Infinite Improbability Drive Leaderboard

[AndreaModa]

With Carlos, who began this now customary award, seemingly permanently absent, I thought it would be nice to have a regularly updated leaderboard for everyone to see and discuss.

Points are awarded only to the winner after each race, in a similar vein to the ROTR award. 1 point is given for each award.

So without further ado...

Standings as of the 2013 Chinese Grand Prix:

=1st - Vitaly Petrov -- 6
=1st - Kamui Kobayashi -- 6
2nd - Sergio Perez -- 5
=3rd - Jaime Alguersuari -- 4
=3rd - Robert Kubica -- 4
=3rd - Adrian Sutil -- 4
=7th - Sebastian Buemi -- 3
=7th - Nico Hulkenberg -- 3
=7th - Vitantonio Liuzzi -- 3
=7th - Pastor Maldonado -- 3
=7th - Felipe Massa -- 3
=12th - Rubens Barrichello -- 2
=12th - Paul di Resta -- 2
=12th - Giancarlo Fisichella -- 2
=12th - Nick Heidfeld -- 2
=12th - Nico Rosberg -- 2
=12th - Michael Schumacher -- 2
=12th - Bruno Senna -- 2
=19th - Jules Bianchi -- 1
=19th - Jenson Button -- 1
=19th - Timo Glock -- 1
=19th - Romain Grosjean -- 1
=19th - Lewis Hamilton -- 1
=19th - Narain Karthikeyan -- 1
=19th - Heikki Kovalainen -- 1
=19th - Kimi Raikkonen -- 1
=19th - Daniel Ricciardo -- 1
=19th - Sauber -- 1
=19th - Toro Rosso -- 1
=19th - Jarno Trulli -- 1
=19th - Mark Webber -- 1

[AndreaModa]

2009
2009 British Grand Prix - Giancarlo Fisichella
2009 German Grand Prix - Adrian Sutil
2009 Hungarian Grand Prix - Lewis Hamilton
2009 European Grand Prix - Robert Kubica
2009 Belgian Grand Prix - Giancarlo Fisichella
2009 Italian Grand Prix - Vitantonio Liuzzi
2009 Singapore Grand Prix - Timo Glock
2009 Japanese Grand Prix - Jarno Trulli
2009 Brazilian Grand Prix - Kamui Kobayashi
2009 Abu Dhabi Grand Prix - Kamui Kobayashi

2010
2010 Bahrain Grand Prix - Vitantonio Liuzzi
2010 Australian Grand Prix - Robert Kubica
2010 Malaysian Grand Prix - Jaime Alguersuari
2010 Chinese Grand Prix - Vitaly Petrov
2010 Spanish Grand Prix - Rubens Barrichello
2010 Monaco Grand Prix - Robert Kubica
2010 Turkish Grand Prix - Vitaly Petrov
2010 Canadian Grand Prix - Sebastien Buemi
2010 European Grand Prix - Kamui Kobayashi
2010 British Grand Prix - Kamui Kobayashi
2010 German Grand Prix - Felipe Massa
2010 Hungarian Grand Prix - Vitaly Petrov
2010 Belgian Grand Prix - Vitaly Petrov
2010 Italian Grand Prix - Nico Rosberg
2010 Singapore Grand Prix - Robert Kubica
2010 Japanese Grand Prix - Kamui Kobayashi
2010 Korean Grand Prix - Vitantonio Liuzzi
2010 Brazilian Grand Prix - Nico Hulkenberg
2010 Abu Dhabi Grand Prix - Vitaly Petrov

2011
2011 Australian Grand Prix - Vitaly Petrov
2011 Malaysian Grand Prix - Nick Heidfeld
2011 Chinese Grand Prix - Mark Webber
2011 Turkish Grand Prix - Sebastien Buemi
2011 Spanish Grand Prix - Nick Heidfeld
2011 Monaco Grand Prix - Pastor Maldonado
2011 Canadian Grand Prix - Jenson Button
2011 European Grand Prix - Jaime Alguersuari
2011 British Grand Prix - Sergio Perez
2011 German Grand Prix - Adrian Sutil
2011 Hungarian Grand Prix - Sebastien Buemi
2011 Belgian Grand Prix - Michael Schumacher
2011 Italian Grand Prix - Jaime Alguersuari
2011 Singapore Grand Prix - Paul di Resta
2011 Japanese Grand Prix - Sergio Perez
2011 Korean Grand Prix - Jaime Alguersuari
2011 Indian Grand Prix - Narain Karthikeyan
2011 Abu Dhabi Grand Prix - Rubens Barrichello
2011 Brazilian Grand Prix - Adrian Sutil

