Boutsen BEL Benetton-Ford
1989 Riccardo Patrese ITA Williams-Renault
1990 Gerhard Berger AUT McLaren-Honda
1991 Alain Prost FRA Ferrari
1992 Martin Brundle GB Benetton-Ford
1993 Riccardo Patrese ITA Benetton-Ford
1994 Jean Alesi FRA Ferrari
1995 Gerhard Berger AUT Ferrari (or Frentzen in a Sauber on a technicality!!)
1996 Jean Alesi FRA Benetton-Renault
1997 Jean Alesi FRA Benetton-Renault
1998 Eddie Irvine GB Ferrari
1999 Ralf Schumacher GER Williams-Supertec
2000 Ralf Schumacher GER Williams-BMW
2001 Rubens Barrichello BRA Ferrari
2002 Juan Pablo Montoya COL Williams-BMW
2003 Jarno Trulli ITA Renault
2004 Jenson Button GB BAR-Honda
2005 Ralf Schumacher GER Toyota
2006 Kimi Raikkonen FIN McLaren-Mercedes
2007 Nick Heidfeld GER BMW-Sauber
2008 Nick Heidfeld GER BMW-Sauber
2009 Nico Rosberg GER Williams-Toyota
2010 Nico Rosberg GER Mercedes


Seems Germans have dominated this thing in the modern era, even 2002 and 2006 had German engine manufacturers win!!!

There are 5 triple-champions: Depailler, De Angelis, Johansson, Alesi and Ralf Schumacher. Though De Angelis would have won 4 times if Prost's McLaren at Imola 1985 hadn't have been underweight!

[James1978]

Going through all the alternative championships I did and update them for this year!

2011

Same drivers as last year eliminated!

Felipe Massa 312 (7 wins, 5 2nd, 1 3rd)
Nico Rosberg 261 (2 wins, 7 2nd, 3 3rd)
Michael Schumacher 220 (6 wins, 2 3rd)
Adrian Sutil 175 (3 2nd, 2 3rd)
Paul Di Resta 149 (1 win, 1 2nd)
Vitaly Petrov 137 (1 win, 1 2nd, 1 3rd)
Kamui Kobayashi 130 (1 win, 1 3rd)
Jaime Alguersuari 112 (1 2nd, 3 3rd)
Nick Heidfeld 107 (1 win, 1 2nd, 2 3rd)
Sebastien Buemi 100 2 3rd)
Sergio Perez 88 (2 3rd)
Rubens Barrichello 59 (1 4th, 2 6th)
Pastor Maldonado 28 (2 6th)
Bruno Senna 25 (1 5th)
Heikki Kovalainen 11 (1 8th)
Jarno Trulli 10 (2 8th)
Jerome D'Ambrosio 3 (1 9th)
Pedro De La Rosa 2 (1 9th)
Vitantonio Liuzzi 1 (1 10th)

Glock, Chandhok, Karthikeyan and Ricciardo all failed to score

On paper this was always going to be Massa winning but he took until mid-season to establish himself in the lead, after Valencia there were 6 drivers within 10 points (Massa, both Mercedes, both Renaults and Kobayashi) - but the latter three fell away spectacularly, even adding Heidfeld and Senna's points together puts them behind Petrov. Interesting how Rosberg beats Schumacher on points, but Schumacher scores 6 wins to Nico's 2. And Force India beat Renault (and indeed Ferrari who only have one car!)

BTW, if it hadn't have been for Vettel's gearbox problem in Brazil, Webber would have WALKED this championship!

[DidNotQualify]

Sorry to bump this thread, but James1978, would you mind if I updated this for the 2012 season? I was reading through some of the old forum stuff today and thought this was a pretty interesting idea.

[James1978]

Sorry to bump this thread, but James1978, would you mind if I updated this for the 2012 season? I was reading through some of the old forum stuff today and thought this was a pretty interesting idea.

I'm sorry - I actually compiled it but in my infinite wisdom, forgot to post the results!

Here they are anyway:

2012

Felipe Massa 313 (7 wins)
Nico Hulkenberg 225 (1 win, 4 2nd, 4 3rd)
Paul Di Resta 211 (1 win, 2 2nd, 2 3rd)
Romain Grosjean 209 (5 wins, 3 2nd, 2 3rd) - every time he scored was a podium!!
Kamui Kobayashi 200 (3 wins, 2 2nd, 2 3rd)
Sergio Perez 185 (2 wins, 3 2nd)
Bruno Senna 154 (3 2nd, 1 3rd)
Daniel Ricciardo 147 (1 3rd, 2 4th)
Michael Schumacher 144 (1 win, 5 3rd)
Jean-Eric Vergne 118 (5 4th)
Heikki Kovalainen 32 (1 7th, 3 8th)
Vitaly Petrov 29 (1 6th, 1 7th)
Timo Glock 28 (2 6th)
Charles Pic 15 (2 7th)
Jerome D'Ambrosio 4 (1 8th)
Narain Karthikeyan 2 (1 9th)

De La Rosa failed to score!!

This was Grosjean's to lose at first but an increasingly erratic 2nd half of the season meant he did - Massa was nowhere at first but he absolutely had it nailed from Silverstone onwards. Interesting to note Kobayashi ahead of Perez, and Schumacher last of all the established teams bar Vergne.

Sorry DNQ, I did actually forget to post it becuase I actually feel it's not a massively realistic championship like some of the ones on here are (such as the elimination ones, No Real Champions, Young Drivers etc). Top drivers just make sporadic appearances with no real science to it. Wonder if some obscure driver called Lewis Hamilton actually makes his debut in 2013, the world hasn't heard of him yet - and when will that young sensation from a part-season in 2007, Sebastian Vettel, make a comeback??

[DidNotQualify]

No worries, nice to see the results. Who knows, maybe reigning WDC Felipe Massa may hang up his helmet for good this time.

[dr-baker]

Amazing that the cucumber outscored the Docklands Light Railway here!