Famine's Adjusted Constructors' ChampionshipFormula 1 

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Updated for Spain!

1. Mercedes - 100pt (+25)
2. Ferrari - 70pt (+15)
3. McLaren - 58pt (+10)
4. Force India - 54pt (+12)
5. Red Bull - 51pt (+18)
6. Williams - 44pt (+8)
7. Toro Rosso - 25pt (DNF)
8. Sauber - 14pt (+4)
9. Lotus - 14pt (+6)
10. Caterham - 12pt (DNF)
11. Marussia - 12pt (+2)

Mercedes has put its first race failure to bed and pulled out an entire race gap now. Ferrari firmly take on a 2nd team mantle while McLaren, Force India, Red Bull and Williams all squabble behind them.

The bottom four teams are all suffering catastrophic reliability and it's simply going to be a case of who can get both cars to the finish most often by the end of the season.
 
Updated for Monaco!

1. Mercedes - 125pt (+25)
2. Ferrari - 85pt (+15)
3. McLaren - 76pt (+18)
4. Force India - 54pt (DNF)
5. Red Bull - 51pt (DNF)
6. Williams - 44pt (DNF)
7. Toro Rosso - 25pt (DNF)
8. Caterham - 24pt (+12)
9. Marussia - 22pt (+10)
10. Sauber - 14pt (DNF)
11. Lotus - 14pt (DNF)

Once the top pairing are discounted, you have to go down EIGHT places to find the first second driver - McLaren's Kevin Magnussen. A high attrition rate puts SIX teams in DNFland - so Marussia, who scored their first ever points in the actual standings, and Caterham make colossal gains over the rest of the mid and lower tier teams.

Sorry-looking Lotus now prop up the pack, with Sauber only ahead on countback.
 
Updated for Canada!

1. Mercedes - 125pt (DNF)
2. Ferrari - 100pt (+15)
3. McLaren - 94pt (+18)
4. Red Bull - 76pt (+25)
5. Force India - 76pt (+12)
6. Williams - 54pt (+10)
7. Toro Rosso - 25pt (DNF)
8. Caterham - 24pt (DNF)
9. Sauber - 22pt (+8)
10. Marussia - 22pt (DNF)
11. Lotus - 14pt (DNF)

Mercedes fail to finish but they still have an entire race's advantage over Ferrari who net a second successive 3rd - and McLaren score a second successive 2nd. They may not be quick cars, but they're getting their guys to the end with regularity.

Red Bull hop over Force India on countback - Perez's accident throwing away 18 points, but 12 will do. Sauber capitalise on Marussia's first lap misfortune to lift themselves out of the bottom two by the smallest margin.

*Williams, Force India and Sauber all got their second cars to 90% race distance for a classified finish before retirements
 
Updated for Austria...
1. Mercedes - 150pt (+25)
2. Ferrari - 112pt (+12)
3. McLaren - 104pt (+10)
4. Force India - 81pt (+15)
5. Red Bull - 76pt (DNF)
6. Williams - 72pt (+18)
7. Caterham - 28pt (+4)
8. Marussia - 28pt (+6)
9. Toro Rosso - 25pt (DNF)
10. Sauber - 24pt (+2)
11. Lotus - 22pt (+8)

And Britain...
1. Mercedes - 150pt (DNF)
2. McLaren - 122pt (+18)
3. Ferrari - 112pt (DNF)
4. Red Bull - 101pt (+25)
5. Force India - 93pt (+12)
6. Williams - 72pt (DNF)
7. Toro Rosso - 40pt (+15)
8. Marussia - 38pt (+10)
9. Lotus - 30pt (+8)
10. Caterham - 28pt (DNF)
11. Sauber - 24pt (DNF)

Another massive swathe of DNFs - 6 teams at Silverstone - sees the finishers make great gains. Red Bull's maximum lifts them a place and a point above Ferrari while the unlikeliest source - McLaren - closes up on Mercedes. Any more DNFs at the top and the consistent McLarens may take the lead again.

Marussia's good day sees them leap above Caterham and the floundering Sauber, while Toro Rosso manage a rare points finish to keep some daylight from the Banbury outfit. Lotus, meanwhile, suck, but pick up 8pt due to Maldonado's classified non-finish.
 
Updated for Germany...