2012
2012 Australian Grand Prix - Pastor Maldonado
2012 Malaysian Grand Prix - Sergio Perez
2012 Chinese Grand Prix - Nico Rosberg
2012 Bahrain Grand Prix - Romain Grosjean
2012 Spanish Grand Prix - Pastor Maldonado
2012 Monaco Grand Prix - Heikki Kovalainen
2012 Canadian Grand Prix - Sergio Perez
2012 European Grand Prix - Michael Schumacher
2012 British Grand Prix - Felipe Massa
2012 German Grand Prix - Sauber
2012 Hungarian Grand Prix - Bruno Senna
2012 Belgian Grand Prix - Nico Hulkenberg
2012 Italian Grand Prix - Sergio Perez
2012 Singapore Grand Prix - Paul Di Resta
2012 Japanese Grand Prix - Kamui Kobayashi
2012 Korean Grand Prix - Toro Rosso
2012 Indian Grand Prix - Bruno Senna
2012 Abu Dhabi Grand Prix - Kimi Raikkonen
2012 United States Grand Prix - Felipe Massa
2012 Brazilian Grand Prix - Nico Hulkenberg

2013
2013 Australian Grand Prix - Adrian Sutil
2013 Malaysian Grand Prix - Jules Bianchi
2013 Chinese Grand Prix - Daniel Ricciardo

[AndreaModa]

First proper update to the new leaderboard, and Pastor Maldonado jumps up to joint-5th place with his second award of 2012, and third overall. He's the first driver to receive two awards so far in the 2012 season.

[jackanderton]

There's an inherent...not issue, but theme to this- being that the more times a driver does something infinitely improbable, the less the impression of infinite improbability there is. So for instance, Kobayashi might have not won IIDOTR for a while, this is because his points finishes and banzai charges are now hoped for or even expected, or because someone has stolen his thunder.

I wouldn't be surprised if KK has a significant number of Runner Up nominations too.

[AndreaModa]

There's an inherent...not issue, but theme to this- being that the more times a driver does something infinitely improbable, the less the impression of infinite improbability there is. So for instance, Kobayashi might have not won IIDOTR for a while, this is because his points finishes and banzai charges are now hoped for or even expected, or because someone has stolen his thunder.

I wouldn't be surprised if KK has a significant number of Runner Up nominations too.

You're spot on, Kobayashi hasn't won one for ages, but since then has had numerous runner-up awards. I think it's reasonable to expect that he would have won in Malaysia though if it had been him in second instead of Perez, and had Maldonado not won in Spain, Kobayashi would have certainly challenged for the award there.

[dr-baker]

There's an inherent...not issue, but theme to this- being that the more times a driver does something infinitely improbable, the less the impression of infinite improbability there is. So for instance, Kobayashi might have not won IIDOTR for a while, this is because his points finishes and banzai charges are now hoped for or even expected, or because someone has stolen his thunder.

I wouldn't be surprised if KK has a significant number of Runner Up nominations too.

But isn't that kinda the point? The more often someone does something infinitely improbable, the less infinitely improbable it becomes. Ferrari winning a drivers' championship between 1980 and 1999 was infinitely improbable. By 2004, it had become infinitely probable instead...

[AndreaModa]

Sorry for the delay, Heikki Kovalainen took a commanding victory for IIDOTR in Monaco, meaning he debuts in joint-14th place on the leaderboard. It surprised me that it was only his first award, guess that's what being at the back for 2 and a half seasons does for you!

[AndreaModa]

Update for Canada: Sergio Perez moves up into joint-third with his fourth IIDOTR award, and becomes the first driver of 2012 to take two awards so far this season.

[Sunshine_Baby_[IT]]

Update for Canada: Sergio Perez moves up into joint-third with his fourth IIDOTR award, and becomes the first driver of 2012 to take two awards so far this season.

Hasn't two Maldonado too?

[AdrianSutil]

Update for Canada: Sergio Perez moves up into joint-third with his fourth IIDOTR award, and becomes the first driver of 2012 to take two awards so far this season.

Hasn't two Maldonado too?

Spain yes. Just missed out in Australia. Don't think he was close to another one. Maybe China but pretty sure Rosberg romped away with that one.

Edit: Actually your right. Looking at the leaderbord he indeed won the IIDOTR at Australia too.

[AndreaModa]

Update for Canada: Sergio Perez moves up into joint-third with his fourth IIDOTR award, and becomes the first driver of 2012 to take two awards so far this season.

Hasn't two Maldonado too?

Spain yes. Just missed out in Australia. Don't think he was close to another one. Maybe China but pretty sure Rosberg romped away with that one.

Edit: Actually your right. Looking at the leaderbord he indeed won the IIDOTR at Australia too.

Yeah, you're spot on! Bad miss by me!

[AndreaModa]

After initially thinking Michael Schumacher had received his first ever IIDOTR award at the 2012 European Grand Prix, it turns out he actually won one for the 2011 Belgian GP too! So he moves up to joint-10th place with his two awards now!

[DOSBoot]

Just out of curiosity, is there a record for ROTR for each race, like the one on the second post of this thread? It would probably be a lot of work, but it would be nice to see it all in one place for a quick reference, rather than dig deep into the site to find out each. (Sure it takes the fun out of it, but it saves a headache or two.)

