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This is a list of pointscoring systems used to determine the outcome of the FIA World Drivers' and Constructors' Championships since 1950. The Championships are awarded to the driver and constructor who accumulate the most championship points over the course of the Championship season.
In some seasons, only a certain number of a driver's best results were counted towards the World Championship. This was most significant in 1988, when McLaren drivers Alain Prost and Ayrton Senna were dominant. Prost finished 14 races in either first or second, retiring from the other two, while Senna won 8 races to Prost's 7, meaning that he only needed 3 further 2nd places to secure the championship irrespective of Prost's other results. This resulted in the anomaly that Prost took a record number of points, yet was not champion. A new system counting the points from all races was introduced in 1991, together with an additional point awarded to the winner.
The current system was introduced for the 2003 season, and was designed to allow more teams and drivers to score points regularly, whilst the reduced gap in points between the positions means that reliability and consistency are usually more important than the final position.
The most dominant Drivers' Champion in terms of points scored is Jim Clark, who scored the maximum of 54 points (6 wins) in both 1963 and 1965. In recent times, Michael Schumacher finished on the podium in every race of the 2002 season to score 144 of a maximum 170 points. The most dominant Constructors' Champion in recent times was McLaren in 1988, scoring 199 of a maximum 240 points and finishing 134 points ahead of their nearest rival. In 2002, Ferrari scored 221 points, as many as all the other teams put together.
Pointscoring systems
| Seasons | 1st | 2nd | 3rd | 4th | 5th | 6th | 7th | 8th | Fastest lap | Best results counted | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1950–1953 | 8 | 6 | 4 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 4 | 1 2 | |||
| 1954 | 8 | 6 | 4 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 5 | 1 2 3 | |||
| 1955–1957 | 8 | 6 | 4 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 5 | 1 4 5 6 7 | |||
| 1958 | 8 | 6 | 4 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 6 | 6 7 8 910 | |||
| 1959 | 8 | 6 | 4 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 5 | 910 | |||
| 1960 | 8 | 6 | 4 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 6 | 9 | |||
| 1961–1962 | 9 | 6 | 4 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 5 | 9 | |||
| 1963–1965 | 9 | 6 | 4 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 6 | 9 | |||
| 1966 | 9 | 6 | 4 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 5 | 7 9 11 | |||
| 1967 | 9 | 6 | 4 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 9 (5 from first 6, 4 from last 5) |
7 9 11 | |||
| 1968 | 9 | 6 | 4 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 10 (5 from first 6, 5 from last 6) |
9 | |||
| 1969 | 9 | 6 | 4 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 9 (5 from first 6, 4 from last 5) |
7 9 | |||
| 1970 | 9 | 6 | 4 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 11 (6 from first 7, 5 from last 6) |
7 9 | |||
| 1971 | 9 | 6 | 4 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 9 (5 from first 6, 4 from last 5) |
9 | |||
| 1972 | 9 | 6 | 4 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 10 (5 from first 6, 5 from last 6) |
9 | |||
| 1973–1974 | 9 | 6 | 4 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 13 (7 from first 8, 6 from last 7) |
9 | |||
| 1975 | 9 | 6 | 4 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 12 (6 from first 7, 6 from last 7) |
9 12 | |||
| 1976–1978 | 9 | 6 | 4 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 14 (7 from first 8, 7 from last 8) |
9 | |||
| 1979 | 9 | 6 | 4 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 8 (4 from first 7, 4 from last 8) |
12 | |||
| 1980 | 9 | 6 | 4 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 10 (5 from first 7, 5 from last 7) |
12 | |||
| 1981–1984 | 9 | 6 | 4 | 3 | 2 | 1 | All | 12 13 | |||
| 1985–1990 | 9 | 6 | 4 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 11 | 12 13 | |||
| 1991–2002 | 10 | 6 | 4 | 3 | 2 | 1 | All | 12 | |||
| 2003–present | 10 | 8 | 6 | 5 | 4 | 3 | 2 | 1 | All |
Notes
- ^ a b c The Constructors' World Championship was not awarded from 1950 to 1957.
- ^ In the 1954 British Grand Prix, seven drivers set the same fastest lap time, and each received 0.143 of a point.
- ^ a b Points were shared equally between drivers who set the same fastest lap time.
- ^ a b c d e f Formula 2 cars raced with Formula One cars in the following Grands Prix, but were ineligible for World Championship points.
- ^ Points were no longer awarded for shared race drives.
- ^ a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o Only the highest-scoring driver for each constructor at each race were counted towards the Constructors' Championship.
- ^ a b The point for fastest lap was only awarded to drivers, not constructors
- ^ a b Drivers who were not classified (ie did not complete a specified amount of race distance) did not score points, even if they finished in the top 6.
- ^ a b c d e f Half points were awarded for races stopped before half-distance was completed.
- ^ a b Second drivers of teams that officially entered only one car were not eligible for points. This affected Jo Gartner (Osella) and Gerhard Berger (ATS), who finished fifth and sixth at the 1984 Italian Grand Prix and Yannick Dalmas (Larrousse) who finished fifth at the 1987 Australian Grand Prix. Their points were not redistributed.
References
- "Formula 1.com – Results archive". Retrieved on 2006-12-16.
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