1. Mercedes - 175pt (+25)
2. McLaren - 137pt (+15)
3. Ferrari - 122pt (+10)
4. Red Bull - 119pt (+18)
5. Force India - 105pt (+12)
6. Williams - 72pt (DNF)
7. Marussia - 46pt (+8)
8. Toro Rosso - 40pt (DNF)
9. Caterham - 34pt (+6)
10. Lotus - 30pt (DNF)
11. Sauber - 24pt (DNF)

With one more race until the summer break, Mercedes get their arses back into gear with a maximum - but McLaren's 3rd keeps them less than a race behind. After a busy few races of table swapping there's almost no moves this week - the top five all score top five finishes and, while the order is jiggled about a bit it's not enough to see any position changes.

Williams are going to need to start getting both cars - or more accurately Felipe Massa - to the finish as they're plumetting into the clutches of the teams below them. Marussia are now back ahead of STR. Caterham leapfrog sucky Lotus and are sneaking away from Sauber - who may ditch the liability that is Adrian Sutil next race (and to be considered a liability next to Esteban Guttierez is impressive). Lotus... still suck.
 
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Famine
Lotus... still have Maldonado.
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FTFY :lol:

Had Massa not been wrecked in Canada, Williams would be a lot more secure in 6th. As for whether they'd be up closer to Force India, well, he drove less than a mile combined between the British and German GP's so we really can't tell.
 
Updated for Hungary...

1. Mercedes - 200pt (+25)
2. McLaren - 147pt (+10)
3. Ferrari - 140pt (+18)
4. Red Bull - 134pt (+15)
5. Force India - 105pt (DNF)
6. Williams - 84pt (+12)
7. Marussia - 52pt (+6)
8. Toro Rosso - 48pt (+8)
9. Caterham - 34pt (DNF)
10. Lotus - 30pt (DNF)
11. Sauber - 24pt (DNF)

A rare week of no movement as reliability again puts paid to the bottom three (and a rare DNF for Force India).

Williams finally manages to get Massa to the end of a Grand Prix without being abducted by aliens or falling through a time hole and this surges them into a mid-table no man's land - they should have double this points tally by now...

Mercedes gets its usual top score - that's 8 in total, only ever scoring maximum points or DNF - and this gives them just over a race's advantage to McLaren who scored good points again but have let a little ground slip underneath them to the chasing Red Bull and Ferrari.

With a month's break now, it is still mathematically anyone's (though the entities keen on keeping Massa out of classification would need to take interest in literally everyone else to get Lotus a title), but the top four are all making that mix of pace, reliability and teamwork work.

And Lotus... fill in your own punchline.
 
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Updated for Belgium...

1. Mercedes - 200pt (DNF)
2. Red Bull - 159pt (+25)
3. Ferrari - 158pt (+18)
4. McLaren - 157pt (+10)
5. Force India - 120pt (+15)
6. Williams - 92pt (+8)
7. Toro Rosso - 60pt (+12)
8. Marussia - 56pt (+4)
9. Caterham - 34pt (DNF)
10. Sauber - 30pt (+6)
11. Lotus - 30pt (DNF)

Nico Rosberg leaves his nose in and proves the point that Mercedes are not infallible and the chasing crowd make up ground...

Red Bull are now just 16 points from the squabbling Silver Arrows, hopping over McLaren thanks to Magnussen's defending penalty - 2 points separate Red Bull, Ferrari and McLaren. Elsewhere Williams' efforts are still stymied by Massa's poor luck and poor form as, even though they grab points for a change, they're not enough to stop the teams ahead accelerating away.

Sauber get some rare and useful points to get off the bottom and close in on DNFing Caterham.


And then there's Lotus.
 
Updated for Italy...

1. Mercedes - 225pt (+25)
2. Red Bull - 174pt (+15)
3. McLaren - 169pt (+12)
4. Ferrari - 158pt (DNF)
5. Force India - 130pt (+10)
6. Williams - 110pt (+18)
7. Toro Rosso - 68pt (+8)
8. Marussia - 56pt (DNF)
9. Caterham - 38pt (+4)
10. Lotus - 36pt (+6)
11. Sauber - 32pt (+2)

Mercedes manages to stretch back out to a full race clear with another top score. It's a bad result for Ferrari though as Alonso's first mechanical failure in quite some time sees Red Bull and McLaren stretch out past them. A top notch result for Williams finally sees them making some ground up on the top half of the table and it now looks like the bottom five will be the bottom five.

