Fincent schrieb:
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> […]Increasing the win from
> 10 to 25 points is going to screw up the stats and
> devalue greats such as Schumacher and Senna so I
> think that a new section should definitely be
> started (as in pre 2010 points scored and post
> 2010 points scored). Even though the relative
> points of the first three places stay the same, it
> is interesting that points will now go down to
> 10th. With today's amazing reliability it's going
> to be difficult for any of the new teams to score.
> Even Force India struggled this year (aside from
> Belgium and Monza) when it was only 8 out of 20
> that got points. 8 out of 26 would have been even
> more difficult so I agree with increasing it to 10
> points scorers. Yeah I know we had grids of 26
> back in the day and only 6 points scorers, but
> back then you could get points simply by finishing
> the race because reliability was so poor. These
> days with the close field and good finishing rate,
> you really have to fight for them.
>"Invalidating the statistics" always sounds like a new argument, but the point-scheme has been changed often over the history of F1 and every time it changes this argument comes up. >It's no argument. Statistics are nice and it would be nice to keep the same rules to have them comparable, but the fact is, they are not. Same about track records. Variables change and >there is no point to be backwards-oriented, when there is potential to change for the better. Right now I have no opinion on the new scale.
imo he didn't use it as an argument, he just said that if the points system changes an indication in the statistics would be good. anyway, i guess that will indeed happen if there's such a big change.
used to be GPGSL's Nick Heidfeld
Edited 3 time(s). Last edit at 12/11/2009 02:31PM by n00binio.