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PAST FORMULA 1 SEASONS REVISED UNDER THE NEW POINTS REGIME - WHAT WOULD CHANGE, IF ANYTHING?
1984 SEASON REVISED UNDER THE NEW POINTS
SYSTEM
By Carlos De Paula
I kind of suspected that Alain Prost would have a few more championships to his name, if the new scoring system were applied to all championships. I still have not checked 1983, which was quite close between Piquet and prost under regular scoring, but already found that Prost would have beaten Senna for the 1988 crown. And in fact, he would have beaten Lauda for the 1984 championship as well. This would then make Prost a 6-time winners, rather than a 4-time winner. If he had won 1983 as well, then he would tie Schumi, in terms of overall wins, and both Schumacher and Fangio, with four straight wins. But that is another story altogether.
There was no score dropping affecting the championship in 1984: the best 11 placings would count, and neither Lauda nor Prost score more than 11 times. In fact, both of them scored 10 times. Under the regular system, Lauda beat Prost by a scant half point, on the strength of 4 second places and 1 fourth place, in addition to five wins.
One would think that Lauda’s greater proclivity in getting second places (4 to 1) would help him more under the new scoring system. Well it wouldn’t. Then again, there is the issue of half points in the Monaco race. This did in fact kill Prost’s championship. Ironically, had he been passed by Senna, but had the points been assigned in full, the six points for second place would mean more than the 4.5 for half a victory.
Well, I supposed it would not have been that different in this case, as if half points were awarded for Monaco, Prost’s total score under the new system would be 86, to Lauda’s 87. I am, of course, assuming that full points would have been awarded for half a race. At any rate, this might be a matter of dispute.
As for the others, De Angelis would have scored 59 points to Prost’s 91 so he would have done better under the new system. Under the old system, De Angelis had scored less than half than the champion, under the new system, he scored more than half. Under the old system Elio scored 11 times, under the new system 12 times.
The only other notable change would be Arnoux jumping from 6th to 4th, Alboreto and Piquet going down one place each.
Some new faces would show up on the books as points scorers: Huub Rothengatter, François Hesnault, Corrado Fabi and Jo Gartner. Under the old system (and by that I mean rules) poor Gartner, who would die in Le Mans in the following year, was not allowed to keep his hard earned Monza points. Well, I am running the show here, so I gave Gartner’s his points. I did, however, exclude the Tyrrell drivers, although to this day I find the punishment to have been excessively harsh.