Famine's Adjusted Constructors' ChampionshipFormula 1 

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After Bahrain
1. Mercedes - 100pt (+25)
2. Ferrari - 54pt (+18)
3. Williams - 42pt (+12)
4. Sauber - 38pt (+8)
5. Force India - 33pt (+10)
6. Red Bull - 25pt (+15)
7. Toro Rosso - 12pt (DNF)
8. Manor - 12pt (+4)
9. McLaren - 10pt (DNS)
10. Lotus - 6pt (+6)

The top of the table is a lesson in consistency - four 25s for Mercedes, three 18s for Ferrari. This gives the two a handy lead - but Williams are catching up into third. Red Bull finally gets some useful points - staving off an engine failure until just after the flag to score a third place FACC finish.

McLaren's DNS has hurt them - the one car that did race finished well, but the DNS sees Manor leapfrog them, and Manor are nearly into 7th, but for countback...

As for Lotus... well, at least they finished one - but it's rapidly becoming clear that the dog of a car last year hasn't been affected by dropping the Renault power units for the shiny and powerful Mercedes ones... Something is rotten in the borough of Enstone...
 
I just have to wonder, is it really fair to automatically award a team no points if they only have one car participating in the entire weekend? Like Marussia last season - not like they had much of a choice back then.
 
Carbonox
I just have to wonder, is it really fair to automatically award a team no points if they only have one car participating in the entire weekend?
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Yes.
Carbonox
Like Marussia last season - not like they had much of a choice back then.
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Uhh... they chose to not put a second driver in alongside Chilton in Russia - and then they ran no cars at all because they were in administration.
 
Famine
Yes.

Uhh... they chose to not put a second driver in alongside Chilton in Russia - and then they ran no cars at all because they were in administration.
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Bad example probably - but how about Ferrari in 1982, which was covered on the last page? (Not by you, but going with the same rules 'n everything) Not to mention teams that didn't have the budget to run more than 1 car.
 
Carbonox
Bad example probably - but how about Ferrari in 1982, which was covered on the last page? (Not by you, but going with the same rules 'n everything) Not to mention teams that didn't have the budget to run more than 1 car.
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Well... we're not in 1982...

FACC was created to address the problems of determining relative car and driver performance within teams as well as between them - and to render the "team orders" issue moot.
 
After Spain
1= Epic Boredom - zzzzzzzzz
1= Mercedes - 125pt (+25)
2. Ferrari - 72pt (+18)
3. Williams - 57pt (+15)
4. Sauber - 46pt (+8)
5. Force India - 39pt (+6)
6. Red Bull - 37pt (+12)
7. Toro Rosso - 22pt (+10)
8. Manor - 16pt (+4)
9. McLaren - 10pt (DNF)
10. Lotus - 6pt (DNF)

Well now, wasn't that snoresome?

The teams themselves were apparently so bored that they forgot to change positions. At all.

McLaren's woes continue, but at least they're not Lotus who are just not making the car work at all. We have a clear lead three and a clear midfield four now though - and Manor are looking at a good season unfolding, surprisingly.
 
They may be three laps down but if both cars are still crossing the line, they'll rack up these fictional points!
 
"famictional" you mean ... ;)

Got to say that I never expected McLaren to be THIS bad. Or Sauber to be THIS good. It just shows you how things can change very quickly. Except for Ferrari, consistently "almost there" for the last 8 years (or more, if you consider WCC only and that the 2007 WDC was defined by luck and the internal driver war at McLaren).
 
After Monaco
1. Mercedes - 150pt (+25)
2. Ferrari - 87pt (+15)
3. Williams - 65pt (+8)
4. Sauber - 56pt (+10)
5. Red Bull - 55pt (+18)
6. Force India - 51pt (+12)
7. Toro Rosso - 22pt (DNF)
8. Manor - 22pt (+6)
9. McLaren - 10pt (DNF)
10. Lotus - 6pt (DNF)

Red Bull gets its act together for once, dragging the Renault engines round 78 laps to pop up into 5th in the table - though barely anything separates 4th from 6th and Williams, who had a tawdry weekend, are not far up the road.

This increasingly makes it look like it's a battle between the team of five drivers' world championships and the team of two at the top, as Mercedes and Ferrari once again take all the podium places.

