Further to the proposal for medals to replace points in the FIA Formula One World Championship, the FIA has conducted an analysis of how the proposed system would have altered the results of previous seasons.

Under the medals system, it is proposed that the top three drivers in each race would win gold, silver and bronze medals. At the end of the season the driver with the most gold medals would win the championship. If two or more drivers have the same number of golds then the silver medals would come into account and so on.

The FIA’s analysis shows that the medal system would change the outcomes of past World Championships considerably. Only 22 of the 59 World Championships to date would have the same top 3. The other 37 World Championships would be different. The World Champion would be altered on 13 occasions.

The medal system would create three “new” World Champions who did not win the title using the various points systems.

The overall effect would be to reduce the number of World Champions, concentrating the titles in a smaller group.

The results that would change are largely before 1990. The last 20 years would be largely unchanged.


In the overall assessment the list of World Championships per driver would be altered as follows:

1958 Stirling Moss - instead of Mike Hawthorn
1964 Jim Clark - instead of John Surtees
1967 Jim Clark - instead of Denny Hulme
1977 Mario Andretti - instead of Niki Lauda
1979 Alan Jones - instead of Jody Scheckter
1981 Alain Prost - instead of Nelson Piquet
1982 Didier Pironi - instead of Keke Rosberg
1983 Alain Prost - instead of Nelson Piquet
1984 Alain Prost - instead of Niki Lauda
1986 Nigel Mansell - instead of Alain Prost
1987 Nigel Mansell - instead of Nelson Piquet
1989 Ayrton Senna - instead of Alain Prost
2008 Felipe Massa - instead of Lewis Hamilton.

© CAPSIS International

 

I smell a conspiracy theory to stop McLaren! Medals = bad news.

 

I don't like the medal system either I'd much rather they stick with the point system but perhaps increase the difference between 1st and second to 4 points rather than 2

 

+1 the gap in points wouldve made it much more interesting and Massa wouldve been the champion

 

Note to all the Schumacher haters: He would have kept all of his titles... There will not be another like him for a LONG time.

 

Give Hamilton another few years and I think you'll change you mind.

 

a decade wont be enough

 

+2 all of eternity won't be enough for Hami

 

+3

Hamilton doesn't have the killer instinct. Also, he choked his first year and got lucky his second year. Deduct Schumi's questionable contact w/D. Hill and Hamilton's still got 6 more to go... Not likely IMO. Also, Schumi is almost supernatural in a car - so consistent, so good with feedback to the engineers, etc.