The ratio is the same.
Formula 1 - 2010 Season
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Silent_Buddha
Legend
Ok, I'm maybe showing my Forumla 1 age here, but weren't points only awarded for the first 6 (or was it 5?) finishes? With the 5th receiving just 2 points, far less than a 1st place finish which I believe was 10? Meaning you'd have to place 5th, 5 times in order to match one first place finish. Now with 10 versus 25, that's only 2.5.
From your comment I'm going to guess the points structure has changed a LOT since I used to watch F1 regularly.
Regards,
SB
From your comment I'm going to guess the points structure has changed a LOT since I used to watch F1 regularly.
Regards,
SB
The 10-6-4-3-2-1 points system was changed to the 10-8-6-5-4-3-2-1 system for the 2003 season and it was this system through 2009.
The old system, the one you are talking about, had a 2x (5) the ratio that is now between 1st and 5th. I believe this is a non-issue, though, because no-one has ever won either championship after 2002 when the ratio became 2.5 between 1st and 5th places.
Silent_Buddha
Legend
Yeah doubtful it'll happen (virtually impossible) but would be funny if it did. 
Did they change the system just so the also-rans could feel better about themselves? And in the process reduce the importance of actually coming in first?
As in wooo, I know I only came in 8th, but I got a point! Wooooo.
Hmm, looking at the new points spread, it looks like a compromise between the New and Old scoring system. As there's greater seperation between 1st and 2nd place, but not as much as in the system I was used to.
Regards,
SB
Did they change the system just so the also-rans could feel better about themselves? And in the process reduce the importance of actually coming in first?
As in wooo, I know I only came in 8th, but I got a point! Wooooo.
Hmm, looking at the new points spread, it looks like a compromise between the New and Old scoring system. As there's greater seperation between 1st and 2nd place, but not as much as in the system I was used to.
Regards,
SB
New Ferrari
http://www.f1fanatic.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2010/01/ferrari_2010_3.jpg
Got a similar nose to the RebBull from last year as the most obvious change.
http://www.f1fanatic.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2010/01/ferrari_2010_3.jpg
Got a similar nose to the RebBull from last year as the most obvious change.
Looks good, but they couldn't do a shakedown with it today because of the weather at Fiorano.
Just giving points for the first six positions when there are possibly going to be as many as 26 cars on the grid this year is not good for a sponsorship perspective. A sponsor would tell a team that is not fighting for the front positions that they suck and that the money is going away unless they can score a point.Yeah doubtful it'll happen (virtually impossible) but would be funny if it did.
Did they change the system just so the also-rans could feel better about themselves? And in the process reduce the importance of actually coming in first?
As in wooo, I know I only came in 8th, but I got a point! Wooooo.
Hmm, looking at the new points spread, it looks like a compromise between the New and Old scoring system. As there's greater seperation between 1st and 2nd place, but not as much as in the system I was used to.
Regards,
SB
chavvdarrr
Veteran
more rumours that Renault will sign with Vitalii Petrov (and his sponsors will pay ~ 15mln euro)
The rumours have been going for a while now and it looks ever more likely to happen.
Kubica and Petrov sounds exciting. Petrov came runner up in GP2 last year and he's won 4 races in GP2 proper and 2 in GP2 Asia.
chavvdarrr
Veteran
Spy shot of the 2010 Williams, doing a shakedown at Silverstone:
I think there is going to be similarities in the noses of the cars due to the loophool Newey identified in the rules for the nose/tub layout. However, so far it appears that the Williams and Ferrari are using push rod, rather than pull rod, rear suspension, so there appears to be some hesitance to adopt the rear end (perhaps because the double diffusers are still allowed this year).
What exactly was the loophole he found?
Regarding pull rod suspension, if any team other than Red Bull runs it this year, why would they when double diffusers are banned for next year and you have more room back there to play with?
If forget the exact details, but there is something like a minimum high that the tub must be at, and also the FIA dicatate the mimimum size the tub must be across the diagonal. By lifting the sides of the tub up, but dropping the middle section it still satisfies all the criteria.
This year and next year are going to be two competing directions because of the the inclusion of DD this year and the exclusion next. The reason Red Bull did it lat year was to maximise airflow at the back of the car and increase, as much as possible, the downforce from the rear wing; other teams got better downforce and increased efficiency from the DD.
The issue with pull rod suspension is that it increases the components for suspention underneath the gearbox, precisely where you want to be maximising the use of the airflow for the DD solutions. I'll wager that this year you'll see a lot of the teams tooling around at the bottom ot maximise DD efficiency (which may prevent them from adopting pull rod) but then more will need to look at pull rod's next year to improve the airflow at the back when they remove DD's.
http://www.f1technical.net/news/14056?sid=fac5a70753d400a8de212ee96e1c433c
F1 technical's early, early take on the car.
F1 technical's early, early take on the car.
LOL. And McLaren go and do a pull rod suspension design. [edit] No, they don't in fact.
And thank god JB has gone back to his traditional helmet design.
And thank god JB has gone back to his traditional helmet design.
http://www.autosport.com/news/report.php/id/81128
Interesting. Ferrari are already concerned about competitors solutions for the double diffuser and there is already talks of a performance deficit in the F10 and rumours of an F10B spec already being worked on!
Interesting. Ferrari are already concerned about competitors solutions for the double diffuser and there is already talks of a performance deficit in the F10 and rumours of an F10B spec already being worked on!
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