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PAST FORMULA 1 SEASONS REVISED UNDER THE NEW POINTS REGIME - WHAT WOULD CHANGE, IF ANYTHING?
1979 SEASON REVISED
UNDER THE NEW POINTS SYSTEM
By Carlos De Paula
I do not know what compelled me to believe that the new points system would substantially change anything on the 1979 season. Maybe it was wishful thinking. I reckon that deep inside I had would have preferred Gilles Villeneuve had won it. Maybe it was because it was one of those seasons where score droppings actually did take place. Who knows.
Whichever the reason, what matters is that there would be no changes. Scheckter would have been champion with a great margin over Villeneuve. In fact, he would have been champion by round 13. Alan Jones’ resurgence in the latter part of the season would be less meaningful under the new points system: albeit Scheckter’s score jumped to 83 from 51, Jones’ jumped a meager 11 points from the original 40!
The only notable change was that the new score system would bunch together the third to sixth places. Whereas whopping 20 points separated Reutemann (6th) from Jones, in the original score, they would end up separated by only 8 points in this new system.
The top 11 were quite a cut above the rest. There was a difference of 11 points between Mass, the 12th, to Andretti, the 11th. Piquet would have managed to score on five occasions, rather than his single 4th place score under the old system. Plus Geoff Less and Ricardo Zunino would have gotten on the books as point scorers.
The new scoring system would also allow James Hunt to score his last point in F-1, in fact the only one he would have scored in his brief and unsuccessful association with Wolf.
So no news here.
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Classification under old system |
Classification under new system |
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1. Jody Scheckter - 51 |
1. Scheckter - 83 |
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2. Gilles Villeneuve - 47 |
2. Villeneuve - 71 |
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3. Alan Jones - 40 |
3. Jones - 51 |
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4. Jacques Laffite - 36 |
4. Laffite - 47 |
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5. Clay Reggazoni - 29 |
5. Regazzoni - 45 |
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6. Patrick Depailler - 20 |
6. Reutemann - 43 |
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Carlos
Reutemann - 20 |
7.
Depailler - 31 |
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8.
Rene Arnoux - 17 |
8. Watson - 30 |
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9. John Watson - 15 |
9. Pironi - 26 |
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10. Mario Andretti - 14 |
Jarier - 26 |
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Jean
Pierre Jarier - 14 |
11.
Andretti - 24 |
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Didier
Pironi - 14 |
12.
Mass - 13 |
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13.
Jean Pierre Jabouille - 9 |
13.
Piquet - 11 |
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14.
Niki Lauda - 4 |
Jabouille
- 11 |
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15.
Elio di Angelis - 3 |
15.
De Angelis - 9 |
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Jacky
Ickx - 3 |
16.
Lauda - 8 |
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Jochen
Mass - 3 |
17.
Fittipaldi - 7 |
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Nelson
Piquet - 3 |
Ickx
- 7 |
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19.
Riccardo Patrese - 2 |
18.
Stuck - 5 |
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Hans Stuck - 2 |
19. Patrese - 4 |
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21. Emerson Fittipaldi - 1 |
20.
Tambay - 2 |
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Lees
- 2 |
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Rebaque
- 2 |
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Zunino - 2 |
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24. Daly - 1 |
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Hunt - 1 |