Down at the bottom of the pack... McLaren's still got problems with the new car, dulling the good finish from Button, while Lotus are just problems. Maldonado only has one classified finish this season and even that wasn't full race distance... Toro Rosso's youth policy looks costly as their kids fail to finish again, allowing the plodders at Manor to catch up to them.
 
After Canada
1. Mercedes - 175pt (+25)
2. Ferrari - 105pt (+18)
3. Williams - 80pt (+15)
4. Red Bull - 63pt (+8)
5. Force India - 61pt (+10)
6. Sauber - 60pt (+4)
7. Toro Rosso - 28pt (+6)
8. Manor - 22pt (DNF)
9. Lotus - 18pt (+12)
10. McLaren - 10pt (DNF)


After Austria
1. Mercedes - 200pt (+25)
2. Ferrari - 105pt (DNF)
3. Williams - 98pt (+18)
4. Force India - 76pt (+15)
5. Red Bull - 75pt (+12)
6. Sauber - 70pt (+10)
7. Toro Rosso - 28pt (DNF)
8. Manor - 22pt (DNF)
9. Lotus - 18pt (DNF)
10. McLaren - 10pt (DNF)


After Great Britain
1. Mercedes - 225pt (+25)
2. Ferrari - 120pt (+15)
3. Williams - 116pt (+18)
4. Force India - 88pt (+12)
5. Red Bull - 75pt (DNF)
6. Sauber - 70pt (DNF)
7. Manor - 32pt (+10)
8. Toro Rosso - 28pt (DNF)
9. Lotus - 18pt (DNF)
10. McLaren - 10pt (DNF)


Well, I missed update Lotus's best finish of the season - tripling its points tally - but form has been resumed with DNFs. As have Manor and, particularly, McLaren. It's all a bit of a bummer from 7th place and back - but whomever can stay out of the most trouble will at least have something to smile about at the end of the year.

Mercedes are striding away at the top, but the fact that they have the best car and drivers has pretty much been established since last year, so no shocks there. That particular "fight" won't last much longer with a 95pt lead over Ferrari equating to nearly four maximums.

So Ferrari and Williams are left to fight for second place. This isn't a surprise either - in fact the only surprise really is the midfield fight of Sauber, Red Bull and Force India. That looks like it's going to go the distance unless one of those teams gets some decent upgrades...
 
After Hungary
1. Mercedes - 243pt (+18)
2. Williams - 126pt (+10)
3. Ferrari - 120pt (DNF)
4. Red Bull - 100pt (+25)
5. Force India - 88pt (DNF)
6. Sauber - 82pt (+12)
7. Manor - 38pt (+6)
8. Toro Rosso - 28pt (DNF)
9. Lotus - 26pt (+8)
10. McLaren - 25pt (+15)

No-one expects the Spanish Inquisition - or the Hungarian Grand Prix.

Force India certainly didn't expect its DNF with a catastrophic front wing failure, and that's seen the only really significant change in the table this week. Red Bull's top score means 4th and 5th swap, but the Milton Keynes team is still more than a race away from the top three.

Up top, Williams closes right up on Ferrari following Kimi's non-finish, while Mercedes recovered enough to bring both cars home in the points - good enough for second in FACC this week. They have a 113pt advantage now... four and a half races with nine races left.

The bottom of the table was a riot too. Sainz fell two laps short of a finish while every other team around them scored big. It's not resulted in any movement - which is a bummer for McLaren who came third in FACC this week but still sit on the bottom - but the last three teams are covered by 3pt now. Manor keep on clawing points here and there from dragging the cars to the finish - even if it's only technically in Will Stevens' case this week - and they're very nearly a comfortably 4th last!
 