What order they'll be in though is a mystery. Chilton's second ever DNF means that Toro Rosso are moving away a little, while there's not as much of a gap behind Marussia any more - but Caterham and Sauber pick up only peppercorns.

Lotus, meanwhile, managed to pick up 15% of their season's points in one race. Nuff said.
 
Updated for Singapore...

1. Mercedes - 225pt (DNF)
2. Red Bull - 199pt (+25)
3. Ferrari - 176pt (+18)
4. McLaren - 169pt (DNF)
5. Force India - 145pt (+15)
6. Williams - 122pt (+12)
7. Toro Rosso - 76pt (+8)
8. Marussia - 62pt (+6)
9. Lotus - 46pt (+10)
10. Caterham - 38pt (DNF)
11. Sauber - 32pt (DNF)

DNFs at both ends see everything close up suddenly. Parade lap woes at Mercedes and Caterham are good news for Red Bull and Marussia respectively as Red Bull are now almost within a race of Mercedes and Marussia leap 16 clear of the crap-pack.

There's only two moves in the table as Ferrari leap over McLaren following Button's surprise late retirement and again Lotus acquire a fifth of their season's points in one race.
 
Updated for Japan...

1. Mercedes - 250pt (+25)
2. Red Bull - 217pt (+18)
3. McLaren - 177pt (+8)
4. Ferrari - 176pt (DNF)
5. Force India - 157pt (+12)
6. Williams - 137pt (+15)
7. Toro Rosso - 86pt (+10)
8. Marussia - 64pt (+2)
9. Lotus - 52pt (+6)
10. Caterham - 42pt (+4)
11. Sauber - 33pt (+1)

It's largely as-you-were at the top as 1st and 2nd claim 1st and 2nd. McLaren hop up a spot at Ferrari's expense as Alonso is the only DNF of the race.

It's starting to look a lot like Williams won't overcome their early season Massa-reliability issues and they'll finish outside the top 5 with what could have been the 2nd best car. In a bizarre twist at Marussia, Bianchi's awful crash may have brought a red flag to proceedings but he still nets a classified finish - and ahead of the second placed Sauber car. Things are starting to look tighter at the tail.
 
Updated for Russia...

1. Mercedes - 275pt (+25)
2. Red Bull - 232pt (+15)
3. McLaren - 195pt (+18)
4. Ferrari - 188pt (+12)
5. Force India - 165pt (+8)
6. Williams - 147pt (+10)
7. Toro Rosso - 92pt (+6)
8. Marussia - 64pt (DNS)
9. Lotus - 54pt (+2)
10. Caterham - 42pt (DNF)
11. Sauber - 37pt (+4)

The season's done in real-life, but the FACC keeps on rolling with just an 18pt gap between Mercedes and Red Bull. A great McLaren finish sees them get a little bit of air from Ferrari, but it's likely that the two of them will take the fight for 3rd to the end of the seaon.

Williams' patchy form continues - the fact that one driver is consistently wallowing around the lower reaches belies the raw pace of the car that the other driver shows every week. It's costing them dearly.

Lotus and Sauber finish, but don't do enough to catch up to one-car Marussia and DNFing Caterham keep a gap to bottom Sauber - the "new teams" are still ahead of these well established ones.
 
After USA...
1. Mercedes - 300pt (+25)
2. Red Bull - 247pt (+15)
3. McLaren - 205pt (+10)
4. Ferrari - 196pt (+8)
5. Williams - 165pt (+18)
6. Force India - 165pt (DNF)
7. Toro Rosso - 98pt (+6)
8. Lotus - 66pt (+12)
9. Marussia - 64pt (DNS)
10. Caterham - 42pt (DNS)
11. Sauber - 37pt (DNF)

Since we're not doing double points, Mercedes nabs the season 1 race later than real life, while Williams have leapt up to tie with Force Inda - hitting the top 5 on countback.

Lotus's best finish of the season sees them overhaul the stricken Marussia team - but Caterham is similarly hampered and Sauber is not making up the ground.