[eurobrun]

Just out of curiosity, is there a record for ROTR for each race, like the one on the second post of this thread? It would probably be a lot of work, but it would be nice to see it all in one place for a quick reference, rather than dig deep into the site to find out each. (Sure it takes the fun out of it, but it saves a headache or two.)

Is this what you are looking for?

[DOSBoot]

Just out of curiosity, is there a record for ROTR for each race, like the one on the second post of this thread? It would probably be a lot of work, but it would be nice to see it all in one place for a quick reference, rather than dig deep into the site to find out each. (Sure it takes the fun out of it, but it saves a headache or two.)

Is this what you are looking for?

That will work.

[AndreaModa]

Update for Britain, and Felipe Massa moves up to joint-10th place with his second award. His only previous one came at Germany 2010, so it's almost been two years between awards for the Brazilian.

[eurobrun]

Not trying to be annoying, but I think didn't spell Liuzzi's first name right.

[AndreaModa]

Not trying to be annoying, but I think didn't spell Liuzzi's first name right.

Yeah you're right, turns out it's not a double t at the start of his maiden name. Bloody mouthful though!

[eurobrun]

Not trying to be annoying, but I think didn't spell Liuzzi's first name right.

Yeah you're right, turns out it's not a double t at the start of his maiden name. Bloody mouthful though!

And for some reason I wrote my previous post in Phoenglish

[AndreaModa]

Update following the back-to-back German and Hungarian GPs: Sauber and Bruno Senna both make their debut in joint-16th place with their awards, and Sauber's is the first to be awarded to something that isn't a driver, and thus the first team to win one.

[solarcold]

I like it how Tonio was nominated thrice.

[AdrianSutil]

I like it how Tonio was nominated thrice.

And Adrian Sutil

[AndreaModa]

So with the Belgian award, Nico Hulkenberg rises to joint-10th with the second of his career, the first coming from that memorable weekend in Brazil in 2010 when he took pole.

[Shizuka]

And it's quite possible that Perez will jump up to joint second with his Monza performance, seeing the nominations so far.

[AndreaModa]

And it's quite possible that Perez will jump up to joint second with his Monza performance, seeing the nominations so far.

Correct! Perez joins teammate Kobayashi on 5 awards each, putting both in joint second place behind Petrov. The big question now is, can Perez overhaul Petrov's long-standing total of 6 before the season is out?

[Wizzie]

And it's quite possible that Perez will jump up to joint second with his Monza performance, seeing the nominations so far.

Correct! Perez joins teammate Kobayashi on 5 awards each, putting both in joint second place behind Petrov. The big question now is, can Perez overhaul Petrov's long-standing total of 6 before the season is out?

More to the point, can Kobayashi catch and pass Petrov in the standings?

[AndreaModa]

Thanks to him winning the Singapore GP IIDOTR award for the second year running, Paul Di Resta jumps to joint-10th place with two awards.

[Shizuka]

And thanks to Kobayashi's IIDOTR on home soil, he's now joint first with Petrov.
Could you edit the "Hungarian" to "Japanese" too, when you edit the post, please?

[AndreaModa]

Ah yes, I always miss that bit! I thought you'd just noted the provisional results though? The official one was meant to be on Saturday?

[Shizuka]

Nobody has voted for days now, and Kobayashi has a 16-point lead, and since it's Saturday already and no new votes came, I left it as final.

[AndreaModa]

Okay! So a big change at the top with Kobayashi's sixth award, taking him level with Petrov in 1st place. This was Kobayashi's first award for two full years, his last having come with that action-packed drive in Japan in 2010. The question is though, can he go one better and take the overall lead himself?

[UgncreativeUsergname]

At Interlagos, Petrov will get a point through rain strategy shenanigans and take the lead back for himself as the season ends. You heard it here first.

[Shizuka]

Shouldn't we keep this updated?

[AndreaModa]

Ah yes my apologies, I let this slip towards the end of last year. I'll get round to updating it this weekend sometime.

[AndreaModa]

So, I never did manage to update it that weekend, but finally it has been!

So, in the space between Japan 2012 and China 2013 we've had a few changes.

Making their debut on the leaderboard are:

Toro Rosso (the second team, after Sauber, to do so)
Jules Bianchi, the first and so far only rookie in 2013 to score an IIDOTR
and Daniel Ricciardo. Somewhat surprising he failed to manage one in 2012.

The big movers as well are Sutil, after his award in Australia, he is now in joint third place with 4 IIDOTRs with Kubica and Alguersuari, neither of whom are likely to add to their tally any time soon!

And Nico Hulkenberg and Felipe Massa have both moved up to joint 7th, with three awards each.

Rather sadly, of all those in the top three, only Perez and Sutil are currently active in F1. This does mean however that we could well see a new leader by the end of the year!