So here I am, bored in the evening, when I had a brand new idea - how would this point system work in a different series? I chose GP2 without needing to think about it that much, as it's got the same, organized 2 drivers per team system, and me being a fan of the series only served as further motivation. Off I went to calculate points for the inaugural 2005 season. Here's a comparison:

Original standings:
1. ART - 187
2. Arden - 126
3. Super Nova - 102
4. iSport - 69.5
5. Racing Engineering - 65.5
6. Hitech/Piquet Racing - 50
7. DAMS - 36
8. Coloni - 36
9. BCN - 35
10. David Price Racing - 22
11. Durango - 21
12. Campos - 7.5

The "Adjusted Constructors' Championship":
1. ART - 131.5 [0]
2. Super Nova - 99 [+1]
3. Arden - 92 [-1]
4. Coloni - 55 [+4]
5. DAMS - 51.5 [+2]
6. iSport - 47 [-2]
7. Hitech/Piquet Racing - 44 [-1]
8. BCN - 43 [+1]
9. Racing Engineering - 39 [-4]
10. Durango - 31 [+1]
11. David Price Racing - 25 [-1]
12. Campos - 21 [0]

Note: Like in the original championships, bonus points for pole and fastest lap (2 each) are counted. This is because several drivers usually went out of their way to get them, occasionally losing potential positions in the process. I'd rather not undo the hard work even if it wasn't always that hard (hint: pitting for new tires towards the end does wonders, as Scott Speed probably knew.)

Bit of an analysis I crafted up:

- Early season mechanical issues meant just having both cars finish would ensure massive points. In addition, the teams were so close in pace early on, all three of the first races were won with an 8th place finish! No team got both of their cars into the top 5 until race 6 (Nürburgring's main race), where ART was the culprit.
- Speaking of ART, their dominance was not wavered at all by this change. #2 driver Premat had consistency issues, but also helped the team into various mid-season victories that cleared the path to a large championship lead. However, due to abundancy of bonus points, Super Nova still had a minor chance at the title coming into the final standalone weekend at Bahrain, until Nico Rosberg's pole for the event sealed the deal for ART.
- Arden suffered from Nicolas Lapierre's inconsistency a lot, to the point where Super Nova stole second place in the standings without that much difficulty by the end, even if the points gap remained quite small. Super Nova was probably one of the more balanced teams in the series, with drivers Carroll and Pantano finishing 5th and 6th respectively in drivers' points and beating each other somewhat equally.
- I never expected Coloni to reach 4th place due to having one of the more inbalanced pairings in the field. We had Bruni, who contended for the championship early on, and Mathias Lauda, who was mostly a field filler. However, clearly Lauda's consistent finishes came in handy after all, especially when a large number of races had every finishing team score points.
- DAMS was another inbalanced team that still improved on its original position. To be fair, Fairuz Fauzy did finish a lot of races in decent midfield positions, even if he never scored a driver point.
- iSport on the other hand had quite a horrendous year despite all of Speed's bonus points. Secondary driver Can Artam had similar pace to Lauda all season, but wasn't as efficient in scoring. Perhaps Speed deliberately dropping at the back to get fastest laps wasn't always beneficial for the team either.
- Piquet Sports had a pointless streak of 7 races in the mid-season, which primarily hurt their cause.
- Racing Engineering can be considered the team that suffered the most from downright inconsistency. The drivers "only" shared 10 DNF's between each other (and one exclusion for good measure) but both drivers never retired from the same race, giving them, you guessed it, 11 automatic zero-point efforts. That's big.
- BCN was by a long shot the least consistent team early on, only scoring 2 points from a fastest lap in the first 7 races. It all went uphill from there as they found a rhythm later on, and scored a double podium in the season finale to get just within reach of Piquet Sports.
- Durango was another inconsistent group at the start, but rebounded by winning the sprint race at Nürburgring and scored semi-consistently ever since, certainly more often than the two teams behind them.
- Olivier Pla's sprint race wins didn't do much good for David Price Racing, with both Ryan Sharp and replacement driver Giorgio Mondini having some of the worst retirement rates of all drivers.
- And Campos, ironically, is the only team aside from ART to not have a change of position, despite a win very early on in the Imola sprint, where neither car scored any drivers' points...
 
Not to hijack this thread or anything, but time for more GP2, this time the 2006 edition. The year of Lewis Hamilton's dominance and all that, but was it enough for his team to get the title as well? We'll see...