After Brazil...
1. Mercedes - 325pt (+25)
2. Red Bull - 247pt (DNF)
3. McLaren - 220pt (+15)
4. Ferrari - 214pt (+18)
5. Williams - 177pt (+12)
6. Force India - 173pt (+8)
7. Toro Rosso - 108pt (+10)
8. Lotus - 66pt (DNF)
9. Marussia - 64pt (DNS)
10. Sauber - 43pt (+6)
11. Caterham - 42pt (DNS)

A Red Bull DNF means that even if we were doing double points, the season is done. McLaren and Ferrari are still having their little squabble for the podium and Williams are finally past Force India's back after a season of patchy reliability.

Caterham finally sink to the bottom of the pack after two successive no-shows, but Marussia are still in a lofty 9th.


After Abu Dhabi...
1. Mercedes - 333pt (+8)
2. Red Bull - 262pt (+15)
3. McLaren - 230pt (+10)
4. Ferrari - 226pt (+12)
5. Williams - 202pt (+25)
6. Force India - 191pt (+18)
7. Toro Rosso - 108pt (DNF)
8. Lotus - 70pt (DNF)
9. Marussia - 64pt (DNS)
10. Sauber - 49pt (+6)
11. Caterham - 42pt (DNF)

Final scores! Mercedes take the title by 46pt from Red Bull, with McLaren just rounding out the podium ahead of Ferrari - probably deserved due to the average speed of both cars carrying them over the line rather than the lopsided results for Alonso at the sharp end and Raikonnen trailing round out of the points for most of the year.

Williams last-race maximum secures 5th ahead of Force India, though the Silverstone team manages a surprising result themselves. This shouldn't have been in doubt - Williams had a top three car - and all the blame here lays squarely at the foot of Massa's repeated non-finishes and five results outside the top 10.

Toro Rosso's season has been disappointingly anonymous which doesn't bode well for Kvyat's move to Red Bull in 2015.

The defunct Marussia team bring it home ninth despite missing the last three races of the season - highlighting what a desperately poor job Sauber and Lotus have done this year with 24 retirements between them.

Caterham... Well, missing two races didn't help, but that's a dreadful effort from them this year.

Driver balance analysis to follow.
 
New season, new FACC!

After Australia
1. Mercedes - 25pt (+25)
2. Sauber - 18pt (+18)
3. Force India - 15pt (+15)
4. Ferrari - 0pt (DNF)
5. Toro Rosso - 0pt (DNF)
6. Lotus - 0pt (DNF)
7. Red Bull - 0pt (DNS)
8. McLaren - 0pt (DNS)
9. Williams - 0pt (DNS)
10. Manor - 0pt (DNS)

Manor, Williams, McLaren and Red Bull all fail to start a car - Manor failing to even start either, or in fact get them running at any point during the weekend.

With only 15 cars starting there's good points available for any team that could get a pair to the finish, which Lotus immediately failed at as Maldonado ate the wall (under duress) at turn 2 and Grosjean retired at the end of the same lap... Toro Rosso were the next to falter as Verstappen's engine expired - and he was followed out by Kimi as neither car enjoyed to stress of a pitstop.

And then there were three, all of which managed to end the race in pairs... Sauber has managed to net more than a third of their entire 2014 points in one race!
 
Famine Adjusted Constructor's 2009 with current points system:

  1. Brawn 304 points
  2. Red Bull 216
  3. Toyota 166.5
  4. McLaren 147
  5. Sauber 143
  6. Ferrari 140
  7. Williams 132.5
  8. Force India 97
  9. Renault 93
  10. Toro Rosso 56

Note how Force India and McLaren both gain places against Ferrari, Sauber, and Renault, while Sauber also leapfrog Ferrari, all though McLaren's added points from the new structure means they stay in place.

Brawn's consistency is really emphasised. At one point they picked up 25 points by finishing seventh and eighth.

Trying to get drivers done with new system, it'd be cool to see all seasons done like this if anybody has lost their job recently and has nothing better to do. :P
 
After Malaysia
1. Mercedes - 50pt (+25)
2. Force India - 23pt (+8)
3. Sauber - 18pt (DNF)
4. Ferrari - 18pt (+18)
5. Williams - 15pt (+15)
6. Toro Rosso - 12pt (+12)
7. Red Bull - 10pt (+10)
8. Lotus - 0pt (DNF)
9. McLaren - 0pt (DNF)
10. Manor - 0pt (DNS)

Once again Manor fail to start a car - but at least they got one running (and to the end of the race too), but everyone else manages this minor success.

