It's not the entireity of Monsieur Ecclestone's stupid medals concept, but has the same gist. I think it's a rather unnecessary concept that could have been remedied in a better fashion - changing the points and widening the gap between P1 and P2.
The modern era of Formula One has been so slanted towards one or two power teams that the rule would rarely be an issue. But what if this year is different? Say Kovalainen wins four races but performs poorly otherwise (wholly possible if McLaren is just sandbagging it so far), meanwhile the Ferrari guys and Hamilton each get three wins and dominate the podium? It would be a farce.
I have looked back every Formula One season since the beginning to see how the champs would have differed under this system. Of the 58 seasons so far, 10 have had the World Champion not be the driver win the title.
- 1958: Stirling Moss' 4 victories gives him the edge over Mike Hawthorn to be the first British F1 champ.
- 1964: Jim Clark wins back to back titles (3 wins to John Surtees' 2)
- 1967: Clark wins title #4 (4 wins) instead of Denny Hulme (2 wins)
- 1977: Mario Andretti goes into his real life title season as defending champ, besting Niki Lauda 4 wins to three.
- 1982: No one wins more than two times, with Keke Rosberg winning just once. Didier Peroni edges John Watson for the title on third place finishes (tied with points and second places).
- 1983: Alain Prost takes Nelson Piquet's title (4-3)
- 1986: Prost's title is taken from him by Nigel Mansell (5-4)
- 1987: Mansell wins back to back (5 to Piquet's 3)
- 1989: Senna's six wins beat Prost's four.
- 2008: Massa doesn't need Glock to hold off Hamilton this time.
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