Original standings:
1. ART - 180
2. Piquet Sports - 115
3. iSport - 101
4. Arden - 57
5. Fisichella Motor Sport - 46
6. Trident - 45
7. Racing Engineering - 33
8. Super Nova - 30
9. BCN - 22
10. David Price Racing - 18
11. DAMS - 14
12. Campos - 12
13. Durango - 9

Adjusted championship:
1. ART - 114 [0]
2. iSport - 77 [+1]
3. Piquet Sports - 76 [-1]
4. Arden - 65 [0]
5. Racing Engineering - 48 [+2]
6. DAMS - 42 [+5]
7. Durango - 37 [+6]
8. BCN - 34 [+1]
9. David Price Racing - 30 [+1]
10. Campos - 29 [+2]
11. Fisichella Motor Sport - 25 [-6]
12. Super Nova - 21 [-4]
13. Trident - 19 [-7]

And some notes... Trying to keep it more compressed this time.

- Sure enough, ART wins again, with Premat putting on a solid job as a #2 driver. However, #2 drivers rarely make it into the top tier, as @raceorama123432 knows. (There we go, banter of the night just for you)
- iSport got up to speed as soon as Glock joined, and moved up to championship contention even. However, approaching the climax of the season they ran out of momentum, and that was that.
- Piquet Sports couldn't do much with #2 driver Negrao only gathering occasional scraps, even if Piquet Jr. had a career year himself.
- Arden had a perfect start, with 3 consecutive wins. Then they ran out of pace and consistency, like last season.
- Racing Engineering somehow gains spots despite #2 driver Javier Villa not scoring any drivers' points - but then again he generally had a decent quality of finishes. On the other hand we have FMS and Super Nova, who most definitely put all their eggs in one basket, and were reduced to mostly collecting scraps all season.
- DAMS and Durango gained in consistency what they lost in pace.
- BCN had a great start and great finish - other than that, basically nothing. Not much to say about DPR or Campos - I'd say it was a basic season for both.
- Trident may have won three races in their debut year, but were so ridiculously inconsistent they ended up finding themselves in last place. Now that's a turnaround.

EDIT: Somehow I completely forgot the bonus points. Well, at least there was only one position change as a result, so it didn't get as confusing as it could.

When I do 2007, it'll be fun considering the top 11 in the drivers' championship drove for 10 different teams...
 
After Belgium
1. Mercedes - 268pt (+25)
2. Williams - 144pt (+18)
3. Ferrari - 132pt (+12)
4. Red Bull - 100pt (DNF)
5. Sauber - 97pt (+15)
6. Force India - 88pt (DNS)
7. Manor - 46pt (+8)
8. McLaren - 35pt (+10)
9. Toro Rosso - 28pt (DNF)
10. Lotus - 26pt (DNF)

Mercedes does what Mercedes does with a 1-2. Williams - despite a middling performance - takes second place after the next six places are filled with six different manufacturers, leapfrogging Ferrari by just 2pt. Guess that's what pushing your tyres too far does for you. However Ferrari is still comfortably on the podium with Vettel managing a classified finish, because Red Bull DNFed - there's a 42pt gap now.

Sauber's consistent 10th & 11th sees it grab the third place points and jump above DNSing Force India in the table. The Red Bull, Sauber, Force India midfield race looks like going the distance.

The biggest news is at the bottom. McLaren recovers from its 105 place penalty to finish as the fifth team on the road and score a solid 10pt. The new Honda power unit might have not have revealed new pace, but it got to the end of Spa in two cars at once. Manor also manages a two car finish and sits seventh!

Another DNF each for the Toro Rosso Kindergarteners and the awful Lotus (again, Maldonado is the weak link in the team - Grosjean got on the podium!) means they're now wallowing at the bottom and they're running out of races to fix it.
 
After Italy
1. Mercedes - 272pt (+4)
2. Williams - 169pt (+25)
3. Ferrari - 150pt (+18)
4. Red Bull - 112pt (+12)
5. Sauber - 105pt (+8)
6. Force India - 103pt (+15)
7. Manor - 52pt (+6)
8. Toro Rosso - 38pt (+10)
9. McLaren - 37pt (+2)
10. Lotus - 26pt (DNF)

Lotus.

Elsewhere, what could have been a solid result and 6pt for McLaren slipped out of their fingers with a car failure in the death throes of the "race", while Rosberg's engine expiry shortly after still nets him a classified finish for completing more than 90% of the race - though 4pt for Mercedes isn't exactly what they were after.