Sauber immediately fails to capitalise on its race 1 successes as one of its Ferrari-engined cars ditches ludicrously softly, prompting the safety car which shook the order up enough for a Ferrari to win. Imagine!

Both McLarens fail yet again, but at least they're failing out of points-scoring positions now and it'll come as no surprise that Lotus may have fixed their power unit issues with the move to Mercedes, but Maldonado failed to finish the race again, costing them valuable points.

Red Bull pick up their first double finish, but are outshone by junior team Toro Rosso, while Williams and Ferrari also score their first points. Which leaves the top two positions occupied by the only teams to score in both races - Force India and Mercedes, whose double maximum puts them a race ahead of the field already...
 
Applying FACC rules to previous seasons (with the current 25-18-15-12-10-8-6-4-2-1 points system for the sake of consistency) can produce some interesting results. ie. 1989:

  1. McLaren - 190pt (= position to official)
  2. Williams - 133pt (=)
  3. Benetton - 110pt (+1)
  4. Arrows - 90pt (+3)
  5. Tyrrell - 88pt (=)
  6. Minardi - 73pt (+5)
  7. Brabham - 66pt (+2)
  8. Dallara - 60pt (=)
  9. Lola - 25pt (+7)
  10. Lotus - 18pt (-4)
  11. Onyx - 15pt (-1)
  12. March - 15pt (=)
  13. Ligier - 15pt (+1)
  14. Ferrari - 0pt (-11)
  15. Rial - 0pt (-2)
  16. AGS - 0pt (-1)
I can't help but feel, however, that it reveals a potential flaw in the FACC system, in that teams may be put off from producing quick and innovative but fragile cars such as the Ferrari 640 due to the risk they present to their constructor's position.

On the flip side, one could argue that all it would do is put teams off from using new technology in races before the bugs get ironed out.

edit, did 1988:

  1. McLaren - Honda - 300pt (=)
  2. Ferrari - 160pt (=)
  3. Arrows - Decepticon - 115pt (+2)
  4. Lotus - Honda - 99pt (=)
  5. Benetton - Ford - 83pt (-2)
  6. Lola - Ford - 55pt (+7)
  7. Williams - Judd - 46pt (=)
  8. March - Judd - 42pt (-2)
  9. Tyrrell - Ford - 30pt (-1)
  10. Minardi - Ford - 20pt (=)
  11. Zakspeed - 10pt (+7)
  12. Ligier - Judd - 0pt (+3)
  13. Euro Brun - Ford - 0pt (+4)

edit, 1982:

  1. Tyrrell - 128pt (+6)
  2. Williams - 123pt (+2)
  3. Ferrari - 111pt (-2)
  4. McLaren - 88pt (-2)
  5. Lotus - 61pt (+1)
  6. Brabham - 58pt (-1)
  7. Renault - 56pt (-4)
  8. Ligier - 53pt (=)
  9. Arrows - 42pt (+1)
  10. Alfa Romeo - 35pt (-1)
  11. March - 33pt (+3)
  12. ATS - 22pt (-1)
  13. Osella - 0pt (-1)
  14. Toleman - 0pt (+2)
Tyrrell make considerable gains to take victory by fielding two cars in every race while not being held back by an unreliable turbo engine. Of course, lacking a turbo would soon prove to be their Achilles' heel.

Similarly, Williams jump up two places to second thanks to consistent finishes.

Ferrari provide the most interesting, and of course tragic story of 1982, with a fast and seemingly reliable car which proved victorious in the official championship standings overshadowed by Villeneuve's death and Pironi's serious injuries. As a result Ferrari did not start two races at all and only fielded one car in six. Ferrari's third place and 111 points is extremely impressive.

Renault never were able to make their turbo engines reliable enough to truly challenge for titles (some might say that this is still the case). This is reflected here.
 