Everyone else is as-you-were, with Williams netting the top score this week, to close in to just over 4 races' distant (with 7 left) from Mercedes and a 9pt lead over Ferrari.
 
Just spotted I forgot to update this for Singapore because reasons...

After Singapore
1. Mercedes - 272pt (DNF)
2. Ferrari - 175pt (+25)
3. Williams - 169pt (DNF)
4. Red Bull - 130pt (+18)
5. Sauber - 117pt (+12)
6. Force India - 103pt (DNF)
7. Manor - 60pt (+8)
8. Toro Rosso - 53pt (+15)
9. McLaren - 37pt (DNF)
10. Lotus - 36pt (+10)

Ferrari's sterling race sees it leapfrog Williams up into second and Mercedes' rare non-finish means that the gap is down to "just" 87pt - so Mercedes cannot take the title at Japan.
 
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After Japan
1. Mercedes - 297pt (+25)
2. Ferrari - 193pt (+18)
3. Williams - 173pt (+4)
4. Red Bull - 138pt (+8)
5. Sauber - 118pt (+1)
6. Force India - 113pt (+10)
7. Toro Rosso - 65pt (+12)
8. Manor - 62pt (+2)
9. Lotus - 51pt (+15)
10. McLaren - 43pt (+6)

A rare race in which everyone finished - though only just in the case of Sauber. A pair of tremendous results from perennial DNFers Lotus and Toro Rosso means a significantly less embarrassing points total for both, though STR only just manages to overtake Manor and Lotus are still within 10pt of bottom.

Normal fare up top though - there's 104pt between Mercedes and Ferrari now, so if Mercedes manages to take maximum FACC points in the pointless Russian Grand Prix, the title is back in Brackley.
 
After Russia
1. Mercedes - 297pt (DNF)
2. Ferrari - 218pt (+25)
3. Williams - 188pt (+15)
4. Red Bull - 148pt (+10)
5. Sauber - 118pt (DNF)
6. Force India - 113pt (DNF)
7. Manor - 74pt (+12)
8. Toro Rosso - 65pt (DNF)
9. McLaren - 61pt (+18)
10. Lotus - 51pt (DNF)

Well, that was a little different from Suzuka. Mercedes gets a no-score, McLaren picks up a second place points haul to leapfrog Lotus, Manor climbs over Toro Rosso and, unlike real life, the title rolls on to COTA unclaimed...
 
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Given that Rosberg's car seems to be made by British Leyland, there's half a chance Ferrari really could overhaul Mercedes-Benz yet.
 
After USA
1. Mercedes - 322pt (+25)
2. Ferrari - 218pt (DNF)
3. Williams - 188pt (DNF)
4. Red Bull - 148pt (DNF)
5. Sauber - 118pt (DNF)
6. Force India - 113pt (DNF)
7. Toro Rosso - 83pt (+18)
8. McLaren - 76pt (+15)
9. Manor - 74pt (DNF)
10. Lotus - 51pt (DNF)

Only three finishers... This moves Mercedes into an unassailable lead and nets it the title. Toro Rosso's two-car-finish woes seem to be over - have the kids learned at last? McLaren moves back up to 8th, 2pt ahead of Manor...

After Mexico
1. Mercedes - 347pt (+25)
2. Ferrari - 218pt (DNF)
3. Williams - 203pt (+15)
4. Red Bull - 166pt (+18)
5. Force India - 125pt (+12)
6. Sauber - 118pt (DNF)
7. Toro Rosso - 91pt (+8)
8. Manor - 80pt (+6)
9. McLaren - 76pt (DNF)
10. Lotus - 61pt (+10)

Force India overtakes the inconsistent Sauber, another DNF for Ferrari - both cars crashed out - moves Williams up to within shooting distance and Red Bull looks like it's going to miss out on the podium now, 37pt down on Williams. Manor and McLaren swap places yet again...

And then there's Lotus.

After Brazil - provisional
1. Mercedes - 372pt (+25)
2. Ferrari - 236pt (+18)
3. Williams - 203pt (DSQ)
4. Red Bull - 178pt (+12)
5. Force India - 135pt (+10)
6. Sauber - 124pt (+6)
7. Toro Rosso - 91pt (DNF)
8. McLaren - 84pt (+8)
9. Manor - 84pt (+4)
10. Lotus - 76pt (+15)

As these results are subject to change pending Williams' appeal, we'll leave it unsaid for now!
 
After Abu Dhabi
1. Mercedes - 397pt (+25)
2. Ferrari - 254pt (+18)
3. Williams - 213pt (+10)
4. Red Bull - 190pt (+12)
5. Force India - 150pt (+15)
6. Sauber - 132pt (+8)
7. Toro Rosso - 97pt (+6)
8. McLaren - 88pt (+4)
9. Manor - 86pt (+2)
10. Lotus - 76pt (DNF)

Well then. McLaren rescues 8th from the dismal season with a development engine, Lotus is the worst team on the grid and the top three are Mercedes (shock!), Ferrari and Williams - closely followed by Red Bull. Force India wins the mid-pack squabble - not entirely convincingly - from a fairly anonymous Sauber team, who could probably be pleased with that result.
 
If anyone's interested, you can use FACC as a vehicle difficulty scaler to calculate who did the best job considering the machinery.

Divide the leading car's score by another car's score to generate a modifier:

1. Mercedes - 387pt/387pt = 1.000
2. Ferrari - 387/264 = 1.466
3. Williams - 387/213 = 1.817
4. Red Bull - 2.037
5. Force India - 2.615
6. Sauber - 2.932
7. Toro Rosso - 4.207
8. McLaren - 4.500
9. Manor - 4.607
10. Lotus - 5.092

Apply the modifier to the real driver scores:

1. Hamilton - 381 *1.000 = 381
2. Rosberg - 322 * 1.000 = 322
3. Vettel - 278 * 1.466 = 408
4. Raikkonen - 150 * 1.466 = 220
5. Bottas - 136 * 1.817 = 247
6. Massa - 121 * 1.817 = 220
7. Kvyat - 95 * 2.037 = 194
8. Ricciardo - 92 * 2.037 = 187
9. Perez - 78 * 2.615 = 204
10. Hulkenberg - 58 * 2.615 = 152
11. Grosjean - 51 * 5.092 = 260
12. Verstappen - 49 * 4.207 = 195
13. Nasr - 27 * 2.932 = 79
14. Maldonado - 27 * 5.092 = 137
15. Sainz - 18 * 4.207 = 72
16. Button - 16 * 4.500 = 72
17. Alonso - 11 * 4.500 = 50
18. Ericsson - 9 * 2.932 = 26

Which puts the top four drivers as:
1. Vettel - 408pt
2. Hamilton - 381pt
3. Rosberg - 322pt
4. Grosjean - 260pt

Interesting, innit?
 
In case one wants the full list with the above adjustment:

1. Vettel - 408pt
2. Hamilton - 381pt
3. Rosberg - 322pt
4. Grosjean - 260pt
5. Bottas - 247pt
6. Raikonnen - 220pt
7. Massa - 220pt
8. Perez - 204pt
9. Verstappen - 195pt
10. Kvyat - 194pt
11. Ricciardo - 187pt
12. Hulkenberg - 152pt
13. Maldonado - 137pt
14. Nasr - 79pt
15. Button - 72pt
16. Sainz - 72pt
17. Alonso -50pt
18. Ericsson - 26pt

With Lotus' recent form Grosjean might seem surprising in his placement, but really, based off of performances in previous years, I'm not surprised.

Verstappen looks like the smart money in the long term, while any top teams looking for replacement drivers in the next couple of years should go with Grosjean, Bottas, or perhaps Perez.
 
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Let's have a look at how the FACC affects the 1999 season, because why not?