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After China
1. Mercedes - 75pt (+25)
2. Ferrari - 36pt (+18)
3. Sauber - 30pt (+12)
4. Williams - 30pt (+15)
5. Force India - 23pt (DNF)
6. Toro Rosso - 12pt (DNF)
7. Red Bull - 10pt (DNF)
8. McLaren - 10pt (+10)
9. Manor - 8pt (+8)
10. Lotus - 0pt (DNF)

Manor get two cars started for the first time and both finish. Likewise both McLarens finish - and with four DNFs elsewhere in the field, this ties them up with Red Bull in 7th (separated by Red Bull getting their points first). Lotus then sink to the ass of the table with a third DNF in three races... The Mercedes unit may be more competitive but to finish first, first you must finish...

Mercedes are of course streaking away at the top and now hold a handsome advantage over chasing Ferrari's second successive second place. Williams have found a stride - it's third place - and would be higher up if not for Bottas's back complaint in Australia. Sauber get both cars to the end too and could be a surprise package this season - it'll certainly be a surprise to see them third at the end of it.

But the Renault woes are piling up now as Toro Rosso and Red Bull combined can't match the tally of the team ahead of them despite Force India also retiring a car. It doesn't look like a good season to have a French engine.
 
Sauber are this year's surprise package in the FACC so far. It's also interesting how this system highlights Enstone's woes; while they have a car which can fight for points much better than last year's car, they haven't yet had a double finish.
 
Famine
Driver balance analysis to follow.
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Doing the 2014 driver analysis revealed something a bit odd in some of the numbers - apparently some of Caterham's results weren't being logged. Not that it made much difference...

So anyway...

1st Mercedes
333pt (233:100); 14 finishes
Considering how close the driver's championship looked for a while there, the Mercedes talent pool is clearly skewed. Nico Rosberg scores more than twice as many FACC points as his teammate - meaning that when both cars finish, Nico is behind Lewis more than twice as often as the other way about.

There's two ways of looking at this. Lewis could be by far the faster driver - or he could be by far the less reliable. The closeness of the drivers' championship and the fact that Hamilton DNFed 3 times to Rosberg's 2 hints at a mix of both, but this is not a well balanced team.

2nd Red Bull
262pt (201:61); 14 finishes
Still, Red Bull makes Mercedes look balanced - Daniel Ricciardo heads Red Bull's twin finishes more that three times as often as he followed Sebastien Vettel home... The drivers failed to finish three times apiece - both missing out at Australia (painfully, for Daniel) - and the only conclusion here is that Ricciardo drove a far better season than his quadruple world champion teammate...

3rd McLaren
230pt (185:45); 17 finishes
I know, right? But McLaren made reliability pay. Their 17 finishes included one maximum (at Australia) and seven other podium results - ALL of their finishes were in the top six.

Nevertheless, they had a grossly unbalanced driver line-up, with just over 80% of their points coming from Danish rookie Kevin Magnussen. Qualifying might not have gone Button's way, but the world champion Brit's racecraft is firmly ahead. It makes one wonder why McLaren spent so long vacillating about 2015 contracts, really...

4th Ferrari
226pt (208:18); 16 finishes
Reliability was also Ferrari's winning formula, but they were by far the least balanced team on the grid. Despite finishing 16 races, the only time Kimi lead Fernando home was at the Belgian Grand Prix, after Kevin Magnussen punted Alonso off... A better - or at least more motivated - second driver would have seen Ferrari far higher up the table than this.

5th Williams
202pt (127:75); 15 finishes
It could have been a different story for Williams too, and despite Massa leading Bottas home more often than not, the story of their season is clear - at Australia, Great Britain and Germany, Massa retired on lap 1 after a collision... No other team managed this feat, let alone another driver...

It left Williams needing to play catch up and they only got back up into 5th near the business end of the season. There are, thus, some questions hanging over just how good Bottas is despite heavily outpointing his teammate in the drivers' championship - once again, FACC reveals an extra dimension!

6th Force India
191pt (98:93); 15 finishes
Force India's season was pretty anonymous and not even the FACC can save them. A couple of second place points finishes, a reliable season and a nicely balanced driver line up does mean that although they're the 6th team by any measure, there's not so much separating them from the podium teams - they scored half of third place Williams' total in the official championship

7th Toro Rosso
108pt (55:53); 11 finishes
STR tanked a bit in 2014. Well clear of the crap pack but nowhere when it comes to serious points, all due to reliability rather than pace or balance.

The points split suggests that Kvyat is marginally the faster driver, probably justifying Red Bull's decision to take the young option rather than Vergne into the full team - but while neither driver will be there in 2015, the car will still have the same engine that cost them finishes right through 2014.