Firstly, here's the actual 1999 Constructor's result:
  1. Ferrari - 128pt
  2. McLaren - 124pt
  3. Jordan - 61pt
  4. Stewart - 36pt
  5. Williams - 35pt
  6. Benetton - 16pt
  7. Prost - 9pt
  8. Sauber - 5pt
  9. Arrows - 1pt
  10. Minardi - 1pt
  11. BAR - nil pt
And then the adjusted version:
  1. Ferrari - 92pt
  2. McLaren - 50pt
  3. Stewart - 34pt (+1)
  4. Jordan - 32pt (-1)
  5. Benetton - 25pt (+1)
  6. Minardi - 24pt (+4)
  7. Prost - 23pt
  8. Williams - 13pt (-3)
  9. Arrows - 13pt
  10. BAR - 7pt (+1)
  11. Sauber - 5pt (-3)
So, for the vehicle difficulty modifier we get:
  1. Ferrari - 1.000
  2. McLaren - 1.840
  3. Stewart - 2.706
  4. Jordan - 2.875
  5. Benetton - 3.680
  6. Minardi - 3.833
  7. Prost - 4.000
  8. Williams - 7.077
  9. Arrows - 7.077
  10. BAR - 13.143
  11. Sauber - 18.400
Leaving us with this driver's standing:
  1. Ralf Schumacher - 248pt (+5)
  2. Frentzen - 155pt (+1)
  3. Hakkinen - 140pt (-2)
  4. Coulthard - 88pt
  5. Irvine - 74pt (-3)
  6. Barrichello - 57pt (+1)
  7. Diniz - 55pt (+7)
  8. Fisichella - 48pt (+1)
  9. Michael Schumacher - 44pt (-4)
  10. Herbert - 41pt (-2)
  11. Alesi - 37pt (+4)
  12. Trulli - 28pt (-1)
  13. Hill - 20pt (-1)
  14. Wurz - 11pt (-1)
  15. Salo - 10pt (-5)
  16. Panis - 8pt
  17. De La Rosa - 7pt (+1)
  18. Gene - 4pt (-1)
As you can see, Ralf Schumacher is clearly the greatest racing driver who has ever lived.

Then, for the sake of comparison, here it is with the 2010s points system:
  1. Ferrari - 411pt
  2. McLaren - 364pt
  3. Jordan - 230pt
  4. Williams - 155pt (+1)
  5. Stewart - 152pt (-1)
  6. Benetton - 101pt
  7. Prost - 76pt
  8. Sauber - 54pt
  9. Minardi - 27pt (+1)
  10. BAR - 23pt (+1)
  11. Arrows - 18pt (-2)
And FACC 1999 with the 2010s points systems:
  1. Ferrari - 251pt
  2. McLaren - 125pt
  3. Stewart - 103pt (+1)
  4. Jordan - 94pt (-1)
  5. Benetton - 94pt (+1)
  6. Prost - 83pt (+1)
  7. Minardi - 77pt (+3)
  8. Williams - 45pt (-3)
  9. Arrows - 37pt
  10. BAR - 27pt (+1)
  11. Sauber - 23pt (-3)
Giving us this modifier:
  1. Ferrari - 1.000
  2. McLaren - 2.008
  3. Stewart - 2.437
  4. Jordan - 2.670
  5. Benetton - 2.670
  6. Prost - 3.024
  7. Minardi - 3.260
  8. Williams - 5.570
  9. Arrows - 6.784
  10. BAR - 9.296
  11. Sauber - 10.913
Which when applied to this points table:
  1. Irvine - 237pt (+1)
  2. Hakkinen - 216pt (-1)
  3. Frentzen - 181pt
  4. Coulthard - 148pt
  5. Ralf Schumacher - 140pt (+1)
  6. Michael Schumacher - 133pt (-1)
  7. Barrichello - 98pt
  8. Fisichella - 58pt (+1)
  9. Herbert - 54pt (-1)
  10. Salo - 51pt
  11. Trulli - 50pt
  12. Hill - 49pt
  13. Wurz - 43pt
  14. Alesi - 30pt (+1)
  15. Panis - 26pt (+1)
  16. Diniz - 24pt (-2)
  17. Gene - 20pt
  18. Zanardi - 15pt (+1)
  19. De La Rosa - 8pt (-1)
  20. Takagi - 8pt
  21. Villeneuve - 7pt
  22. Badoer - 7pt (+1)
  23. Zonta - 6pt (-1)
  24. Sarrazin - nil pt
Gives us this driver ranking:
  1. Ralf Schumacher - 780pt (+5)
  2. Frentzen - 483pt (+1)
  3. Hakkinen - 434pt (-2)
  4. Alesi - 327pt (+11)
  5. Coulthard - 297pt (-1)
  6. Diniz - 262pt (+8)
  7. Barrichello - 239pt
  8. Irvine - 237pt (-6)
  9. Fisichella - 155pt
  10. Trulli - 151pt (+1)
  11. Salo - 134pt (-1)
  12. Michael Schumacher - 133pt (-7)
  13. Herbert - 132pt (-5)
  14. Hill - 131pt (-2)
  15. Wurz - 115pt (-2)
  16. Zanardi - 84pt (+3)
  17. Panis - 79pt (-1)
  18. Gene - 65pt (-1)
  19. Villeneuve - 65pt (+2)
  20. Zonta - 56pt (+2)
  21. De La Rosa - 54pt (-3)
  22. Takagi - 54pt (-2)
  23. Badoer - 25pt
And Ralf still dominates.


It is really interesting to see how different points systems and modifiers can affect the outcome. Probably worth not telling Eddie Irvine he would've been '99 champion under the current points system though...
 
Irvine would have been 1999 champion if Ferrari didn't "mysteriously" forget to have a fourth tyre ready at the Nürburgring.

Interesting legwork, though. Somewhat misleading in that Ralf Schumacher, while admittedly getting the best from an above average Williams that year, is greatly assisted by the modifier due to Zanardi's inability to bring the car home.
 
Which shows the one flaw in the modifiers reasoning. A driver whose team mate is awful, or does not receive proper backing from the team, will be unfairly boosted by it.

It's also interesting the difference the 25-18-15-12-10-8-6-4-2-1 system makes to the Sauber drivers compared with the 10-6-4-3-2-1 system in place at the time. Sauber DNFed constantly towards the start of the season, while towards the end they tended only to get one car home, hence their awful adjusted constructor's score; and their drivers tended to finish towards the bottom end of the top 10, which drew nil points with the 10-6-4 system but would draw a handful today under 25-18-15.

With the 10-6-4 system Alesi and Diniz were unable to score enough points to benefit anywhere near as much from the modifier as they would have under the 25-18-15 system, in spite of Sauber receiving a less significant modifier under the modern system.

What makes this interesting is that both Alesi and Diniz shoot up the points table, unlike with Williams where Ralf rises to the top while Zanardi stays put.
 
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I've not done FACC yet this year, so:

Australia
1. Mercedes - 25 (+25)
2. Williams - 18 (+18)
3. Toro Rosso - 15 (+15)
4. Renault - 12 (+12)
5. Force India - 10 (+10)
6= Ferrari - 0 (DNF)
6= Haas - 0 (DNF)
6= Manor - 0 (DNF)
6= McLaren - 0 (DNF)
6= Sauber - 0 (DNF)
6= Red Bull - 0 (DNS)

Bahrain
1. Mercedes - 50 (+25)
2. Williams - 33 (+15)
3. Force India - 20 (+10)
4. Red Bull - 18 (+18)
5. Toro Rosso - 15 (DNF)
6= Renault - 12 (DNS)
6= Sauber - 12 (+12)
8. Manor - 8 (+8)
9= Ferrari - 0 (DNS)
9= Haas - 0 (DNF)
9= McLaren - 0 (DNF)

China
1. Mercedes - 65 (+15)
2. Red Bull - 43 (+25)
3. Williams - 43 (+10)
4. Toro Rosso - 27 (+12)
5. Force India - 26 (+6)
6. Ferrari - 18 (+18)
7. Sauber - 14 (+2)
8. Renault - 12 (+0)
9. Manor - 9 (+1)
10. McLaren - 8 (+8)
11. Haas - 4 (+4)

And in case anyone's interested in what this does to the modified driver rankings:

1. Grosjean - 293
2. Vettel - 119
3. Raikkonen - 101
4. Rosberg - 75
5. Ricciardo - 71
6. Kvyat - 41
7. Hamilton - 39
8. Massa - 33
9. Verstappen - 31
10. Hulkenberg - 15
11. Bottas - 11
12. Sainz - 10
13. Vandoorne - 8
 
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Irvine would have been 1999 champion if Ferrari didn't "mysteriously" forget to have a fourth tyre ready at the Nürburgring.
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Speaking of this, he also would've been champion if he'd been able to get past Marc Gene in the slowest car of the field in the end of said race. ;)
 

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