8th Lotus
70pt (40:30); 10 finishes
Lotus absolutely sucked in 2014 and were bottom of the pile for a long, long time - 4 finishes up to Italy. They scored a third more points in their last 7 races than they'd managed in their first 12 to rescue the season somewhat - but 8th for a team that won a grand prix the previous year is appalling.

One oddity to note is that Grosjean scored most of their points. Perhaps it's no accident that when Maldonado found a vein of form, they scored more often - though the finishing order was MAL-GRO exactly as often as it was GRO-MAL. 2015's switch to Mercedes will fix their pace, but that wasn't necessarily the car's issue...

9th Marussia
64pt (52:12); 11 finishes (from 15 races)
Marussia only just missed out on 8th place, but the problems caused by Bianchi's catastrophic crash and subsequent financial woes meant that they didn't compete for the last 4 races, opening the door for Lotus to overtake them.

While pace was certainly a problem for Marussia, their position came from good reliability again - while the driver split was as unbalanced as some of the top teams. Ferrari academy driver Bianchi, it seems, had the pace on pay driver Chilton.

10th Sauber
49pt (28:21); 10 finishes
Sauber were awful all season long, other than coasting both cars to a 10pt finish at the first race where the new engines cost most teams dearly. Languishing at the bottom all season until Caterham's financial calamities forced them out of two of the last three races, they racked up a quarter of their season's points practically uncontested in the reduced field of the last two races.

The car's mechanical reliability may have been a bit suspect, but the majority of Sauber's non-finishes came from crashes. Little wonder then that the team has ditched 2014's driver line-up entirely for 2015...

11th Caterham
42pt (26:16:0:0); 7 finishes (from 17 races)
Well, what can you say? The slowest and least reliable team on the grid, and now folded and defunct. Some early season promise didn't gain any momentum - the team scored half of its points in the first six races, despite three DNFs - and the cashflow issues that saw them absent themselves from the US and Brazilian Grand Prix ended in their meek surrender to oblivion. Pity, but even with the FACC helping them get a meaningful points score, this team has never been better than 10th overall in any flavour...
 
Uh, just for clarity are these the driver lineups?

Rosberg 233:100 Hamilton
Vettel 201:61 Ricciardo
Magnussen 185:45 Button
Raikkönen 208:18 Alonso
Massa 127:75 Bottas
Perez 98:93 Hülkenberg
Vergne 55:53 Kvyat
Grosjean 40:30 Maldonado
Chilton 52:12 Bianchi
Guttierez 28:21 Sutil
Ericsson 26:16 Kobayashi Lotterer 0:0 Stevens

And the more points a driver has, the more often he finished behind his team mate.
 
Liquid
Uh, just for clarity are these the driver lineups?

Rosberg 233:100 Hamilton
Vettel 201:61 Ricciardo
Magnussen 185:45 Button
Raikkönen 208:18 Alonso
Bottas 127:75 Massa
Perez 98:93 Hülkenberg
Vergne 55:53 Kvyat
Grosjean 40:30 Maldonado
Chilton 52:12 Bianchi
Guttierez 28:21 Sutil
Ericsson 26:16 Kobayashi Lotterer 0:0 Stevens

And the more points a driver has, the more often he finished behind his team mate.
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It's not necessarily more often - Maldonado & Grosjean and Guttierez & Sutil are at 5 each - but usually it is, yes.
 
Bottas scored more FACC point than Massa last year? That is a surprise. I imagine that Bottas finishes higher in the FACC points in a race though; when Massa is in front, Bottas is still up there but it is not necessarily the same when Bottas is in front.
 
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Bottas scored more FACC point than Massa last year? That is a surprise. I imagine that Bottas finishes higher in the FACC points in a race though; when Massa is in front, Bottas is still up there but it is not necessarily the same when Bottas is in front.
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If Massa hadn't had three first lap crashes (okay, let's not call Australia his fault) it would be a slightly different story - but yes, Bottas has 8 scores to Massa's 7. Actually, 3 of Bottas's were the last three races and he scored 18, 12 and 25 :lol: He had two other 18s and three other 12s, compared to 18, 15, 10, 10, 8, 8 and 6 for Massa.
 

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